Yearly Archives: 2016

The Job Market: Issues in Hiring Practices in Philosophy

The aim of this series is to provide APA members with some insights into the hiring process from a variety of sources and perspectives....

APA Member Interview: Helen De Cruz

Helen De Cruz is a senior lecturer at Oxford Brookes University who works mainly in philosophy of cognitive science, philosophy of religion, and experimental philosophy. What excites...

The Teaching Workshop: Impartiality, Partiality, and Controversial Topics in Conservative Settings

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

Funded Research Spotlight: From Biological Practice to Scientific Metaphysics

The Funded Research Spotlight column serves to inform the APA membership of funded projects in the discipline and provide information on who is funding what...

High School Philosophy Contest

Imagine being a high school student in the U.S. who is interested in philosophy. What official, academic outlet would you have? Not many students...

Early-Career Research Spotlight: Benjamin Yelle

The purpose of the early-career research spotlight is two-fold. First, the aim is to bring attention to an early-career APA member who is doing some interesting...

Family and the Academy

The aim of this series is to provide APA members with a forum to discuss issues in philosophy from a variety of sources and perspectives....

The Inclusion Problem in Critical Thinking: The Case of Indian Philosophy

The Problem  For many, if not most, philosophy departments, the bread-and-butter courses they offer include the history of philosophy, ethics, and...

What Are You Reading? (February 15–21)

Given the recent flurry of news surrounding the firing of a tenured associate professor of philosophy at Mount St. Mary's University, and that the APA...

Gender Is the Philosophical Issue of Our Age

Today’s public is engaged in conversations about gender. Facebook, Twitter, and coffee-shop conversations abound on the role of gender…in presidential politics, in The Danish Girl,...

The APA has released a statement on bullying and harassment

The board of officers of the American Philosophical Association has released a statement in response to recent and pervasive incidents of bullying and harassment. This statement...

APA Member Interview: Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins

Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins is Canada Research Chair and Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. Since her Ph.D. (Trinity College, Cambridge, 2005),...

APA Board Responds to Firings at Mount St. Mary’s University

The board of officers of the American Philosophical Association today sent a letter to the president and board of trustees of Mount St. Mary’s...

Inside the APA: The Changing APA

What most people don’t know about the APA is that we have a different pair of chief officers than most professional societies do. In...

Elections in the Classroom

With the New Hampshire primary taking place today, the 2016 U.S. presidential election season is in full swing. Elections can provide great opportunities for...