Issues in Philosophy

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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,...

Giving the Finger to the Philosophical “Finger”

If you’ve come within hailing distance of a philosophy talk in the past several years, you’ve no doubt become acquainted with the “finger.”  No,...

What to Do about Your Website? Online Options for Philosophy Job-Seekers

Along with application materials, individual websites are an opportunity for philosophers to communicate research as well as a chance to convey suitability as a...

How do you bring candidates “to campus” during the COVID-19 pandemic? Part 2

The APA Best Practices for Interviewing and the APA Good Practices Guide, Chapter 5 on Interviewing and Hiring serve as invaluable resources for candidates...

How do you bring candidates “to campus” during the COVID-19 pandemic? Part 1

The pandemic has put a halt to a lot of hiring in the academy.  Of course, higher education is not the only sector facing...

Consider the Presidential Management Fellowship

In the fall of 2016, I was facing very insecure job prospects. I was on the final year of a post-doc position at Fordham...

How Can I Be a Philosopher in a Non-academic Career? (Part 3)

Answers from Ryan Stelzer, MA, Management Consultant and Executive Coach Ryan Stelzer (photo right) earned a master’s degree in philosophy from the University of...