Shawn Simpson is a PhD candidate at the Graduate Center, the City University of New York. His dissertation focuses on communication, its evolution, and its many forms. He is currently w…
This edition of The Forefront of Research features the Journal of Philosophy of Disability (JPD). This new journal devoted to the philosophical study of disability is edited by Joel Micha…
Below is the audio recording of Cora Diamond’s John Dewey Lecture, given at the 2018-2019 Eastern Division Meeting. In her talk, “Reflections of a Dinosaur,” Diamond uses her own career as a prism …
In 2019, CNN and other news services reported that the New York Department of Financial Services was investigating Apple Card for gender bias because its issuer, Goldman Sachs, was giving women muc…
Dr. Sabrina D. MisirHiralall is an editor at the Blog of the APA who currently teaches philosophy, religion, and education courses solely online for Montclair State University, Three Rivers Communi…
The overwhelming “whiteness” of philosophy has been discussed by many, and has continued to be an ongoing problem in our field. In recent years, there have been admirable attempts to change this, b…
Kierkegaard never mentions slavery. Or almost never. The subject gets two pages in a corpus that spans thousands. This silence is surprising given how much Kierkegaard talks about freedom. For him,…
I lit a candle in memory of María Lugones, who joined the ancestors last week on July 14th. She is correctly memorialized as a giant in her areas of expertise, as attested to in her obituary …
Richard Rorty’s 1998 book Achieving Our Country enjoyed a burst of attention after the 2016 elections. As law professor Lisa Kerr first observed, Rorty seemed to predict Donald Trump’s victory. He …
Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904) was an Anglo-Irish reformer who wrote about moral theory and moral epistemology, religion, evolution, duties to animals, feminism, welfare, mind and body, unconsciou…
Answers from Matthew Barrett, PhD, Consultant in the Life-Sciences Industry Matthew Barrett (photo right) earned a doctorate in philosophy from Stanford University, and is now a principal in the co…
In the weeks since police officers killed George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, mass uprisings—and a violent, uncompromising response from police departments across the country—have provoked a national …
The current climate of soul-searching about race and racism has led to a wave of reactions among faculty at many universities. Numerous departments of philosophy, anthropology, political scie…
This is the third in a several part series discussing ways to improve diversity in philosophy departments. The other pieces can be found here. My focus here is hiring tenure line faculty into philo…
This is a revised version of a June 13, 2020 lecture delivered at the Global Center for Advanced Studies. The title of this article announces my preoccupation with a probing question raised by the …