We are pleased to announce that the Fall 2012 APA Newsletters are now available. The table of contents for each issue appears below, with direct links to the full text on the APA website. We encourage you to take the time to read these thought-provoking works.
If you are interested in contributing to a future issue of any of these newsletters, please contact the appropriate editor(s).
APA Newsletters, Fall 2012 (Vol. 12, No. 1)
Newsletter on Asian and Asian -American Philosophers and Philosophies
From the Editor, David H. Kim
Article
“Report on ‘Japanese Aesthetics’,” A. Minh Nguyen
Book Review
Yubraj Aryal: The Humanities at Work: International Exchange of Ideas in Aesthetics, Philosophy, and Literature, Reviewed by Arun Kumar Pokhrel
Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience
From the Editors, John McClendon and George Yancy
Articles
“A Call to Look: An Essay on the Power of the Sartrean Gaze,” Jessica Patella Konig
“Aphorism and Musing: Gestures,” Leonard Harris
Review Essays and Response
“Keeping Hold of Ariadne’s Thread: A Critical Review of George Yancy’s Look, a White!” Taine Duncan
“Look, a White! Philosophical Essays on Whiteness, A Review,” Tim Lake
“Truth, Grief, Relief, and Hope,” Crista Lebens
“Pedagogies of Spectacle,” Cris Mayo
“I Am Not George Yancy,” David Roediger
“On Why I Keep Getting [Socially] Interrupted by White People,” Grant Silva
“The Pleasures of Dialogue: Responses to My Interlocutors,” George Yancy
Contributor Notes
Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers
From the Editor, Peter Boltuc
Articles
“Mind-Brain Relations, Geometric Perspective, and Neurophenomenology,” Wlodzislaw Duch
“Philosophical Analysis in Modeling Polarization: Notes from a Work in Progress,” Patrick Grim, Aaron Bramson, Daniel J. Singer, Steven Fisher, Carissa Flocken, and William Berger
“Automatic Generation of Philosophers Network from Google Books Repository,” Shai Ophir
“Prudential-Empirical Ethics of Technology (PEET) – An Early Outline,” Johnny Hartz Soraker
“’Friend’ Is a Verb,” D.E. Wittkower
“Embodied Cognition and the Turing Test: An Uncomfortable (Re-)Union,” Robin K. Zebrowski
“Selves in Video Games: Reflections by Two Middle-Schoolers in an After-School Program on “Consciousness,” Cole Sohn and Maxwell Mainman with Iris Oved
Book Review
Darrel Ince: The Computer: A Very Short Introduction, Reviewed by Katalin Bimbo
Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy
From the Editor, Margaret A. Crouch
About the Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy
Submission Guidelines and Information
News from the Committee on the Status of Women
Articles
“Teaching Globally: Using Global Feminisms in a Variety of Contexts,” Jane Duran
“Teaching ‘Philosophy of Feminism’ from a Global Perspective,” Gail Presbey
“Constructing Philosophical Worlds: Theorizing Through a Latin American Lens,” Stephanie Rivera Berruz
“Embodied Affective Experience in Saba Mahmood’s Politics of Piety: Reformulating Agency for an Inclusive Transnational Feminism,” Fulden Ibrahimhakkioglu
Book Reviews
Charlotte Witt: The Metaphysics of Gender, Reviewed by Peter Higgins
Janet Kourany: Philosophy of Science after Feminism, Reviewed by Joanne Waugh
Contributors
Newsletter on Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy
From the Guest Editor, Elena Ruiz-Aho
Articles
“Diversity in Philosophy: Reflections on Ofelia Schutte’s Legacy,” Kevin Aho
“Latin American Philosophy in the United States: Ofelia Schutte’s Role,” Jorge J. E. Gracia
“Ofelia Schutte and the Navigation of the Extraordinary and Complicated Position of the Voz Latina in Philosophy,” Elizabeth Millan
“Critical Genealogies of the History of Latin American Philosophy,” Andrea Pitts
“Radical Pluralism: On Finding One’s Voice in Professional Philosophy: An Essay in Honor of Ofelia Schutte,” Elena Ruiz-Aho
“On Split Subjects and Differences within Latina Feminism,” Mariana Ortega
“A Genealogy of Teaching and Research: Latin American and Feminist Philosophy,” Ofelia Schutte
Contributors
Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine
From the Editors, Mary Rorty and Mark Sheldon
From the Chair
Articles
“Access to Experimental Interventions Outside of Clinical Trials,” Ana S. Iltis
“Investigational Drugs and the Desperately Ill,” David M. Adams
“What Did ‘Octomom’ Do Wrong?: Exploring the Ethics of Fertility Treatments,” Bettina Manninen
“Strange Bedfellows: Ludwig Wittgenstein and the National Institutes of Health on the Language of Pain,” Michael L. McClain
“Perceiving Sympathetically: Moral Perception, Embodiment, and Medical Ethics,” J. Jeremy Wisniewski
“Attributing Moral Agency to a Group: A Summary of Two Arguments,” David T. Ozar
Book Reviews
Mark Wicclair: Conscientious Objection in Health Care: An Ethical Analysis, Reviewed by Kimberley Brownlee
Rebecca Skloot: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Reviewed by Felicia Nimue Ackerman
Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy
Letter from the Editors, Tziporah Kasachkoff and Eugene Kelly
Articles
“Teaching a Course on Sexual Morality,” Tziporah Kasachkoff
“Teaching Philosophy of Sex and Love,” Nils Ch. Rauhut
“A Decision Procedure for Evaluating Natural Language Arguments,” Moti Mizrahi
“Fostering the Exploration of Philosophical and Ethical Questions among School Students in Australasia,” Matthew Wills
Books Received
Addresses of Contributors