Challenges for Women in Online Philosophy: Performativity and Clout
Despite believing in the value of online philosophy, I myself have limited philosophical engagements online. Online philosophy is a vast terrain, spanning from philosophy...
Boredom and Injustice
The emotional price of being poor: How boredom harms those who are less affluent
It seizes us at home or at work, in open...
A Happy Immoralist: The Case of Richard Rich
A Man for All Seasons, Robert Bolt’s 1960 play about Sir Thomas More, is usually interpreted as a defense of living and dying in...
The Warped Epistemology of Conspiracy Theories
The novel coronavirus pandemic has spawned numerous conspiracy theories, sometimes replicating faster than the virus itself. Some people have rumored that SARS-CoV-2 was engineered...
Kierkegaard on Being Happy Again After You’ve Lost Everything
Risk is central to any meaningful life, according to Kierkegaard. If we want our lives to have significance, we must commit to projects that...
Tautologies Can Create Dead Worlds
The tautology “It is what it is” made headlines when President Donald Trump uttered it during a recent interview with Axios’ Jonathan Swan. The...
Philosophy and Civilization: An Interview with Rupert Read, Spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion
Philosopher Rupert Read is active in the climate change movement Extinction Rebellion, and has recently released a new book about his work there. He...
Ask the Public Philosophy Editors
The APA Committee on Public Philosophy is partnering with the Blog of the APA to publish a series on how to do public philosophy.
For...
Racist Research Must Be Named, But Often Allowed
In a recent open letter, many Princeton faculty members call on the university to acknowledge the inadequacy of our efforts toward anti-racism up to now,...
Deep Thoughts with Short Words
During the brief window between the end of the COVID-19-spring semester, and the upheaval sparked by the brutal killing of George Floyd, quarantined philosophers...