Early Career Research Spotlight: Ryan Muldoon
This installment of the early-career research spotlight series looks at the work of Ryan Muldoon. He is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at SUNY...
What Are You Reading…On Albert Einstein
Starting next week this column will feature books from the “Author Meets Critics” sessions of the Central APA 2017. But until then I am...
What Are You Reading…On Michel de Montaigne
During this week in 1533, Michel de Montaigne was born in Guyenne, France. One of the great Renaissance thinkers of his day, Montaigne’s work...
The Aztecs on Happiness, Pleasure and the Good Life
Lynn Sebastian Purcell is the winner of the American Philosophical Association's 2016 Essay Prize in Latin American Thought. This post is adapted from the...
What Are You Reading…On Aristotle, Telos, and Universality
This past week my Philosophy of Law class discussed Aristotle’s concept of justice as laid out in Michael Sandel’s book Justice: What’s the Right...
Philosophy in the Contemporary World: Is Trump the Real Manchurian Candidate?
This series, Philosophy in the Contemporary World, is aimed at exploring the various ways philosophy can be used to discuss issues of relevance to...
Ineffable facts, deep ignorance, and the sub-algebra hypothesis: Part 2
This post originally appeared on OUPblog and appears here as part of our partnership with them.
If there are any ineffable facts, then it is...
Ineffable facts, deep ignorance, and the sub-algebra hypothesis: Part 1
This post originally appeared on OUPblog and appears here as part of our partnership with them.
There are many things we do not know, but...
What Are You Reading…On Recognizing the History of Blacks
This morning I read an op-ed from George Yancy in the New York Times. Written for Black History Month, it discusses how to understand...
Reinventing Philosophy, Rethinking Art & Politics
Interventions in Contemporary Thought: History, Politics, Aesthetics covers a variegated terrain and engages with a number of debates and thinkers. Two guiding threads nonetheless...