Monthly Archives: December, 2019

“Diversifying Analytic Theology” Prize Winner Announcement

by the editors of the Journal of Analytic Theology We are delighted to announce the winner of our prize “Diversifying analytic theology,” sponsored by the...

Proprioception of Thinking and Emotional Intelligence are Central to Doing Philosophy with Children

Philosophy with children often focuses on abstract reasoning skills, but as David Bohm points out the “entire process of mind” consists of our abstract thought as well as our “tacit, concrete...

The Loss of Meaningful Work

It was the last Friday in February of 2019 and I had two small seminar-size classes to run in the morning.  This day was...

Why Aren’t Ethicists More Ethical?

Eric Schwitzgebel, a philosopher at University of California, Riverside, and a prolific blogger, has stirred up some controversy by studying whether ethics professors are...

Rob Redding’s “Why Black Lives Matter: Borigination explains how to get police and whites to treat blacks like people”

by Lewis Gordon What can one do when it is illegal for one to appear? Such a neurotic situation emerges, Robert Redding contends, from a society...

Dominic McIver Lopes elected new APA board chair

The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce that at its meeting last month, the APA board of officers elected Dr. Dominic McIver Lopes the association’s...

A Neurophilosophy of Conflict, War, and Peace

Editor’s Note: This is the second in a three-part series exploring the relationship between neuroscience, philosophy, and society. Theories of conflict in the...

Philosophy in the Contemporary World: Sorites Authoritarianism

Many of us are familiar with the sorites paradox. Take a million grains of sand and put them into a pile. That’s a heap. Remove...

APA Member Interview: Phillip Barron

Phillip Barronis a PhD candidate in philosophy at the University of Connecticut, focusing on aesthetics and philosophy of language. He is also a poet....

APA Awards Grants to Ten Projects for 2019–2020

The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce that it will provide grants to ten philosophy-related projects in the 2019–2020 fiscal year. For more...

Syllabus Showcase: Jacob J. Andrews, Ethics in Classical China

I got the idea for this course the most scholarly, academic way possible: by binge-watching a fantasy TV show for eight year olds. The...

Philosophy of Perception and Biology

The short video presents some interesting facts about the mantis shrimp in a comical way and it emphasizes how unusually the shrimp’s eyes are...

White Philosophers: It’s Time to Stop Using Digital Blackface

The origins of blackface date from the early 19th century minstrel shows, in which white actors blackened their faces to take up racist, exaggerated and stereotypical...