Living for Others: What Monasticism Can Tell Us About Ourselves
This May I did something uncommon. I spent five days at the Abbey of Gethsemani, a Trappist monastery near Louisville, Kentucky. On my fourth...
Fuzzy Sets: Intellectual Dark Web, New Atheism, Logical Positivism and Behaviourism
Introduction
Philosophical analysis, if done carefully, can reveal the manufacturing of a social narrative that is designed to instigate public attention. In this article I...
Trans Women/Men and Adoptive Parents: An Analogy
Maybe we should think of it like this: Trans women/men are to women/men as adoptive parents are to parents. There are disanalogies of course,...
Stoics Should be Vegetarian
Vegetarianism is a big deal, ethically speaking. It was put on the map in terms of public philosophy by utilitarian Peter Singer, with his...
What Is It Like to Be A Philosopher? An Interview With Joel Sati
The APA blog will be working with Cliff Sosis of What it is Like to Be a Philosopher? in publishing advance excerpts from Cliff's long-form...
Fat Female Philosophers
by Anonymous
How many fat female philosophers do you know?
One day as I scrolled through my Instagram, my major path into the body positive...
Philosophy by the Public: A Response to David Johnson
David V. Johnson recently proposed a “vision of public philosophy” in a post for this blog. While this was a thoughtful article, containing a...
Politics and Appointments
A widely accepted principle of academic ethics is that candidates for appointments should not be asked questions that do not bear on performance...
Against Lynching as a Case “Against Empathy”
When I first heard about Paul Bloom’s book, Against Empathy, I was keen to be persuaded to his view. I knew the bare outline...
Post-Truth and Philosophy
We live with truth all around us and yet some people readily embrace lies. Everywhere you turn among the academics and pundits, we constantly...