AI does not have a conscience. Why relate to a conscience-less thing as if were personal? The post Punk’s Original Values in the Age of Idiocy (“AI”) first appeared on Blog of the APA.| Blog of the APA
At the beginning of the 2023 blockbuster hit, Barbie, the narrator makes two claims: “All of these women are Barbie and Barbie is all of these women” and “Because Barbie can be anything, women can be anything.” Despite the appearances of Barbie being a superficial movie about a children’s toy, this sets the stage for […] The post Becoming Real: Barbie and the Crisis of Existential Identity first appeared on Blog of the APA.| Blog of the APA
When I create assignment prompts, my instructions explain both the what and the why. I include a brief statement explaining the value the assignment offers. My rationales consistently cite skills (sometimes intellectual virtues) that are valuable for any career: reading skills, analytical thinking, creative problem solving, and the like. Skill development isn’t passive. Despite students’ […] The post Designing for the struggle first appeared on Blog of the APA.| Blog of the APA
Now that we hold a significant part of our discussions on social media platforms, worries and complaints about “shadowbanning”—the act of moderating online speech without notifying its author—have emerged in debates about online speech. This discontent seems to cross bipartisan lines. In the United States, Republicans have vociferously accused technology firms of being biased against […] The post The Democratic Perils of Hidden Moderation first appeared on Blog of the APA.| Blog of the APA
Below is the audio recording of Janet Levin’s John Dewey Lecture, “The Road Taken,” given at the 2020 Pacific Division Meeting. The full text is available on the APA website (member sign-in is required) as well as on JSTOR. The audio of the lecture is available here: “The Road Taken” by Janet Levin Janet Levin […] The post 2020 Pacific Division Dewey Lecture: The Road Taken first appeared on Blog of the APA.| Blog of the APA
What could a revolutionary thinker like Frantz Fanon possibly draw from the political philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, a self-proclaimed anti-egalitarian, anti-democrat, and anti-socialist? Nietzsche clearly influenced Black Skin, White Masks, a book framed by references to Nietzsche in its introductory and penultimate chapters. Although the first reference is a misattributed quotation, the second is a…| Blog of the APA
André M. Penna-Firme is the Editor of the Reports from Abroad series. He is a teacher, poet and PhD candidate in Philosophy and Aesthetics at PUC-Rio, with research that with a master’s degree in philosophy with an emphasis on Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art from both PUC-Rio and Université Paris 8. His research covers topics such as literary reception, intellectual history, history of concepts, literature, always at the intersection of three axes: History, Literature and Philosophy. He ...| blog.apaonline.org
Arthur Bradley is Professor of Comparative Literature in the School of Arts at Lancaster University. His most recent books are Unbearable Life: A Genealogy of Political Erasure (Columbia UP, 2019) and Staging Sovereignty: Theory, Theater, Thaumaturgy (Columbia UP, 2024). In this Recently Published Book Spotlight, Bradley discusses his new book, how it relates to contemporary […] The post Recently Published Book Spotlight: Staging Sovereignty: Theory, Theater, Thaumaturgy first appeared on B...| Blog of the APA
Jordan Walters is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He recently received his PhD in Philosophy from McGill University. Link to your Website:https://jdtwalters.weebly.com/ What are you working on right now? I’m working on a series of papers about the value of humanity. The first paper examines orthodox […] The post APA Member Interview, Jordan Walters first appeared on Blog of the APA.| Blog of the APA
Kant’s account of evil makes three key claims with major consequences for moral agency and responsibility. First, the distinction between good and evil lies in the will (R 6:59). Unlike prior theories that locate evil in natural inclinations or external circumstances, Kant situates evil in the will’s choice of maxims. This reveals that earlier theories […] The post Kant’s Empowering Conception of Humanity first appeared on Blog of the APA.| Blog of the APA
1. Neither Here Nor There, But Thinking Through Both My own philosophical journey was shaped by the tension between place and thought, between inherited traditions and the search for new forms of knowing. I was born and raised in Egypt, where I earned both my B.A. and M.A. in Philosophy at Cairo University. Those early […] The post The Ethics of “I”: Philosophy, Voice, and the Politics of Inclusion first appeared on Blog of the APA.| Blog of the APA
