Yearly Archives: 2016

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...

What Are You Reading…On Complex Adaptive Systems

I have been thinking a lot recently about the role of dynamism and complexity in the world.  I took up this topic in my...

APA Member Interview: Shaun Miller

Shaun Miller is currently working on his Ph.D. at Marquette University, writing his dissertation on the moral assumptions of sex education in the USA....

Early Career Research Spotlight: Conor Mayo-Wilson

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

Short Story Competition: Philosophy Through Fiction

We are inviting submissions for the short story competition “Philosophy Through Fiction”, organized by Helen De Cruz (Oxford Brookes University), with editorial board members...