Yearly Archives: 2019

F.E.A.S.T. Conference 2019

by Jamie Ritzo and Laura Brown October 3-6, 2019 marked the tenth official FEAST (Feminist Ethics and Social Theory) Conference, along with the 20-year anniversary of the...

A Philosophy Magazine for the City

This past summer, the Gotham Philosophical Society (GPS) posted four short essays under the masthead Phi on New York: Philosophy for the City. These...

New Introduction to Philosophy Open Textbook Series

For a number of years now I’ve been an advocate for the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) in teaching and learning. OER are...

What We Know Now: Humanities for All One Year Later

Last summer, the National Humanities Alliance launched the Humanities for All website to help foster publicly engaged humanities scholarship in U.S. higher education. Showcasing the contribution...

APA Member Interview: Beth Barker

Beth Barker is a philosopher in transition from the University of Missouri’s PhD program in philosophy, where she completed her MA, to Northwestern University’s....

Recently Published Book Spotlight: The I in Team

This edition of the Recently Published Book Spotlight looks at Erin C. Tarver's The I in Team: Sports Fandom and the Reproduction of Identity...

Syllabus Showcase: Jennifer Bulcock, Gender and Social Justice

Gender and Social Justice is a mid-level elective for philosophy majors at Cabrini University. However, it was originally developed as a co-taught introductory feminist...

Gender Bias in Philosophy Social Media

A top medical journal published a research letter this week concerning the behavior of health researchers on Twitter, and how that behavior is informed...

Ecuador: From the Middle of the World to the End of the World

 by Boaventura de Sousa Santos  As its very name suggests, Ecuador is geographically located in the middle of the world. And now, from all appearances, neoliberalism has...

Award Report: Berry Fund for Public Philosophy Grant to the WMU Lyceum

Overview In May 2019, the Philosophy Department at Western Michigan University was awarded a $1,000 grant from the APA’s Berry Fund for Public Philosophy. The...

APA Member Interview: Derek Andrews

Derek Andrews is a doctoral student at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His research interests lie primarily in the fields of bioethics and...

Ten Suggestions for Interviewing Job Candidates

A crucial step in making a faculty appointment is the initial interviewing of candidates. The process typically takes place at a professional conference or...

When Home Isn’t: Feminist Philosophy and the U.S. Foster Care System

by Katherine Davies On any given day, approximately 400,000 children are active recipients of the U.S. welfare program known as the foster care system. There...

Syllabus Showcase: Rebecca Scott, Introduction to Philosophy

The following syllabus is for a section of Introduction to Philosophy at Harper College, a two-year college in the suburbs of Chicago. The design...

The Humanitarian Crisis of Deaths of Despair

Last April, Princeton University economists and married partners Anne Case and  Sir Angus Deaton delivered the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Stanford University. The title of their...