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ArticlesBook ChapterVita

Pragmatism and the Cultivation of Digital Democracies

“Pragmatism and the Cultivation of Digital Democracies.” In Richard J. Bernstein and the Expansion of American Philosophy: Thinking the Plural, edited by Marcia Morgan and Megan Craig, 37–59. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2016. As technology enables…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongSeptember 16, 2017
Grants, Fellowships, AwardsVita

Creating Humane Metrics for the Humanities and Social Sciences

To support the Humane Metrics for the Humanities and Social Sciences (HuMetricsHSS) initiative, Michigan State University has received a $309,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The collaborative HuMetricsHSS pilot aims to create a…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongJuly 10, 2017
Journal of General EducationPublication: JournalThe Liberal ArtsVita

The Liberal Arts Endeavor: The Arts of Liberty in a Time of Uncertainty

“The Liberal Arts Endeavor: The Arts of Liberty in a Time of Uncertainty.” Journal of General Education, 65, 2 (2017), v-vi. Even if, as Hannah Arendt suggests, “we are always educating for a world that…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongMarch 19, 2017
ArticlesPublication: JournalVita

Reiner Schürmann: Care of Death

“Care of Death: On the Teaching of Reiner Schürmann.” Philosophy Today, January 31, 2017. doi:10.5840/philtoday201713141. A homage in the guise of an essay, this is the story of the last course Reiner Schürmann taught. As…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongMarch 11, 2017
Presentation: Academic

Bianchi’s the Feminine Symptom – A Response

This is the text of the response I made to Emanuela Bianchi, The Feminine Symptom: Aleatory Matter in the Aristotelian Cosmos, (New York: Fordham University Press, 2014) at the 2016 meeting of the Society for…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongOctober 21, 2016
Journal of General EducationPublication: JournalVita

The Liberal Arts Endeavor: On Editing the Journal of General Education

“The Liberal Arts Endeavor: On Editing the Journal of General Education.” Journal of General Education, 65, 1 (2016), v-vii. In accepting the editorship of the Journal of General Education: A Curricular Commons of the Humanities…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongOctober 19, 2016
Blogging and Social MediaDigital ScholarshipPresentation: InteractiveThe Long RoadVita

Bringing Your CV to Life

Traditionally, a curriculum vitae (CV) is an articulation of one’s qualifications and accomplishments in an academic context. The Latin root of the term suggests the extent to which the CV indicates a “course of life.”…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongSeptember 30, 2016
ArticlesPublication: JournalVita

Public Philosophy and Philosophical Publics

de Avlillez, André Rosenbaum, Mark Fisher, Kris Klotz, and Christopher P. Long. “Public Philosophy and Philosophical Publics: Performative Publishing and the Cultivation of Community.” The Good Society 24, no. 2 (2015): 118–45. The emergence of…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongJune 27, 2016
Presentation: AcademicPresentationsThe Long RoadVita

Going Viral with Your Scholarship

Sharing your work online, especially in its early phases of development, can open new paths of inquiry and establish connections with scholars who can enrich your work.
Christopher Long
Christopher LongMay 10, 2016
Presentation: InteractivePresentationsThe Liberal ArtsThe Long RoadVita

Tweeting the Liberal Arts @Muhlenberg #MCLA16

In his inaugural address as president of the college he founded, Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg spoke of the values that animate the institution: "We do not regard an education as complete that aims only at improving the intellect,”…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongFebruary 1, 2016
ArticlesBook ChapterVita

On Touch and Life in the De Anima

“On Touch and Life in the De Anima.” In Phenomenology and the Metaphysics of Sight, edited by Antonio Cimino and Pavlos Kontos, (Leiden: Brill Academic Publisher, 2015, 69-94). Although Aristotle is often thought to give…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongDecember 15, 2015
ArticlesPublication: JournalVita

Tracking Plato’s Dogs

“Who Let the Dogs Out? Tracking the Philosophical Life Among the Wolves and Dogs of Plato’s Republic.” In Plato’s Animals: Gadflies, Snakes, Stingrays, Swans, and Other Philosophical Beasts, edited by Jeremy Bell and Michael Naas,…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongFebruary 19, 2015
Grants, Fellowships, AwardsVita

Mellon Grant Expands Support for the Public Philosophy Journal

Here is the press release we wrote for the second Public Philosophy Journal grant from the Mellon Foundation: Penn State has been awarded $549,000 by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for an additional two years…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongJanuary 9, 2015
Presentation: Interactive

