The Loss of Meaningful Work
It was the last Friday in February of 2019 and I had two small seminar-size classes to run in the morning. This day was...
Syllabus Showcase: Jacob J. Andrews, Ethics in Classical China
I got the idea for this course the most scholarly, academic way possible: by binge-watching a fantasy TV show for eight year olds. The...
Philosophy of Perception and Biology
The short video presents some interesting facts about the mantis shrimp in a comical way and it emphasizes how unusually the shrimp’s eyes are...
Syllabus Showcase: Jonathan R. Cohen, Constructing Our World, Constructing Ourselves, Nineteenth Century German Philosophy
“Constructing Our World, Constructing Ourselves” is the third semester in a four-semester sequence covering the history of philosophy from Thales to Zizek. The focus...
Mentoring the Mentors
“Mentoring the Mentors” is a workshop that the APA has hosted at various divisional meetings over the last four years thanks to funding from...
Syllabus Showcase: Agostino Cera, Technology as a Philosophical Question
My research career started with an anthropological interpretation of Karl Löwith’s philosophy, with a specific focus on his phenomenological personalism (that I have defined...
New Introduction to Philosophy Open Textbook Series
For a number of years now I’ve been an advocate for the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) in teaching and learning. OER are...
Syllabus Showcase: Jennifer Bulcock, Gender and Social Justice
Gender and Social Justice is a mid-level elective for philosophy majors at Cabrini University. However, it was originally developed as a co-taught introductory feminist...
Award Report: Berry Fund for Public Philosophy Grant to the WMU Lyceum
Overview
In May 2019, the Philosophy Department at Western Michigan University was awarded a $1,000 grant from the APA’s Berry Fund for Public Philosophy. The...
Syllabus Showcase: Rebecca Scott, Introduction to Philosophy
The following syllabus is for a section of Introduction to Philosophy at Harper College, a two-year college in the suburbs of Chicago. The design...