“La philosophie est une réflexion pour qui toute matière étrangère est bonne, et nous dirions volontiers pour qui toute bonne matière est étrangère.” “Philosophy is a reflection for which all foreign matter is good, and we could gladly say, for which all good matter is foreign.” — Georges Canguilhem, The Normal and the Pathological Hello,…| Blog of the APA
If you read about a place called Newry, it will tell you that it is a city just on the edge of Northern Ireland’s border with the Republic of Ireland. It will tell you of Newry’s Cistercian monastic beginnings in the twelfth century, and it will tell you that its town hall was designed to…| Blog of the APA
The proximate origin of the crisis at Columbia University, which has recently conceded to a range of demands by federal agencies that compromise the institution’s integrity and its members’ academic freedom, is the determination by the Trump administration to punish the university for student-led campus protests over the war in Gaza. These protests reached their…| Blog of the APA
Most philosophers, and in my experience, many non-philosophers as well, have the intuition that there is something distinctive about the knowledge we have of our own mental states. If you were to tell me that you think that there is beer in the fridge, I might ask you why you think that, but it would…| Blog of the APA
Introduction Contemporary critical theories of Black life, particularly Afropessimism as formulated by Frank Wilderson and the postcolonial fatalism found in Achille Mbembe’s On the Postcolony (2001), have produced a striking impasse: frameworks seeking to disclose the depth of Black negation increasingly foreclose the possibility of Black agency. In these accounts, Black subjectivity is rendered ontologically…| Blog of the APA
Graduate Student Chronicles | blog.apaonline.org
A couple of years ago, two other graduate students (Sam Ridge and Karina Ortiz Villa) and I started UCSD’s chapter of Briana Toole’s fantastic outreach program, Corrupt the Youth. The program partners philosophy departments with Title I schools to bring philosophy to historically marginalized and underrepresented groups of students. The following are some reflections on two things…| Blog of the APA
Traffic is trivial. Rules of the road are a basic necessity for a well-functioning society, but their design is largely a technical matter of logistics and optimization best left to technocratic policymaking, not a major topic for public moral or philosophical discussion. This, I think, roughly describes a tacit assumption behind the way many of…| Blog of the APA
Public Philosophy | blog.apaonline.org
For years now, I have grappled with how to do philosophy as a trans person and how to do philosophy from the social position of trans. While the former simply negotiates my standing as gender-marginalized in the profession and the world, the latter takes that space of marginalization as a space of theorization. But I…| Blog of the APA
My course, Madness, Mental Illness, and Emotional Distress, is taught at Vanier College in St-Laurent, Québec, a CÉGEP (Collège d'enseignement général et professionnel). CÉGEPs are unique to Québec and offer a diploma that replaces the usual grade 12 and first-year university curriculum, as well as offering trade programs. This course is taught in a Humanities…| Blog of the APA
Political riots raise important moral questions. When we see or hear about a riot, we are prompted to consider whether the cause is just and whether rioting is a justified means of protest. Some believe that all rioting is wrong, while others think that it can be permissible or even required under certain conditions. These…| Blog of the APA
In April, I wrote a plea for the Columbia University leadership not to appease the Trump administration by giving in to its demands for control over the university’s operations, despite the federal funding that was being held hostage. I wrote as an academic concerned, generally, for the fate of US universities under an authoritarian regime,…| Blog of the APA
This post was originally published on Filosofía en la Red. It has been translated as part of the APA Blog’s ongoing collaboration with them. The APA Blog is committed to amplifying underrepresented voices in philosophy. If you or someone you know has research that the APA community should know about, send us a pitch. Philosophy, whose…| Blog of the APA
The Tangier smoke cat catches a piece of meat in his front paws like a monkey…my little monkey beast. The white cat rubs his way towards me, tentative, hoping. William S. Borroughs, The Cat Inside (93). I used to live in Nijmegen (the Netherlands) and commute to work to Aachen (Germany), where I would stay…| Blog of the APA
Jacob Browning is a substitute assistant professor at Baruch College. His work focuses on topics in the philosophy of mind and AI, from both historical and contemporary points of view. For contact information and publications, see www.jacob-browning.com What is your favorite thing that you’ve written?The articles I think fondly of are my co-written ones. I’ve…| Blog of the APA
