Monthly Archives: May, 2016

Dispatches on Turkey: Academics and Authoritarianism

"Dispatches on Turkey" is a special series for the American Philosophical Association Blog, featuring posts by an international group of academics and edited by Chad...

Inside the APA: 2016 Divisional Meetings — Year in Review

This time of year, after the hubbub of the three divisional meetings has died down, I always take a bit of time to look...

What Are You Reading? (May 30-June 5)

One of the biggest stories this week was about the fact that PayPal founder Peter Thiel has been secretly funding the lawsuit brought by...

APA Staff Interview: Linda Nuoffer

Linda Nuoffer is the APA’s administrative coordinator. She has been working for the APA since 2008. What do you do at the APA? I'm the APA...

The Teaching Workshop: Making Group Work “Work” for Your Philosophy Students

Welcome again to The Teaching Workshop, where your questions related to pedagogy are answered. Each post features questions submitted by readers with answers from...

Lost and Found: Newly Discovered Christian Philosophy in Arabic

When philosophical texts in ancient Greek are unearthed, it is big news. Much excitement greeted the newly discovered fragments of Empedocles, found in a...

How Philosophy Neglects Its Most Vulnerable Students

Part Two of a Three-part Series on Adjunct Teaching and Student Learning (Part 1) There are two academias, and our discipline is focused on the wrong...

Climate Change and Individual Responsibility

Few dispute that scientists have physically measured an average increase in global average surface temperature of “0.85°C…between 1880 and 2012”. The best hypothesis to explain...

Ten Rules of Thumb for Op-Ed Writing

As a former philosophy professor turned journalist, I have firsthand experience of both academia and the news industry, and the unwritten rules that govern...

What Are You Reading? (May 23-29)

On May 19, The Washington Post released a poll showing that approximately 9 out of 10 Native Americans do not find the name of...

APA Staff Interview: Mike Morris

With a B.A. in Philosophy and a minor in Biology, Mike Morris set off on a 15-year career as a graphic designer during which he lived...

Technological vs. Social Progress: Why the Disconnect?

As swiftly as fantastic technologies are coming—robots! space colonies! super-humans!—intellectual and social progress seems to be flat-lining. It’s an election year in the US,...

Teaching Between (In)Justice and Care

Part One of a Three-part Series on Adjunct Teaching and Student Learning Take your job. Teach your usual course load and maintain your research program. Add...

Chinese Philosophy in the English-Speaking World: Interview with Bryan Van Norden

Bryan W. Van Norden is a professor in the Philosophy Department and teaches in the Department of Chinese and Japanese at Vassar College. He is a former...

What Are You Reading? (May 16-22)

I have enjoyed writing about my reading lists on the blog, but I'd like to open up the "What Are You Reading?" column to...