Happy New Year, and best wishes to everyone who started new semesters this week! If you'll be in Baltimore for #APAEastern26, we hope to see you at the Teaching Hub on Thursday or Friday. Here's the schedule: www.apaonline.org/page/2026E_T...
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2025 David W. Concepción Prize for Excellence in Philosophy Teaching winner Alexander Stehn
Congratulations to Alexander Stehn of University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, winner of the 2025 David W. Concepción Prize for Excellence in Philosophy Teaching! www.apaonline.org/page/2025pri...
01.01.2026 15:03 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Congratulations to UT-RGV's Alex Stehn for receiving the 2025 David W. Concepción Prize for Excellence in Philosophy Teaching!
19.12.2025 20:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The Teaching Showcase application deadline has been extended to December 30th--you've got time to finish out your fall semester before putting together your proposal.🤓
08.12.2025 18:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Whether inspired by Baldur's Gate 3 or philosophy graduate Brennan Lee Mulligan et al, role-playing games are more popular than ever. At the APA Blog, AAPT member Cat Saint-Croix shares the syllabus & describes her new course, Tabletop Philosophy: blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/05/t...
17.11.2025 17:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0AAPT President Renée Smith recently wrote a guest-post introducing Daily Nous readers to the AAPT's activities. Take a look--even current members may learn something about what others in the organization are doing as we head into our 50th anniversary year.
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The 2026 AAPT Workshop-Conference will include a showcase session simulating a classroom, with the presenter in the role of teacher and attendees as students. Proposals to lead the showcase session are open through November 30th: philosophyteachers.org/cfp-teaching...
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Dr. Taylor Swift canonically knows Aristotle, but AAPT member Melissa Jacquart and her students have identified all sorts of ways that "The Life of a Showgirl" can help us examine our own lives--and thereby, make them more worth living:
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A call for proposals flyer for the 2026 AAPT Workshop-Conference
CFP: The AAPT invites proposals for the 2026 Workshop-Conference on Teaching Philosophy (July 22-26, 2026 at Eastern Michigan University). Join us to share your pedagogical ideas, and to celebrate 50 years of the AAPT! Details: philosophyteachers.org/cfp-2026-con...
06.10.2025 21:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0While we're partial to the APA Committee On Teaching, all of these leadership roles are important for the philosophy profession. Please consider nominating someone (perhaps yourself).
19.09.2025 15:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
AAPT Talking/Teaching announcement Join us to talk about teaching philosophy every other Wednesday on zoom 3:30-4:30 ET. Sept. 10 Final Assignment: The Conversation Project: Kelly W
The AAPT's Talking/Teaching series (@theaapt.bsky.social) is starting up for the fall, and look who's presenting this week! Join us Wed 9/10 at 12:30 PT/3:30 ET if you want to hear about the Conversation Project I use as a final assignment in some philosophy classes and talk teaching with us.
08.09.2025 17:36 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 1In this Tea for Teaching podcast, Russell Marcus joins us to discuss a summer program in philosophy in which faculty explore innovative teaching methods and provide engaging learning opportunities to students. @cyberthread.bsky.social @theaapt.bsky.social teaforteaching.podbean.com/e/philosophy...
10.09.2025 13:45 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
David W. Concepción Prize for Excellence in Philosophy Teaching. Deadline: August 5, 2025. www.apaonline.org/teaching_prize
Reminder: The nominations deadline for the 2025 David W. Concepción Prize for Excellence in Philosophy Teaching is Tuesday, August 5. www.apaonline.org/news/705552/...
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The AAPT-APA Teaching Hub at the 2026 APA Eastern Division Meeting, January 8-9, 2026. Interactive workshops and open conversations designed to address the teaching of philosophy and foster innovation in the classroom.
Tomorrow, August 1, is the deadline for proposals for the AAPT-APA Teaching Hub sessions at the 2026 APA Eastern Division meeting. @theaapt.bsky.social www.apaonline.org/news/704947/...
31.07.2025 14:33 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Gearing up for Fall 2025 courses? Perhaps AAPT Studies in Pedagogy can help. We have over two volumes of open-access articles--and annotated bibliographies for teaching writing and teaching in hostile contexts: philosophyteachers.org/open-access-...
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The recent @chronicle.com article on the Hamilton College Summer Program in Philosophy features AAPT members Mara Harrell, Emily Esch, & Russell Marcus--the summer program's creator. Another AAPT member, Melissa Jacquart, was this summer's keynote speaker: www.chronicle.com/article/a-su...
