The Diotima Problem: Women Philosophers in Classical Antiquity
As someone who is devoted to studying the history of philosophy without any gaps, I have gotten rather interested in the subject of women...
MAP Chapter Profile: Princeton
Princeton's MAP chapter ran a number of events this year, one of which was a workshop called Compass. The workshop was two-day event designed...
MAP: An Introduction
Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) began in 2013 as a handful of grad students who wanted to discuss issues related to diversity in philosophy. Three...
A Serious Proposal to the Professors
The applicant pool for Philosophy department faculty positions, makeup of graduate Philosophy cohorts, and undergraduate Philosophy enrollment statistics depend on the existence of undergraduate...
Pitted Against Yourself: Credibility and False Confessions
For the past eight months, I’ve been teaching courses at a maximum-security men’s prison in a suburb of Chicago. One of the many surprising...
Whose Philosophy Lost its Way? (Post 3 of 3)
As controversial as Shaw’s account might be, we might ask: how does it square with the debate between Frodeman & Briggle and Soames? Suppose...
Whose Philosophy Lost Its Way? (Post 2 of 3)
So what happens when we look at the debate about philosophy’s proper home, as presented by Frodeman & Briggle and Soames, from the perspective...
Whose Philosophy Lost Its Way? (Post 1 of 3)
In the past 15 years, academic philosophers have engaged in a tremendous amount of navel-gazing about their discipline and its value. It is safe...
Filling the Gaps: Expanding the Canon in the History of Philosophy
For the last five years or so, I’ve been putting out a weekly podcast devoted to the entire History of Philosophy, with the emphasis...
The Inclusion Problem in Critical Thinking: The Case of Indian Philosophy
The Problem
For many, if not most, philosophy departments, the bread-and-butter courses they offer include the history of philosophy, ethics, and...