Announcing the 2024 Lenssen Prize
The 2024 Lenssen Prize for the best article on teaching philosophy has been awarded to:
“In Defense of Doing Philosophy ‘Badly’ or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Imperfection”
AAPT Studies in Pedagogy 7 (2022): Who and What is Philosophy for?
Alida Liberman (Southern Methodist University)
Honorable mentions go to:
- “Philosophy as a Way of Teaching: A Handbook.” AAPT Studies in Pedagogy 6 (2021): Philosophy as a Way of Life. Jane Drexler (Salt Lake Community College)
- “Bringing Public Reason into the Philosophy Classroom.” Teaching Ethics 22:2 (Fall 2022). Ernesto V. Garcia (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
- “A Plea for Wild Philosophy: How Thinking about Online Philosophy Teaching Shows that Doing Philosophy Well is Like Being an Elephant in the Jungle.” Teaching Philosophy 46:3 (September 2023). Menno van Calcar (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Congratulations to all! These works are inspiring contributions to advancing the art of teaching philosophy.
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