On Thursday, March 2, 2023, I was honored to receive the 2023 MSU Institutional Champion Award for Community Engagement Scholarship. Below is the text of my remarks at the moving awards ceremony that took place…
Christopher LongMarch 4, 2023
Michigan State University was awarded a four-year, $2.5 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support further development in the research and teaching of less commonly taught languages (LCTLs), with an emphasis on Indigenous languages.…
Christopher LongJuly 25, 2019
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 LongJuly 10, 2017
Michigan State University will use a three-year $1.2 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to lead a multi-university research project to improve the teaching of less commonly taught languages, or LCTLs. Faculty from MSU’s Center for…
Christopher LongSeptember 1, 2016
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 LongJanuary 9, 2015
This drawing from Mathew Paris (1217-1259), made famous more recently by Derrida's disquisition on it in The Postcard, appears in a 13th century manuscript that contains a series of fortune-telling tracts. Now, with the generous…
Christopher LongApril 20, 2014
On Friday, October 4th, we received the good news that the Mellon Foundation's Scholarly Communications and Information Technology program will provide $236K to support the development of the Public Philosophy Journal (PPJ, aka @PubPhilJ). The grant marks the end of…
Christopher LongOctober 18, 2013
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 LongOctober 16, 2013
The CBO is Cambridge Books Online, the electronic books platform for Cambridge University Press (CUP). This is the platform into which Mike Chaplin and a team of programmers working for CUP will build the Socratic and…
Christopher LongAugust 6, 2013
As my book, Socratic and Platonic Political Philosophy: Practicing a Politics of Reading, goes officially into editorial production on the print side of Cambridge University Press, I have started to work with Mike Chaplin on…
Christopher LongAugust 4, 2013
Last week humanities scholars from around the world descended upon Lincoln, Nebraska for DH2013, the annual international conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations. It was my first time at the DH conference and…
Christopher LongJuly 26, 2013
As many of you know, I have long been experimenting with how to use twitter effectively in academic contexts. Many are skeptical of twitter's ability to add substantive value to academic conversations because of its…
Christopher LongApril 7, 2013
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
It is widely recognized among educators that student engagement is a key to academic success. Disengaged students erode the social dynamics in the classroom, have a negative impact on their peers and drop out at…
Christopher LongJuly 8, 2010
Cole Camplese and I were invited to be part of this year's Learning Design Summer Camp at Penn State. The presentation topic that was proposed to us was strong in and of itself, but when…
Christopher LongJuly 2, 2010
It seems that my quest to close the digital research circle has been joined by a few fellow researchers. The idea is compelling and would not only save both time and paper, but would offer new…
Christopher LongJune 3, 2010
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 LongMay 24, 2010
Last month in a post about closing the digital research circle, I wrote about using the iPad to read, take notes on pdf files and integrate those files into a bibliography program. We are still…
Christopher LongMay 21, 2010
I have been looking for a way to close the circle of my digital academic research. The idea is to do rigorous philosophical research without paper, taking full advantage of cloud computing, the syncing of…
Christopher LongApril 15, 2010
Over the past few days I have been thinking more intensely about the meaning and nature of academic transformation. In the wake of the TLT Symposium at Penn State last weekend, I traveled to Orlando…
Christopher LongMarch 30, 2010
Upon reading the 2010 Horizon Report from the New Media Consortium, I was struck by how the key trends in technology they identify might help us meet challenges they articulate. Let me mention a two…
Christopher LongFebruary 6, 2010
It is impossible to put the rich complexity of a unique human life into words, but sometimes, the articulation of a single idea can capture something of a life that might otherwise escape notice.
Christopher LongDecember 23, 2009
After talking to trusted people, thinking things over and otherwise working through the transition I am making to Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies at the College of the Liberal Arts, I have decided to embrace…
Christopher LongDecember 13, 2009
One of the more important of the many unexpected benefits of producing the Digital Dialogue is the feedback I have received from friends who listen. In a strange way, the podcast offers me some distance…
Christopher LongDecember 2, 2009
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 LongOctober 9, 2009
One of the great privileges of my summer faculty fellowship has been the opportunity to work with creative and thoughtful educators and designers who were able to help me think more holistically about my identity…
Christopher LongSeptember 25, 2009
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 LongSeptember 11, 2009
Yesterday Alan Levine, aka cogdog, gave a presentation on 50+ Ways to Tell a Story using Web 2.0 technologies. The presentation was excellent as it introduced us to a variety of tools available online for…
Christopher LongMay 6, 2009
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 LongApril 1, 2009
I have just finished listening to Doris Kearns Goodwin's book on the Lincoln Presidency, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. Although the book takes a largely uncritical view of Lincoln's political wisdom,…
Christopher LongMarch 2, 2009
I am beginning to notice something about my course blog for PHIL298H: Patriarchal Force and Political Power. As we discuss the material we have been reading for class and engage with one another online through…
Christopher LongFebruary 5, 2009
For those of you who have noticed a lack of postings here recently, this is largely because I am doing a lot of blogging with my honors class over at the course blog for an…
Christopher LongFebruary 3, 2009
I woke, this much anticipated morning, to the news of the death of a colleague. Professor Paul Lyons taught history, social work and holocaust studies for 29 years at the Richard Stockton College of New…
Christopher LongJanuary 20, 2009
I am currently slugging through what I hope are the last few chapters of a book on Aristotle and it is not easy going. Although writing has always been something I love--crafting sentences, considering the…
Christopher LongAugust 7, 2008
A Liberal Arts Education is committed to cultivating habits of thinking and acting capable of responding to the world in ways that open new possibilities for human community. It is oriented in part by what…
Christopher LongMarch 23, 2008
This year witnessed the death of Richard Rorty, an important American philosopher and good friend to my own teacher, Richard Bernstein. I embed here a YouTube clip posted by my colleague at Penn State, Phillip…
Christopher LongAugust 24, 2007
I wrote a review of The Descent of Socrates: Self-knowledge and Cryptic Nature in the Platonic Dialogues, by Peter A. Warnek (Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006) in The Continental Philosophy Review, (forthcoming).
Christopher LongJune 17, 2007
In 2004 my book, The Ethics of Ontology: Rethinking an Aristotelian Legacy, was published by the State University of New York Press. A novel rereading of the relationship between ethics and ontology in Aristotle. Concerned…
Christopher LongMay 11, 2004
I wrote a review of Does Socrates Have a Method? Rethinking the Elenchus in Plato’s Dialogues and Beyond, edited by Gary Alan Scott (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press) inn The Review of Metaphysics,…
Christopher LongMay 11, 2004
I wrote a review of Contemporary Portrayals of Auschwitz: Philosophical Challenges, edited by Rosenberg, Alan, James Watson and Detlef Linke (Amherst, New York: Humanity Books, 2000) in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 15, 1 (2001):…
Christopher LongMay 28, 2001
