A campaign to sustain philosophy through excellent teaching The American Association of Philosophy Teachers is dedicated to the advancement of the art of teaching philosophy. For 50 years, we h...

When I arrived at the University of Minnesota, I applied for a small “teaching innovation grant” to support what I took to be a long-shot idea: building a philosophy course around a role-playing game ...

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...

The Taylor Swift and Philosophy class, which has attracted 30 students, examines the deeper meanings in Swift's music.

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...

Selected articles and volumes of AAPT Studies are available open access via the PDC website.

Each summer Hamilton College hosts a camp for student philosophers. But its real purpose is helping instructors become more innovative teachers.

Calls for Proposals for all three 2026 AAPT-APA Teaching Hubs are now available on the APA website.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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"...

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...

The Teaching Hub is part of the 2025 APA Pacific Division meeting.

The Editorial Board of the American Association of Philosophy Teachers Studies in Pedagogy (SiP) is currently looking for a Journal Editor.

The changing of the year marks changes to the AAPT's board of directors.

One of my favorite moments in class is when a student says something like, “I think I have a question, but I’m not sure how to put it…” This blog post is about why that is one of my favorite moments. ...