Yearly Archives: 2016

2016
Work/Life Balance

APA Member Interview: Sam Cowling

Skye Cleary -
Sam Cowling is an assistant professor of philosophy at Denison University. He earned his BA from the University of Victoria, an MA from the...
Research

How do you Make Literature Studies Relevant?

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This post is the fourth in a series on the work of the Critical Theory Workshop/Atelier de Théorie Critique. The Critical Theory Workshop is...
Issues in Philosophy

Explaining the Inexplicable (Video)

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At the heart of the Enlightenment was the notion that the world could in principle be explained. Yet perplexingly the biggest questions seem to...
Issues in Philosophy

Why Philosophy Needs Literature: Interview with Alice Crary

Skye Cleary -
Alice Crary is a moral philosopher. She is currently Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research, and her...
APA

Inside the APA: Changes to the Eastern Meeting

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By Andrew Cullison and Jeffery Dunn We are the outgoing and incoming Secretary-Treasurers of the Eastern APA. The upcoming Eastern APA meeting will be Andy’s...
APA

D’Alessandro, Phillips, and Rimell win the 2016 Sanders Graduate Student Awards

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The APA is pleased to announce the winners of the 2016 Sanders Graduate Student Awards: William D’Alessandro (University of Illinois at...
Research

What Are You Reading…On Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy

Nathan Eckstrand -
I was recently in Salt Lake City, Utah for the Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy’s (SPEP) annual meeting. There were many interesting sessions,...
Work/Life Balance

APA Member Interview: Manuel Vargas

Skye Cleary -
Manuel Vargas is an incoming Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego and an outgoing Professor of Philosophy and Law at...
Teaching

The Teaching Workshop: The Point of Philosophy

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

Showing off is seen as insincere, but is it always bad?

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Albert Einstein once said: ‘I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.’ In that quip is the claim that virtue does not parade itself. The virtuous...
Research

What’s Critical about Psychoanalysis?

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This post is the third in a series on the work of the Critical Theory Workshop/Atelier de Théorie Critique. The Critical Theory Workshop is...
Issues in Philosophy

In Search of the Self (Video)

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There is no self, no 'I', only a flickering illusion.  So claim many neuroscientists and philosophers.  Yet for the rest of us, the denial...
Research

Developing the Virtues

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This post originally appeared on OUPblog and appears here as part of our partnership with them. Helicopter parenting is denounced by onlookers (e.g., David Brooks) as...
Issues in Philosophy

Accessible and Inaccessible Disciplines: why philosophy and science are similar but are treated differently

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This post originally appeared on OUPblog and appears here as part of our partnership with them. Amongst my books is a late nineteenth century edition...
Research

What Are You Reading…On Sustainability and Change (Part 2)

Nathan Eckstrand -
Last week I compiled a list of books that inspired participants at a conference I attended to pursue unconventional career paths. As is often...
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