Headlines like “Man Proposed to His AI Girlfriend” and “She’s In Love With ChatGPT” reflect a cultural moment where romantic relationships with artificial intelligence are no longer niche curiosities—they’re mainstream. Companion AIs, like Replika or Character.AI, are increasingly embedded in people’s emotional lives, and sometimes even their romantic ones. Replika, for example, boasts over 30 million users as of mid-2024, with…| Blog of the APA
I would like to suggest that they are, sometimes, but not always, us. Sometimes, people speak without thought. This is something that can happen to most of us, and I would like to propose a way of thinking about how and why this happens, hoping that understanding the cause of a problem is a substantial…| Blog of the APA
Frantz Fanon’s work has primarily been received through the lens of his political writings and the political aspects of his work. His psychiatric writings and psychoanalytic concepts, however, have not attracted nearly as much interest. Yet, because Fanon’s dual role as a psychiatrist and political thinker manifests itself in both his theoretical and practical work,…| Blog of the APA
The Official Blog of the American Philosophical Association| blog.apaonline.org
Public Philosophy | blog.apaonline.org
Public Philosophy | blog.apaonline.org
APA | blog.apaonline.org
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
When I was thirty, I told some coworkers about my plan to enter grad school to become a psychotherapist. We were technical writers for a large insurance company. “We used to have such dreams,” one of them sighed as the others nodded. “But you have to pay the bills and keep to what you know.”…| Blog of the APA
Peter Alward is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Saskatchewan. Originally from Halifax, Nova Scotia, he received his doctorate from The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1998. He works primarily on issues in the Philosophy of Art and Literature. What are you working on right now? Right now, I’m working on…| Blog of the APA
The quantified metrics of likes, shares, and followers are often likened to currencies of social media. Like dollars and cents, we seek to acquire and accumulate them for the value they confer us. However, while money is valued primarily as a means for exchanging goods and services, the metrics of social media are valued primarily…| Blog of the APA
How do we arrive at some sense of being at home in the world without aspiring to own it?| Blog of the APA
The now classic movie-riffing series Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K), and its spinoffs such as Rifftrax, can tell us something about how to deal with existential absurdity. Although MST3K more directly targets the “aesthetic absurdity” of flawed filmmaking, the strategies used for coping with bad movies can also be applied to the absurdities of life.…| Blog of the APA
In my philosophy courses, I largely give take-home writing assignments. These are either focused on the course readings (no research required beyond the syllabus) or not (so they require students to do outside reading). Usually, I have 5-7 of the former (1,000-1,500 words) and 1-or-2 research papers (2,000-2,500 words if it is one long paper,…| Blog of the APA
The second Trump administration's attack on trans people is in full swing. Within hours of taking office for the second time, the president signed an executive order that described trans people as "ideologues who deny the biological reality of sex" and accused them of attacking not just the laws of biology but the safety of…| Blog of the APA
On the first anniversary of the hanging of John Brown, December 3, 1860, abolitionists from Boston and around the country assembled in Tremont Temple to discuss the question, “How can American slavery be abolished?” Among the scheduled speakers were John Brown Jr., Wendell Phillips, and Frederick Douglass. But the city’s business leaders, perhaps with support…| Blog of the APA
Relatively few philosophers specialize in the philosophy of religion, but many teach an introductory problems course in which one usual topic is the existence of God. The routine approach is to present and assess the three traditional arguments for the existence of God. Then the focus shifts to the problem of evil, after which the…| Blog of the APA
In January 2023, Democratic state Reps. Carlos González and Judith A. García introduced HD 3822 into the Massachusetts legislature. The bill proposed establishing a program within the Department of Corrections that would allow incarcerated individuals to donate bone marrow or organs in exchange for a reduced sentence. The bill aimed not only to address the…| Blog of the APA
American YouTuber Armon Wiggins went viral on X after referring to Tyla as an “uppity African,” an insult with which the broadcaster and rapper Joe Budden concurred. Wiggins writes: “Hey I don’t think I like TYLA’s personality I think someone needs to check her cus she doesn’t understand American Culture AT ALL…she almost gives off…| Blog of the APA
