Cancellation of the 2020 APA Pacific Division Meeting
As indicated in a notice circulated on March 9, the APA leadership has been closely monitoring developments related to the global outbreak of coronavirus...
Early Career Research Spotlight: Jack Samuel
Jack Samuel is a graduate student in philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. He mostly works on ethics and metaethics, with a little bit...
What We Know Now: Humanities for All One Year Later
Last summer, the National Humanities
Alliance launched the Humanities for All website to help foster publicly engaged humanities scholarship in
U.S. higher education. Showcasing the contribution...
“Useful on the Ground”: An Interview with Elizabeth Hoover
by Kitty O’Riordan
Dr. Hoover (Mohawk/Mi’kmaq descendant) is Associate Professor of American Studies at Brown University. She received a BA in anthropology from Williams College...
Recently Published Book Spotlight: Open to Reason
Souleymane Bachir Diagne is professor of philosophy and francophone studies at Columbia University. His fields of research and teaching include History of Philosophy, History...
Diversifying the Canon: Interview with Julia Jorati
Julia Jorati is an associate professor of philosophy at the Ohio State University. She works on early modern philosophy and, within that, mostly on...
Diversifying the Canon: Interview with Julie Walsh
Julie Walsh is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Wellesley College. Her research centers on questions about human freedom and metaphysics of mind in the...
Philosophy in the Contemporary World: The Banality of Rumor
“Since choice as a decisive factor in self-preservation has to do with appearances, and since appearance has the double function of concealing some interior...
Welcoming Our New Editors: David V. Johnson and Sabrina D. MisirHiralall
I’m very pleased to announce two new editors will be joining the APA Blog team as of October 1st: David V. Johnson and Sabrina...
Laboratory for Innovation in Philosophy Teaching
by Russell Marcus
This past summer, the philosophy department at Hamilton College hosted a new two-week program for undergraduate students. In developing the program, we...