Helping Philosophy Students Persuade for the November 3rd Election
In the last week before the November presidential election, are we philosophy instructors setting our students up to fail in arguing about climate change,...
No Matter How You Put It, Scientism Is Still A Bad Idea
Is science the only or best source of knowledge, justification, and rational belief? If you answer in the affirmative, you are affected by an...
Time Will Tell Interview with Michael P. Masters
Identified Flying Objects cautiously examines the premise that ‘UFOs’ and ‘Aliens’ are simply our distant human descendants, returning from the future to study us...
Inter-American Philosophy in Mexico: Report on the SAAP’s 47th Annual Conference
The Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy (SAAP) had its 47th annual conference, holding it for the first time in Mexico, at the...
Scientism Schmientism! Why There Are No Other Ways of Knowing Apart from Science (Broadly...
What do we talk about when we talk about scientism? Most people who have heard of the term believe it’s something bad, an epistemic...
Enjoy New Books on Implicit Bias and Phenomenology
As part of the Blog of the APA's partnership with Exact Editions, we are offering two new books in their entirety for readers to...
Time Will Tell: An Interview with Thomas Nail
Thomas Nail is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver. He is the author of seven books; his most recent is...
Cerebral Organoids: Conscious Subjects or Zombies?
In 2011, at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology in Vienna a postdoctoral researcher, Madeline Lancaster, inadvertently brought about the production of a brain organoid...
The Legacy of Schopenhauer’s Metaphysics
The general attitude towards Arthur Schopenhauer’s metaphysics is rather fiercely critical and at times even tendentious. It seems that the figure of Schopenhauer as...
Time Will Tell: An Interview with Boram Jeong
Boram Jeong is an assistant professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Denver, U.S. She received her PhD from Duquesne University and Université...