By 555 A.D. Emperor Justinian I was close to reconquering most of the territories in Italy and North Africa lost 100 years earlier when the Roman empire’s western half collapsed. At the time it app…
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 philosophers. The following is an ed…
Is science the only or best source of knowledge, justification, and rational belief? If you answer in the affirmative, you are affected by an epistemic disease known as scientism. As a scientist my…
Public philosophy is philosophy oriented towards the general public. In our class, titled “Public Philosophy” and taught at UC Berkeley in the Spring of 2020, philosophy majors used public philosop…
Here’s a perverse thought experiment. Let’s suppose that we set ourselves the task of writing a history of philosophy that reflects and represents human thought in the period from, say, 1600 to 180…
As the plight of Indigenous peoples is also a Black issue in philosophy, not only because it should be a concern of everyone but also because most Black peoples in Africa, Oceana, and Southwest Asi…
Below is the audio recording of Christia Mercer’s Presidential Address, given at the 2019-2020 Eastern Division Meeting. The talk is titled “Empowering Philosophy”, and in it she argues for a recon…
This is post eight in a short-term series by Prof. Nayef Al-Rodhan titled “Neurophilosophy of Governance, Power and Transformative Innovations.” This series provides neurophilosophical perspectives…
Despite believing in the value of online philosophy, I myself have limited philosophical engagements online. Online philosophy is a vast terrain, spanning from philosophy discussed in mainstream ve…
What do we talk about when we talk about scientism? Most people who have heard of the term believe it’s something bad, an epistemic sin or affliction we should avoid at all costs. And that is indee…
The APA Blog is looking for a new Public Philosophy editor. The Public Philosophy beat reports on issues relevant to civil society and culture. The purpose of such posts is to demonstrate the value…
The Jewish High Holidays (or High Holy Days) were just celebrated. In the midst of it, on Erev Yom Kippur (eve of the Day of Atonement), I had the good fortune to participate with Noam Chomsky and …
We were recently provided with a report from the APA that recounts work by Debra Nails and John Davenport to collect, organize, and analyze available data on the discipline over the past 50 years, …
Below is the audio recording of Michael Friedman’s John Dewey Lecture, given at the 2018-2019 Pacific Division Meeting. The talk is titled “Philosophy, Science, and History: A Personal Perspective”…
The emotional price of being poor: How boredom harms those who are less affluent It seizes us at home or at work, in open spaces or behind closed doors. It sneaks upon us when we are alone or in th…