Monthly Archives: February, 2017

APA Member Interview: Charlotte Witt

Charlotte Witt is Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at the University of New Hampshire. She is interested in social ontology, feminist theory and Aristotle....

The Teaching Workshop: Experiments in Grading

Another thing we can do to improve our pedagogy, along with reflecting on our failures, is to experiment. So, for this installment of the...

The Universe Code: Is information more fundamental than matter? (IAI video)

We think information provides facts about the world around us. Yet some in quantum physics now claim that information is primary, more fundamental than...

Eastern APA 2017: Biological Complexity and Race in Pop Culture

By Nathan Eckstrand This is the last post about the 2017 Eastern APA for the Blog.  While thus far the posts have either just covered...

Non-Canonical Texts and Teaching the History of Modern Philosophy: Why We Might as Well Go Ahead and Abandon the Survey – Part II

In my previous post, I made a case for abandoning the survey approach to the teaching of modern philosophy. In place of the survey...