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Navigating (Living) Philosophy: Letter to Beginning Philosophy Students

This series invites seasoned philosophers to share critical reflections on emergent and institutionalised shapes of and encounters within philosophy. The series collects experience-based explorations...
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Professors as Teachers: Two Tenure Cases

This post is the third of three adapted from Steven M. Cahn’s forthcoming book Professors as Teachers. In this work he suggests how departments...
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Professors as Teachers: Criteria for Awarding Tenure

This post is the second of three adapted from Steven M. Cahn’s forthcoming book Professors as Teachers. In this work he suggests how departments...
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Professors as Teachers: In Defense of Tenure

This post is the first of three adapted from Steven M. Cahn’s forthcoming book Professors as Teachers. In this work, he suggests how departments...

Prudent Reserve in Academic Administration

This essay will be published in the forthcoming book Academic Ethics Today: Problems, Policies, and Prospects for University Life, ed. Steven M. Cahn (Rowman & Littlefield,...

The Goals of Campus Discipline

This essay will be published in the forthcoming book Academic Ethics Today: Problems, Policies, and Prospects for University Life, ed. Steven M. Cahn (Rowman & Littlefield,...
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What Should Count for Tenure and Promotion?

Why couldn’t God get tenure? Because He wrote only one book, and it wasn’t refereed. —Academic jokelore This essay will be published in the forthcoming...

The Cruelty of the Adjunct System

This essay will be published in the forthcoming book Academic Ethics Today: Problems, Policies, and Prospects for University Life, ed. Steven M. Cahn (Rowman & Littlefield,...

So You Want to Teach Some Africana Philosophy?

This is the fifth in a series of posts on the APA Blog aimed at helping philosophy instructors include authors, texts, and topics that...

So You Want to Teach Some Women Philosophers?: Nineteenth-Century Britain

Building on blog posts from Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, and Karyn Lai with suggestions for introducing Islamic, Indian, and Chinese philosophy into thematic courses,...