Christopher Long

Presentation: Academic Presentation: Other Presentations Vita

Digital Dialogue 60: Socratic Narrative

Anne-Marie Schultz, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Baylor Interdisciplinary Core at Baylor University, joins me at the 13th annual meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society She is author of many articles in Ancient Greek…

Christopher LongApril 7, 2013

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 LongMarch 26, 2013

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 LongMarch 16, 2013

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 LongMarch 15, 2013

Academic The Long Road

What is Public Philosophy?

As we begin to articulate the contours of the Public Philosophy Journal, some account of the meaning of the public philosophy the journal intends to practice may help us continue to cultivate the community on…

Christopher LongFebruary 20, 2013

Education The Liberal Arts The Long Road

The Humanities, Stitched

If, as Michael Bérubé suggested today in his Chronicle of Higher Education article "The Humanities, Unraveled," the situation in the humanities is "a seamless garment of crisis: If you pull on any one thread, the…

Christopher LongFebruary 18, 2013

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 LongFebruary 15, 2013

Education Technology The Long Road

Research and the Penn State Vision

The Long Road at the BWVision On Saturday, January 19, 2013, I joined administrators, staff and members of the Penn State Board of Trustees for the Blue and White Vision Council Seminar at the Nittany…

Christopher LongJanuary 24, 2013

Living The Long Road

This Day is Broken

6/365: Grandparents Clock Originally uploaded by cplong11 Today is Mack Brady's birthday; he would have turned 9. His father has recently written eloquently, even in his grief, about the theological questions the senseless death of…

Christopher LongJanuary 16, 2013

Living The Long Road

One Week

Statuesque Originally uploaded by Targuman When the Collegian asked me to comment on the scholarship established in honor of Mack Brady for the article they published today, they could not integrate all I had written.…

Christopher LongJanuary 7, 2013

Digital Research The Long Road

Research Cycle Returns to Zotero

Even as I press to finish an article on dogs and wolves in Plato's Republic for a volume entitled "Plato's Animals" edited by Michael Naas, it is worth returning for a moment to our ongoing…

Christopher LongDecember 31, 2012

Education Technology The Long Road

Initial Reflections on MOOCs and the College Curriculum

Villemard 1910 - En L'An 2000 - At School Originally uploaded by amphalon As the debate over Massively Open Online Courses, also known by their unfortunate acronym: MOOC, rages on, I thought I would begin…

Christopher LongDecember 19, 2012

Education Technology The Long Road The Undergraduate Experience

Digital Dialogue 59: Anarchy and Animal Humor

For episode 59 of the Digital Dialogue, I am joined at the 51st annual meeting of SPEP in Rochester, NY by Cynthia Willett and Shannon Winnubst to talk about the paper Cindy delivered entitled "Anarchy…

Christopher LongDecember 7, 2012

Twitter, Community and the First Year Experience

Words do things. What they do, depends on the manner in which they are said, written and received. What they did, and failed to do, last night is something that requires some reflection. That is…

Christopher LongNovember 29, 2012

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 LongNovember 27, 2012

DancinGirl Turns 7, Ponders Finitude

As we pulled into our driveway after running errands preparing for her Monster High birthday party, DancinGirl, who was generally excited about the day, announced that she has been thinking a lot, recently, about death.…

Christopher LongNovember 11, 2012

Digital Dialogue 58: Love of the World

For episode 58 of the Digital Dialogue I am joined at the 51st annual meeting of SPEP in Rochester, NY by Silvia Benso. She is Professor of Philosophy at Rochester Institute of Technology, where she…

Christopher LongNovember 8, 2012

Civic Life The Long Road

On Canvassing, Four Years Later

Today, the girls and I, along with my colleague, Dan Letwin, and his son, Nick, took to the local streets to canvass for Barack Obama as we did four years ago. A lot has changed…

Christopher LongNovember 4, 2012

Presentation: Academic Presentations Socratic and Platonic Politics Vita

Digital Dialogue 57: The Politics of Reading

A collaborative lecture given by Professor Christopher Long at the University of San Francisco, Thursday, October 25, 2012. Here are the curated tweets and other artifacts related to the lecture and courses I taught designed…

Christopher LongOctober 28, 2012

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 LongOctober 21, 2012

Academic Technology The Long Road

On Live-Tweeting Your Own Lecture

On Thursday, October 25th, at 4:30 PDT, I will read a paper entitled, Plato and the Politics of Reading at the University of San Francisco. One of the main points of the paper is that reading is fundamentally a…

