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Friday, May 10, 2024 Sign in / Join Facebook Instagram Twitter Vimeo Youtube Join the discussion Join the discussion About Contributors Archive Topics Valuing Black Lives Special Series Black Issues in Philosophy Blog Announcements Climate Matters COVID-19 Genealogies of Philosophy Graduate Student Council (GSC) Graduate Student Reflection Into Philosophy Member Interviews On Congeniality Philosophy as a Way of Life Philosophy in the Contemporary World Precarity and Philosophy Recently Published Book Spotlight Starting Out in Philosophy Syllabus Showcase Teaching and Learning Video Series Undergraduate Philosophy Club Women in Philosophy APA Diversity and Inclusiveness Issues in Philosophy Public Philosophy Research Service Teaching Work/Life Balance Submissions Newsletter Journal Surveys APA APA Connect Search Philosophy and Technology Digital Ideology Aden Evens - May 9, 2024 Syllabus Showcase Moral Psychology, Jada Wiggleton-Little Jada Wiggleton- Little - May 8, 2024 Teaching University of Arizona Philosophy Club Alec Scroggins - May 8, 2024 Black Issues in Philosophy If you become a monster, the fight is not worth it”: An interview with Dr. Ba Rehana Konate - May 7, 2024 Everyday Lifestyle What Do We Owe Our Neighbors? Laura Engel - May 6, 2024 LATEST POSTS All All APA Black Issues in Philosophy Blog Announcements Caring for Democracy Climate Matters COVID-19 Current Events in Public Philosophy Diversity and Inclusiveness Ethical Dilemmas in Public Philosophy Everyday Lifestyle Genealogies of Philosophy Graduate Student Chronicles Graduate Student Council (GSC) Graduate Student Reflection Into Philosophy Issues in Philosophy Law and Philosophy Member Interviews Navigating (Living) Philosophy On Congeniality Philosophy and Technology Philosophy as a Way of Life Philosophy in the Contemporary World Philosophy of Film Precarity and Philosophy Professor Reflection Series Public Philosophy Recently Published Book Spotlight Reports from Abroad Research Service Starting Out in Philosophy Syllabus Showcase Teaching Teaching and Learning Video Series Undergraduate Philosophy Clubs Valuing Black Lives Women in Philosophy Work/Life Balance Digital Ideology Philosophy and Technology Aden Evens - May 9, 2024 The digital is material ideology. As the operating principle of the technologies it labels, the digital bears on the world not just in any way but in a particular way. Using digital technologies and living in a world shaped by the digital, people come to think and act accordingly. This... Read more Moral Psychology, Jada Wiggleton-Little Syllabus Showcase Jada Wiggleton- Little - May 8, 2024 The following syllabus is for a virtual 5-week summer course on Moral Psychology forundergraduate students at a public university. The course specifically looked at how one’s racial or gender identity influences the expressions of feelings, like anger, pain, and empathy. Because this was such a short course, I share... Read more University of Arizona Philosophy Club Teaching Alec Scroggins - May 8, 2024 The University of Arizona Philosophy Club was founded a few years ago around 2020. Each semester we reserve rooms in one of the classrooms of the Social and Behavioral Studies building on the ground floor where many of the Philosophy professors have their offices and teach. We are a... Read more If you become a monster, the fight is not worth it”: An interview with... Black Issues in Philosophy Rehana Konate - May 7, 2024 Mouhamadou El Hady Ba is an associate professor of Philosophy at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal. Professor Hady Ba is also the head of the Philosophy Department and Cheikh Anta Diop University’s Teachers College and the former Director of the Laboratory for the Study of Educational Systems.... Read more What Do We Owe Our Neighbors? Everyday Lifestyle Laura Engel - May 6, 2024 (Please note: This post contains my personal reflections on my own experiences within my current neighborhood, and as such I believe it is important to acknowledge my positionality. I am writing this post as a white, middle-class cis woman who lives in a primarily residential working-class neighborhood in St.... Read more Friedlaender Fever Research Bruce J. Krajewski - May 3, 2024 Salomo Friedlaender with his son Heinz Ludwig and his wife Marie Luise (Image has been AI-enhanced). Who isn’t eager to learn more about a philosopher who relished describing himself as a synthesis of Chaplin and Kant? About the author of a work on Kant used in 1945 by U.S. military intelligence... Read more TikTok: The Surveillance State and Your Role Philosophy of Film Siobhain Lash - May 2, 2024 Lately, you cannot walk down a busy street, go to work, eat at a restaurant, workout at the gym, or go grocery shopping without seeing either a Ring light and its accompanying dancer, monologist, storyteller, or a gaggle of influencers—or want-to-be-influencers. As a result, you become a nonconsensual unpaid background... Read more How Not to Excuse Far-Right Women Diversity and Inclusiveness Katie Peters - May 1, 2024 I am still in utter disbelief by Thursday’s verdict. Never in my life did I imagine my own government would charge me as a criminal for exercising my religious liberties and rights to free speech, which are guaranteed by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. They are trying... Read more Should We Continue to Read and Honor Immoral Historical Philosophers? Issues in Philosophy Avi Sommer - April 29, 2024 In 2020, the University of Edinburgh renamed what was then called Hume Tower, removing the name of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume on the grounds that Hume supported slavery and was a racist. Recently, David Ashton and Peter Hutton have written two pieces (here and here, and... Read more LuFlot: The first philosopher-powered chatbot Philosophy and Technology Luciano FloridiMaryellen Stohlman-Vanderveen - April 26, 2024 Portraits by Mara Lavitt; Image courtesy of Yale University Students now have a new tool at their disposal. The Luciano Floridi Bot, also known as LuFlot, is an AI-powered online tool designed to democratize access to philosophical material and foster engagement with the works of philosopher and Director of Yale’s... Read more Search Advanced Search - Advertisement - TOPICS APA Black Issues in Philosophy Blog Announcements Caring for Democracy Climate Matters COVID-19 Current Events in Public Philosophy Diversity and Inclusiveness Ethical Dilemmas in Public Philosophy Everyday Lifestyle Filosofia en la Red Genealogies of Philosophy Graduate Student Chronicles Graduate Student...