Monthly Archives: May, 2016

The Teaching Workshop: More Writing without Extra Grading

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

The Diotima Problem: Women Philosophers in Classical Antiquity

As someone who is devoted to studying the history of philosophy without any gaps, I have gotten rather interested in the subject of women...

Early Career Research Spotlight – Peter Jaworski

This installment of the early career research spotlight focuses on Peter Jaworski, who works in the field of business ethics. He is an Assistant...

A Philosopher Watches…Captain America: Civil War

The superhero film Captain America: Civil War was released in the US last weekend, grossing $181.8 million and ranking it the fifth largest film opening of...

What Are You Reading? (May 9-15)

This week it was learned that Donald Trump would become the GOP Presidential nominee, as the last of his opponents dropped out after learning...

APA Member Interview: Massimo Pigliucci

Massimo Pigliucci is the K.D. Irani Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York. He holds a Ph.D. in Evolutionary Biology (University...

Awards Roundup: March-April 2016

Non-APA Awards Lauren Ashwell, Bates College Awarded a 2016 Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars for “Projection and Desire” (Harvard University, 2016-2017). Erin Beeghly, University...

MAP Chapter Profile: Princeton

Princeton's MAP chapter ran a number of events this year, one of which was a workshop called Compass. The workshop was two-day event designed...

Academic Placement Data and Analysis: An Update with a Focus on Gender

Since 2015, we have taken part in a project that collects and analyzes placement data for doctoral graduates in philosophy, with funding provided by...

What Are You Reading? (May 2-8)

My class is studying gender and race theory at the moment. As the class is focused on the ways gender and race theory have...