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The Cultural Case for Saving Endangered Languages
 This post was originally published by the Institute of Art and Ideas and is republished here with permission as part of the Blog of APA’s partnership with the Institute. The idea of linguistic purism, or of resisting the excessive encroachment of foreign words in local languages, is often immediately disparaged as ignorant nationalism and stultifying to change. […]
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Divine Freedom
 [New Entry by Klaas Kraay on April 23, 2025.] [Editor's Note: The following new entry by Klaas Kraay replaces the former entry on this topic by the previous author.] The topic of divine freedom concerns the extent to which a divine being - in particular, the supreme divine being, God - can…
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Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory
 2025.04.9 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Bernard Harcourt, Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory, Columbia University Press, 2024, 312pp., $35.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780231209540. Reviewed by Albert W. Dzur, Bowling Green State University Cooperation is a big-hearted, finely researched work of criticism and reconstruction. Bernard Harcourt’s critical diagnosis of contemporary […]
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Four Views on Free Will (2nd edition)
 2025.04.8 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews John Martin Fischer, Robert Kane, Derk Pereboom, Manuel Vargas, Four Views on Free Will (2nd edition), Wiley Blackwell, 2024, 260pp., $49.95 (pbk), ISBN 9781394161966. Reviewed by Daniel Speak, Loyola Marymount University The first edition of Four Views on Free Will appeared some seventeen years […]
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Comedy’s Phenomenology
My research dwells at the intersections of philosophy, comedy, and politics. I am particularly interested in the liberatory and revolutionary potential of comedy. But, as I tell my students, the first task of a philosopher is to clarify their terms. So, before exploring comedy’s social and political dimensions, it was first necessary to begin with […]
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Science and the Public
I was awarded my Ph.D. in Philosophy in 2007. Early in my Ph.D. program, I mentioned to a more senior graduate student that I was interested in how science relates to society. This student explained to me that, while some philosophers of science consider the social structure of science, it simply is outside the scope […]
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The Restoration of Language and the Possibility of Peace
If a bridge is burning, it may not be the moment to cross it. Stay on your island—preferably with friends, with people you care for and trust. And keep up the work that gives language life. Talk to your close ones. Read books, especially those that keep alive the memory of a past you cherish. And write: a diary, poems, stories, philosophy; write a letter to a friend.
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Abilities
 [Revised entry by John Maier and Sophie Kikkert on April 22, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] In the accounts we give of one another, claims about our abilities appear to be indispensable. Some abilities are so widespread that many who have them take them for granted, such as the ability to walk, or to […]
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Reflections on Teaching Logic
Colleagues and friends of mine know I can often be found (usually after a pint or two!) bemoaning the fact that for a discipline that is so interested in asking and answering questions and understanding fundamental truths about the world, philosophers are remarkably poor at reflecting on our own practices, especially our teaching and assessment […]
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Questions and Integration in the Introductory Philosophy Classroom
My institution, Regis University, is a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI). As such, our academic community is ethnically and economically diverse and welcomes students with a broad range of educational preparation. In 2024-2025, 52% of our enrolled first-year students identify as first-generation students, and 48% of those students identify as Hispanic or Latine. Regis is also a […]
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