Graduate Student Reflection Series: Self-Incrimination as Feminist Pedagogy
I’m all too familiar with the widespread (mistaken) belief that feminist philosophy is less philosophical or should be treated as such. I have encountered...
Syllabus Showcase: Environmental Ethics with a North American Indigenous Philosophy Emphasis, Janella Baxter
My Environmental Ethics course includes an extended unit on North American Indigenous philosophy. My interest in this literature is deeply personal. My father is...
Undergraduate Philosophy Club: University of Nevada, Reno
UNR Philosophy boasts an undergraduate club that’s been active for more than two decades, dating back to at least before the arrival of any...
Professor Reflections Series: Feminism for Philosophers, Philosophy for Feminists
Several weeks ago, I finished teaching the course Philosophical Foundations of Feminism for the second time. I teach at the University of Rochester, a...
Graduate Student Reflection Series: Teaching Oppression During a Graduate Students’ Strike
During the spring of 2022, I taught the in-person P103 level class “Gender, Sexuality and Race in Philosophical Perspective” at Indiana University Bloomington. The...
TikTok Pedagogy: Teaching Philosophy in 60 Seconds or Less
I teach philosophy on TikTok, perhaps to the surprise of some colleagues in the discipline (who haven’t met me), and to parts of the...
Teaching Environmental Ethics
Environmental Ethics is one of the major fields in applied ethics. Applied ethics as a field in philosophy is rather new. It had its...
John Rawls and Fair Equality of Opportunity
John Rawls published A Theory of Justice in 1971. At that time no moral problem was more widely discussed than preferential affirmative action. (See...
Syllabus Showcase: Ethics in the Novel, Felicia Nimue Ackerman
One of my favorite courses that I have developed is Ethics in the Novel. Why organize an ethics course around novels?
Philosophy teachers are well...
Introducing the Professor Reflection Series
I am excited to be editing the “Professor Reflection Series,” a new teaching-focused offering of The Blog of the APA. The series is based...