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...
Does Philosophical Language Have to Be Difficult?
Readers have sometimes asked why my books aren’t more accessible, why they can’t be easily understood by non-academics. At first, I was surprised that these...