Beyond Academia, the APA’s guide to non-academic careers, is now available
The APA is pleased to announce the 2016 edition of Beyond Academia: Professional Opportunities for Philosophers. Originally published as Careers for Philosophers in 1984,...
Johann Frick Has Been Awarded the 2017 Kavka/UCI Prize
The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce that Professor Johann Frick (Princeton University) has been awarded the 2017 Gregory Kavka/University of California, Irvine...
Awards Roundup: June-July 2016
APA Awards
Sebastian Purcell, SUNY Cortland
Winner of the 2016 Essay Prize in Latin American Thought
Brian Epstein, Tufts University
Winner of the 2016 Gittler Award
Berislav Marušić, Brandeis...
2017 Pacific Division paper submissions reminder
Paper submissions for the 2017 APA Pacific Division meeting in Seattle, Washington, are currently open. Submissions close at 11:59 p.m. Pacific time on September...
APA signs on to MESA statement about Turkey
In a unanimous vote, the board of officers of the American Philosophical Association (APA) has joined the statement by the Middle East Studies Association...
Survey: What Matters to Philosophers?
As chair of a philosophy department at a large state institution (University of Minnesota), I’ve frequently been called upon to defend philosophy and to...
Inside the APA: Secrets of the Pacific Division Revealed!
by Dominic McIver Lopes
In a few days I step down as secretary–treasurer of the APA’s Pacific Division, and I’ve been asked to write a blog...
“Philosophy for Children in the Borderlands,” an 18-minute, bilingual documentary funded by an APA...
University of Texas at El Paso Assistant Professor Amy Reed-Sandoval is executive producer of the documentary funded by the American Philosophical Association through a Diversity...
Awards Roundup: May 2016
APA Awards
John Brunero, University of Nebraska Lincoln
Winner of the 2016 Article Prize
William Lane, Assistant General Counsel for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban...
Results of the Recent APA Elections
Over the last few months, members of the APA elected new divisional officers as well as a new at-large member of the APA board...


