The Risks of AI Recording Devices and Note-Taking Assistants in the Classroom
Recently, US classrooms have dealt with several forms of authoritarian and dystopian policies, ranging from Texas A&M banning Plato to UNC Chapel Hill secretly...
Why “Service” and “Giving Back” Get It Wrong
We need fresh terms for what we refer to as “service” or “giving back.” I say this as someone who taught for 27 years...
Invisible Disabilities in Graduate School
The APA and other academic institutions have made efforts to gather and report demographic information about persons in philosophy. One motivation for doing so...
Philosophy as Children: Rethinking Adulthood as the Measure of Reason
Philosophy continues to rely on a particular fiction of the knower. Serious thought is still imagined to require a subject who appears autonomous, self-regulating,...
Ending the War on Phones
Growing up in the Wild West of rapid technological development and expansion, most of my technological skills are self-taught. As I taught my first...
Invitation to Pre-college Philosophy
It’s been more than eight years since I first became involved in pre-college philosophy. As a master’s student in philosophy at Ewha Womans University...
Two Things I Learned Working with High School Students
A couple of years ago, two other graduate students (Sam Ridge and Karina Ortiz Villa) and I started UCSD’s chapter of Briana Toole’s fantastic outreach...
Authenticity as Resistance in Academic Spaces
Before starting my Ph.D. at the University of Cincinnati, I found myself in a unique position: I had never studied philosophy in a setting...
The STEM/Humanities Divide and Student Defeatism
Throughout higher education, there is a palpable divide drawn between STEM and the humanities. Among students, I have noticed that many, both graduate and...
What Makes You Love Doing Philosophy?
Whenever I meet someone who has been studying philosophy much longer than I have, I always ask the same question: How has your love...