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...
“Philosophy for Children in the Borderlands,” an 18-minute, bilingual documentary funded by an APA...
University of Texas at El Paso Assistant Professor Amy Reed-Sandoval is executive producer of the documentary funded by the American Philosophical Association through a Diversity...
MAP Chapter Profile: University of California Santa Barbara
The MAP Chapter at UCSB was founded in Spring 2014 by a group of primarily first and second year PhD students. Today our chapter...
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...