Documenting the Impact and Reach of the NEH
In 2017, in response to the Trump administration’s threat to cut funding to the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Humanities Alliance launched...
Poststructuralist Tent Revival Podcast: Philosophy Outside Academia
Podcasts have been an indispensably important resource for my own philosophical education. I attended a small, religious undergraduate institution where we had exactly one...
What It is Like to Be a Philosopher: Simon Critchley
The APA blog is working with Cliff Sosis of What is it Like to Be a Philosopher? in publishing advance excerpts from Cliff’s long-form interviews with...
Rendering Unconscious Podcast: Philosophy Outside Academia
Rendering Unconscious is the title of both a book and podcast hosted by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, an American psychoanalyst based in Stockholm. It began...
MAP Eastern APA Session: Skill-Building & Improving the Profession
What kinds of department initiatives can grad students and faculty easily put on to improve climate, help students develop their skills as philosophers and...
A Neuro-Philosophy of Human Nature: Emotional Amoral Egoism and the Five Motivators of Humankind
In 1893, at an event in Oxford, biologist Thomas Henry Huxley (and staunch supporter of Darwin’s ideas – support which earned him the nickname...
Sacred and Profane Love Podcast: Philosophy Outside Academia
Let me begin by saying something about how the Sacred and Profane Love podcast came to be and what its future is. My podcast began...
Socrates: The Hero of Hemlock?
Ask a philosopher to name a superhero. The response won’t be the famous brain in a vat. The likely response will be the centerpiece...
Philosophers and Climate Change
Philosophers are uniquely positioned to help stop the worst effects of climate change. Most teachers have the ear of large numbers of students, whose...
Philosophy in the Contemporary World: Can Philosophy Survive the Neoliberal Academy?
Note: This piece is adapted from Brandon Absher's presentation at the Eastern APA 2019, entitled "The Neoliberal University and What This Means to Society"
In...