The Teaching Hub at the 2019 Eastern Division Meeting of the APA
As you plan your schedule for the 2019 APA Eastern Division meeting, or if you’re still considering whether or not to attend, we hope...
Guidelines for Assessing Doctoral Programs
Rankings of doctoral programs are typically unidimensional: They consider only the scholarly reputations of the faculty. Yet whether a graduate department effectively serves its...
Diversifiying the Canon: Sofia Ortiz-Hinojosa
Sofia Ortiz-Hinojosa is an assistant professor at Vassar College, where she teaches courses on ancient philosophy, epistemology, philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of mental...
Kant and Hegel in Sellars’ Space of Reasons?
It has often been noted that philosophy, at least on most self-understandings of the discipline, has a uniquely important relationship to its historical past. ...
Call for Pitches from Associate Editor, Dr. Sabrina D. MisirHiralall
by Sabrina D. MisirHiralall
I am delighted to join the Editorial Team of the Blog of APA. As the Associate Editor of the Blog of APA,...
Exploring Plato’s Cave With Young People
On October 3, 2018, twenty-four people explored themes from one of the most important thought experiments in the history of philosophy: the Allegory of...
Teaching Gen Ed Students the Value of Philosophy
The news of philosophy departments under threat is disturbingly familiar to many of us. We bemoan the latest news of the elimination of a...
Teaching Philosophy to Non-Majors
A lot of grad students and professors struggle with the gen-ed problem. Most of the students in introductory philosophy courses are required to take...
Diversifying the Canon: Interview with Barry Lam
Barry Lam is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Vassar College and executive producer of the Hi-Phi Nation podcast, the first and only narrative-driven show...
Diversifying the Canon: Interview with John Ramsey
John Ramsey is an assistant professor in philosophy at the University of Northern Colorado. He specializes in early Chinese philosophy and contemporary social philosophy....