Diversity and Inclusiveness

A Statement from the Committee on LGBTQ People in the Profession

Today, our Committee issued the following statement: To: The APA Ombudsperson, the APA Committee on Inclusiveness, the APA Chair of the Board of Officers, the...

On Not Seeing in Philosophy

The brilliant young African American political philosopher Danielle Allen founded the University of Chicago Civic Knowledge Project (CKP) in 2003 in an attempt to...

Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

On October 8th, 2016 from 1:30 p.m. PST, in the San Diego Central Public Library, Wikipedia will host an edit-a-thon to improve the site's coverage of underrepresented philosophers and...
Roundtable on “What do you do with a Philosophy Degree?"

MAP Chapter Profile: University at Albany, SUNY

In May 2014, I sent out the first email to gauge interest in a University at Albany Minorities and Philosophy chapter. More students and faculty...
The Teaching Workshop

The Teaching Workshop: Diversifying the Syllabus

It’s the start of a new academic year and The Teaching Workshop is back to answer your pedagogy related questions. Welcome back! Each post...
Jay Garfield (Smith) delivering the keynote address at the 2nd Annual Penn-MAP Non-western Philosophy Conference, February 26, 2016

MAP Chapter Profile: University of Pennsylvania

by Penn-MAP Penn-MAP got started in Spring 2014 as a collection of grad students who decided to get on board the wider MAP movement. With...

Trans Experience in Philosophy

In our contemporary moment, there is a clash between the increased political and cultural legibility of trans people (signaled by the visibility of people...
“We need diversity in philosophy because you probably don’t know who Alain Leroy Locke is.” – Terron Davis

MAP Chapter Profile: Brooklyn College at the City University of New York

Our first event of the 2015/2016 academic year was a lecture by professor Tom Digby of Springfield College. He discussed his book Love and...

The Inclusion Problem in Epistemology: The Case of the Gettier Cases (2 of 3)

Post Two of Three (Post 1) The contemporary engagement with Gettier’s counterexamples builds off of Gettier’s actual discussion. So, it will be useful to rehearse...

The Inclusion Problem in Epistemology: The Case of the Gettier Cases (1 of 3)

Post One of Three In my prior posts on philosophy of mind, and critical thinking, I have used the phrase “the inclusion problem” to refer...