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How John Rawls Could Have Predicted the Unhappiness of Facebook Users

...digital world. Fellow Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg, asked by the Winklevii to work on their project, took the idea for himself and launched “the Facebook” as an easy way for...

Within the Shadow of Monuments

...the historic deeds of George Washington, just as the Confederate Memorial Carving at Stone Mountain Park, Georgia, commemorates Confederate President Jefferson Davis, and generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J....

Philosophy in the Contemporary World: The Banality of Rumor

...noted, “Wasn’t Socrates in his time, or Thomas Paine in his…or MLK, Jr. radical in his? Yes, indeed they were.” The article continues, “The word ‘radical’ means ‘at the root,’...

Enjoying Vicious Artists

...misses the mark, however, since #MeToo moments have come to decidedly non-artistic media. Credible accusations against influential philosophers like Thomas Pogge and John Searle prompt their own moral and practical...

What Are You Reading…On Money

...to play in the future. Here are a couple articles that do just that. Mark Rathbone, “Love, money and madness: Money in the economic philosophies of Adam Smith and Jean-Jacques...

Black Issues in Philosophy: On Teaching Anna Julia Cooper’s “What Are We Worth” in Introductory Courses

By Thomas Meagher Source: C. M. Bell, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Anna Julia Cooper begins her essay, “What Are We Worth?”—a chapter from her classic book A Voice from...

Epistemic Vices and Conspiracy Theories

...sustaining belief in conspiracy theories. For example, one might regard a willingness to entertain conspiracy theories that go against the “official” account of major events as a mark of open-mindedness...

What Are You Reading…On Marriage

...just that. Thomas Mertens, “Sexual Desire and the Importance of Marriage in Kant’s Philosophy of Law,” Ratio Juris, September 2014. Mark Peper, “Adultery, Open Marriage, and Autonomy,” International Journal of...

Awards Roundup: Spring 2017

...of Minnesota, Morris, Faculty Distinguished Research Award for 2017 Nabeel Hamid, University of Pennsylvania Appointed to the 2017 ACLS Fellowship program Thomas Hurka, University of Toronto Awarded the 2017 Killam...

APA Member Interview: Mark D. White

Mark D. White is chair and professor in the Department of Philosophy at the College of Staten Island/CUNY in New York City, where he teaches and writes on the intersections...