10/12/2020
Reading group of interest!
Purdue's Women in Philosophy is a graduate student organization. Our mission is to create a space for celebrating diverse voices of all genders in philosophy.
We aim to
- Provide a space for those with underrepresented voices -- with regard to sex, gender, and/or race -- to network, share ideas, and celebrate the diversity of what it means to do philosophy.
- Improve our visibility, both within our program and in the greater philosophical community.
- Increase the number of women, non-binary, and gender-fluid individuals in the discipline for greater d
10/12/2020
Reading group of interest!
08/17/2020
Join us for two rad talks in a couple of days! RSVP here: https://forms.gle/EysnxGwsxc1L7HjY6
08/03/2020
Workshop of interest!
Black Lives Matter: Glasgow MAP Online Workshop Glasgow MAP chapter is hosting an online workshop focused around the Black Lives Matter movement
07/07/2020
Our online graduate student workshop series starts next week! If you'd like to attend one or more of the virtual sessions, please message us here on Facebook or email us at [email protected] to receive an invitation link!
06/15/2020
"If you are a non-Black philosopher who does not do philosophy of race, educate yourself. Read up some introductory stuff. There are already so many syllabi, reading lists, YouTube clips out there that you can access. Please don’t email your Black colleagues for suggestions, they may be already overwhelmed with the trauma of everything going on and don’t need to doll out yet another unpaid education to the rest of us. Give credit where it is due though and do cite them!"
The Case for Teaching (by Saba Fatima) This is the second installment of our series on how to counter racism in philosophy, and as philosophers. This entry is written by Saba Fatima, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and host of the podcast She Speaks: Academic Muslimahs One of the main reason...
06/09/2020
The American Philosophical Association Committee on the Teaching of Philosophy and Committee on Inclusiveness in the Profession are creating an anti-racist resource list. If you have materials you could include on the list, please complete this form:
APA Anti-Racist Resources for Teaching Philosophy The American Philosophical Association Committee on Teaching and Committee on Inclusiveness are creating an anti-racist teaching resource list. If you have materials we could include on the list, please complete this very simple form linked below. We will begin reviewing materials on June 29, but we...
06/07/2020
Great resource put together by JSTOR:
Institutionalized Racism: A Syllabus | JSTOR Daily How can we help students understand George Floyd's death in the context of institutionalized racism?
06/05/2020
06/04/2020
The APA Board of Officers and the APA Graduate Student Council have released statements condemning racist violence and police brutality.
https://www.apaonline.org/news/510827/APA-board-and-GSC-issue-statements-condemning-racist-violence-and-police-brutality.htm
06/01/2020
APA Graduate Student Council wants to hear about the challenges and experiences of philosophy graduate students during the COVID-19 pandemic. See the detailed call for submissions of reflections below.
05/25/2020
A useful website on the connection between the ongoing pandemic and our dietary behavior run by philosopher Cheryl Abbate (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
Anti-Pandemic Diet The purpose of Anti-Pandemic Diet is to inform the public about the connection between the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and our dietary behavior. Pandemics are normally caused by what we eat, and they are often exacerbated by our dietary behavior. This is certainly true when it comes to the coronavirus...