Issues in Philosophy

What It’s Like to Be a Philosopher: Manuel Vargas

The APA blog is working with Cliff Sosis of What is it Like to Be a Philosopher? in publishing advance excerpts from Cliff’s long-form interviews with...

The Elucidations Podcast: Philosophy Outside Academia

I completed my PhD in philosophy at the University of Chicago in 2015 (on generic statements, in case anyone is interested), and I currently...

Why Would We Want to Call People “Great Thinkers”? A Response to Julian Baggini

If you have ever been at a rock or pop concert, you might recognise the following phenomenon: The band on the stage begins playing...

An Excerpt from Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural Manifesto

This article is an edited excerpt from Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural Manifesto, with a Foreword by Jay L. Garfield (New York: Columbia University Press,...

The Philosophy Guy Podcast: Philosophy Outside Academia

Hello everyone, Brenden Weber here, host of The Philosophy Guy, a podcast about the many ideas in philosophy that are popularized by our society...

A “Socratic” Dialogue (1965) by Hans-Georg Gadamer

Modeled on Plato’s dialogues, Hans-Georg Gadamer’s dialogue about tennis shares some strengths and weaknesses of the incorporated genre. Gadamer’s imitation adopts Plato’s concern with...

“Heidegger was a Nazi.” What now?

“B was a bigot” is a phrase that raises various questions. We can say it of various figures, both dead and alive. But this...

The Dawdlers Philosophy Podcast: Philosophy Outside Academia

“If I exist, I am a living creature to whom ideas are incidents, like aeroplanes in the sky; they pass over, more or less...

The Post-Truth Condition

  Post-Truth Is More about Justification Than Truth It is popular, even among philosophers, to think about ‘post-truth’ as entailing a disregard for the truth, as...
Barry Lam Awarded a Whiting Public Engagement Fellowship for 2019–2020

What It’s Like to Be a Philosopher: Barry Lam

The APA blog is working with Cliff Sosis of What is it Like to Be a Philosopher? in publishing advance excerpts from Cliff’s long-form interviews with...