Cultivating Climate Response-Ability
With each year, I find my students increasingly concerned about climate change. A decade ago, their concerns seemed fairly general and abstract. These days, they are...
Recently Published Book Spotlight: Measuring the Immeasurable Mind
Matthew Owen teaches philosophy at Yakima Valley College in Washington State. He talked with Heidi Schmidt about his new book Measuring the Immeasurable Mind: Where...
Stoicism Isn’t and Never Was (Merely) a Rich White Man’s Philosophy
Stoicism seems to be the philosophical hobby horse of Silicon Valley and a whole host of life-hackers who otherwise wouldn’t be caught dead in...
Is There Room for Everyone’s Odd, Lost Life in Philosophy?
Something was bugging them, and it wasn't just Headgear (the 90s spellcheck-correction for "Heidegger" on Word). Why do we typically feel that the intellectual position of philosophers - and the work that embodies it - need not represent who they are?
Introducing Climate Ethics and a New Climate Principle
Many of us are acutely aware that climate change exacerbates injustice: those who will suffer disproportionately are those in global precarity who have contributed...
Genealogies of Philosophy: Mariëtte Willemsen
Mariëtte Willemsen moved from language games to compassion, from Nietzsche to Murdoch - a cycle in Amsterdam over forty years.
Enjoy a New Introductory Philosophy Textbook
As part of the Blog of the APA‘s partnership with Exact Editions, we are offering one new book in its entirety for readers to...
An Education that Works for Students: Paul Blaschko
Beginning from their perspective, design courses for students to live a good life. Now you've an accessible way into philosophy.
The Point is to Change the World
“The philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways,” he famously said. “The point, however, is to change it.”
Karl Marx penned these...
American Ecstatics: A Surfacing
We have to make room for societies that are not colonial. American philosophy has not come to terms with this task. It is more than theoretical.