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A call for proposals flyer for the 2026 Eastern Division Teaching Hub
The submission deadline for the 2026 Eastern Division Teaching Hub is next Friday--August 1, 2025. If you're pursuing creative and playful pedagogy or moving beyond the paper, please submit a proposal to share your ideas. Details: www.apaonline.org/page/Teachin...
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An orange and grey banner that reads "David W. Concepcion Prize for Excellence in Philosophy Teaching. Davis is pictured on the right side of the banner. He wears a blue shirt and smiles at the viewer.
The nomination deadline for the 2025 David W. Concepción Prize for Excellence in Philosophy Teaching is just under three weeks away--August 5, 2025. Please consider writing a letter (no more than 2000 words) nominating someone impacting student learning. Details: www.apaonline.org/page/teachin...
16.07.2025 19:10 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0AAPT members W. John Koolage, Andrew Mills, and Kris Phillips are panelists at this year's APA department chairs workshop.
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Calls for Proposals for the #APAEastern26, #APACentral26, and #APAPacific26 Teaching Hubs are now available. Please consider submitting--and if you’re attending a division meeting, we hope to see you there. Details: philosophyteachers.org/2026-aapt-ap...
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Almost exactly a decade since our last workshop there, the AAPT will offer a one day workshop on philosophy pedagogy at the University of North Texas (Denton). The workshop will run 8:30am-5:00pm on 8/14/2025. Applications are open through 7/14: philosophyteachers.org/denton-works...
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Over at the Blog of the APA, AAPT member Christopher Blake-Turner discusses the importance of questioning, doubting, and believing in the context of teaching logic at a land-grant institution: blog.apaonline.org/2025/06/25/q...
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A call for proposals flyer for the APA Eastern 2026 Teaching Hub
The #APAEastern26 Teaching Hub Calls for Proposals are now available. The submission deadline is August 1st.
Details: www.apaonline.org/page/Teachin...
Over at the APA Blog, AAPT member Savannah Pearlman and Ricky Mouser respond to worries about AI ‘doing the work’ by considering whether student learning should be more like work or play.
27.05.2025 21:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1Congratulations to AAPT member Alex Richardson, who has been awarded the 2025 Oxford University Press Teaching with Technology Prize.
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Last Call! Philosophers consider submitting to this @theaapt.bsky.social Studies in Pedagogy Special Issue on Teaching Graduate Students. This special issue is one of (if not the?) first big efforts to think more intentionally about how we as a discipline teach our graduate students ... (1/3)
08.05.2025 14:45 — 👍 3 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
The American Association of Philosophy Teachers condemns the current administration's attacks on education, which are "undermining what, how, and whom we teach"
01.05.2025 12:05 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The Board of Directors of the American Association of Philosophy Teachers has issued the following statement of concern regarding the recent threats to higher education inflicted by the Trump administration: philosophyteachers.org/aapt-board-s...
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The #APAPacific25 Teaching Hub is underway. Join us today and tomorrow for workshops on AI in education, pedagogical uses of poetry, podcasts, and popculture, and teaching applied humanities to non-humanities students. The schedule is available here: www.apaonline.org/page/2025P_T...
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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PHILOSOPHY TEACHERS AAPT TALKING/TEACHING JOIN US TO TALK ABOUT TEACHING PHILOSOPHY EVERY OTHER WEDNESDAY ON ZOOM 3:30 - 4:30 PM ET FEB. 26 USING SOCIAL ANNOTATION IN PHILOSOPHY COURSES CHAEYEON LEE & DR. STEVEN BROWN MAR. 12 TEACHING AROUND AI (OR "THE DEATH OF THE COLLEGE PAPER") DR. ANDRÉ DE AVILLEZ MAR. 26 ASSIGNING PHILOSOPHICAL LETTERS INSTEAD OF ESSAYS DR. CLAIRE LOCKARD APR. 9 HOW TO TALK TO STUDENTS ABOUT CHATGPT & CITATIONS DR. KRISTOPHER PHILLIPS APR. 23 PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR REGULAR SUBSTANTIVE INTERACTION ONLINE DR. MEGAN FLOCKEN MAY7 USING SIMULATIONS IN APPLIED ETHICS DR. STEPHANIE ADAIR MAY 21 TEAGLE & TRANSFORMATIVE TEXTS DR. DAVID LIAKOS PHILOSOPHYTEACHERS.ORG/TALKING- TEACHING
Check out this great lineup for the @theaapt.bsky.social Talking/Teaching series!
Not sure how I snuck in there, but if you’re free April 9, I’d be happy to talk with you about how to teach students about the importance of citations and epistemic communities!
