Monthly Archives: November, 2017

Early Career Research Spotlight: Becky Vartabedian

This edition of the Early Career Research Spotlight focuses on Becky Vartabedian.  She is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy department at Regis University in...

The Hidden Graduate School Curriculum

The term “hidden curriculum” refers to the unstated attitudes that are often communicated to students as a by-product of school life. While the phrase...

Reflections on Tommy Curry

Part 1: Opinion I write this op-ed to express my view of Texas A&M University’s President Michael K. Young’s commentary on Professor Tommy Curry, which...

Which is more fundamental: processes or things?

by Celso Vieira Metaphysics is the attempt to understand how existence works by examining the building blocks of reality, the distinctions between mental and physical entities,...

What Are You Reading…On Thinking Globally

This past week I took two exciting trips. A delegation from Fort Hays State University came to China to evaluate the program here with...

APA Member Interview: Micah Tillman

Micah Tillman is a Core Division instructor at Stanford Online High School, teaching philosophy of science courses to 9th and 10th graders. He is...

The Agony and the Ecstasy

We take it for granted that eradicating pain is desirable. And since De Quincey remarked that a quarter of human misery was toothache, remarkable...

Writing for My Students

For whom do I write philosophy? Personally, more and more the answer is for my students; I want to write about things that can...

Does Neuroscience Say Madonna is a Material Girl?

In her 1985 hit song Material Girl, Madonna summed up the prevailing view in philosophy of mind: “We are living in a material world...

Jennifer Morton wins inaugural Scheffler Prize for insights into student and teacher behaviors

The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce that Dr. Jennifer Morton (City College of New York) has been selected as the winner of...

What Are You Reading…On Wonder

The idea that philosophy begins with wonder is credited to several Ancient Greek philosophers, and has been held since that time by many other...

Elon’s Bloch-Schulman wins inaugural philosophy teaching prize for transformative college courses

The American Philosophical Association (APA), the American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT), and the Teaching Philosophy Association (TPA) are pleased to announce that Professor...

APA Member Interview: Alida Liberman

Alida Liberman is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Indianapolis specializing in theoretical and applied ethics. She received her Ph.D. from...

The Limits of Reason

We think reason helps lead us to knowledge. But from our political views to finding our way home what we know and believe is...

Cultivating Inclusiveness: The PIKSI Institute

Any night that an inspirational philosopher like Sally Haslanger tells me I belong in philosophy is a good one in my book. A starry-eyed...