Monthly Archives: July, 2016

APA Member Interview: Mark D. White

Mark D. White is chair and professor in the Department of Philosophy at the College of Staten Island/CUNY in New York City, where he...

The Ethics of Gauging PhD Applicants’ Interest Before Offering Admission or Financial Support

Here's one way philosophy PhD admissions could go: Your program offers admissions to the N top-rated applicants, figuring that X% will accept.  If the...

Tweeting Philosophy: Interview with TrueSciPhi’s Kelly Truelove

Kelly Truelove is a technologist with a Ph.D. in physics and long-running interests in philosophy and online communities. On TrueSciPhi.org, he publishes lists and analytics...

What Are You Reading…On Rawls

This past week I attended the North American Society for Social Philosophy's (NASSP) annual conference, where I presented a paper on Rawls' theory of...

APA Member Interview: Colleen Murphy

Colleen Murphy is a Professor (promotion effective in August) with a joint appointment in Law and Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where...

The Teaching Workshop: July 2016 Roundup

One broad theme that has emerged in the topics so far addressed in the Teaching Workshop is student engagement. Student engagement can make or...

Early Career Research Spotlight: Wesley Holliday

This installment of the early-career research spotlight series looks at the work of Wesley Holliday. He is an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department...

What Are You Reading…On Comedy Movies and Misogyny

The reboot of the 1984 movie Ghostbusters was released nationwide last Friday. While it has received mostly positive reviews, there is a contingent of...

APA Member Interview: Michaela Maxwell

Michaela Maxwell is currently interning for the Blog of the APA as well as doing research for the Baha’i International Community’s office at the...

Putting Together a Speakers Series: The Center for Interpretive and Qualitative Research (CIQR)

As part of the APA Blog’s focus on service related posts, we solicited the following account to provide an example of how one can...

MAP Chapter Profile: Brooklyn College at the City University of New York

Our first event of the 2015/2016 academic year was a lecture by professor Tom Digby of Springfield College. He discussed his book Love and...

What Are You Reading…On Racially Charged Shootings

The shootings in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Falcon Heights, Minnesota; and Dallas, Texas last week were tragic for many reasons. Not only did seven people...

APA Member Interview: Verena Erlenbusch

Verena Erlenbusch is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Memphis. She works mainly in Political Philosophy and Contemporary...

Anti-Black Racism in Arendt, and Philosophy’s Dangerous Commitment to Purity

It is arguably the case that Hannah Arendt can no longer be reasonably defended against the charge of being guilty of anti-black racism. If...

Philosophical Fiction: Interview with Helen de Cruz

Helen De Cruz is a senior lecturer (associate professor) in philosophy at Oxford Brookes University. She is co-author of A natural history of natural theology (MIT...