Performing Collaborative Scholarship

In this interactive keynote address for the Bucknell Digital Scholarship Conference: Collaborating Digitally, I articulate a model of collaborative scholarship in Philosophy that has enabled me to bring undergraduate students and a wider community of…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongNovember 13, 2014
Presentation: AcademicVita

Philosophy and the Networked Public

Philosophy has always been a public activity, although its relationship with the public and its own public nature have long been fraught with anxiety for philosophy and the public both. At this year’s Society for…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongOctober 23, 2014
PresentationsVita

The Ethics of Philosophy in a Digital Age

To honor the work of Richard J. Bernstein, a group of colleagues and former students will gather at Stony Brook University for a conference entitled, Thinking the Plural: Richard J. Bernstein's Contribution to American Philosophy.…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongSeptember 26, 2014
Presentation: AcademicPresentationsVita

AltAc and the Engaged PhD

Without diminishing the centrality of the PhD research endeavor, how can we cultivate more engaged graduate students? This presentation situates the graduate research endeavor in its wider institutional and public context and suggests two concrete…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongSeptember 15, 2014
Presentation: AcademicPresentationsVita

Socratic and Platonic Politics

This presentation argues that there is a difference, and a similarity, between the ways Socrates and Plato practice politics. Socratic politics, as depicted in Plato's dialogues, may be characterized as the practice of using spoken…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongSeptember 5, 2014
PresentationsThe Public Philosophy JournalVita

The Public Philosophy Journal at #DH2014

In this poster session, we present the project of the Public Philosophy Journal and our plans for cultivating a community of engaged scholars to sustain it. At the session, we explain our motivations for designing…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongJuly 10, 2014
Presentation: InteractivePresentation: OtherPresentationsThe Graduate ExperienceVita

Cultivating an Online Scholarly Presence

Graduate students are often confronted with conflicting advice about how much of their academic work they should share publicly online. Although there are good reasons to consider carefully what one shares and how, graduate students…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongMarch 27, 2014
Presentation: AcademicPresentation: InteractivePresentationsVita

Keynote Address: Socrates and the Politics of Finitude at #PCAP14

In this interactive keynote address to the Pennsylvania Circle of Ancient Philosophy hosted by Villanova University, I argue that the Phaedo is Plato's most eloquent political dialogue. We tweeted the keynote and the entire PCAP…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongMarch 16, 2014
Presentation: AcademicPresentationsVita

Following the Footprints of Aristotle: On Kosman's The Activity of Being

Aristotle’s thinking is peripatetic. It moves along paths, some of which are well-worn, others newly cleared by the creative elasticity of his thinking. It pursues questions by traversing along a course for a stretch, on…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongMarch 6, 2014
ArticlesBook ChapterVita

The Peripatetic Method: Walking with Woodbridge, Thinking with Aristotle

“The Peripatetic Method: Walking with Woodbridge, Thinking with Aristotle.” In The Bloomsbury Companion to Aristotle, edited by Claudia Baracchi, (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014). Published in The Bloomsbury Companion to Aristotle (Bloomsbury Companions), this essay, entitled…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongJanuary 15, 2014
Presentation: AcademicPresentation: InteractiveThe Public Philosophy JournalVita

Public Digital Scholarship: The @PubPhilJ at the #APAEastern

This presentation on the Public Philosophy Journal, invited by the APA Committee on Public Philosophy, provides an update on the status of the development of the open access, open peer review journal. However difficult it…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongDecember 29, 2013
Grants, Fellowships, AwardsVita

The Public Philosophy Journal $236,000 Mellon Grant

The Public Philosophy Journal, an innovative open access, open peer review online publication in philosophy, has received a one-year, $236,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The grant will support the development of the…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongOctober 16, 2013
Presentation: AcademicPresentation: InteractivePresentationsSocratic and Platonic PoliticsVita

Socrates, Plato and Digital Scholarship at #ECDS

The Emory Center for Digital Scholarship asked me to give a version of the presentation at gave at #DH2013 last summer entitled eBook as Ecosystem of Digital Scholarship Socratic and Platonic Political Philosophy: Practicing the…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongSeptember 25, 2013
Presentation: AcademicPresentation: InteractivePresentationsVita

