Phillip Barronis a PhD candidate in philosophy at the University of Connecticut, focusing on aesthetics and philosophy of language. He is also a poet. His first book of poems, What Comes from a Thi…
by Mark Satta Many of us are familiar with the sorites paradox. Take a million grains of sand and put them into a pile. That’s a heap. Remove a single grain of sand and that won’t transform that he…
By Andrew Fiala Gratitude lubricates social relations. To say thanks is to express gladness. But gratitude is also a spiritual capacity that lightens and energizes. Some call it the wine of the sou…
by Savannah Pearlman The origins of blackface date from the early 19th century minstrel shows, in which white actors blackened their faces to take up racist, exaggerated and stereotypical black per…
by Catherine Walsh Iván Castaneira These notes began as a need—my need—to reflect on the two-week peoples´ rebellion and protest in Ecuador, a rebellion-protest that I lived and that continues to t…
By Steven M. Cahn Years ago at a meeting of the American Philosophical Association, I passed a group of graduate students who were responding enthusiastically as one described a position for which …
The third Thursday of November was proclaimed World Philosophy Day by UNESCO in 2005 with the following objectives: to renew the national, subregional, regional and international commitment to phil…
by Jill Drouillard On Oct. 24, 2019, French philosopher Sylviane Agacinski was scheduled to speak at the Université de Bordeaux-Montaigne on « l’être humain à l’époque de sa reproductibilité t…
by Connor K. Kianpour Few reading the Blog of the American Philosophical Association would be surprised that the word, “philosophy” comes from the Greek, philosophia, meaning “lov…
by Lucy Pawliczek “Mentoring the Mentors” is a workshop that the APA has hosted at various divisional meetings over the last four years thanks to funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This …
by Tracy Llanera The job season is here again. If you’re on the market as an ABD or an early career researcher and you have a non-mainstream profile, you’re likely experiencing these familiar job h…
by Jamie Ritzo and Laura Brown October 3-6, 2019 marked the tenth official FEAST (Feminist Ethics and Social Theory) Conference, along with the 20-year anniversary of the first FEAST proto-conferen…
by Joseph S. Biehl This past summer, the Gotham Philosophical Society (GPS) posted four short essays under the masthead Phi on New York: Philosophy for the City. These pieces constitute the inaugur…
by Christina Hendricks For a number of years now I’ve been an advocate for the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) in teaching and learning. OER are “teaching, learning and research materials i…
The aim of this series is to provide APA members with some insights into the hiring process from a variety of sources and perspectives. If you would like to submit a contribution, we’d love …