AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION. Call for Nominations: 2020 Prize for Excellence in Philosophy Teaching.

Dear DAVID, We are pleased to open nominations for the 2020 Prize for Excellence in Philosophy Teaching, sponsored by the American Philosophical Association (APA), the American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT), and the Teaching Philosophy Association (TPA). This annual prize recognizes a philosophy teacher who has had a profound impact on the student learning of philosophy in undergraduate and/or pre-college settings. The winner will be awarded $1,000 and a plaque. Eligibility is open to any APA member. Nomination letters should be no more than 2,000 words and should address the selection criteria detailed below. Only APA members may submit nominations; self-nominations are welcome. Criteria to Include in the Nomination Letter Excellence in undergraduate and/or pre-college philosophy teaching, established, in part, by the nominee’s attention to student learning Creative and effective use of high-quality pedagogies Broader impact on the quality of philosophy education through service and/or research The nomination deadline is August 1, 2020. To submit a nomination, fill out the nomination form. After reviewing the nomination letters, the APA committee on the teaching of philosophy will invite selected finalists to submit detailed information. We look forward to receiving your nominations for the 2020 Prize for Excellence in Philosophy Teaching. All the best, David Concepción Chair, APA Committee on the Teaching of Philosophy

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NORTH AMERICAN KANT SOCIETY. NAKS meeting announcements.

Dear David McDonald, I hope this finds you safe and well. I write with two updates concerning forthcoming NAKS events as affected by the pandemic. First, the Midwest study group has decided to postpone its fall 2020 meeting to 2021, in light of the considerable uncertainty about whether it could be held (in person). We look forward to resuming with the study group in fall 2021; any volunteers interested in hosting that meeting should contact Anne Margaret Baxley (organizer of the Midwest study group) at abaxley@wustl.edu. Second, Melissa Zinkin has pivoted her hosting service for the NAKS Biennial to hold the meeting virtually (via Zoom), still on June 5-8. All NAKS members will be welcome to attend/participate, though registration for specific panels (to facilitate circulating papers for the pre-reading format) will be required. More information about how to register and program details is forthcoming. With best wishes, Rachel Zuckert, President The "North American Kant Society" is a 501(3)(c) non-profit organization. 2809 Kenyon Circle, Boulder, CO 80305. http://northamericankantsociety.onefireplace.org/

AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION- The spring 2020 APA newsletters are available.

