Ryan S. Bingham is a doctoral candidate at the University of Chicago Divinity School, where he studies the work of Jacques Derrida at the intersections of the philosophy of religion and the study of religion, culture, and politics. His dissertation is entitled “A Materialism without Substance: Jacques Derrida and Questions of Responsibility at the Closure…| Blog of the APA
Welcome, and thanks for joining the Blog! Could you tell us more about yourself? What do you think our readers should know about you? Thanks for having me! I’m someone who doesn’t fit neatly into any boxes. Take my name: my Iranian name is Shadi, which means “happiness” in Persian. When I immigrated to North America,…| Blog of the APA
Things are going well in Symbolic Logic. Students are mastering truth tables, and they’re symbolizing English sentences into our truth-functional language with increasing facility. (For those who haven’t taken a class like this, or for those who’d appreciate a reminder, please see the note at the end.) Then comes the truth table for the material…| Blog of the APA
This post was originally published by the Institute of Art and Ideas and is republished here with permission as part of the Blog of APA’s partnership with the Institute. Without philosophical thought, Einstein claimed he “would have contributed nothing to science.” And yet, modern science popularizers like Neil deGrasse Tyson dismiss philosophy as largely irrelevant to scientific inquiry. In…| Blog of the APA
College courses, unlike most high school courses, require students to engage in a good deal of independent learning. What they do outside of class is essential to their learning, and it requires both motivation and time management, as well as an understanding of academic skills and resources available to them as students. In high school,…| Blog of the APA
"Nihilism" is a term mostly associated with Friedrich Nietzsche. But it precedes him by nearly a century. Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi coins it in 1799 to name what he regards as philosophy’s inescapable error. 1. PSR and Individuality According to Jacobi, philosophy demands total intelligibility and refuses to accept anything on faith. For philosophy, there can…| Blog of the APA
Vikas Beniwal is currently pursuing an M.A. in Philosophy at the University of Mississippi. Prior to this, he earned an M.A. in Philosophy and B.E. in Computer Engineering from the University of Mumbai. His research interests include moral and political philosophy, and he cares about animal welfare and environmental issues. PhilPeople: vikas-beniwal What excites you…| Blog of the APA
This post was originally published by the Institute of Art and Ideas and is republished here with permission as part of the Blog of APA's partnership with the Institute. The genetic code that goes on to create our brains, our selves, and our consciousness, is not only hereditary. Anna M. Hennessey argues that microchimerism, where non-hereditary DNA is introduced…| Blog of the APA
Richard B. Gibson is Editor of the Current Events in Philosophy and the Bioethics series. He is a bioethicist with research interests in human enhancement, emergent technologies, novel beings, disability theory, and body modification.| blog.apaonline.org
