Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) will be hiring one organizer to help run MAP International. Our ideal candidate is highly organized, dependable, motivated, and enthusiastic about MAP and its mission. MAP is a collection of students in philosophy departments that aims to examine and address issues of minority participation in academic philosophy. It currently comprises over 180 chapters worldwide and continues to grow and expand.The role of International Organizers is largely to facilitate the success of MAP chapters and oversee the development of the larger organization. Thus, responsibilities include: meeting regularly with the other International Organizers (roughly twice a month), making decisions regarding the growth of MAP regions and projects, coordinating with outside organizations (like the APA and funders), responding to chapter funding requests, updating the website and social media pages, advertising events, collating lists of chapter activities, touching base with chapter organizers, fundraising on MAP's behalf and more. Organizers are also expected to produce periodic reports on MAP's activities: in the fall, a report of plans for the upcoming academic year, and in the spring, a report of the year's activities.  Organizers are also expected to compile this information around October of each year into an annual report for our funding partner, the Marc Sanders Foundation.

Additionally, MAP International Organizers work on projects meant to set the agenda for important interventions on behalf of marginalized groups in philosophy (such as our project on service work in 2019-2020 and our fundraising campaign in 2020-2021). In this capacity, Organizers have substantial freedom to propose and take up specific cause areas and are expected to be proactive. Some of the responsibilities associated with this dimension of the role include: collecting resources, running surveys, collecting input from MAP members, writing reports and blog posts, producing and distributing infographics and other social media materials, and hosting APA Group sessions (and sessions at other conferences).

Organizers receive a modest honorarium for their work.

We especially encourage Black, Indigenous, and people of color to apply to these positions.

Criteria for applying:

• Must be a current graduate student
• Must commit to being an active organizer for two years 
• If you are entering your fourth year, you may still apply, but your statement should address your plans for the next two years, as MAP organizers must be current graduate students. (Though the default term is a two-year term, organizers are appointed for a year at a time with the option to renew after review by the Board of Trustees and the (co-)Director(s).)
• Must have previous organizing experience relevant to MAP, including but not limited to MAP chapter involvement 
• Additional organizing experience (e.g. in non-profit and non-academic organizations, departmental service, union organizing, etc.) is a plus.

To apply, complete and submit this Google Form by July 31, 2022.

We will notify all applicants by August 9, 2022. Start date is approximately August 20, 2022. If you have any questions, please contact us at mapforthegap@gmail.com. 

The University of Pennsylvania chapter of Minorities & Philosophy (MAP-Penn) is organizing a spring conference around the philosophy of disability and illness. Please circulate this call-for-abstracts to your graduate students and other early career scholars.
What: 6th MAP-Penn Conference: Philosophy of Disability & Illness
When: Apr 08, 2022, 11:30 AM EDT – Apr 10, 2022, 3:00 PM EDT
Where: Virtual!
Keynotes: Havi Carel, Joseph Stramondo, and Jasmine Harris
Anonymized abstracts due: Jan 03, 2022
Website: https://tiinarosenqvist.wixsite.com/map-penn-disability
PhilEvents: https://philevents.org/event/show/93825
We are soliciting anonymized abstracts of 500-750 words on any aspect of Philosophy of Disability and/or Philosophy of Illness. This includes, but is not limited to, disability and/or illness-related conceptual and normative issues in philosophy of law, in medical ethics, in bioethics, in general ethics, in the history of philosophy, in social and political philosophy, in social epistemology, in one’s personal experiences as a philosopher, and in philosophy teaching practices.
Please send abstracts to trosenq@sas.upenn.edu with subject line ‘MAP Conference’ by January 3, 2022. The abstracts should be prepared for anonymous review (i.e., please remove identifiers) and submitted in .pdf, .docx, or .doc format. Please specify your name, institutional role (if any), and institution (if any) in the body of the email.
Accessibility: The conference will take place on Zoom for a few hours each day and we will provide real-time captioning. More details are forthcoming. We aim to make the conference as accessible as possible: please contact us about any other access needs.

​Volume 7: Teaching Philosophy as a Way of Life

American Association of Philosophy Teachers Studies in Pedagogy is a peer-reviewed annual journal dedicated to publishing thematically focused volumes of original works on teaching and learning in philosophy. The thematic volumes include a range of contributions, from practical advice to theoretical discussions. Contributions are welcomed from anyone teaching philosophy, including high school teachers, graduate students, new faculty, and tenured professors.

The AAPT Studies in Pedagogy is soliciting original papers for consideration in our upcoming volume on Teaching Philosophy as a Way of Life broadly construed.
Over the last decade or so, the way-of-life conception of philosophy has evoked an exciting and growing interest for reviving an ancient idea of philosophy as a guide to a good life. Though rooted in the work of Pierre Hadot, the aim of this volume reaches far beyond Hadot scholarship. Those who center the way-of-life approach value philosophy as a practice that can guard against the instrumentalization and economization of our day-to-day lives. Philosophy shapes how we attend to and engage our inner and outer worlds, while promoting individual and collective intentionality, reflection, and enlarged thoughtfulness.

