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The Pre-Doc Publications Arms Race

A recent tweet marveling at the accomplishments of new Philosophy Ph.D. students currently on the market has provoked some strong feelings. The tweet makes...

Undergraduate Philosophy Club: California State University, Fresno

Though we don’t know the exact year it was founded, Fresno State Philosophy Club has operated for over thirty years. Back in the 1990s,...
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A Graduate Seminar With a Unique Topic: Teacher Training

It is not uncommon for graduate students in philosophy to be thrown into teaching without any formal training or preparation. This practice seems to...

Planning a Successful Academic Conference

One of the very first conferences that I presented for when I was a graduate student at Montclair State University was the Mid-Atlantic Region...
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Positive Propaganda: Dave Chappelle and his White Buddy “Chip”

This video highlights, via humorous understatement in a brief narrative, the very different experiences white and black people often have with the police. An...

Syllabus Showcase: Philosophy on the Spectrum: The Philosophy of Autism and Autistic Philosophy, Travis...

Some have suggested that the “very idea of an autistic person is a philosophical one” (Murray 2011, 9) and that the “subject of autism...
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Syllabus Showcase: What is Philosophy? Global Perspectives on Philosophical History, Christopher P. Noble

I am a historian of philosophy at New College of Florida, a small, public liberal arts college. When I arrived first in 2018, one...

Undergraduate Philosophy Club: Mount Holyoke College

Mount Holyoke College’s Philosophy Club has been active for at least 40 years. The origin of the club is lost in history but is...
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George Carlin and the Philosophy of Religion

In this clip from the 1999 stand-up comedy special You Are All Diseased, the late comedian George Carlin offers a scathing attack on religion...

When Students Fail: Lessons From Geno Auriemma

Suppose you are teaching introductory philosophy, and early in the semester you present the concept of a valid argument, noting that it can have...