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Philosophers Fight Climate Change This interview series highlights the exciting ways philosophers engage the public to combat a central crisis of our time. Formerly University Distinguished Professor at Oregon State University, Kathleen Dean Moore is now a writer and activist, author of Great Tide Rising. What type of public philosophy do you do? As Distinguished Continue reading →

Philosophers Fight Climate Change This interview series highlights the exciting ways philosophers engage the public to combat a central crisis of our time. Eugene Chislenko is an assistant professor of philosophy at Temple University. He founded Philosophers for Sustainability with Rebecca Millsop in 2019. What type(s) of civically engaged or public philosophy do you do? Continue reading →

Lisa Bergin is a faculty member in the Department of Philosophy and a faculty development consultant in the Center for Teaching and Learning at Minneapolis Community and Technical College. Anti-racist and culturally responsive pedagogies infuse all her work. What type of civically engaged philosophy do you do? I am using my background in multicultural/feminist philosophy Continue reading →

Anna Gotlib is an associate professor in the Philosophy Department at Brooklyn College. Her public philosophy creates connection—across life circumstance, profession, medium, ideas, humanity—and opens spaces for minds to grow and maybe change. What types of public philosophy do you do? My public philosophy comes in a variety of in-person and more distanced (especially now!) Continue reading →

Ben Hole is a visiting assistant professor at Pacific University Oregon. His academic work on virtue and climate ethics informs the civically engaged pedagogies of his ethics courses. Which of your courses get students out of the classroom? I teach a civic-engagement (CE)–designated introductory ethics course, Ethics and Society, where students identify ethical issues they Continue reading →

Nathan Nobis is an associate professor of philosophy at Morehouse College and a member of the APA’s Public Philosophy committee. He works to make philosophy publicly accessible in content, writing style, and cost. What type(s) of public philosophy work do you do? Much of my public philosophy is motivated by the goals of demonstrating clear, Continue reading →

Todd Franklin is a professor of Philosophy and Africana at Hamilton College. He’s the chair of the faculty advisory committee for Hamilton’s Opportunity Programs and serves on the board of the Public Philosophy Network. What types of civically engaged philosophy do you do? As a philosopher, and more specifically, as a critical race theorist, I Continue reading →

Shelley Tremain is a settler and disabled feminist philosopher of disability. She coordinates the blog BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, which includes the interview series Dialogues on Disability. She was awarded the 2016 Tobin Siebers Prize for Disability Studies in the Humanities for the manuscript of her book Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability, and she received the Continue reading →

Engaged Philosophy and the Public Philosophy Network are partnering to present a special interview series that highlights the work of public philosophers who will be presenting at the 2019 PPN Conference Oct 17-19, 2019. Noëlle McAfee is a professor in the Department of Philosophy; affiliated faculty in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program and Continue reading →

Engaged Philosophy and the Public Philosophy Network are partnering to present a special interview series that highlights the work of public philosophers who will be presenting at the 2019 PPN Conference Oct 17-19, 2019. Christopher P. Long is Dean of the College of Arts & Letters and professor of philosophy at Michigan State University. Committed Continue reading →