Why Should Professors Care About Their Students?
Years ago at a meeting of the American Philosophical Association, I passed a group of graduate students who were responding enthusiastically as one described...
Gender Bias in Philosophy Social Media
A top medical journal published a research letter this week concerning the behavior of health researchers on Twitter, and how that behavior is informed...
Ten Suggestions for Interviewing Job Candidates
A crucial step in making a faculty appointment is the initial interviewing of candidates. The process typically takes place at a professional conference or...
Three Reasons Why We Should Not Request Letters of Recommendation for Job Applications
A standard element for a job application for a philosophy tenure-track position is three (or more) letters of recommendation, requested up front. Just glancing...
Cultivating Philosophical Style
As a student in an analytic philosophy department in the ’70s and ’80s, I scarcely heard a word about the importance of style. I...
Yoga Philosophy, Part 2
Part 1 of this series can be found here.
After twenty years of research in and on the European and Indian traditions of philosophy, peer...
A Moment to Take Stock (and Keep Advocating)
For three years in a row, the Trump administration has called for the elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and other...
Philosophy with Children and the Proprioception of Thinking
Proprioception is usually used in reference to body movement and the self-perception of body movement. Proprius in Latin means “one’s own,” or “self.” It refers...
We Have a Crisis in U.S. Higher Education
The teaching structure of higher education has altered drastically in the past two decades and those in power do not want to talk about...
Is It Time For the Humanities to Strike?
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