Reading the Death of Socrates

Returning to Wittenberg for the first time since graduating in 1991, I gave an interactive, live-tweeted, lecture on Reading the Death of Socrates. The paper argues that the Phaedo is Plato's most eloquent political dialogue,…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongSeptember 19, 2013
Digital HumanitiesPresentation: AcademicVita

Performative Publication in a Digital Age

New affordances in dynamic modes of digital scholarly communication have enabled authors to tailor the content of our texts to the forms in which they appear in public. This presentation focuses on two performative publication…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongAugust 14, 2013
Presentation: AcademicPresentationsVita

eBook as Ecosystem of Scholarly Communication

Socratic and Platonic Political Philosophy: Practicing the Politics of Reading (forthcoming Cambridge University Press) is an enhanced digital book that attempts to use digital media technology to cultivate the political practice of collaborative reading for…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongJuly 19, 2013
Presentation: AcademicPresentationsSocratic and Platonic PoliticsVita

The Politics of Reading … in China

NANJING, China - I must admit, I am a bit uneasy about delivering this talk on Plato and the Politics of Reading here at Nanjing University. You see, I am simply not sure what it…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongMay 22, 2013
Presentation: AcademicPresentation: OtherPresentationsVita

Putting the Liberal Arts into Practice @NewmanU

The Liberal Arts are not so much a set of disciplines to be studied as they are a set of habits to be practiced. This is the central point and main theme around which my…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongMarch 26, 2013
Presentation: AcademicPresentationsVita

PPJ Workshop at PPN13

Publicness and collaboration are two of the virtues we hope the Public Philosophy Journal will embody. To that end, we want the creation and development of the journal to put those virtues into practice. So,…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongMarch 16, 2013
Presentation: AcademicPresentationsVita

Public Philosophy in Digital Dialogue

There is a difference between the ways Socrates turns those with whom he speaks in Plato's dialogues to consider questions of justice, beauty and the good and the ways Plato's writing turns his readers to…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongMarch 15, 2013
Presentation: AcademicPresentationsVita

Public Philosophy Journal

Philosophy is often mistakenly viewed as distant from public life, secluded in the Ivory Tower away from the public concerns of civil society. However, the affordances of digital scholarly communication have enabled philosophers increasingly to…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongFebruary 15, 2013
Presentation: AcademicPresentationsVita

Keynote Address: Liberal Arts and Politics

From its earliest articulation in Ancient Greek thinking, the first principle and ultimate end of an education in the liberal arts has always been to live an excellent human life. Because, however, human life can…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongNovember 27, 2012
Presentation: AcademicPresentationsSocratic and Platonic PoliticsVita

Plato and the Politics of Reading

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - To give a lecture on the politics of collaborative reading without inviting one's listeners to become active participants would be a performative contradiction. So, in this lecture, Plato and the Politics…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongOctober 21, 2012
ArticlesPublication: JournalVita

Socrates: Platonic Political Ideal

Christopher P. Long, "Socrates: Platonic Political Ideal," Ideas y Valores, 61, 149: 2012. This essay articulates the differences and suggests the similarities between the practices of Socratic political speaking and those of Platonic political writing.…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongSeptember 22, 2012
Presentation: AcademicPresentationsVita

On Touch and Life in the De Anima

CITTÀ DI CASTELLO, Umbria, Italy - Late last year, I received a very kind set of questions from Matteo Cosci, a PhD student in Italy at the University of Padua, about my book Aristotle on…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongJuly 24, 2012
ArticlesPublication: JournalSocratic and Platonic PoliticsVita

Attempting the Political Art

Christopher P. Long, "Attempting the Political Art," Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, 27 (2012): 153-74. The main thesis of this essay is that the practice of Socratic political speaking and the…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongMay 28, 2012
Grants, Fellowships, AwardsThe Administrative LifeVita

ALP at Penn State: A Vision of the New Research University

University budgeting and strategic planning was the focus of the final Academic Leadership Program (ALP) sponsored by the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) held at Penn State, April 12-14, 2012. No two topics have more…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongApril 22, 2012
Grants, Fellowships, AwardsThe Administrative LifeVita

ALP at University of Chicago: Virtues of an Education for Democracy

In her address to the Committee on Institutional Cooperation's Academic Leadership Program at the University of Chicago last Thursday, Martha Nussbaum offered a compelling defense of a liberal arts education. She advocated for an education…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongFebruary 20, 2012
Presentation: OtherPresentationsVita

