Abstract
This past academic year the moderators of /r/philosophy organised an
ongoing AMA series with 18 different philosophers working on a variety
of different topics, from metaphysics to logic, bioethics to philosophy
education. Our series has now officially come to an end, and we want to
thank everyone for their support and participation. Special thanks go of
course to our AMA philosophers, as well as Joy Mizan at Oxford
University Press for helping reach out to a number of different people
for us, as well as freeing up open-access materials from many different
authors. Barry Lam AMA While we will not be running a summer AMA series,
we do want to note that we will be running one final AMA before the
fall, by philosopher Barry Lam, Associate Professor of Philosophy at
Vassar College and creator of Hi-Phi Nation: A Show About Philosophy
That Turns Stories Into Ideas. Professor Lam will be joining us on June
5 to discuss Hi-Phi Nation and the art of creating philosophy podcasts
which appeal to both philosophers and non-philosophers. AMA Survey We’d
like to take this time to open up a survey for you to comment on the AMA
series; what you liked, what you didn’t, what’d you change, who you’d
like to see, etc. Please take a couple minutes to take the AMA Series
Survey so we can decide whether to run it again next year, and if so,
how to do it. You can take the survey HERE. Thanks again to everyone who
participated, and we hope that you found the AMAs as interesting as we
did. We welcome all feedback in the hope that we can continue bringing
great content to you in the future. AMA Hub Date Name
Appointment/Affiliation Topic Personal Website AMA Link August 30 Caspar
Hare Professor of Philosophy, MIT Ethics, Intro to Philosophy MOOC Link
Link September 7 Kevin Scharp Reader, Department of Philosophy,
University of St Andrews Philosophy of Language, Logic Link Link
September 26 Kenneth Ehrenberg Assistant Professor of Philosophy,
Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Alabama Philosophy of Law Link
Link October 12 Geoff Pynn Associate Professor of Philosophy, Northern
Illinois University Epistemology, Early Modern, Philosophy of Language
Link Link October 24 Wi-Phi Team Wi-Phi Directors Wi-Phi free online
philosophy videos, public philosophy Link Link November 14 Stephen
Puryear Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Affiliate, Classical Studies,
North Carolina State University History of Philosophy Link Link November
29 Roy T. Cook Professor of Philosophy and Scholar of the College,
University of Minnesota Philosophy of Logic & Mathematics, Comics
Studies Link Link December 12 Carrie Jenkins Canada Research Chair in
Philosophy, University of British Columbia Epistemology, Philosophy of
Love Link Link January 11 Amie L. Thomasson Professor of Philosophy &
Cooper Fellow, University of Miami Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind,
Philosophy of Art Link Link January 25 Samantha Brennan Professor of
Women’s Studies and Feminist Research, Western University, Rotman
Institute of Philosophy Member Normative Ethics, Feminist Ethics Link
Link January 31 Chris W. Surprenant Associate Professor of Philosophy,
University of New Orleans and Founding Director, Alexis de Tocqueville
Project Moral and Political Philosophy Link Link February 15 S. Matthew
Liao Arthur Zitrin Chair of Bioethics, Director of the Center for
Bioethics, Affiliated Professor in the Department of Philosophy, New
York University Ethics, Bioethics, Moral Psychology Link Link February
22 David Chalmers Professor of Philosophy, Co-director of the Center for
Mind, Brain, and Consciousness, New York University & Professor of
Philosophy, Australian National University Philosophy of Mind,
Philosophy of Technology, Metaphilosophy Link Link March 8 Lisa
Bortolotti Professor of Philosophy, University of Birmingham Philosophy
of Mind Link Link March 22 Shannon Vallor William J. Rewak, S.J.
Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Santa Clara University in
Silicon Valley Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Technology, Ethics
of Emerging Technologies Link Link April 5 L.A. Paul Distinguished
Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at
Chapel Hill, Professorial Fellow of the Arche Research Centre at the
University of St Andrews Transformative Experience, Rationality,
Authenticity Link Link April 26 Jay L. Garfield Doris Silbert Professor
in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy, Logic and Buddhist
Studies at Smith College, Visiting Professor of Buddhist Philosophy at
Harvard Divinity School, Professor of Philosophy at Melbourne University
and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the Central University of Tibetan
Studies Indian Philosophy, Buddhist Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind Link
Link May 10 Kenny Easwaran Associate Professor of Philosophy, Texas A&M
University Formal Epistemology, Decision Theory Link Link