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...
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...
1,000-Word Philosophy: Philosophy for Everyone
“Professional philosophy can seem abstract, esoteric, and hyper-specialized. But we all ask and try to answer philosophical questions myriad times daily: philosophy is the...
Serious Illness: Reconciling Scientific and Subjective Vantage Points
“Congratulations on becoming a long-term survivor!” cheerily exclaimed my radiation oncologist during a follow-up visit 18 months after the conclusion of my six-week,...
The SCI PHI Podcast: Philosophy Outside Academia
Hello and welcome to the APA Blog post of the SCI PHI Podcast! From Bloomington, Indiana, I’m Nick Zautra.
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