HASTAC 2011: Digital Scholarship and the Institutional Structure

ANN ARBOR, MI - The story I told at the 2011 meeting of the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC) conference is rooted in my pedagogical practices of using digital media technology to…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongDecember 2, 2011
Grants, Fellowships, AwardsThe Administrative LifeVita

ALP at Indiana: Herman B. Wells

Sometimes without looking, one finds a paradigm - an example that can serve as a model. Last week I visited Indiana University as a one of Penn State's Academic Leadership Fellows in the Academic Leadership Program of…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongNovember 11, 2011
Presentation: AcademicPresentationsVita

Philosophy and the Digital Public

Rembrandt's Philosopher in Meditation WASHINGTON, DC - Today at the Advancing Public Philosophy Conference hosted by the Public Philosophy Network, Cori Wong, a graduate student in the Philosophy Department at Penn State, and I are…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongOctober 7, 2011
Presentation: OtherPresentationsVita

New Cultures of Scholarship

Chris and Emma STATE COLLEGE, PA - In my keynote address at the inaugural Liberal Arts Scholarship and Technology Summit, I discuss how the transition from print literacy to digital literacy is transforming the nature…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongAugust 14, 2011
Aristotle on the Nature of TruthRecognition and ResponsesVita

Responding to Gonzalez Review of Aristotle on the Nature of Truth

Earlier this week, Frank Gonzalez published a review of my book, Aristotle on the Nature of Truth, in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review. His review is the latest contribution to a decade's long dialogue we…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongAugust 9, 2011
Presentation: OtherPresentationsVita

Collaborative Research in Philosophy

Today in the Foster Auditorium of the Pattee/Paterno Library, my undergraduate research assistant, Lisa Lotito, and I gave a presentation about the workflow we use in doing philosophical research. I have written in some detail…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongJuly 21, 2011
Presentation: AcademicPresentationsSocratic and Platonic PoliticsVita

Platonic Writing and the Practice of Death

FREIBURG, GERMANY - Today at the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies, I presented a paper entitled The Politics of Finitude in Plato's Phaedo at the 2011 Freiburger Hermeneutisches Kolloquium, whose theme was Hermeneutik (in) der…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongJuly 2, 2011
Aristotle on the Nature of TruthRecognition and ResponsesVita

Long Responds to Commentators

In my response to the generous, thoughtful and provocative commentaries of Will McNeill, Drew Hyland and John Lysaker, I attempted to perform the methodological approach I adopted in Aristotle on the Nature of Truth. John…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongMay 16, 2011
Aristotle on the Nature of TruthRecognition and ResponsesVita

Lysaker Comments on Aristotle on the Nature of Truth

Lysaker Animated Originally uploaded by cplong11 John Lysaker, Professor of Philosophy at Emory University, commented on my book, Aristotle on the Nature of Truth, at the 2011 meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society.John's comments invited me…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongMay 10, 2011
Aristotle on the Nature of TruthRecognition and ResponsesVita

Hyland Comments on Aristotle on the Nature of Truth

Drew Hyland Originally uploaded by cplong11 Drew Hyland, Charles A. Dana Professor of Philosophy at Trinity College, commented on my book, Aristotle on the Nature of Truth, at the 2011 meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society.Drew's…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongMay 2, 2011
Presentation: AcademicPresentationsSocratic and Platonic PoliticsVita

"The Politics of Truth" at University of Kansas

LAWRENCE, KS - The paper I presented here today, entitled The Politics of Truth, argued that Socratic politics is a matter of speaking truth with a concern for justice and the good. I suggested further…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongApril 25, 2011
Presentation: OtherPresentationsVita

Liberal Arts in a Time of Crisis

Pharmakon Originally uploaded by cplong11 STATE COLLEGE, PA - These remarks were delivered at the 2011 Symposium of the Center for American Literary Studies: Crisis? Whose Crisis? What Crisis? Imagine that you are a graduate…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongApril 22, 2011
Aristotle on the Nature of TruthRecognition and ResponsesVita

McNeill Comments on Aristotle on the Nature of Truth

Drew, Chris, Will and John Originally uploaded by cplong11 William McNeill, Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University, commented on my book, Aristotle on the Nature of Truth, at the 2011 meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society.Will's…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongApril 21, 2011
Presentation: AcademicPresentationsRecognition and ResponsesVita

