What Are You Reading…On Applied Ethics
The multitude of scandals associated with the #MeToo movement indicate how far society needs to go to achieve equality. Like many current events, the...
Badiou, the Event, and Psychiatry, Part 1: Trauma and Event
Editor's note: This is the first of a two-part series on Evental Psychiatry. The second part can be found here.
Philosophy is either reckless or...
What Are You Reading…On Post-Aristotelian Philosophy
Aristotle unquestionably changed the discipline of philosophy. As an undergrad, I remember one of my professors telling me that, if time constraints were no...
Early Career Research Spotlight: Becky Vartabedian
This edition of the Early Career Research Spotlight focuses on Becky Vartabedian. She is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy department at Regis University in...
What Are You Reading…On Thinking Globally
This past week I took two exciting trips. A delegation from Fort Hays State University came to China to evaluate the program here with...
Does Neuroscience Say Madonna is a Material Girl?
In her 1985 hit song Material Girl, Madonna summed up the prevailing view in philosophy of mind: “We are living in a material world...
What Are You Reading…On Wonder
The idea that philosophy begins with wonder is credited to several Ancient Greek philosophers, and has been held since that time by many other...
What Are You Reading…On Children
At the place where I’m living—the International Teachers Apartments at SIAS University—children hold a prominent place. Many who teach here are raising families, and...
Early Career Research Spotlight: Katie Stockdale
This edition of the Early Career Research Spotlight focuses on the work of Katie Stockdale. Katie is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Sam...
What Are You Reading…On Music
The experience of music is, at its best, a transcendental one. Music takes you beyond your everyday experience into a world that you may...