Accessible and Inaccessible Disciplines: why philosophy and science are similar but are treated differently
This post originally appeared on OUPblog and appears here as part of our partnership with them.
Amongst my books is a late nineteenth century edition...
Matter and Mind: Is consciousness inexplicable? (Video)
Neuroscience has enabled us to explain how the brain affects the body. Yet there is no theory to explain how the matter of the...
The Job Market: Hiring at Hunter College and the Graduate School, CUNY
I have two departments--Hunter College and the Graduate School, CUNY--and they are quite distinct. Hunter College is a four-year urban college with a highly diverse, economically...
#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...