Aristotle on the Nature of Truth Premiers at Sundance

SUNDANCE, UT - Today there was a panel on my book, Aristotle on the Nature of Truth, at the Ancient Philosophy Society held this year at Sundance in Utah. The panel included Will McNeill, Professor…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongApril 14, 2011
Presentation: OtherPresentationsVita

Curating Your Digital Vita

Socrates, Alcibiades and Agathon Originally uploaded by cplong11 WACO, Texas -- During my visit to Baylor this week, I guest taught Anne Schultz's class on Plato's Symposium and joined the Academy for Teaching and Learning to speak…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongMarch 29, 2011
Presentation: OtherPresentationsVita

Institutional Transformation

The annual Teaching and Learning with Technology Symposium held yesterday at the Penn Stater had an intensity to it that I had not experienced in years past. The energy and excitement we felt so palpably…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongMarch 27, 2011
Presentation: AcademicPresentationsSocratic and Platonic PoliticsVita

BACAP Presentation: Attempting the Political Art

BOSTON, MA - The main thesis of the paper I delivered today at the Boston Area Colloquium for Ancient Philosophy is that the practice of Socratic political speaking and the practice of Platonic political writing…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongMarch 17, 2011
Presentation: AcademicPresentationsSeminar: AcademicSocratic and Platonic PoliticsVita

Socrates, Plato and the Politics of Truth

Next week I am giving a lecture on Plato's Gorgias at Boston College for the Boston Area Colloquium for Ancient Philosophy. The title of the lecture is Attempting the Political Art. Prior to the lecture,…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongMarch 11, 2011
ArticlesPublication: JournalSocratic and Platonic PoliticsVita

Crisis of Community

Long, Christopher P. "Crisis of Community: The Topology of Socratic Politics in the Protagoras," Epoché: a Journal for the History of Philosophy, 15, 2 (2011): 361-377. In Plato's Protagoras Alcibiades plays the role of Hermes,…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongMarch 10, 2011
ArticlesPublication: JournalVita

Teaching Philosophy: Cultivating Communities of Learning with Digital Media

Digital media technology, when deployed in ways that cultivate shared learning communities in which students and teachers are empowered to participate as partners in conjoint educational practices, can transform the way we teach and learn…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongFebruary 28, 2011
Presentation: AcademicPresentationsSocratic and Platonic PoliticsVita

Seminar on the Apology in Bogotá

Seminar on the Apology Originally uploaded by cplong11 BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA - Today I gave a seminar on Plato's Apology at the Universidad de los Andes to graduate and undergraduate students and faculty. The seminar was…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongFebruary 25, 2011
Aristotle on the Nature of TruthPresentation: AcademicPresentationsVita

Aristotle's Phenomenology in Colombia

At the Universidad de los Andes Originally uploaded by cplong11 BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA - This evening I gave a public lecture at the Universidad de los Andes entitled Aristotle's Phenomenology of Truth in which I articulate…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongFebruary 24, 2011
Presentation: OtherPresentationsVita

Blogging and the Business Classroom

July 2010 029 Originally uploaded by Penn State Smeal MBA Today I venture outside of my comfort zone in talking about teaching and learning with technology in the Liberal Arts to address a group of…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongDecember 1, 2010
Presentation: OtherPresentationsVita

Traditional and New Media Literacies

Writing Three Ways Originally uploaded by cplong11 New media technologies are transforming the practice of education, and our practices of education must change in the wake of the emergence of new media technologies. In this…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongNovember 13, 2010
Aristotle on the Nature of TruthBooksVita

Aristotle on the Nature of Truth

Christopher P. Long, Aristotle on the Nature of Truth, 1st ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2010). This book reconsiders the traditional correspondence theory of truth, which takes truth to be a matter of correctly representing objects.…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongNovember 11, 2010
Presentation: OtherPresentationsVita

CAS Teaching with Technology Workshop

journalism students using macs apple Originally uploaded by chris.corwin In my ongoing attempts to think more reflectively and act more deliberately about teaching and learning with technology, I am speaking with a group of graduate…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongSeptember 17, 2010
Presentation: OtherPresentationsVita

Teaching Philosophy with Technology Workshop

Colorful Prometheus Originally uploaded by Allison Harger This workshop, for graduate students in the Philosophy Department at Penn State, focuses on using social media technologies to cultivate cooperative communities of learning in Philosophy courses. Its…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongAugust 23, 2010
Presentation: OtherPresentationsVita

