From the Vault: Academia, Pedagogy, and the University
While Justice Everywhere takes a short break over the summer, we recall some of the highlights from our 2024-25 season.
Here are a few highlights from this year’s posts relating to academia, the modern university, and the academic profession:
- How should we teach non-Western philosophy not just as an interesting historical subject or tokenist attempt at “diversification”, but as relevant to contemporary philosophical challenges? Sanat Sogani may have the answer in this great post from November.
- As part of our series on the war in Ukraine, we featured an article by Orysya Bila on the challenges – and importance – of teaching philosophy in wartime Ukraine.
- In our ongoing collaboration with the Journal of Applied Philosophy, Heidi Matisonn and Jacek Brzozowski discuss the justifiability and potential risks of cognitive enhancement in academia.
- What if ancient philosophers were right that the purpose of teaching philosophy is to make students better politicians, citizens, even people? Michael Bennett considers why we should educate our students to make them better moral and political agents.
- Finally, something to reflect on: Pierre-Etienne Vandamme asks whether it would be acceptable, from an ethics of teaching perspective, to engage more straightforwardly in ideology-critique in our teaching.
Stay tuned for even more on this topic in our 2025-26 season!
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Justice Everywhere will return in full swing in September with fresh weekly posts by our cooperative of regular authors (published on Mondays), in addition to our Journal of Applied Philosophy series and other special series (published on Thursdays). If you would like to contribute a guest post on a topical justice-based issue (broadly construed), please feel free to get in touch with us at justice.everywhere.blog@gmail.com.
