Black Existence in “Torto Arado” em Dez Dobraz

The collection of critical essays “Torto Arado” em Dez Dobras [“Torto Arado” in Ten Folds] will be released in 2023 in Brazil by Mercado de Letras. The anthology, organized by Francisco Neto Pereira Pinto, Rosemere Ferreira da Silva, Naiane Vieira dos Reis Silva, and Luiza Helena Oliveira da Silva, is divided into four sections entitled: […]

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Thoughtful Images

Thomas Wartenberg is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Mount Holyoke College. He has edited or co-edited books on the philosophy of art, the philosophy of film, philosophy for/with children, and the nature of power. His most recent book Thoughtful Images: Illustrating Philosophy through Art explores various illustrations of philosophical concepts and develops a beginning theory […]

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Phenomenology of Black Spirit

In this Recently Published Book Spotlight, Biko Mandela Gray, Assistant Professor of Religion at Syracuse University, and Ryan J. Johnson, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Elon University, discuss their new book, Phenomenology of Black Spirit. By examining the relationship between Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit and the work of twelve Black thinkers, this book asks the […]

The Neurotic Dogma of Reality

The world appears to be a certain way, but sometimes appearances are deceiving. This doesn’t seem to undermine what we think we know, for instance, the apparently obvious fact that we have hands. But, how do you know you’re not dreaming right now? Or better, do you know you’re not a handless brain in a […]

Reports from Abroad: Dr. Kranti Saran

This series questions and complicates what ‘reporting from abroad’ can mean in a globalized world that faces interconnected and local crises alongside forces grappling with how to liberate our beings from oppressive structures rooted in past and present (neo)colonialism and imperialism. We can take this as a chance to collectively and constructively consider both broader […]

Back to the Warm Home, Good Relationships, and Philosophy

Three years in, we stay true to the pulse underlying our philosophical work. Coming from memorable personal relationships, we end with free correspondence.

Ableism and ChatGPT: Why People Fear It Versus Why They Should Fear It

Philosophers have been discouraging the use of ChatGPT and sharing ideas about how to make it harder for students to use this software to “cheat.” A recent post on Daily Nous represents the mainstream perspective. Such critiques fail to engage with crip theory, which brings to light ChatGPT’s potential to both assist and, in the […]

Conference Coverage: Political Epistemology Network

This post is a part of the Blog's 2023 APA Conference coverage, showcasing the research of APA members across the country. The APA Eastern Conference session covered in this post was organized by the Political Epistemology Network. The political world is what William James called “a blooming, buzzing confusion.”  The size and complexity of modern […]

Navigating (Living) Philosophy: Playing in a Rigged Game

Dear Green BIPOC Philosophers, Thank you for having a mustard seed’s worth of faith that philosophy can diversify and for tenaciously continuing to show up. You’ve beaten the odds, and I’m guessing it’s not been easy. In the next twenty years, your staying-power will be tested, so I hope that some of what I have […]

Philosophy and Work: Helping Students Conceptualize Their Careers

Ask a student why they’re in college and their answer will most likely include something about securing a well-paying job, expanding their career options, or acquiring the knowledge necessary to be successful in life. The cultural narrative that has been fed to so many college students is that receiving higher education is just what you […]

Frantz Fanon and the Politics of Truth

As a student, I was never introduced to the work of Martinican philosopher and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon. I read Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth on my own during my Ph.D. in Paris, and since then Fanon’s ideas have constantly accompanied and deeply shaped my own philosophical thinking. With one exception, […]

Dis-alienating Theory: On François Tosquelles, Frantz Fanon, and Political Theory by way of Camille Robcis’s Disalienation

Camille Robcis’s Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France is a lively and timely intervention into a variety of fields. The book takes its name from the concept of disalienation about which Frantz Fanon wrote his original medical dissertation that was rejected by his committee and later published as Black Skin, White Masks […]

Reports from Abroad: Dr. Getty Lee Lustila

This series questions and complicates what ‘reporting from abroad’ can mean in a globalized world that faces interconnected and local crises alongside forces grappling with how to liberate our beings from oppressive structures rooted in past and present (neo)colonialism and imperialism. We can take this as a chance to collectively and constructively consider both broader […]

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Nussbaum’s Politics of Wonder

Wonder is the mind's excitement and proceeds by getting lost. And that is what democracy calls on us to do together.

Myside Bias, Social Media, and the Malaise of Democratic Deliberation

For at least four U.S. presidential cycles, those involved and concerned with the American political landscape have lamented the threats to, as well as the loss of, the deliberative democratic spirit. And this is happening at the same time that, as Scott Aiken and Robert Talisse pointed out in The Critique in 2017, “contemporary democracy […]

Meditations on Africatown, Part 1: Sensing Reality

Editor’s Note: What follows is the first in an intended series of reflections by the author on experiences in the undertaking of a research program undertaken in Africatown, Alabama, as detailed below. My first trip to Africatown, Alabama, came in mid-March, 2022. This was my first time ever traveling to there; up to that moment, […]

Let Me Show You Some of My History

Katherine finally explains why she left college for a year: she found it fake. But now she's going back, and she is on a mission, slow and steady.

Navigating (Living) Philosophy:  An Unconventional Journey—My Ode to Transdisciplinary Philosophy

This series invites seasoned philosophers to share critical reflections on emergent and institutionalised shapes of and encounters within philosophy. The series collects experience-based explorations of philosophy’s personal, institutional, and disciplinary evolution that will also help young academics and students navigate philosophy today. I should start with a disclaimer: my scholarly journey as a philosopher has […]

Conference Coverage: The Meaning and Relevance of Diversity for Business

This post is a part of the Blog's 2023 APA Conference coverage, showcasing the research of APA members across the country. The Society for Business panel will be taking place at the APA Central Conference from 2–4 p.m. on Saturday, February 25. While “diversity” has an almost reflexively positive valence in most contexts, diversity in […]

Loving Commitment to Another: A Reflection by way of Howard Thurman

Do we, as human beings, need love? In The Creative Encounter, Howard Thurman affirms that we do. Thurman articulates this universal human need for love in terms of the development of personality. Thurman quotes the 1951 report A Healthy Personality for Every Child, which states that the “human being does not have a personality; he […]