Reflections on the Hacking Pedagogy Presentation

LDSC37 Originally uploaded by docZox My friend and colleague, Cole Camplese, and I gave a joint presentation on a collaborative project we have developed called "Hacking Pedagogy." The idea is to open a digital space…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongJuly 21, 2010
Recognition and ResponsesVita

Why I Teach with Blogs

Last fall, Teaching and Learning with Technology shot some footage of me in the classroom as I was teaching my Philosophy 200 course on Socratic Politics. In that course, I made extensive use of blogs…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongMay 24, 2010
Presentation: OtherPresentationsVita

Teaching the Ethics of Dialogue

Last Fall I gave a presentation to faculty in the Rock Ethics Institute entitled The Ethics of Blogging Ethics in which I outline some of the main pedagogical benefits of adopting an open blog as…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongMay 18, 2010
Presentation: OtherPresentationsVita

World Campus 2010 Commencement Address: Milestones

We gather here today to celebrate a milestone in the lives of each of our graduates. To arrive at a milestone, however, is a rather peculiar thing. For a milestone is less a destination, than…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongMay 15, 2010
Presentation: AcademicPresentationsVita

Crisis of Community Paper at the 2010 APS

EAST LANSING, MI It was particularly poignant for me to give a paper on the nature of Socratic political community at the tenth annual meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society. The APS has been for…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongApril 25, 2010
Presentation: OtherPresentationsVita

Relinquish Control, Empower Engagement

In this presentation to the Teaching Forum of the Department of Sociology and Crime, Law, and Justice, I emphasize how relinquishing control of assignment topics in a course can open a space for students to…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongApril 15, 2010
Presentation: OtherPresentationsVita

TLT Symposium 2010: Teaching and Learning in Digital Dialogue

Today students from my Fall 2009 Philosophy 20, Ancient Greek Philosophy, course present a short video that seeks to express something of the learning community that grew when we did all our writing in the…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongMarch 26, 2010
Presentation: OtherPresentationsVita

Brief Reflection on the Essence of Technology

Consider the following two passages, written in the wake of the enormous technological advances of the early 20th century: "Technology is ... no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.  If we give heed…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongMarch 26, 2010
Presentation: AcademicPresentationsVita

PRC Talk on Oedipus

In the wake of a paper on Oedipus and his relationship with his daughters in Oedipus at Colonus I gave at the Philosophy Research Colloquium, I have put together some thoughts for how I will…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongMarch 6, 2010
Presentation: OtherPresentationsVita

Teaching and Learning in Digital Dialogue

This presentation was developed for a panel entitled "Engaging with New Technologies" at the 2010 Central Division of the American Philosophical Association.Shortened URL: http://tinyurl.com/LongBlogAPA
Christopher Long
Christopher LongFebruary 17, 2010
Presentation: OtherPresentationsVita

Invitation to Participation

As I begin as Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies at the College of the Liberal Arts at Penn State, I have been thinking about how to articulate the power of social media to those who…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongJanuary 31, 2010
Presentation: OtherPresentationsVita

Engaged Learning with Technology

OREM, UT - I was asked to address a group of faculty at the Utah Valley University, where there is a strong commitment to engaged learning. In the presentation that follows, I offer a model…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongNovember 17, 2009
Presentation: AcademicPresentationsVita

Sophocles in Utah

SUNDANCE, UT - Today I participated on a panel for the honors program at the Utah Valley University, whose director, Michael Shaw, invited Marina McCoy and me to present papers for a panel dedicated to…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongNovember 16, 2009
Presentation: AcademicPresentationsVita

IT Faculty Advisory Committee Presentation

Two weeks ago, I was asked to present my model for Integrating Teaching and Research with Technology. Although today I return to that material in my presentation to the University Information Technology Faculty Advisory Committee,…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongNovember 2, 2009
Presentation: AcademicPresentationsVita

The Philosophy Job Market in Today's Economy

ARLINGTON, VA - The search for a job in any field in the midst of an economic downturn can be harrowing; for those seeking jobs in a field like Philosophy where even in good economic…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongOctober 30, 2009
ArticlesPublication: JournalVita

The Voice of Singularity

The Voice of Singularity traces what Reiner Schürmann calls the "double comprehension of being" in Kant in which the sense of being as pure givenness is said to be recognized but denied by Kant as…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongOctober 23, 2009
Presentation: AcademicPresentationsVita

