How Widow’s Bay Supports a Mystic Epistemology
Nathan Eckstrand is an editor at the Blog of the APA. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not...
When Are Your Feelings Really Yours?
Until the fall of 2008, I would have said I wasn’t afraid of mice. But then, in that fateful autumn, I went to my...
How to Partition Alberta
On October 19, 2026, Albertans will vote on whether their province should secede from Canada. Except that isn’t quite right. Albertans will vote on...
Incongruity, Humor, and Morality in Song
In the 1940s and 1950s, as part of a federal pest and rodent control program, pigeons in Boston were fed corn that had been...
Slacktivism in Academia: Why Strongly Worded Letters and Micro-Protests Rarely Work
Academics reason through problems, create innovative solutions, and often make the world a better place. However, sometimes, they are not the best at fashioning...
Citizens’ Accountability and Epistemic Constraints on Voting
When we think about the ideal democratic citizen, we think about someone who is not only a valuable member of the political community, but...
How Changeable Are the Concepts We Teach?
Recently, there have been some high-profile cases of teachers in schools and universities being asked to stop teaching certain concepts. Race and gender are...
Power Corrupts: Why Parenting Can Be Bad for Us
Could it be bad for us to become parents? Of course, we might say; yes, if it turns out we made a mistake in...
Harmful Ignorance
“We haven’t got closure, we haven’t been able to mourn properly, close that chapter and live our lives in memory of Dad and build...
Death and Taxes: The Philosophy of Procrastination
The Microsoft Word cursor blinks, waiting for the next input to be typed, in vain. However, no letter, no space appears on the digital...