/r/philosophy 2016-2017 AMA Series Recap + Survey!

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

I wrote something to this effect on the survey, but I think it also deserves to be said publically. You, the mod team of /r/philosophy, clearly put a lot of work and effort into making these AMAs a success. This goes for both the behind the scenes work of finding philosphers for the AMAs, as well as the moderation work in the AMA threads. This is a largely thankless and under-appreciated job—CVs don't have a "how much time I spent removing comments by trolls on reddit" section—but the AMAs wouldn't have acheived the high quality they did without your efforts.

Thank you so much for doing this.