Integrating Teaching and Research with Technology

This presentation is based on two insights that have grown over time but came into sharp focus over the summer of 2009 during which time I was a faculty fellow at Teaching and Learning with…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongOctober 13, 2009
BooksVita

Cambridge University Press to Publish "The Saying of Things"

On October 9th, 2009, I received official word that my manuscript, The Saying of Things: The Nature of Truth and the Truth of Nature, was accepted for publication at the Cambridge University Press under the…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongOctober 9, 2009
Presentation: AcademicPresentationsVita

On Saying the Beautiful in Light of the Good

ALTOONA, PA - Today I gave the keynote address at the West Virginia Philosophical Society being held at Penn State Altoona. This presentation is drawn from the penultimate chapter of the manuscript for my book,…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongOctober 9, 2009
Presentation: AcademicPresentationsVita

The Ethics of Blogging Ethics

"... we're in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we haven't seen since Greek civilization."-- Andrea Lunsford, in Wired article "Clive Thompson on the New Literacy"PrefaceThe web log, or blog, opens…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongSeptember 23, 2009
Recognition and ResponsesVita

TLT Faculty Fellowship Coverage

One of the most rewarding aspects of my Teaching and Learning with Technology Faculty Fellowship has been the recognition my efforts in this area are beginning to gain.Last week, my work over the summer was…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongSeptember 11, 2009
Vita

Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies

Last week I was offered and accepted the position of Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies at the College of the Liberal Arts at The Pennsylvania State University. In this position, which officially begins January 1,…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongAugust 22, 2009
Presentation: AcademicPresentationsVita

Learning Design Summer Camp Panel

STATE COLLEGE, PA - As one of the Teaching and Learning with Technology summer faculty fellows, I am on a panel at the 2009 Learning Design Summer Camp that focuses on new forms of digital…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongJuly 21, 2009
Grants, Fellowships, AwardsVita

ETS Summer Faculty Fellowship

I am very excited to have been awarded a 2009 Education Technology Services Summer Faculty Fellowship.  The project I will be working on this summer, Socratic Politics in Digital Dialogue, is designed to explore the…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongApril 1, 2009
Presentation: AcademicPresentationsVita

Blogs and Assessment

This post is designed to facilitate a round table discussion of using blogs for assessment at the 2009 Penn State Assessment Conference: Putting Your Assessment Plan to Work. Over the past four years, I have…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongJanuary 7, 2009
Presentation: AcademicPresentationsVita

The Metaphysics of Truth

PHILADELPHIA, PA - Today I presented a paper entitled The Metaphysics of Truth at the annual meeting of the Metaphysical Society of America at the American Philosophical Association's 2008 Eastern Division meeting in Philadelphia, PA.The…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongDecember 30, 2008
ArticlesPublication: JournalVita

The Duplicity of Beginning

This essay is an immanent critique of the story Reiner Schürmann tells concerning the origins of metaphysics as an epoch of hegemonic principles. In both Heidegger on Being and Acting and Broken Hegemonies, Schürmann identifies…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongDecember 25, 2008
Presentation: AcademicPresentationsVita

The Saying of Things

NEW YORK CITY - Today I returned to the New School to present what will be the first chapter of my forthcoming book, The Saying of Things: The Truth of Nature and the Nature of…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongDecember 4, 2008
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The Ethics of Truth

HARTFORD, CT -- Today I gave a paper here at Trinity College on the nature of truth in Aristotle entitled, "The Ethics of Truth: Saying It Like It Is".  The presentation sought in part to…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongNovember 17, 2008
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Between Natality and Mortality

PITTSBURGH, PA - A panel on the work of Reiner Schürmann entitled "Philosophy-to-come: Reading Reiner Schürmann" was held today at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existentialist Philosophy.  The panel included…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongOctober 18, 2008
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Designs on e-Learning

This September I will be presenting at the Designs on e-Learning Conference held here at Penn State.  My presentation is entitled Blogging and Podcasting the Liberal Arts (the link is to the blog post on which…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongJuly 14, 2008
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Ontological Response-Ability and the Ethics of Truth

FREIBURG, GERMANY - Today I present a paper entitled Ontological Response-Ability and the Ethics of Truth at a conference jointly organized by the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and the Pennsylvania State University.The paper will outline some of the…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongJune 19, 2008
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