“The benign prerogative of pardoning” At the birth of the United States, Alexander Hamilton argued in Federalist 74 that “Humanity and good policy conspire to dictate, that the benign prerogative of pardoning should be as little as possible fettered or embarrassed.” Yet, long before Trump and Biden’s recent pardons, the pardoning power has been controversial…| Blog of the APA
Introducing foundational ethical theories can be a dreaded task for instructors; thwarting off cultural relativism and fielding questions such as “Yeah, but does this REALLY matter?” However, I am always excited to have the opportunity to challenge my students, most of whom have never taken a philosophy course before, to evaluate their deeply held convictions…| Blog of the APA
Matthew Congdon is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. His research focuses on ethics, social philosophy, and aesthetics. He is the author of the book, Moral Articulation: On the Development of New Moral Concepts (Oxford University Press, 2024). He has written articles on many topics, including emotions, moral change, interpersonal recognition, Aristotelian ethical…| Blog of the APA
Legal theorist Richard Sherwin discusses the emotional and axiological excess underneath the passion to change constitutions.| Blog of the APA
Over the last decade, philosophers have paid significant attention to the topic of sexual violence. Much of this work is socially engaged, building theory from analysis of real-life cases and empirical work on sexual violence. Various philosophers have employed concepts from the social sciences, such as “unacknowledged rape” and “rape myths,” in analyzing epistemic problems…| Blog of the APA
I taught this class, Identity and Memoir, in the spring of 2023 as a section of the Philosophy of the Human Person course at Seattle University. Philosophy of the Human Person is one of two philosophy courses each student is required to take as part of their general education core. Students in the course come…| Blog of the APA
Below is the audio recording of Robert Audi’s John Dewey Lecture, “Five Decades of Philosophy,” given at the 2018 Central Division Meeting. The full text is available on the APA website (member sign-in is required) as well as on JSTOR. The audio of the lecture is available here: "Five Decades of Philosophy" by Robert Audi…| Blog of the APA
Robert Engelman is a Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. His research interests are in social and political philosophy, 19th and 20th century philosophy, and aesthetics. 1. What excites you about philosophy? Philosophizing well increasingly strikes me as involving creative practices of carefully and honestly attending to and reflecting upon one’s experience and its…| Blog of the APA
According to the World Health Organization, the global biosecurity threat is increasing. One reason is that genetic editing and synthesis technologies are advancing and becoming more widely accessible. Another is the continuing characterization of the genetic makeup that would make a pathogen especially lethal, exceptionally communicable, and otherwise dangerous to human populations. Almost no country…| 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
In July 2024, I had the opportunity to attend the American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT) Teaching and Learning Seminar. The three-day, activities-packed seminar opened me up to seeing innovative ideas about teaching philosophy as a potential faculty. Among the many things that stood out for me at this event was the number of international…| 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
“The law of love will work, just as the law of gravitation will work.” – Gandhi In parts one and two of this three-part series, I developed a framework for ahimsic (nonviolent) communication (AC) as an alternative to the standard communicative norm of civility. The framework presented for AC offers various categories of resistance to…| Blog of the APA
One of my favorite moments in class is when a student says something like, “I think I have a question, but I’m not sure how to put it…” This blog post is about why that is one of my favorite moments. About 7 or 8 years ago, after giving an assignment that involved writing some…| Blog of the APA
Chris Armstrong is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Southampton, in the United Kingdom. He has worked on various issues in applied political philosophy, including global justice, territory and natural resources, climate justice, the politics of the ocean, and the biodiversity crisis. His most recent book, Global Justice and the Biodiversity Crisis grapples…| Blog of the APA
Tyla, a South African singer, performer, and Grammy Award winner, has achieved more in the past year than many musical artists ever will. In part one of the series “Tyla, Coloureds, Color, and Culture,” I outlined her numerous professional achievements. The goal of the post, though, was to highlight that the immense global spotlight that…| Blog of the APA