Dear DAVID, We are pleased to announce that the spring 2020 APA Newsletters are now available. The table of contents for each current issue appears below with a link to that particular newsletter. The complete volume is available for download as well. The newsletters contain a wide variety of scholarly material, discussion on relevant and timely topics, book reviews, and much more. We encourage you to check them out and share them with your colleagues and students. If you are interested in contributing to a future issue, please contact the appropriate editor(s). All the best, Erin Shepherd Publications and Communications Coordinator **************************************************** APA Newsletters, Spring 2020 (Vol. 19, No. 2) APA Newsletter on Native American and Indigenous Philosophy From the Managing Editor Agnes B. Curry Submission Guidelines and Information Article “Empowering Relations: An Indigenous Understanding of Allyship,” Andrea Sullivan-Clarke Book Reviews Brian Burkhart: Indigenizing Philosophy through the Land: A Trickster Methodology for Decolonizing Environmental Ethics and Indigenous Futures, Reviewed by Joseph Len Miller “Indigenous Philosophy, Locality, and Dance: A Joint Review of Shay Welch, The Phenomenology of a Performance Knowledge System: Dancing with Native American Epistemology, and Brian Burkhart, Indigenizing Philosophy through the Land: A Trickster Methodology for Decolonizing Environmental Ethics and Indigenous Futures,” by Dennis H. McPherson and J. Douglas Rabb Shay Welch: The Phenomenology of a Performance Knowledge System: Dancing with Native American Epistemology, Reviewed by Lorraine Mayer APA Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience From the Editors Stephen C. Ferguson II and Dwayne Tunstall Submission Guidelines and Information Footnotes to History Joyce Mitchell Cook (1933–2014) Articles “Textual Mysticism: Reading the Sublime in Philosophical Mysticism,” Anwar Uhuru “Spectacle Lynching, Sovereignty, and Genocide: A Dialog with Al Frankowski,” Alfred Frankowski and Michael L. Thomas “Purdue University and President Mitch Daniels: Confession of a Rare Creature,” Leonard Harris Contributors APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy Editor’s Introduction: Parenting and Philosophy Lauren Freeman About the Newsletter Submission Guidelines Essays “The ‘Daddy Dividend’: The Gender Division of Labor and Regression Towards Patriarchy,” Serene Khader and Matthew Lindauer “Gender, Disability, and the Violent Undercurrents of Parenting Inspiration Porn,” Joseph A. Stramondo “(Philosophizing about) Gender-Open Children,” Saray Ayala-López “Taking Children’s Autonomy Seriously as a Parent,” Quill Rebecca Kukla “Parenting in Trauma,” Melissa Burchard “On Muddling Through,” Amy Allen “Parenting, Feminism, and Academic Life: My Happy Story,” Samantha Brennan “Bridging the Divide: Thoughts on Parenting as a Grad Student,” Carol Gray “Anthropologists from Mars,” Leigh Viner “Raised in Philosophy,” Eli Kukla “Children, Parenting, and the Nature of Work,” Lauren Freeman Book Reviews Eva Feder Kittay: Learning from My Daughter: The Value and Care of Disabled Minds, Reviewed by Lisa Tessman Benjamin R. Sherman and Stacey Goguen, eds.: Overcoming Epistemic Injustice: Social and Psychological Perspectives, Reviewed by Claire A. Lockard Sophie Lewis: Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family, Reviewed by Jina Fast Loretta Ross and Rickie Solinger: Reproductive Justice: An Introduction, Reviewed by Kathryn Lafferty-Danner Announcements Contributors APA Newsletter on Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies From the Guest Editor “The Timeliness of Translating Chinese Philosophy: An Introduction to the APA Newsletter Special Issue on Translating Chinese Philosophy,” Ben Hammer Articles “Preparing a New Sourcebook in Classical Confucian Philosophy,” Roger T. Ames “The Impossibility of Literal Translation of Chinese Classical Texts into English,” Tian Chenshan “Translating Today’s Chinese Masters,” Dimitra Amarantidou, Daniel Sarafinas, and Paul D’Ambrosio “Three Thoughts on Translating Classical Chinese Philosophical Texts,” Edward L. Shaughnessy “Introducing Premodern Text Translation: A New Field at the Crossroads of Sinology and Translation Studies,” Carl Gene Fordham Submission Guidelines and Information APA Newsletter on Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy From the Editors Carlos A. Sánchez and Lori Gallegos de Castillo Calls for Submissions Articles 2019 Essay Prize in Latin American Thought: “The Virtues of Mestizaje: Lessons from Las Casas on Aztec Human Sacrifice,” Noell Birondo “Chicano/a Philosophy: Rupturing Gringo Anti-Chicano/a Paradigms and Philosophies,” Andrew C. Soto Book Reviews Roberto D. Hernández: U-S Mexico Border: Power, Violence, and the Decolonial Imperative, Reviewed by Manuel Chávez Carlos Pereda: Lessons in Exile, Reviewed by Roy Ben-Shai Author Bios APA Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy Letter from the Editors Tziporah Kasachkoff and Eugene Kelly Submission Guidelines Article “Devoting a Course to the Exploration of a Book: Journeying Intellectually with the Students,” Yakir Levin Review Essay “C.D.C. Reeve’s Translation of Aristotle: De Anima,” Reviewed by Rosemary Twomey Poems “To Teachers Who Hope to Inspire Their Students,” Felicia Nimue Ackerman “To Those Who Think the Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living,” Felicia Nimue Ackerman “To Cynthia Ozick,” Felicia Nimue Ackerman “In Praise of Campus Culture Wars,” Felicia Nimue Ackerman “Philosophy Rap,” Alexandru Manafu Books Received Addresses of Contributors APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers Preface Peter Boltuc From the Archives - AI Ontology and Consciousness “The Shrinking Difference between Artifacts and Natural Objects,” Lynne Rudder Baker “Artifacts and Mind Independence: Comments on Lynne Rudder Baker’s ‘The Shrinking Difference between Artifacts and Natural Objects’,” Amie L. Thomasson “Explaining an Explanatory Gap,” Gilbert Harman “Formulating the Explanatory Gap,” Yujin Nagasawa “Logic as a Theory of Computability,” Jaakko Hintikka “Robots Need Conscious Perception: A Reply to Aleksander and Haikonen,” Stan Franklin, Bernard J. Baars, and Uma Ramamurthy “Flawed Workspaces?,” P.O. Haikonen “Unity from Multiplicity: A Reply to Haikonen,” M. Shanahan “Leibniz, Complexity, and Incompleteness,” Gregory Chaitin “Architecture-Based Motivation vs. Reward-Based Motivation,” Aaron Sloman “Consciousness, Engineering, and Anthropomorphism,” Ricardo Sanz “Sleep, Boredom, and Distraction—What Are the Computational Benefits for Cognition?,” Troy D. Kelley and Vladislav D. Veksler “DABUS in a Nutshell,” Stephen L. Thaler “The Real Moral of the Chinese Room: Understanding Requires Understanding Phenomenology,” Terry Horgan “A Refutation of Searle on Bostrom (re: Malicious Machines) and Floridi (re: Information),” Selmer Bringsjord From the Archives - AI and Axiology “Understanding Information Ethics,” Luciano Floridi “Too Much Information: Questioning Information Ethics,” John Barker “Ethics of Entropy,” Martin Flament Fultot “Taking the Intentional Stance Toward Robot Ethics,” James Moore “Measuring a Distance: Humans, Cyborgs, Robots,” Keith W. Miller and David Larson “Remediation Revisited: Replies to Gaut, Matravers, and Tavinor,” Dominic McIver Lopes From the Chair: Newsletter Highlights

