Codifying Civility and Collegiality

“Somehow Philosophy Got Left Behind”

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson Codifying Civility and Collegiality, Philosophy, Race and Racism, RMWMTMBM Archive, Women and Gender Issues 0 Comments

There’s a really great essay by Eugene Sun Park entitled “Why I Left Academia: Philosophy’s Homogeneity Needs Rethinking”  that appeared yesterday on HIPPO Reads.  Stop whatever you’re doing and go read it now. I’ve posted a fair bit of material on this blog addressing the racial and gender disparity in professional Philosophy, which remains truly embarrassing, but…

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American Apartheid

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson #BlackLivesMatter, Codifying Civility and Collegiality, Ferguson, Human Rights, Politics, Race and Racism, RMWMTMBM Archive 0 Comments

For they know they are not animals. And at the very moment when they discover their humanity, they begin to sharpen their weapons to secure its victory. –Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth America has always been and remains an apartheid state.  The latter part of that sad but increasingly undeniable fact was made apparent last night in…

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Join, or Die: Neoliberalism, Epistemontology, Social Harmony and the (Invisible) Invisible Hand

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson Codifying Civility and Collegiality, Philosophy, Politics, RMWMTMBM Archive 0 Comments

There’s been a good bit conversation recently about the merits and demerits of “public philosophy” and, as someone who considers herself committed to public philosophy (whatever that is). I’m always happy to stumble across a piece of remarkably insightful philosophical work in the public realm.  Case in point:  Robin James (Philosophy, UNC-Charlotte) posted a really…

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On Trigger Warnings, Codes of Conduct and Self-Policing in Philosophy

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson Codifying Civility and Collegiality, Open Source Pedagogy, Philosophy, RMWMTMBM Archive, Teaching 0 Comments

The blogosphere has been all abuzz with commentary on the merits and demerits of “trigger warnings” (henceforth, TWs) of late, which has sparked an interesting conversation not only about what sorts of norms we ought to strive for in the Academy but also how we can or ought police those norms. With regard to TWs…

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Please Do NOT Revise Your Tone

June 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson Codifying Civility and Collegiality, Philosophy, Politics, RMWMTMBM Archive, Women and Gender Issues 0 Comments

As some of you already know, I am also one of the bloggers at NewAPPS.  I’m re-posting here a piece co-authored by Edward Kazaian and I that appeared this past Tuesday on NewAPPS.  It’s generated a lot of conversation so far, and I’ll have a post forthcoming soon on my take on that conversation. What…

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