What Are You Reading…On the Uses of Introductory Logic
Being familiar with logic is a double-edged sword. While it teaches rules about what counts as a good argument, it can be frustrating to...
What Are You Reading…On Civility
People generally agree with the following two statements: first, civility is important in professional relationships, and, second, in times of crisis niceties must sometimes...
Is Dehumanizing Animals Possible?
It is commonly held within feminist philosophy that dehumanization and objectification are closely related, if not equivalent (see e.g., Cudd 2006; MacKinnon 1987; Dworkin...
Some Notes on Philosophical Methodology, or Salvaging Cassirer
By Corey McCall
The reflections on method that I’m sharing here grew out of a paper that I presented at this year’s Central Division Meeting...
What Are You Reading…On Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Mind has a lot of material to work with these days. More studies are coming out every year which challenge fundamental assumptions...
Chronos in Aristotle’s Physics: On the Nature of Time
This year's Central APA featured an author-meets critics session on Chelsea Harry's book Chronos in Aristotle's Physics: On the Nature of Time. In this...
The Joy of Fish and Chinese Animal Painting
Representations of animals in traditional Chinese painting are among the oldest known motifs and are filled with rich symbolic implications. Animal paintings make animals...
How to Disagree, or Experiments in Social Construction
A professor in Cleveland explores a triple analogy: social practice art / philosophy as a way of life / so-called "radical" pedagogy
Black Issues in Philosophy: On Donna Jones’s The Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy
by Lewis R. Gordon
I have been reading the thought of Henri Bergson on a variety of issues of late. Much is due to the...
What Are You Reading…On Heroism and Community
One of the biggest stories of the last couple weeks has been the ongoing saga of the teenage soccer team trapped in a cave...