APA East session on "Pre-College Philosophy and Diversity in the Profession"
The American Philosophical Association Committee on Pre-College Instruction in Philosophy has organized the following session for the APA Eastern Division meeting in Philadelphia in December.
Sunday, Dec. 28, 2014: 9 – 11 a.m.
Let’s Stop Kidding Around: Pre-College Philosophy and Diversity in the Profession
Chair: Deborah Tollefsen, University of Memphis
Speakers:
- Michael Burroughs (Rock Institute, Pennsylvania State University), “Diversity and Philosophical Practice”
- Gina Schouten (Illinois State University), “Philosophy in Schools: Can Early Exposure Help Solve Philosophy’s Diversity Problems?”
- Marisol Brito (University of Minnesota), “Esoteric Enough to Empower: Pre-college Philosophy as a Route to Higher Education”
- Luvell Anderson (University of Memphis) and John Torrey (University of Memphis), “The Struggle to Diversify Philosophy Pre- and Post-College”