Monthly Archives: June, 2023

Teaching with Sci-Fi Stories: Empathic Imagination and Meta-reflection

If you know you will divorce your partner and your daughter will die at a very young age in the future, would you still...

Valerie Tiberius: What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher?

The APA blog is working with Cliff Sosis of What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher? in publishing advance excerpts from Cliff’s long-form interviews with...

From Protests to Pronouns to Prisons: Understanding Why We Use ‘Woman’

During Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearing, Senator Marsha Blackburn asked her “Can you provide a definition for the word ‘woman’?” to which Jackson...

Depression and the Good

The first time I was hospitalized for depression, it occurred to me to ask whether my fellow philosophers had anything to say about my...

APA Member Interview: Eric Wilkinson

Eric Wilkinson is a Ph.D. candidate and Vanier Scholar at McGill University. His research focuses on metaethics, normative ethics, and political philosophy. What is your favorite...

Smartphones and Meaningfulness

This essay explores topics discussed in Tiger Roholt’s recently published book, Distracted from Meaning: A Philosophy of Smartphones. Imagine that you are at the DMV...

Racial Justice in Cugoano and Africana Philosophy

Imagine you are born to a white middle class family in the United States sometime after the civil rights movement. You do not think...

Reflection on: “Ethics and Educational Decision Making”

My personal mission drives my current educational experience, and this new quest is much more about the journey than the destination. The courses available...

Mabogo More’s Sartre on Contingency

For anyone who struggles while reading Jean-Paul Sartre (including this reviewer), South African philosopher Mabogo Percy More’s recent book, Sartre On Contingency: Antiblack Racism...

How Philosophy May Help to Deal with Disagreement

Philosophy is sometimes perceived as an abstract and nerdy discipline dealing with problems of its own creation in an isolated chamber of the Ivory...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Music in Evolution and Evolution in Music

Steven Jan is Reader in Music at the University of Huddersfield, UK. His research interests lie in the fields of late eighteenth- and early...

APA Member Interview: Harry Alanen

Harry Alanen completed his D.Phil. in Philosophy at the University of Oxford in 2022 and will be a Visiting Scholar at the University of...

Inside the APA: The Committee on Non-Academic Careers

1. Background The APA Committee on Non-Academic Careers is responsible for “all activities of the association relating to the enhancement of non-academic career opportunities for...