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WHAT IS RULE #1? What Donald Trump has Done or Said, or will Do or Say, MEANS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING AS LONG AS HE TOES THE EXTREMIST LINE. (Updated).

WHAT IS RULE #1? 

Progressives who continue to think that Donald Trumps Lack of:
-  Maturity.
-  Ability.
-  Integrity.
-  Emotional Stability.
etc...
and Highlighting These Traits to the American Public, are making a Crucial, and possibly Fatal Error, when it comes to preventing any/or all of his Agenda of Hate from becoming part of our legal system. WHY? BECAUSE its misunderstanding the Source of his support, and the extent to which these Individuals and Groups will go to bring about changes in our system of government, with the goal of undermining the very fabric of our Constitutional Republic. To them, ANYTHING THAT ADVANCES THEIR AGENDA IS PERMISSABLE. They may attempt to disguise these tactics by presenting them as "PATRIOTIC," OR "FAITH" BASED NECESSITIES TO "PRESERVE" AND "PROTECT" THE "AMERICAN" WAY OF LIFE, but those terms are just a smokescreen, hiding "THE ENDS JUSTIFY THE MEANS" Mentality.

Unfortunately, this appears to be the new "GAME PLAN" OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. IF YOU DON'T LIKE SOMETHING, IGNORE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW OR CREATE BOGUS ACCUSATIONS, AND COUNT ON THE TIMIDITY OF THE OPPOSITION TO DO NOTHING ABOUT IT. 

IN THE END, IT IS A LACK OF UNDERSTANDING THAT MAKES THEM SO DANGEROUS.

WHY?

Hard Core Trump Supporters go far beyond the Traditional Elements of the Republican Party Platform. To them, Hate, Prejudice, Xenophobia, Racism, and Religious Zealotry are perfectly valid and justifiable reasons to form Public Policy and Law.

That brings us to Rule #1- What Donald Trump has Done or Said, or will Do or Say, MEANS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING AS LONG AS HE TOES THE EXTREMIST LINE.
(Updated).

WHAT IS RULE #2? TO BE CONTINUED...