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Announcing the Winners of the APA Blog Undergraduate Public Philosophy Award

...The Award Committee included Myisha Cherry, Skye C. Cleary, Lewis Gordon, Sally Haslanger, David V. Johnson, John Kaag, Barry Lam, Nathan Oseroff, Massimo Pigliucci, Jason Stanley, and Adriel Trott. Tweet...

The SCI PHI Podcast: Philosophy Outside Academia

...How did Carol Cleland cope with her numerous struggles as a woman in the male-dominated areas of physics, computer science, and philosophy? What was it like for Massimo Pigliucci to...

The Stoic Meditations Podcast: Philosophy Outside Academia

We live in a time of new media, when many people — for better or for worse — get their news from social media and their opinions from blogs. They...

APA Blog Undergraduate Public Philosophy Award

...Kaag, Barry Lam, Massimo Pigliucci, Jason Stanley, and Adriel M. Trott. Deadline: The deadline for this award will be December 20, 2018 at 5pm EST. Please submit the following: (1)...

Fuzzy Sets: Intellectual Dark Web, New Atheism, Logical Positivism and Behaviourism 

...no core beliefs that hold them together in a set that exclude people who are not members, for example, Massimo Pigliucci, Robert Wright, etc. In sum, if we are interested...

Stoics Should be Vegetarian

Vegetarianism is a big deal, ethically speaking. It was put on the map in terms of public philosophy by utilitarian Peter Singer, with his landmark Animal Liberation, published back in...

Philosophy by the Public: A Response to David Johnson

...as in Massimo Pigliucci’s modern Stoicism movement, to live philosophically. We can see precedent for this in many historical philosophical texts: Descartes, to take an obvious example, encourages his reader...

Michael Shermer on utilitarianism, deontology, and “natural rights”

You may have noticed that I don’t opine on quantum mechanics. Or jazz. The reason for this is that — although I’m very interested in both topics — I just...

APA Member Interview: Monica McCarthy

...is an academic philosopher and two are what I call “philosopher-ish folk.” Past guests have included Massimo Pigliucci (City College of New York) and, of course, you (Skye Cleary)! Because...

The Problem with Scientism

Science is unquestionably the most powerful approach humanity has developed so far to the understanding of the natural world. There is little point in arguing about the spectacular successes of...