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Category: APA
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By Kino Zhao In 2022, the APA announced its pilot 2+1 virtual conference program, stating “the three APA divisions have agreed to conduct a three-year experiment with a rotating schedule of two in-person divisional meetings and one virtual divisional meeting per year, beginning in 2025.” In 2025, the Central Division hosted the first virtual APA.…
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Colin Marshall (University of Washington) writes in: The Central meeting of the American Philosophical Association will run Feb. 20-22 and Feb. 27 – March 1. Following the successful 2+1 Campaign, the APA will be entirely online. The program committee also put extra thought into making it accessible to philosophers at all career states. One of…
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The APA Non-Academic Careers Committee is seeking input and feedback on how it can better serve philosophers in and out of the profession. To this end, the Committee has created a survey: https://delaware.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3JCIC4U196id4ma While the Committee is particularly interested in hearing from philosophers who have left academia or are considering doing so, we would like…
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I am grateful to the APA for their decision to implement (at least as a test) the proposal that Philosophers for Sustainability launched to have one of the divisional conferences go virtual. They agreed to implement our proposal starting 2025. I think this is a step in the right direction. Academic flying culture excludes many…