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Katheryn Doran

...on skepticism, and philosophy and film. She served on the APA Committee on the Teaching of Philosophy 2013-16, and was the guest editor of the APA Newsletter on teaching philosophy...

Student Snapshot: Cappagnia-Lynne Chase

...President of the Class of 2021. Cappagnia-Lynne is a lover of philosophy and the arts. Is there a fictional superhero whose philosophy you find particularly righteous or agreeable? If so,...

A Neurophilosophy of Big Data & Civil Liberties, and the Need for a New Social Contract

...host of cognitive skills that philosophy previously attributed to ‘reason’, including (moral) decision-making, learning and memory formation.  We are also amoral in the sense that we are neither innately moral,...

Presidential Powers and Captive Maternals: Sally, Michelle, and Deborah

...and Deborah Danner, might find their way out and leave a trail to follow. The Women in Philosophy series publishes posts on women in the history of philosophy, posts on...

Thinking Our Way Through Coronavirus: Hannah Arendt’s Insights for Dark Times

...hard times. A German-born Jew who studied philosophy with Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers, she fled the Nazi menace for the United States in 1941. In Men in Dark Times,...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: An Intersectional Feminist Theory of Moral Responsibility

...white guys, exploring how their ideas were shaped by the structural inequalities of the day. In other words, the canon should be the non-standard philosophy and the non-standard philosophy should...

Worlds, Ideals, and Solidarity: A Feminist Primer

...the history of philosophy, posts on issues of concern to women in the field of philosophy, and posts that put philosophy to work to address issues of concern to women...

Unconscious Abolitionism: Beyond the Reform or Revolution Debate

...Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality under Contemporary Capitalism, was recently published by Columbia University Press. The Women in Philosophy series publishes posts on women in the history of philosophy, posts...

Teachers Assemble: Sample Lesson Plan for Philosophy in High School English

In a recent article on this blog, I outlined both the dearth of online resources to help middle and high school educators bring philosophy into their classrooms given the lack...

The Loss of Meaningful Work

...my Philosophy and Pop Culture Seminar students first, then a one-credit Philosophy for Children class with the soft expectation that we would visit a local third grade class by the...