We anticipate the final articles will run between 4000-9000 words, depending on the topic. Submissions should be prepared for anonymous review. While not required for review of paper submissions, final papers will need to follow Chicago Manual of Style 17th ed. guidelines. In matters where CMoS allows for variable formatting we have a house style that is followed.

Deadline: November 1, 2021

To submit, go to https://aaptstudies.org/submissions

A ​former Cartographer and a founding director of MAP UK, Filippo Contesi, has recently started an important initiative that aims to improve the situation non-native speakers face in analytic philosophy. Filippo prepared a manifesto of commitments that can be seen at the link below: 

https://contesi.wordpress.com/bp/

About a week after its launch, the manifesto has been signed by over 400 academics in more than 35 countries around the world.

Please consider signing and distributing the manifesto further. 

Thank you, Filippo, for this amazing initiative, and to everyone who has supported it so far!

MAP International

​Event Description:

It is taken for granted that we should often act in the best interest of our future selves, and even on behalf of future generations, but when should we act for the sake of past people, and even our own past interests? In a range of cases we find ourselves bound by our past decisions, or by the past decisions of people who have come before us. When is it okay to break from those bounds, and when are we required to abide by the decisions of the past, even when they conflict with our interests now? Our distinguished panelists will discuss cases of advanced medical directives, duties to vindicate the sacrifices of past generations, and duties to history.

Panelists include:

· Rebecca Dresser, Daniel Noyes Kirby Professor of Law Emerita, Washington University, St. Louis
· Tania Gergel, Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow, King’s College, London
· S.J. Beard, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge
· Saul Smilanksy, Professor, University of Haifa, Israel

Hosted by Barry Lam, Associate Director of MSF and host of Hi-Phi Nation podcast.
 
To register for this event, please visit registration page HERE.

​Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) is looking for two new organizers to help run MAP International. MAP is a collection of students in philosophy departments that aims to examine and address issues of minority participation in academic philosophy. It is currently comprised of over 170 chapters worldwide and continues to grow and expand.

The role of International Organizers is largely to facilitate the success of MAP chapters and oversee the development of the larger organization. Thus, responsibilities include, but are not limited to, meeting regularly with the other International Organizers (roughly twice a month), making decisions regarding the growth of MAP regions and projects, coordinating with outside organizations (like the APA and funders), responding to chapter funding requests, updating the website and social media pages, advertising events, collating lists of chapter activities, touching base with chapter organizers, and more. 

Additionally, MAP International Organizers work on projects meant to set the agenda for important interventions on behalf of marginalized groups in philosophy (such as our project on service work in 2019-2020 and our fundraising campaign in 2020-2021). In this capacity, Organizers have substantial freedom to propose and take up specific cause areas and are expected to be proactive. Some of the responsibilities associated with this dimension of the role include: collecting resources, running surveys, collecting input from MAP members, writing reports and blog posts, producing and distributing infographics and other social media materials, and hosting APA Group sessions (and sessions at other conferences). Organizers receive a modest honorarium for their work.

We especially encourage Black, Indigenous, and people of color to apply to these positions.

Criteria for applying:

• Must be a current graduate student.
• Must commit to being an active organizer for two years.
• If you are entering your fourth year, you may still apply, but your statement should address your plans for the next two years, as MAP organizers must be current graduate students
• Though the default term is a two-year term, organizers are appointed for a year at a time with the option to renew after review by the Board of Trustees and the (co-)Director(s).
• Must have previous organizing experience relevant to MAP, including but not limited to MAP chapter involvement. Additional organizing experience (e.g. in non-profit and non-academic organizations, departmental service, union organizing, etc.) is a plus.

To apply, complete and submit this Google Form by June 25, 2021.

We will notify all applicants by July 8, 2021. Start date is approximately July 15, 2021. If you have any questions, please contact us at mapforthegap@gmail.com.

(Image Description: Cultivating Underrepresented Students in Philosophy. Penn State's Department of Philosophy is hosting our Fall CUSP Workshop, October 17-20, 2021, for students planning to apply for graduate school for Fall 2021. For more details including eligibility, please visit: https://sites.psu.edu/cusp)

March 26, 2021, 3:35 pm CDT (UTC-6)

A Category Theoretic Framework for Physical Representation
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Sarita Rosenstock (Philosophy, Australian National University)Abstract: It is increasingly popular for philosophers of physics to use category theory, the mathematical theory of structure, to adjudicate debates about the (in)equivalence of formal physical theories. In this talk, I discuss the theoretical foundations of this strategy. I introduce the concept of a “representation diagram" as a way to scaffold narrative accounts of how mathematical gadgets represent target systems and demonstrate how their content can be effectively summarized by what I call a “structure category". I argue that the narrative accounts contain the real content of an act of physical representation, and the category-theoretic methodology serves only to make that content precise and conducive to further analysis. In particular, one can use tools from category theory to assess whether one physical formalism thus presented has more "properties", "structure", or "stuff" than another according to a given narrative about how they both purport to represent the same physical systems.
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webinar link: https://z.umn.edu/IPDFMar21