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...
Richard Rorty, Cancel Culture, Political Fallibilism, and Achieving Our Country
Richard Rorty’s 1998 book Achieving Our Country enjoyed a burst of attention after the 2016 elections. As law professor Lisa Kerr first observed, Rorty...
Kierkegaard’s Silence on Slavery
Kierkegaard never mentions slavery. Or almost never. The subject gets two pages in a corpus that spans thousands. This silence is surprising given how...
What Is Policing For?
In the weeks since police officers killed George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, mass uprisings—and a violent, uncompromising response from police departments across the country—have...
Doctors Need to Step Back from the Movement to Defund the Police
On June 6, 2020, protesters in Dallas, Texas, rally against police violence. (by Matthew T Rader, MatthewTRader.com, License CC-BY-SA)
Since the end of May, scholars, doctors, and...
Don’t Stand With Me
The global fury unleashed against police brutality and anti-Black racism in the United States continues unabated. As poet Gil Scott-Heron once said, “America is...
After The Pandemic
As author of this piece and incoming editor-in-chief of the APA Blog, I regret the significant pain this piece caused, and especially the former...