#IdeasMatter: Interview with Nicolas Berggruen
Charles Taylor has been awarded the first $1 million Berggruen Philosophy Prize. According to the Berggruen Institute’s website, “The Berggruen Prize is awarded annually...
After the End of Truth (Video)
A generation raised on Foucault and Derrida has learned to distrust claims to objective truth. Yet the mantra that 'there is no truth' is...
The Word and the World (Video)
The power of words is a wonder, and language perhaps our greatest skill. Yet the gap between the sound of a bell and its...
New APA Graduate Student Council: Nominations now open!
At its most recent meeting, the board of officers unanimously approved the creation of a new APA Graduate Student Council (GSC).
The GSC will serve...
French, German, Greek, Latin, but Not Arabic, Chinese, or Sanskrit?
When I was graduate student in Berkeley in the 1990s, philosophy PhD students were required to pass exams in two of the following four...
Yes, Your Emails to Congress Matter
A Message from the National Humanities Alliance
We have all become familiar with urgent requests in our inboxes and social media feeds to write our...
The Dance of Life (Video)
The APA blog is very pleased to announce a partnership with the Institute of Art and Ideas (IAI). IAI was founded in 2008 by...
Philosophy as Love of Wisdom and in the Public Sphere
Some years ago, the economic downturn inspired me to put aside my business endeavors and return to school to study philosophy. I had loved...
How to Meet People Where They Are
We should do a better job of letting the public know what we’re up to. More specifically, philosophers should do a better job of...
Socrates On Flatbush Avenue: Reflections on the LIU-Brooklyn Faculty Lockout
On September 3, 2016, three days before a proposed contract was to be put to a vote, the unionized faculty of LIU-Brooklyn was locked...