Trauma, Transformation and the Rationality of Desire
Amber Rose Carlson presented a paper for the U.S. Midwest Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP) session at the APA Central Division Meeting in March 2017 in...
Thinking Afresh
We take pride in holding morally and intellectually consistent views about the world. Yet these shift wildly over time, and some see consistency as...
Asking Shannon Vallor Anything
Shannon Vallor is the William J. Rewak S. J. Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Santa Clara University. She recently hosted a philosophy Reddit AMA, which...
Philosophy Through Fiction Winner!
Our Philosophy Through Fiction contest had 704 submissions, more than 10 times the number we expected. A dedicated team of readers at Sci Phi...
How playing Wittgensteinian language-games can set us free
We live out our lives amid a world of language, in which we use words to do things. Ordinarily we don’t notice this; we...
There’s a Green Card-holder at the heart of Greek philosophy
When it comes to immigration, not all foreigners are the same. The treatment of non-citizen legal residents, for example, raises very different moral and...
Authenticity, Reality and Being
In a transient world, we're in love with the real. 'Real' experience, finding our 'real' self, even Coca Cola was in on the act...
Is Morality Dependent on Outcome?
We all want a better world and most see morality as helping to choose the right actions. Yet we can't know for sure the...
The Impossible Demands of Morality
In an ‘Author Meets Critics’ session at the APA’s 2017 Central Division Meeting, author Lisa Tessman of Binghamton University met with critics Nomy Arpaly, Nicolas Comell,...
The Well-Being of Philosophy
by Valerie Tiberius
Note: The following is a draft of Valerie Tiberius's Presidential Address at the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association on March 3, 2017, in...