Christopher LongOctober 20, 2012

Digital Dialogue 56: God and the Organism

John Protevi, Phyllis M. Taylor Professor of French Studies and Professor of Philosophy at Louisiana State University, joins me for episode 56 of the Digital Dialogue, God and the Organism. John's work focuses on Continental…

Christopher LongOctober 4, 2012

Articles Publication: Journal Vita

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 LongSeptember 22, 2012

Digital Dialogue 55: Aristotle and the Tragedy of Life

Larry Hatab joins Emanuela Bianchi, Erick Jimenez and me in beautiful Umbria, Italy in Citta di Castello, at the Collegium Phaenomenologicum, for episode 55 of the Digital Dialogue. Larry Hatab is Louis I. Jaffe Professor…

Christopher LongAugust 8, 2012

Articles Publication: Journal Socratic and Platonic Politics Vita

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 LongJuly 24, 2012

Books The Evolving Book The Long Road

The Book As Ecosystem of Scholarly Dialogue

Consider this an invitation to continue along a path we have traversed together over the past three years. This path, which began in the wake of my 2009 Summer Faculty Teaching and Learning with Technology Fellowship,…

Christopher LongJune 25, 2012

Digital Research The Long Road

Sente, Mendeley, Zotero: Too Many Sharp Tools

As spring rolls into summer, it is time for another appraisal of my digital research ecosystem. For a brief history of my reflections on digital scholarly research, I invite you to take a ride on…

Christopher LongJune 5, 2012

Education LwCH The Long Road

Literacy in Bloom

DancinGirl has fallen in love with words. Actually, she has always loved to play with words, singing, rhyming, mimicking. But now her love of the verbal has exploded into literacy. She is reading voraciously; book…

Christopher LongMay 29, 2012

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 LongMay 28, 2012

Education The Long Road

Plutarch and Digital Learning

Villemard 1910 - En L'An 2000 - At School Originally uploaded by amphalon My most recent blog post over on the Wonders and Marvels blog considers what Plutarch has to teach us about teaching and…

Christopher LongMay 17, 2012

Old Main at Penn State - View from inside to columns outside

Grants, Fellowships, Awards The Administrative Life Vita

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 LongApril 22, 2012

Academic Education Technology The Long Road

Multiplayer Introduction Game

At the 2012 Teaching and Learning with Technology Symposium at Penn State, I had the honor of introducing Jane McGonigal, Creative Director of Social Chocolate, and game designer extraordinaire. In his book, The Grasshopper, Bernard…

Christopher LongMarch 24, 2012

Grants, Fellowships, Awards The Administrative Life Vita

Digital Dialogue 54: Plato’s Philosophers

For episode 54 of the Digital Dialogue, I am joined via Skype by Catherine Zuckert, Nancy Reeves Dreux Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. Professor Zuckert is the author of many…

Christopher LongMarch 3, 2012

ALP Fellows at the University of Chicago

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 LongFebruary 20, 2012

Digital Dialogue 53: Pindar and the Phaedrus

Christopher Moore joins me for Digital Dialogue, episode 53. He received his PhD from the University of Minnesota in 2008 and is currently Lecturer in Philosophy and Classics at Penn State. His areas of specialization…

Christopher LongJanuary 7, 2012

Complementarity

LITCHFIELD, SC - Vacation can be a time for moments of insight and tenderness. One such moment came this week for me at a restaurant here in South Carolina called Studio Café. (You can see…

Christopher LongDecember 30, 2011

Grants, Fellowships, Awards The Administrative Life Vita

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 LongDecember 2, 2011

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 LongNovember 11, 2011

Morning light on Old Main at Penn State University

The Liberal Arts

Open Letter to the Liberal Arts Undergraduates at Penn State

Dear Liberal Arts Student Colleagues: As we process the events of the past week, it is difficult to grapple with what we and others are thinking and feeling. Each of us responds to these events…

Christopher LongNovember 10, 2011

Christopher Long and Sarah Brill for Digital Dialogue

Digital Dialogue 52: Politics and the Phaedo

Episode 52 of the Digital Dialogue was recorded at the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. I was joined by Sara Brill, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fairfield University and…

Christopher LongNovember 7, 2011

Digital Dialogue 51: Digital Public

Episode 51 of the Digital Dialogue was recorded in Washington, D.C. at the Advancing Public Philosophy conference. Joining me are: Mark Fisher, Assistant Director of the Rock Ethics Institute, Penn State, Ronald Sundstrom, Associate Professor…

Christopher LongOctober 9, 2011

Education Technology The Long Road The Undergraduate Experience

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 LongOctober 7, 2011

Liberal Arts Voices Hanging Out on Google

Student Panel at LASTS11 Originally uploaded by LAUSatPSU On Wednesday, September 28th at 4pm eastern, we in the Liberal Arts Undergraduate Studies office will take another step out into the great technological unknown by recording…

