Yearly Archives: 2016

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...

Changes to the Editorial Team

I am writing with two updates to the composition of the editorial team. I am sad to announce the departure of our copy editor, Cherie...

APA Member Interview: Julia Bursten

Julia Bursten is an assistant professor of philosophy at San Francisco State University and is Co-chair of the Philosophy of Science Association Women’s Caucus....

The Teaching Workshop: Encouraging Participation in Large Lectures

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

MAP: An Introduction

Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) began in 2013 as a handful of grad students who wanted to discuss issues related to diversity in philosophy. Three...

Speaking Pro Re Publica in Ancient Rome and Today (Part 5)

The Philippics Relationship The “advice to tyrants” genre is a recognized part of the rhetorical tradition. Less-recognized is the individual who publicly criticizes the people...

A Serious Proposal to the Professors

The applicant pool for Philosophy department faculty positions, makeup of graduate Philosophy cohorts, and undergraduate Philosophy enrollment statistics depend on the existence of undergraduate...

Pacific APA 2016 – Hume and Rawls

In addition to the great work being done on Virtue Theory at the Pacific APA (the subject of the last Pacific APA post), there...

What Are You Reading? (April 25-May 1)

Since the last post of the "What Are You Reading?" column, I have begun work on a new paper about civil disobedience. It will...

APA Member Interview: Soraj Hongladarom

Soraj Hongladarom is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Ethics of Science and Technology at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. His...

Pitted Against Yourself: Credibility and False Confessions

For the past eight months, I’ve been teaching courses at a maximum-security men’s prison in a suburb of Chicago. One of the many surprising...