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Teaching and Learning Video Series

Positive Propaganda: Dave Chappelle and his White Buddy “Chip”

This video highlights, via humorous understatement in a brief narrative, the very different experiences white and black people often have with the police. An...
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APA Member Interview: Mary Gregg

Mary Gregg received her Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut in April 2022 and will begin her lectureship with Yonsei University’s Underwood International College in...
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Germaine de Staël’s Philosophy and Politics

The canon of the history of philosophy has been repeatedly criticized for its lack of diversity by Eileen O’Neill, Charles Mills, and others. In...

The Philosophy of Inception

Inception (2010) raises philosophical questions throughout the film, but especially at the end. The protagonist, Cobb, returns home after completing his mission. Seeing his...

The Faces of Death: More than a Macabre Rite of Passage

Last year it was announced that the gruesome cult classic, Faces of Death (1978), would be remade by the team responsible for the film...
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Audrey Yap: What is it Like to Be a Philosopher?

The APA blog is working with Cliff Sosis of What is it Like to Be a Philosopher? in publishing advance excerpts from Cliff’s long-form interviews with...

Postdigital Film as Philosophy of Praxis

The Rebirth of Satire I recently received Shane Ralston’s invitation to write ‘a treatment of a single film, classic or contemporary, from any philosophical...
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A Boring Class and Philosophy of Education

A Boring Class is a short animated film about the monotony of traditional education, viewed in a comic and relatable way. The video raises...
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Should Robots Have Rights? Lt. Commander Data v. The United Federation of Planets

In the following clip from “The Measure of a Man,” episode nine of the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1989), we...
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APA Awards Grants to 10 Projects for 2021–2022

The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce that it has reinstated all grant funding programs and will provide grants to 10 philosophy-related projects...