Christopher LongSeptember 27, 2011

For DancinGirl on Her First Day of Kindergarten

Dear DancinGirl: Do you know why I call you DancinGirl when I write about you here? It is because, from the moment I met you, now almost six years ago, you were dancing. At first,…

Christopher LongAugust 30, 2011

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 LongAugust 14, 2011

Aristotle on the Nature of Truth Recognition and Responses Vita

Digital Dialogue 50: Efficient Cause

Tom Tuozzo, Professor of Philosophy at Kansas University, joins me for episode 50 of the Digital Dialogue. Professor Tuozzo is author of the forthcoming book with Cambridge University press entitled "Plato's Charmides. Positive Elenchus in a…

Christopher LongAugust 12, 2011

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 LongAugust 9, 2011

Presentation: Academic Presentations Socratic and Platonic Politics Vita

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 LongJuly 21, 2011

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 LongJuly 2, 2011

Digital Dialogue 49: Poetic Pessimism

This episode of the Digital Dialogue was recorded at the 11th annual meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society in Sundance, UT. On it, I am joined by Karen Gover and Kalliopi Nikolopoulou. Karen is an…

Christopher LongJune 24, 2011

Education LwCH The Long Road

The Untimely Death of a Preschool

St. Andrew's Preschool Originally uploaded by cplong11 It happened without warning, without any hint that the end was at hand. Suddenly, there it was: May 27th, the day after the last day of the preschool…

Christopher LongJune 10, 2011

Academic Living The Long Road Travel

Learning the Art of Relaxation

STONE HARBOR, NJ - Just midway through my week vacation, I am beginning to learning the art of relaxation. As a faculty member, when the semester of teaching is over, a span of summer begins…

Christopher LongJune 1, 2011

Aristotle on the Nature of Truth Recognition and Responses Vita

Digital Dialogue 48: Truth as Justice

John Lysaker, Professor of Philosophy at Emory University, turns the tables on me for this episode of the Digital Dialogue. As promised in episode 16 in which John and I discussed his book, Emerson and…

Christopher LongMay 24, 2011

Digital Research Technology The Long Road

Summer Research in Digital

This summer John Dolan, Director of Digital Media and Pedagogy, and I are heading up a summer digital research project in the College of the Liberal Arts. For a description of the project, check out…

Christopher LongMay 19, 2011

Christopher Long responds to comments from the panel

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 LongMay 16, 2011

Aristotle on the Nature of Truth Recognition and Responses Vita

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 LongMay 10, 2011

Aristotle on the Nature of Truth Recognition and Responses Vita

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 LongMay 2, 2011

Presentation: Academic Presentations Socratic and Platonic Politics Vita

Digital Dialogue 47: Narrative

Claire Colebrook, Edwin Earl Sparks Professor of English here at Penn State joins me for episode 47 of the Digital Dialogue. Claire received her doctorate from the University of Edinburgh and was a Professor of…

Christopher LongApril 26, 2011

"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 LongApril 25, 2011

Aristotle on the Nature of Truth Recognition and Responses Vita

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 LongApril 22, 2011

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 LongApril 21, 2011

Presentation: Academic Presentations Recognition and Responses Vita

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 LongApril 14, 2011

Digital Dialogue 46: Public Philosophy

Cori Wong who is a graduate student in the department of Philosophy here at Penn State working on affective embodiment and oppression. I invited her to the Digital Dialogue because she and I have been…

Christopher LongApril 8, 2011

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 LongMarch 29, 2011

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 LongMarch 27, 2011

Image of a wave breaking in the ocean with two figures to the right, a father and a daughter. The father, in a baseball cap, is lifting the daughter over the wave as it breaks. The foam of earlier waves are in the foreground. It is a relatively overcast day.

Beginning in Wonder

Aristotle, of course, famously said: "For it is by way of wondering that people both now and at first began to philosophize ..." (Metaphysics, I.2, 982b13-4). Tonight, ArtGirl began to philosophize. She wondered so eloquently…

Christopher LongMarch 26, 2011

Presentation: Academic Presentations Socratic and Platonic Politics Vita

Digital Dialogue 45: Soul and Substance

For episode 45 of the Digital Dialogue, I am joined by Josh Hayes who is currently a Lecturer at Santa Clara University. He has been a Visiting Assistant Professor at Loyola Marymount University and Post-doctoral…

Christopher LongMarch 18, 2011

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 LongMarch 17, 2011

Presentation: Academic Presentations Seminar: Academic Socratic and Platonic Politics Vita

