Monthly Archives: October, 2023

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Simone Weil’s Political Philosophy

Benjamin P. Davis is a postdoctoral fellow in African American Studies at Saint Louis University. His recent book, Simone Weil’s Political Philosophy: Field Notes...

APA Member Interview: Victor Carrington

Victor Carrington has practiced as a philosophical and pastoral counsellor for ten years with expertise in life-stage transitions, life crises, and relationships. He has...

Self-Invention, Worldmaking, and the Struggle for Another Revolutionary Event: A Review Essay of Jean Casimir’s The Haitians: A Decolonial History

In my estimation, the beauty that lies in existentialist thought manifests itself as a truthful, bare encounter with reality, and with it, an appraisal—in...

Meet the APA: Heather Battaly

Heather Battaly is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut, having previously taught at California State University Fullerton. She works on epistemology,...

A Feminist Critique of Moral Particularism

Moral Particularism In metaethics, moral particularism is the view that moral reasoning is too context-sensitive to be guided by overarching principles. Traditional work in ethics...

Syllabus Showcase: Introduction to Philosophy, Samuel A. Taylor

I’ve been teaching Introduction to Philosophy at Tuskegee University for approximately five years. The course helps fulfill a general education requirement and, while we...

Effective Online Teaching

The underpinning of education is that teachers help students. Whether we are called teachers, instructors, faculty, professors, or facilitators, this is the essence of...

Iran’s Woman Life Freedom Movement and the Critique of Mandatory Hijab

One year has passed since the tragic death of Mahsa Jina Amina at the hands of Iran’s morality police. Her death became the beginning...

APA Member Interview: Zeinab Rabii

Zeinab Rabii is a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at the University of Missouri–Columbia. As a solo instructor, she has taught different courses on ethics...

What Hegel Has to Teach Us about AI

This essay was previously published July 6th, 2023 in The New Statesman In the summer of 2022, engineer Blake Lemoine posted to Medium a transcript of his...

Undergraduate Philosophy Club: The University of North Carolina

UNC’s Philosophy Club emerged a few years ago in conjunction with the dissolution of our Phi Sigma Tau honors society chapter. It was founded...

James Africanus Beale Horton: Racism and the Fate of Naturalism in Victorian Philosophical Anthropology

There has been a recent increase in interest in the place of race in the writings of modern canonical European philosophers (e.g., in Locke,...

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Don’t worry, the Blog of the American Philosophical Association isn’t going anywhere. However, we are offering a new way for readers to connect with...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Games: Agency as Art

C. Thi Nguyen is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah. He works in social epistemology, aesthetics, practical reasoning, and value theory,...

Beyond Neutrality: Rethinking Scholarly Engagement in Global Governance

In an era fraught with moral and political crises, the importance of scholars becomes more evident. What is interesting is how scholars from the...