The American Association of Philosophy Teachers
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dedicated to the advancement of the art of teaching philosophy since 1976
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journal: https://aaptstudies.org/
AAPT 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.
Learn a little about the American Association of Philosophy Teachers, which is approaching its 50th anniversary…
American Association of Philosophy Teachers Upcoming 50th Anniversary (guest post) - Daily Nous
The American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT) will be 50 years old next year. Renée Smith, Professor of Philosophy at Coastal Carolina University, was recently elected president of the AAPT. ...
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October 23, 2025 at 6:41 PM
AAPT 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.
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...
CFP: Teaching Showcase @ 2026 Workshop-Conference
The American Association for Philosophy Teachers is soliciting proposals for a Teaching Showcase session at the 2026 AAPT Workshop-Conference, to be held at Eastern Michigan University during one of t...
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October 16, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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...
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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Swiftie in school: Local university offers unique course dedicated to Taylor Swift
The Taylor Swift and Philosophy class, which has attracted 30 students, examines the deeper meanings in Swift's music.
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October 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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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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...
October 6, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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...
While 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).
Nominations are open for APA leadership positions, including all committees, the APA board, and the Graduate Student Council. www.apaonline.org/news/710085/...
September 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
While 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).
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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.
September 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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.
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In 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...
A Summer to Learn | Tea for Teaching
Imagine exploring alternative teaching methods in a classroom focused on learning and not grades. In this episode, Russell Marcus joins us to discuss how this occurs in a two-week philosophy summer pr...
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September 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
In 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...
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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/...
August 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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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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/...
July 31, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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/...
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-...
Open Access AAPT Studies
Selected articles and volumes of AAPT Studies are available open access via the PDC website.
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July 28, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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-...
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...
A Summer Camp Where Professors Are the Focus
Each summer Hamilton College hosts a camp for student philosophers. But its real purpose is helping instructors become more innovative teachers.
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July 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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...
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...
July 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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...
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...
July 16, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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...
AAPT members W. John Koolage, Andrew Mills, and Kris Phillips are panelists at this year's APA department chairs workshop.
The full program has just been released for the annual APA Workshop for Department Chairs, August 18–19 via Zoom. Free for chairs of departments enrolled in the APA Departmental Services Program (DSP). View the full program and register at www.apaonline.org/events/Event...
July 15, 2025 at 2:48 PM
AAPT members W. John Koolage, Andrew Mills, and Kris Phillips are panelists at this year's APA department chairs workshop.
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...
2026 AAPT-APA Teaching Hub CFPs
Calls for Proposals for all three 2026 AAPT-APA Teaching Hubs are now available on the APA website.
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July 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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...
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...
Teaching & Learning Workshop, Denton, TX, August 14, 2025
the AAPT is pleased to offer a one day workshop on philosophy pedagogy at the University of North Texas (Denton, TX). The workshop will run 8:30am-5:00pm on Thursday, August 14, 2025. Applications are...
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July 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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...
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...
Questioning the Doubting Game
Things are going well in Symbolic Logic. Students are mastering truth tables, and they’re symbolizing English sentences into our truth-functional language with increasing facility. (For those who have...
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July 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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...
The #APAEastern26 Teaching Hub Calls for Proposals are now available. The submission deadline is August 1st.
Details: www.apaonline.org/page/Teachin...
Details: www.apaonline.org/page/Teachin...
June 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
The #APAEastern26 Teaching Hub Calls for Proposals are now available. The submission deadline is August 1st.
Details: www.apaonline.org/page/Teachin...
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.
Why should your students do the work?
Most philosophy teachers we know have adopted strikingly defensive positions on AI use in their classes. One faction—call them Luddites—rejects these novel “labor-saving” technologies altogether. Afte...
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May 27, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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.
Congratulations to AAPT member Alex Richardson, who has been awarded the 2025 Oxford University Press Teaching with Technology Prize.
Today we are pleased to announce the winners of seven APA prizes. Congratulations to all! www.apaonline.org/news/701150/...
May 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Congratulations 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)
Calls for Abstracts and Essays
Current Calls:
Volume 11CALL FOR PAPERSAre We Having Fun Yet?Joy and Playfulness in Teaching & Learning Philosophy
Edited ByRebecca Scott
Paper Submission Deadline: Monday, January 13, 20...
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May 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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)
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The American Association of Philosophy Teachers condemns the current administration's attacks on education, which are "undermining what, how, and whom we teach"
AAPT Board Condemns Trumps Attacks on Higher Education - Daily Nous
The board of directors of the American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT) has issued a statement condemning "a series of Trump administration attacks on the core principles of higher education"...
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May 1, 2025 at 12:05 PM
The American Association of Philosophy Teachers condemns the current administration's attacks on education, which are "undermining what, how, and whom we teach"
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...
AAPT Board Statement of Concern
ORANGEBURG, NY—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...
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April 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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...
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...
2025 Pacific Division Meeting: The AAPT-APA Teaching Hub
The Teaching Hub is part of the 2025 APA Pacific Division meeting.
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April 17, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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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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!
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!
February 14, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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!
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!