Monthly Archives: August, 2017

Dartmouth’s Thomasson Wins the APA Sanders Book Prize with Easy Approach to Ontology

The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce that Professor Amie Thomasson (Dartmouth College) has been awarded the 2017 Sanders Book Prize for her...

Using The Deviant Philosopher This Fall

It’s that time of year when many of us are finalizing, or starting to finalizing (or finalizing to start) our course syllabi for the...

Teach Graduate Students How To Teach

There are two important aspects to professional academic work: academic research and course instruction. In a graduate program, coursework supports the transfer of knowledge...

Building a Philosophical Playground

I spend most of my working days in the company of an eight-year-old cartoon girl with crazy pigtails, and her robot sidekick. If someone...

The Teaching Workshop: Digital Tools for Learning in Philosophy

Welcome again to The Teaching Workshop, where your questions related to pedagogy are answered. Have a question? Send it to PhilTeacherWorkshop@gmail.com, or participate in...

Ronald Mallon Wins the 2017 Joseph B. Gittler Award

The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce that Dr. Ronald Mallon (Washington University in St. Louis) has been awarded the 2017 Joseph B....

Knowing Others and Knowing Oneself

No one is an island and through shared experience we come to know each other. Yet the gap between what others say and who...

Awards Roundup: Summer 2017

APA Awards Gwen Bradford, Rice University Winner of the 2017 Book Prize Berislav Marušić, Brandeis University Honorable Mention for the 2017 Book Prize Kenneth Walden, Dartmouth College Winner of the...

What Are You Reading…On Dreams

A month or so ago, I read the most recent addition to the Sandman graphic novels, Sandman: Overture. I was struck by J.H. Williams’...

APA Member Interview: Joel Reynolds

Joel Michael Reynolds is the Rice Family Postdoctoral Fellow in Bioethics and the Humanities at The Hastings Center. His teaching, research, and public engagement...

APA Newsletters, Spring 2017 Edition – Part Three

The latest edition of the APA newsletters was posted online recently. In a short series of posts, I’m providing a brief synopsis of each...

Some Students Are Satanists: Religion in the Philosophy Classroom

Religion may or may not be “the opium of the people,” as Karl Marx famously wrote, but students certainly like to talk about it in...

Hearts and Minds: Are feelings a truer guide to reality?

Should intuition or reason guide us in our actions? Are feelings a truer guide to reality? In this week's video from the Institute of Art...

APA Good Practices Guide Public Discussion Series, Part 8: Mental and emotional health

This post is part of a series of posts soliciting public comment on the APA’s new Good Practices Guide. In the first post in...

Society of Philosophers in America (SOPHIA) Wins the 2017 Prize for Excellence and Innovation

The American Philosophical Association (APA) and the Philosophy Documentation Center (PDC) are pleased to announce that the 2017 APA/PDC Prize for Excellence and Innovation...