The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce the following 16 prizes for the second half of 2024. APA prizes recognize many areas of philosophy research by philosophers at various career stages, as well as the teaching of philosophy and public philosophy. For more details about the winners and prizes, please visit the 2024 APA…| Blog of the APA
One way to teach Medical Ethics courses is to start with theory and then work through a series of pro/con pieces on abortion, euthanasia, using non-human animals in research, organ markets, etc. It’s a standard approach and for good reason: it introduces students to the moral aspects of these debates and helps them critically assess…| Blog of the APA
In human subject research, we often face an ethical question: is it ever justifiable to deceive participants? After all, deception can be effective in getting unbiased data in studies where the awareness of the experiment’s purpose is likely to change how participants behave. Yet, there is a deeper ethical dimension here. My recent paper, Honesty…| Blog of the APA
Bio: Rami El Ali works on the philosophy of perception, technology, and phenomenology. He is currently pursuing a second PhD focusing on virtual reality at the University of Arizona’s School of Information. He was previously associate professor and head of the philosophy program at the Lebanese American University, and a graduate from the University of…| Blog of the APA
Alpha School in Austin, Texas has no teachers. Students instead spend two hours a day studying core subjects “taught” by an AI-powered software program. True to Silicon Valley’s educational ideals, the school argues this approach gives students time to practice “life-skills” like coding, entrepreneurship, and public speaking. The school claims its students perform well on…| 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
Less than a year after the American philosopher Daniel C. Dennett put out his latest collection of quality ruminations on his life, titled I've Been Thinking (2023), he died of interstitial lung disease in a bed at Maine Medical Center in Portland on April 19, 2024. He surely had an intimation of his nearing demise,…| Blog of the APA
Ding works in feminist political philosophy, social metaphysics, and philosophy of law. They are currently finishing their PhD at the University of Arizona. Their dissertation explores the often-unexpected ways in which transgender equality not only poses difficult challenges to, but sheds constructive light on, our understanding of the meaning and requirements of gender equality. What…| Blog of the APA
The adult talk test asks whether a politician could conceivably have an adult conversation with you. If they could, they are serious contenders for a democratic office, and if they could not, they are disqualified from democratic office. Obviously a lot hangs on the "could" and "could not," as well as on the meaning of…| Blog of the APA
Justin Remhof is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Old Dominion University and the author of Nietzsche’s Constructivism: A Metaphysics of Material Objects. His new book, Nietzsche as Metaphysician, examines aspects of Nietzsche’s thought that have received little attention in the literature, including his view of what makes metaphysics possible; his metaphysics of science; his…| Blog of the APA
As I write, the 2024 U.S. federal election is in its final stretch, and it’s a nail-biter. A few thousand swing voters may well decide the future of the country when it comes to climate change, social injustice, abortion access, international war, free speech, and even the basic structure of American democracy. Most academic philosophers…| Blog of the APA
Those who pursue a professorial career typically follow a path from high school to college to graduate school to faculty membership. Rarely noted, however, is that along the way the attributes of academic success change. To excel in high school calls for absorbing materials from various areas of inquiry, including mathematics, science, history, literature, and…| Blog of the APA
I went to a conference on academic integrity at Randolph College back in 2018. There was one hot topic at the time. It was not AI. It was paper mills. What could be done about paper mills? If one can just pay somebody to write a real paper, however, would one be able to show…| Blog of the APA
We are friends and colleagues who have collaborated on developing the following course at Houston Community College (HCC). We are also both philosophers. While the course featured here is not housed in our Philosophy Department and does not belong solely to one discipline, the way we each teach it is informed by our philosophical training and…| Blog of the APA