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 LongMarch 11, 2011

Looking up the columns at the Supreme Court building

Articles Publication: Journal Socratic and Platonic Politics Vita

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 LongMarch 10, 2011

The Long Road The Undergraduate Experience

Transformative Education

I first met Ruth Canagarajah in an honors course I taught a few years ago. She already struck me then as a thoughtful, engaged and creative student. She wrote an excellent paper for that course…

Christopher LongMarch 1, 2011

Presentation: Academic Presentations Socratic and Platonic Politics Vita

Digital Dialogue 44: The Apology

For Digital Dialogue episode 44, I have joined Nicolas Parra, Norman Mora and Sergio Ariza in their home city of Bogotá, Colombia to discuss the seminar we held today on Plato's Apology and a paper…

Christopher LongMarch 1, 2011

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 LongFebruary 25, 2011

Aristotle on the Nature of Truth Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

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 LongFebruary 24, 2011

Digital Dialogue 43: Death of Painting

In episode 43 of the Digital Dialogue, I am joined by Ryan Drake, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Fairfield University and graduate of the Pennsylvania State University's Department of Philosophy. This is Ryan's second time…

Christopher LongFebruary 1, 2011

Civic Life Education The Long Road

Deliberative Dialogue

Deliberative Democracy Flash Forum Panel Originally uploaded by cplong11 This image captures a poignant moment in the Flash Forum in Response to the Arizona Shootings held by the Center for Democratic Deliberation on January 21…

Christopher LongJanuary 22, 2011

Academic Digital Research Technology The Long Road

Evolving Digital Research Ecosystem

Final Edits Originally uploaded by cplong11 In the months since my last posts on using Mendeley, Zotero and the iPad for academic research, my experience has been more fully informed by practice. This fall I was…

Christopher LongDecember 27, 2010

Digital Dialogue 42: Remembering

Walter Brogan, Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University, editor of Epoché: Journal for the History of Philosophy and a founding member of the Ancient Philosophy Society joins me for episode 42 of the Digital Dialogue.…

Christopher LongDecember 20, 2010

Academic The Long Road

The Arrival of the Book

CpL Holding the Book Originally uploaded by cplong11 Today I received a box, and in that box were six objects with a certain degree of heft, a solidity I did not quite expect. The objects…

Christopher LongNovember 17, 2010

The Big Oh-Five

Little Girl by a Little Girl Originally uploaded by cplong11 Today is DancinGirl's birthday and it has been a day of well, dancing. And on Saturday, at her princess dance party, we will dance some…

Christopher LongNovember 11, 2010

Aristotle on the Nature of Truth Books Vita

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 LongNovember 11, 2010

Digital Dialogue 41: Time and Motion

Francisco Gonzalez, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ottawa. Frank's work centers on ancient philosophy, contemporary heremeutics and the relation between metaphysics and ethics/politics. His first book, Dialectic and Dialogue: Plato's Practice of Philosophical…

Christopher LongNovember 9, 2010

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 LongSeptember 17, 2010

Digital Dialogue 40: Engaged Pluralism

Vincent Colapietro, Liberal Arts Research Professor of Philosophy here at Penn State, joins me for episode 40 of the Digital Dialogue. The depth and breadth of his scholarship can hardly be touched upon in any…

Christopher LongSeptember 12, 2010

Living LwCH The Long Road

Letting Jelly Dog Go

On Sunday, ArtGirl stood in front of the mirror looking at herself. I noticed two things: she seemed bigger to me and she was not holding her favorite stuffed animal, Jelly Dog. It was then…

Christopher LongAugust 26, 2010

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 LongAugust 23, 2010

Digital Dialogue 39: World in Conversation

On Digital Dialogue episode 39, I am joined by the co-directors of the World in Conversation Project, Sam Richards and Laurie Mulvey. Their work explores the multifaceted relationship between people from different cultural and ancestral…

Christopher LongAugust 10, 2010

Living Technology The Long Road

Prosthetic Gods

In Civilization and Its Discontents, Freud writes: With every tool man is perfecting his own organs, whether motor or sensory, or is removing the limits to their functioning (43). The passage touches on something I…

Christopher LongJuly 27, 2010

Digital Dialogue 38: Cooperative Education

Cole Camplese is the Director of Education Technology Services, Allan Gyorke, Assistant Director of Education Technology Services, and Sam Richards, Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Crime, Law and Justice and co-director of World in Conversation…

Christopher LongJuly 27, 2010

Living The Long Road

Light in Motion

Four Running 2 Originally uploaded by cplong11 My father taught me to appreciate the subtle joys of photography back before everything went digital. In our basement darkroom, we used to develop the black and white…

Christopher LongJuly 22, 2010