Monthly Archives: February, 2023

Myside Bias, Social Media, and the Malaise of Democratic Deliberation

For at least four U.S. presidential cycles, those involved and concerned with the American political landscape have lamented the threats to, as well as...

Meditations on Africatown, Part 1: Sensing Reality

Editor’s Note: What follows is the first in an intended series of reflections by the author on experiences in the undertaking of a research...

Doctoral Program Attrition

Anyone who has earned a philosophy PhD in the US or Canada knows that not everyone who enters doctoral programs completes them. Even students...

Let Me Show You Some of My History

Katherine finally explains why she left college for a year: she found it fake. But now she's going back, and she is on a mission, slow and steady.

APA Member Interview: Alice Huang

Alice Huang is a Ph.D. student at the University of Toronto. She is interested in social and formal epistemology and curious about applications of...

The Dead Eyes of “Decision to Leave”

Roland Barthes once wrote of the disturbing effect of the point-of-view shot from the eyes of a dead man in Carl Theodor Dreyer’s Vampyr:...

On the Continuing Necessity of Psychoanalysis for Feminist Philosophy

We live in an era in which “gender” has become a political football, in which the broadening legitimacy of same-sex marriage, as well as...

George Carlin and the Philosophy of Religion

In this clip from the 1999 stand-up comedy special You Are All Diseased, the late comedian George Carlin offers a scathing attack on religion...

Conference Coverage: Environmental Philosophy Engaged with Asian Traditions

This post is a part of the Blog's 2023 APA Conference coverage, showcasing the research of APA members across the country. The APA Eastern...

When Students Fail: Lessons From Geno Auriemma

Suppose you are teaching introductory philosophy, and early in the semester you present the concept of a valid argument, noting that it can have...

Navigating (Living) Philosophy:  An Unconventional Journey—My Ode to Transdisciplinary Philosophy

This series invites seasoned philosophers to share critical reflections on emergent and institutionalised shapes of and encounters within philosophy. The series collects experience-based explorations...

APA Member Interview: Phil Groth

Phil Groth is a Ph.D. Candidate in the philosophy department at UC Santa Cruz, working on philosophy of mind & perception, and epistemology. He...

Syllabus Showcase: Dawn of Western Thought, Robert Earle

I designed this ancient (mostly Greek) philosophy course around three units: the Presocratics through Socrates and the sophists, Plato and Aristotle, and Hellenistic thought....

Conference Coverage: The Meaning and Relevance of Diversity for Business

This post is a part of the Blog's 2023 APA Conference coverage, showcasing the research of APA members across the country. The Society for...

Loving Commitment to Another: A Reflection by way of Howard Thurman

Do we, as human beings, need love? In The Creative Encounter, Howard Thurman affirms that we do. Thurman articulates this universal human need for love...