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TagRemote-Working Positions in Academic Philosophy
How will remote working in academia spread beyond the pandemic circumstances that familiarized so many of us with it? (more…)
APA Responds to Campaign to Move Some of Its Meetings Online
Members of the leadership of the American Philosophical Association (APA) have responded to the “2+1” campaign by the Philosophers for Sustainability to move at least one of the APA’s three divisional meetings permanently online. (more…)
Campaign to Permanently Move Some APA Meetings Online
Philosophers for Sustainability, an international group of over 200 philosophers “that aims to encourage our profession to take leadership on climate change and environmental sustainability,” has launched a campaign to urge the American Philosophical Association (APA) to move one or two of its annual divisional meetings entirely online. (more…)
Reminder: Open, Live, Online Philosophy Events
This post is a reminder about the existence of the Open, Live, Online Philosophy Events Spreadsheet. (more…)
Some Results from the Teaching Philosophy Online Survey
Recently, Thomas Nadelhoffer (Charleston) conducted a survey of those who had taught philosophy courses online over the past year. What did he learn? (more…)
Teaching Philosophy Online: A Survey
The COVID-19 pandemic has given us a lot of experience with online teaching. What lessons are to be learned from it for online teaching in the future? (more…)
“Penned Up and Forced to Listen”: On the Value of In-Person Conferences
There has been a fair amount of discussion of the future of in-person academic conferences. The COVID-19 pandemic has acclimated us to online meetings and events. Some have argued that online should be the new default for academic events, and have provided guidance and models as to what online conferences could be like (some of which predates the pandemic) and descr..
How to Find Philosophy Events on Clubhouse
Some more philosophers are finding their way onto Clubhouse (previously), and a few philosophy events open to anyone on Clubhouse are taking place. But how can you find them? And if you’re hosting or taking part in an event, how can you let other philosophers know about it? (more…)
The High Production Quality/Low Cost Future of Philosophy Education?
Here are three trends in higher education: (more…)
New: Virtual Publisher Showcases at the APA (guest post)
One of the pleasures of the divisional meetings of the American Philosophical Association (APA) is browsing the book displays. With the pandemic forcing the Eastern Division meeting online, it seemed like that wouldn’t be possible. Yet constraints can inspire innovation, and that is what has happened here. (more…)
New Workshop Series To Bring More Philosophy to Philosophy Twitter
The “Cogtweeto Philosophy Workshop Series” aims to bring together philosophers who are active on Twitter (a growing group—see below) to discuss their philosophical work in contexts more suitable for doing so than Twitter. (more…)
2021 Eastern and Central APA Meetings Moved Online
The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced that its 2021 Eastern Division Meeting, scheduled for New York City from January 4th to 7th, and its 2021 Central Division Meeting, scheduled for New Orleans from February 24th to 27th, will instead both be taking place online. (more…)
Tips for Teaching Online Synchronous Courses
Many of us will be teaching online synchronous courses this term, and some of us have already begun. What have you learned about doing so that you think others might benefit from knowing? And what do you want to know about it? (more…)
The Pandemic’s Largest Online Philosophy Conference to Date?
What may be the largest philosophy conference to have switched to an online format because of the COVID-19 pandemic is starting today.
California State University System This Fall Will Be Primarily Online
Timothy White, Chancellor of the California State University (CSU) system, which includes 23 campuses, announced that most courses scheduled for the Fall 2020 term will be taught online, rather than face-to-face, owing to the current Covid-19 pandemic and a possible “serious second wave” of it. (more…)
Win a Jingle for Your Course
Daniel Groll, associate professor of philosophy at Carleton College, has been creating videos of short jingles written to promote online courses he and his colleagues are teaching. (more…)
Having Fun Teaching Philosophy Online? Christina Van Dyke Is.
Christina Van Dyke, professor of philosophy at Calvin College, like many of us, had to move her courses online. She has been teaching her students Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics lately, posting videos online for her students to watch. But she’s not content to record a lecture over slides. (more…)
Now May Be The Time To Transition to Tutorial Instruction (guest post)
The pandemic and the various disruptions it is causing to the operation of academic institutions has prompted people to reflect on the value and qualities of those institutions. This guest post*, by Preston Stovall, a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Hradec Králové in the Czech Republic, is one example of this. (more…)
Running Interactive Philosophy Classes Online (guest post by Alex Hyun & Scott Wisor)
The following is a guest post* by Alex Hyun and Scott Wisor, both of Minerva Schools at Keck Graduate Institute (one of the Claremont Colleges) in which they provide specific advice on a variety of matters related to teaching philosophy courses effectively online. (more…)
Spreadsheet for Open, Live, & Online Philosophy Conferences & Other Events
The Covid-19 pandemic has prompted philosophers to move conferences and related events online, or create new online events, and to make at least the viewing of them open to all. (more…)
A Second “Teaching Philosophy Online” Session
Ian Schnee and Paul Franco, philosophers at the University of Washington who ran a videoconference session last week about teaching philosophy courses online, are hosting a second one this Wednesday. (more…)
Virtual Philosophy Colloquia
“I’m trying to create, in my own little word, a network of virtual colloquia and workshops for people stuck at home.” (more…)
“Teaching Philosophy Online” Sessions
Ian Schnee and Paul Franco, philosophers at the University of Washington have organized a series of online sessions to help those who are looking for suggestions and guidance about teaching their philosophy courses online. (more…)
The Pawfessor Is In (guest post by Jordan MacKenzie)
The following is a guest post* by Jordan MacKenzie, assistant professor of philosophy at Virginia Tech, in which she shares some of her strategies for sucessfully moving courses online. (more…)
Videos of Philosophy Courses – An Editable Spreadsheet
In order to aid philosophy professors during the pandemic as they transition from in-person to online teaching, Liz Jackson (ANU) and Tyron Goldschmidt (Rochester) created a spreadsheet of videorecorded philosophy classes and lectures. (more…)
Socially Distanced, yet Virtually Convened: a Model of Online Conferencing (guest post)
The following is a guest post* by Fabrizio Calzavarini (Bergamo, Turin) and Marco Viola (Turin), who together run Neural Mechanism Online, an organization dedicated to the philosophy of neuroscience and to bringing together philosophers and neuroscientists via webinars, webconferences, and the like. (more…)
The Online-First Model: On Hosting an Awesome Online Academic Conference (guest post by Catharine St. Croix)
The COVID-19 pandemic is causing disruptions to the professional life of academics in many ways—for instance, by making in-person conferences and workshops highly inadvisable, if not practically impossible. What to do? In this guest post*, Catharaine (Cat) St.Croix, a philosopher at the University of Minnesota, provides some helpful guidance. (more…)
Moving Your In-Person Course Online
In attempts to slow the spread of the coronavirus, some schools are requiring faculty to convert their in-person courses to online courses in the middle of the term. What issues come up in this transition, and what are good ways to handle them? (more…)