Syllabus Showcase: Political Violence, Jennifer Kling
Violence is endemic to our world. It is also political. This class works through both of these claims, and throughout the process, discusses how...
Public Speaking for Ethicists
Disclaimer: Dr. Deaton is a series editor at the Blog of the APA. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and...
Undergraduate Philosophy Club Series!
We are excited to announce a new series profiling undergraduate philosophy clubs (UPCs) from universities and colleges across North America!
The goal of this series...
Beauvoir and Colbert on Neutrality and Otherness
The clip “Neutral Man’s Burden” from The Colbert Report (Comedy Central, 2005-2014) can be used to explicate the concepts of neutrality and Otherness in Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex.
Undergraduate Philosophy Club: University of California, Riverside
Club President: Kevin Bethell
Club Advisor: Gerardo Sanchez
The Philosophy Club @ UCR officially began in 2017; before which it was an informal club that was active off-and-on for...
APA Member Interview: Jaime Castillo-Gamboa
Jaime Castillo-Gamboa is a PhD student in philosophy at the University of Southern California. Prior to USC, he attended the Pontifical Catholic University of...
Syllabus Showcase: Classical Indian Philosophy, Malcolm Keating
At Yale-NUS College in Singapore, my students are international—roughly sixty percent are Singaporean, and forty percent come from all around the world, hailing from...
What Makes a Course Effective?
One of the most difficult parts of college-level instruction is assessing the effectiveness of your teaching. Many of the conventional methods for measuring student...
Syllabus Showcase: News & Knowing, Justin McBrayer
This is a course that focuses on the fake news epidemic in a way that non-philosophy majors can understand and appreciate. It could function...
What Makes a Course Resilient?
Like universities all across the country, mine announced, mid-semester in the spring of 2020, that we’d all be transitioning to online learning in less...