Monthly Archives: September, 2016

A Statement from the Committee on LGBTQ People in the Profession

Today, our Committee issued the following statement: To: The APA Ombudsperson, the APA Committee on Inclusiveness, the APA Chair of the Board of Officers, the...

The Teaching Workshop: Dealing with Hostile 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...

APA Member Interview: Krista Thomason

Krista Thomason is an assistant professor of philosophy at Swarthmore College. Her areas of specialization are contemporary moral psychology with an emphasis on moral...

On Not Seeing in Philosophy

The brilliant young African American political philosopher Danielle Allen founded the University of Chicago Civic Knowledge Project (CKP) in 2003 in an attempt to...

The Dance of Life (Video)

The APA blog is very pleased to announce a partnership with the Institute of Art and Ideas (IAI).  IAI was founded in 2008 by...

Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

On October 8th, 2016 from 1:30 p.m. PST, in the San Diego Central Public Library, Wikipedia will host an edit-a-thon to improve the site's coverage of underrepresented philosophers and...

What Feminist Epistemology Would Say to Donald Trump

Since Donald Trump announced his candidacy for president of the United States in June 2015, the internet has exploded with reports and analyses of...

Patrick Tomlin Wins the 2017 Berger Memorial Prize

NEWARK, Del. — Sep. 26, 2016 — The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce that Dr. Patrick Tomlin (University of Reading) has been...

What Are You Reading…On Ethology

This summer I had the pleasure of reading a book by Frans De Waal entitled Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals...

Early Career Research Spotlight: John Garner

This installment of the early-career research spotlight series looks at the work of John V. Garner. He is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at...

APA Member Interview: Colin Klein

Colin Klein is an ARC Future Fellow and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Macquarie University in Australia. He works on...

Philosophy as Love of Wisdom and in the Public Sphere

Some years ago, the economic downturn inspired me to put aside my business endeavors and return to school to study philosophy. I had loved...

MAP Chapter Profile: University at Albany, SUNY

In May 2014, I sent out the first email to gauge interest in a University at Albany Minorities and Philosophy chapter. More students and faculty...

What Are You Reading…On Irony

In preparing for class this week, I reviewed Rousseau’s Discourse on Origin of Inequality, otherwise known as the Second Discourse. For the first time,...

Climate Change and Our Relationship to the Environment

We live in two ages. The first is the Anthropocene, where human activity is the primary catalyst of climate change, and concerns for human...