You may have noticed that we have launched a new design for the APA Blog! There are lots of great new features, and here we’d like to draw your attention to the main ones.
We created a page dedicated to each of our main topics, with snapshots of the most recent posts:
- APA News
- Diversity and Inclusiveness
- Issues in Philosophy
- Public Philosophy
- Research
- Service
- Teaching
- Work/Life Balance
We also created dedicated pages for our special series with snapshots of the most recent posts:
- Black Issues in Philosophy
- Blog Announcements
- Member Interviews
- Philosophy in the Contemporary World
- Recently Published Book Spotlight
- Teaching and Learning Video Series
- Women in Philosophy
There’s a new home page that gives quick snapshots of our latest posts:
We created more ways to access the main topics we cover, such as in the top menu bar on every page:
…and in the side menu on the right hand side of the home page:
We’ve added a section at the bottom of the home page that highlights posts that others have favorited:
There’s a new advanced search feature.
And as always, you can read more about us at the following links:
- Our mission, masthead, contact details, and guidelines are here.
- Suggest a topic here.
- Sign up to our newsletter here.
- View our partnerships here.
- Check out the Journal Survey project here.
- And link to the APA and APA Connect.
If you have any suggestions or comments, please let us know. You can contact us via a range of platforms here.
Thanks for reading!
All best,
The APA Blog Editorial Team
Skye C. Cleary PhD MBA is a philosopher and author of How to Be Authentic: Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest for Fulfillment (2022), Existentialism and Romantic Love (2015) and co-editor of How to Live a Good Life (2020). She was a MacDowell Fellow (2021), awarded the 2021 Stanford Calderwood Fellowship, and won a New Philosopher magazine Writers’ Award (2017). She teaches at Columbia University and the City College of New York and is former Editor-in-Chief of the APA Blog.
Brian Leiter has used this redesign as an occasion to attack former blog editor Nathan Oseroff-Spicer, specifically claiming that he was “ousted.” Oseroff-Spicer denies that he was ousted, saying that he left because he got a full-time job as a researcher.
Is the APA blog going to address this to clarify that it is or is not the case, or is it going to leave Leiter’s attacks on an early career researcher unchallenged, even though APA blog staff would seem to be in a position to address their truth?
Dear Professor Weiner,
It’s our policy not to comment publicly on staffing matters. We fully support the APA’s statement on bullying and harassment (https://www.apaonline.org/page/bullyharass) as follows:
As members of the community of scholars as well as employees whose conduct affects co-workers, students, and members of the public, professional philosophers should avoid engaging in bullying and harassment directed towards students, co-workers, and others in the profession. Such conduct is harmful, disrespectful, and unprofessional, and frequently undermines our ability to perform our jobs or studies at our full capacity, and thereby is contrary to the point of scholarly practice.
Bullying and (non-sexual) harassment includes any degrading, hostile, or offensive conduct or comment by a person towards another that the person knew or reasonably ought to have known would cause the target to be humiliated, intimidated, or otherwise gratuitously harmed. Typical examples of bullying and harassment include verbal aggression and yelling; spreading malicious rumors; calling someone conventionally derogatory names or using derogatory stereotypes to describe them; humiliating initiation practices (“hazing”); “cyber-bullying” through email, text messages, or social media; stalking; subjecting an individual to repeated, unsolicited criticism, except when this is clearly limited to a matter of scholarly dispute; subjecting a person to public ridicule; sabotaging a person’s work; scapegoating (e.g., blaming a disabled person for the need to make accommodations); and other hostile conduct that diminishes the capacity of its target to function effectively as a teacher, worker, or scholar. This injunction is not intended to discourage expressing differences of opinion; offering constructive feedback, guidance, or advice regarding scholarship or work; or reasonable actions taken in the capacity of instructor or manager for the sake of pedagogy, scholarship, or the management of co-workers or other employees.
We also support the APA Board Statement on Harassment, Bullying, and Intimidation of Philosophers here: https://www.apaonline.org/page/brdstmtintimidation