CFP: The Bloomsbury Guides to Philosophy Teaching: The Latest Research Made Classroom Ready

Bloomsbury announced in Spring of 2025 the launch of a new book series: The Bloomsbury Guides to Philosophy Teaching: The Latest Research Made Classroom Ready, edited by Andrew Mills and Alexandra Bradner. This comprehensive pedagogical series, the first of its kind, will feature a collection of succinct, research-based, “how-to” guides by pedagogical experts on important topics in philosophy teaching. 

The series as a whole will feature volumes on teaching particular courses (like early modern philosophy, logic, or bioethics), adopting particular pedagogies (like small group work, traditional lectures, or teaching through games), fulfilling certain departmental duties (like assessment or expanding the major), teaching in certain environments (like two-year colleges or graduate schools), and teaching specific skills (like argumentative writing or close reading). 

Our initial call resulted in a number of proposals that are now in various stages of production. Please look forward to volumes on designing philosophy courses from the ground up, teaching the general education student, team-based learning in philosophy, teaching philosophy to pre-college students, and many more.

We are looking for authors to write books that will tackle a major aspect of philosophy teaching with research-based, classroom-tested advice. We intend these books to be valuable to philosophy teachers at all stages of their careers, from graduate students getting ready to teach their first class, to seasoned philosophy pedagogues looking to refresh a recurring course. While we welcome volumes on any aspect of philosophy teaching, we are particularly interested in proposals on the following subjects:

• Moderating and encouraging class discussion

• Argumentative writing

• Teaching introductory symbolic logic

• Teaching critical thinking

• Teaching normative ethics

• Teaching applied ethics

• Teaching ancient philosophy

• Structuring the philosophy major (number of courses, required courses, gateways, capstones, etc.)

• Teaching at two-year colleges

• Teaching modern philosophy

Each book will be a maximum of 50,000 words, covering all that readers need to know through a literature review of the relevant SoTL work and qualitative advice drawn from the author’s extensive classroom experience. Each book will be accompanied by a collection of updatable online material which might include sample syllabi, model assignments, and other supplemental resources. We plan to release two to three titles every year, beginning in 2026.

If you are interested in proposing a book in this series, please reach out to Series Editors Alexandra Bradner and Andrew Mills. We hope you will consider working with us. We will work closely with you, helping you to outline the book, prepare a proposal, and, if need be, work through your ideas once you are writing.

Andrew Mills, [email protected]

Alexandra Bradner, [email protected]