It took me a long time to get to academic philosophy—in fact, most of my life. I didn’t major in philosophy in college, but in government and history. In the last year, I became increasingly interested in philosophy, taking classes on Nietzsche, Kant, and political philosophy, and doing a lot of reading on my own. […] The post A long and winding path to philosophy through the law first appeared on Blog of the APA.| Blog of the APA
"Ya te dije! Y más te vale que no les digas que eres pobre!!!" Those were my mom’s last words as I left for graduate school: "I already told you! And for your own sake, do not tell them you are poor!!!" I was shocked. For years, my parents never understood academia; they never grasped…| Blog of the APA
Studying ancient philosophical works might seem to many students like an antiquated endeavor, akin to reading Euclid’s Elements or Newton’s Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy when compared to the empirical sciences. However, in philosophy, especially metaphysics, I’ve realized this is not the case. Metaphysics, which inherently involves thinking beyond, yet still accounting for, our empirical…| Blog of the APA
I recently taught an eight-week course at Trinity Episcopal Parish in Searcy, Arkansas, on architectural and liturgical semiotics. I sought to answer this question: “What are the recurring motifs and movements that occur in this space, and what do they tell us about the kind of people that inhabit the space?” In other words, who…| Blog of the APA
