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Post-Truth and Philosophy, @certifiablejohn
https://blog.apaonline.org/…/…/25/post-truth-and-philosophy/

There was a time when knowledge from Ancient Greece was studied primarily by the Islamic World. Philosophers like Ibn Rushd (Averroes) and Ibn Sina (Avicenna) wrote about the nature of God, the relationship of thought to substance, motion, cause, and a whole host of other topics. The ideas developed during this era helped math, science, history, philosophy, and many other disciplines to progress. [ 210 more words ]
https://blog.apaonline.org/…/what-are-you-reading-on-islam…/

This week's Recently Published Book Spotlight was written by Andrew Moon, an assistant professor of philosophy at Virginia Commonwealth University. Because Andrew and his Philosophy of Religion students enjoyed the book The Hiddenness Argument they took the time to talk with author J.L. Schellenberg. Here Andrew writes about his class's experiences with the text and then carries on a discussion (based on questions his class asked Schellenberg) with the author. [ 2,965 more words ]
https://blog.apaonline.org/…/recently-published-book-spotl…/

By Miranda Pilipchuk “You go to women? Do not forget the whip!” I was an undergraduate philosophy major when I first read those infamous words by Friedrich Nietzsche. I had already fallen deeply in love with philosophy and was writing my senior thesis on Thus Spoke Zarathustra when that sentence presented itself to me. To be honest, at the time I didn’t know how to handle it. [ 1,203 more word ]
https://blog.apaonline.org/…/when-whipping-women-is-philos…/

Does Philosophical Language Have to Be Difficult? @grantmaxwell
https://blog.apaonline.org/…/does-philosophical-language-h…/

Julia Borcherding is currently a Bersoff Faculty Fellow in Philosophy at NYU. In the fall of 2019, she will take up a position as a Faculty Lecturer at Cambridge University. She specializes in early modern philosophy, with a focus on G.W. Leibniz and on women philosophers of the period. What are you doing in your own classroom to diversify the philosophical canon? [ 1,566 more word ]
https://blog.apaonline.org/…/diversifying-the-canon-interv…/

Asia Forcucci is an intern working with the APA blog for the summer. She is an undergraduate student at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She is completing a double major in philosophy and French. She is also a member of the UMass Honors College, as well as a member of the French National Honors Society. Her main interests in philosophy are… [ 1,032 more word ]
https://blog.apaonline.org/…/apa-member-interview-asia-for…/

By Larry Alan Busk The recent rise of Right-wing extremism has left critical theory disoriented. Beneath the numerous accounts of “what happened,” counsels about what to do next, and warnings about what the future may bring, we can perceive a sense of desperation, perhaps even panic. The triumph of the Right, coupled with the relatively emaciated status of the Left, may appear to confirm what we have long suspected but dared not admit: that history has passed us by, that the attempt to critique contemporary society at its most fundamental levels has become obsolete and archaic. [ 807 more words ]
https://blog.apaonline.org/…/what-is-critical-theorys-role…/

Narrativized Ethics & Subversive Laughter in Reynard the Fox
https://blog.apaonline.org/…/subversive-laughter-in-reynar…/

By Lewis Gordon Juliet Hooker is a political theorist in the Department of Political Science at Brown University. Her work focuses on the contradictions of liberal democracies emerging from their ongoing denial and presumed legitimacy of black exclusion. “Black,” however, is for her, as it is for me, a relational term, which means it must be understood alongside another category—whether white, brown, Mestizo, Creole, Indigenous, class, gender, sexuality, etc. [ 2,987 more words ]
https://blog.apaonline.org/…/some-thoughts-on-juliet-hooke…/

"Public philosophy uncovers or clarifies truths that are important to the public—that can inform civic debate—but which have been unknown or not properly appreciated" David Johnson
https://blog.apaonline.org/…/philosophy-in-the-public-inte…/

I am almost finished teaching my second semester of Business Ethics. While my students get a decent survey of moral norms from a variety of philosophical frameworks, the limitations placed on the class keep me from exploring many ideological underpinnings of the business world they will soon enter. After talking to other Business teachers about the content of their classes, I have learned that this lack this is not filled by other classes. [ 332 more words ]
https://blog.apaonline.org/…/what-are-you-reading-on-the-g…/

Discussion: Are science and philosophy part of the same continuous project? What role can awe and wonder play? @cliffordsosis & Helen De Cruz
https://blog.apaonline.org/…/what-it-is-like-to-be-a-philo…/

Editors note: Because of a major snowfall in Savannah, GA during the Eastern APA, the Blog of the APA has been hosting papers by people who missed the opportunity to present or who would like a larger audience for their work. This is the final post in the series. By Michael Longenecker There are two intuitions that we should hope that our theory of time can accommodate. [ 3,043 more words ]
https://blog.apaonline.org/…/imprints-in-time-a-moderately…/

By Tiffany Gordon Most of my work is situated along the lines of my identity. It should not be surprising, then, that since I am black + female + immigrant, my philosophical concerns revolve around the experiences of racialized, gendered, and marginalized people. But why should I preoccupy myself with such “stereotypical” concerns? By doing so I am certainly contributing the “ghettoization” of certain fields within philosophy -the fact that women and people of colour tend to work in disciplines such as feminist philosophy and philosophy of race. [ 826 more words ]
https://blog.apaonline.org/…/women-in-philosophy-minority-…/

https://blog.apaonline.org/…/on-diversifying-the-classroom…/