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2022 Central Division Dewey Lecture: The Question Is How to Live

2022 Central Division Dewey Lecture: The Question Is How to Live

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Below is the audio recording of Allan Gibbard’s John Dewey Lecture, “The Question Is How to Live,” given at the 2022 Central Division Meeting. The full text is available on the APA website (member sign-in is required) as well as on JSTOR. The audio of the lecture is available here: “The Question Is How to Live” by Allan Gibbard Allan Gibbard is Richard B. Brandt Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan, where he taught from 1977 until 2016. Prior to joining the faculty at Michigan, he held positions at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Chicago. He received his PhD at Harvard University. His fields of study include ethics, social choice theory, decision theory, philosophy of language, and metaphysics. His publications include Meaning and Normativity (Oxford University Press, 2012), Reconciling Our Aims: In Search of Bases for Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2008), and Thinking How to Live (Harvard University Press, 2003), as well as many articles and book chapters. Gibbard served as president of the APA Central Division from 2001 …

2022 Central Division Presidential Address: Epistemic Reparations and the Right to Be Known

2022 Central Division Presidential Address: Epistemic Reparations and the Right to Be Known

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Below is the audio recording of Jennifer Lackey’s presidential address, “Epistemic Reparations and the Right to Be Known,” given at the 2022 Central Division Meeting. The full text is available on the APA website. The audio of the lecture is available here: “Epistemic Reparations and the Right to Be Known” by Jennifer Lackey Jennifer Lackey is the Wayne and Elizabeth Jones Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Law (courtesy) at Northwestern University, Founding Director of the Northwestern Prison Education Program, and Senior Research Associate at the African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science at the University of Johannesburg. Her research is in social epistemology with a focus on epistemological issues within the American criminal legal system. She is the author of over sixty articles and four books, including her recent Criminal Testimonial Injustice, which won the 2024 North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award. She is also the editor or co-editor of six volumes, editor-in-chief of Episteme and Philosophical Studies, and subject editor for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Lackey was elected to …

Meet the APA: Asha Bhandary

Meet the APA: Asha Bhandary

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Asha Bhandary is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Iowa. She works in social and political philosophy as a feminist philosopher. Through her books and articles, she advances a theory called intersectional liberalism, which is a liberal political theory that values personal autonomy while addressing the human needs for care and belonging. She also serves as chair of the APA Committee on Asian and Asian American Philosophers and Philosophies, where one of her main initiatives has been to support Asian American feminism. What is your work about? In Being at Home: Living Autonomously in an Unjust World, I reimagine liberal philosophy through the lens of intersectionality, showing how race, gender, and caregiving relationships must reshape our understanding of autonomy. As the first care-responsive theory of liberalism to address intersectionality and racism, it makes a unique contribution, reorienting debates about autonomy in liberalism, multiculturalism, and feminist care theory when the “normative subject”—the subject whose experiences informed the idealizations embedded in the conception of the person in the theory—is a biracial woman of color, an Asian woman …

2022 Eastern Division Dewey Lecture: “Thinking in Good Company”

2022 Eastern Division Dewey Lecture: “Thinking in Good Company”

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Below is the audio recording of Christine M. Korsgaard’s John Dewey Lecture, “Thinking in Good Company,” given at the 2022 Eastern Division Meeting. The full text is available on the APA website (member sign-in is required).  The audio of the lecture is available here: “Thinking in Good Company” by Christine Korsgaard Christine Korsgaard is Arthur Kingsley Porter Research Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at Harvard University, where she taught from 1991 until 2020. Prior to joining the faculty at Harvard, she held permanent positions at Yale University, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the University of Chicago, as well as visiting positions at University of California, Berkeley and UCLA. She received her BA from the University of Illinois, her PhD from Harvard, and honorary degrees from the University of Illinois and Groningen University. She works on moral philosophy and its history, practical reason, the nature of agency, personal identity, normativity, and the ethical relations between human beings and the other animals. Korsgaard served as president of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association …

2022 Eastern Division Presidential Address: How Is Forgiveness Always a Gift?

2022 Eastern Division Presidential Address: How Is Forgiveness Always a Gift?

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Below is the audio recording of Miranda Fricker’s presidential address, “How Is Forgiveness Always a Gift?” given at the 2022 Eastern Division Meeting. The full text is available on the APA website (member sign-in is required).  The audio of the lecture is available here: https://blog.apaonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2022-Eastern-Presidential-Address-—-Miranda-Fricker.mp3 “How Is Forgiveness Always a Gift?” by Miranda Fricker Miranda Fricker is Professor of Philosophy at New York University and co-director of the New York Institute for Philosophy. Previously, she was Distinguished Professor at The Graduate Center CUNY, and prior to that, a Professor at the University of Sheffield in the UK, where she continues to hold an Honorary Professorship. She completed her DPhil at the University of Oxford. Her work is mainly in Moral Philosophy and Social Epistemology, with a special interest in virtue and feminist perspectives. She is the author of Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing (2007); co-author and editor of Reading Ethics (2009); co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology (2019), The Epistemic Life of Groups (2016); and The …

2021 Pacific Division Dewey Lecture: Philosophy and Me

2021 Pacific Division Dewey Lecture: Philosophy and Me

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Below is the audio recording of Naomi Zack’s John Dewey Lecture, “Philosophy and Me,” given at the 2021 Pacific Division Meeting. The full text is available on the APA website (member sign-in is required) as well as on JSTOR.  The audio of the lecture is available here: “Philosophy and Me” by Naomi Zack Naomi Zack is Professor of Philosophy at Lehman College, CUNY, where she has been on the faculty since 2019. She previously taught at the University of Oregon, Eugene, and the University at Albany, SUNY. She has a Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University. Her most recent books are Democracy: A Very Short Introduction (2023), Ethics and Race: Past and Present Intersections and Controversies (2022), The American Tragedy of COVID-19 (2021), and Progressive Anonymity: From Identity Politics to Evidence-Based Government (2020).  About this series: The Blog of the APA is pleased to publish the Presidential Addresses and John Dewey Lectures given at the Eastern, Central, and Pacific APA Division Meetings, which communicate the ideas and experiences that the renowned philosophers who delivered them …