Philosophy Phriday: A Museum, Ants, and an APA Central to Remember
By Benjamin D. Blanchard
Every year, the American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting features stellar presentations on philosophy by philosophers hailing from a wide range...
A Neuro-Philosophy of History: “Sustainable History”; with Dignity, and without Directionality
Philosophies of history tend to assume one form or another of directionality. For an important number of philosophers, History has been understood to have...
The purpose of the canon
Inspired through a blog post by Lisa Shapiro and a remark by Sandra Lapointe, I began to think about the point of (philosophical) canons again: in...
Socrates Talks Tennis
With the U.S. Open Tennis Championships (August 27-Sept. 9) on the horizon, it’s time to think about tennis and philosophy. The problem is that...
The Ethics of Defense Lawyers
In 1993 the American Bar Association conducted a nationwide survey of all their members to gauge personality types. They concluded that 78% of lawyers...
Poster Presentations at Philosophy Conferences
By Mike Morris
The presentation of papers at the divisional meetings of the APA has been fundamental to the association since its inception, and the...
Beyond Plato’s Cave
I often discuss philosophy with my eight-year-old son. Although he can’t yet grasp the full complexities of my work, he’s deeply interested in thinking...
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,...