Unless you follow the field closely, you probably aren’t aware of a major shift in scholarship on philosophy in the Islamic world. Since the turn of the century, experts on this topic have been increasingly interested in what happened after what one might call the “classical” or “formative” period. By this I mean, roughly, the…| Blog of the APA
This past July, Robert L. Allen passed away at 82. As an undergraduate student, Allen had a very large impact on me. I took three courses with Dr. Allen, and I still remember the enthusiastic way he would say my name: “Ah, Thomas!” My appreciation of Allen’s scholarship and influence has continually burgeoned as I…| Blog of the APA
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, many scientists embraced the idea, based on past experience with other coronaviruses, that it was highly probable that the new coronavirus (Sars-Cov2) originated as a result of a zoonotic jump from an animal to people. They believed that such a jump likely occurred in the Huanan wet…| Blog of the APA
Brian LePort is a Social and Religious Studies Instructor at TMI Episcopal in San Antonio, TX. He teaches high school classes on subjects ranging from the Hebrew Bible and the Christian New Testament to comparative religion and American religion, to philosophy (learn more at brianleport.home.blog). What excites you about philosophy?I grew up in a religious…| Blog of the APA
I was always amazed by and envious of the aloof effect conjured effortlessly by my peers when I was younger. I longed to master such a cool, collected demeanor. What grace and intrigue one must have to move about the world as if untouched by the existential weight of its (our) materiality! As I aged,…| Blog of the APA
In the Fall of 2022, I began teaching in the philosophy department at Texas State University (TXST), which has been a proud Hispanic-serving institution for over a decade. Toward the end of the semester, my department chair asked if I would be willing to teach PHIL 4373: Latin American and Latinx Philosophy the following Spring.…| Blog of the APA
Even though I have taught my courses several times, I find that I am always excited to begin each new semester and to better understand the mysterious interplay between teacher and student. It’s critical to understand this teaching as an act of service. Understanding this in the abstract is one thing, but truly appreciating this…| Blog of the APA
In her 2023 Netflix special It’s Great to be Here, comedian Michelle Wolf makes two trans jokes. The second joke comes in the context of a segment that touches on themes of sexual violence and the racialized innocence of white women. Wolf mentions the statistics on femicide and notes “and then I heard about all…| Blog of the APA
Within military studies, scholars regularly analyze and teach the strategies and victories of great military strategists, whether ancient (Sun Tzu), modern (Napoleon Bonaparte; cf. Chandler 1973), or contemporary (Erwin Rommel). Because these ‘dangerous minds’ are now long dead, scholars are forced to speculate about how they would have acted under various hypothetical scenarios (e.g., Brands…| 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
Originally from Jamaica, Dr. Chevannes is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Memphis. Dr. Chevannes’s research surrounds the intersection of Africana Studies, Deaf Studies, and Caribbean Studies. His primary specialization is in political theory, focusing on Africana Political Theory with an emphasis on Black Liberatory Politics. Liahna Strout met with Dr.…| Blog of the APA
This post is part of a new series exploring philosophical perspectives on loneliness. If you are interested in contributing to this series, please submit a pitch. Loneliness is in the business of getting a bad press. Amongst the popular and academic literati of the post-developed world it has been variously labelled a pandemic; a silent…| Blog of the APA
I. The Hermeneutic Priority of Questioning How does a sentence heard, seen, or felt transform into a meaning understood? We—linguistically shaped human beings—hear and see sentences all the time, all around us. And yet only some of those sentences make sense to us. It is not just that some sentences are expressed in languages that…| Blog of the APA
1 Introduction There are many ways that generative AI, such as ChatGPT or AI image generators, relates to social epistemology, not least of which is that generative AI has the potential to exacerbate the pollution and degradation of our information ecosystem. But, could generative AI systems also serve as social epistemic models, helping us better understand…| Blog of the APA
If you find this tweet to be as pointed as I do, Effective Altruism may be for you. Effective Altruism is a social movement whose goal it is to encourage individuals to channel their personal wealth into highly effective charities. According to Effective Altruists, organizations such as UNICEF, OXFAM, and the Against Malaria Foundation are…| Blog of the APA
