Rockstar Assoc. Prof. at Southern Methodist University. I've learned a lot from her about teaching, learning, publishing, and taking time to laugh. We first met at the four-day seminar on teaching and learning in philosophy run by the American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT) in 2012. After attending a seminar on facilitating that sort of seminar at another AAPT Biennial Conference/Workshop on Teaching and Learning in Philosophy, we facilitated a few one-day seminars together. Alida has since done much more in philosophy and pedagogy not to mention her work as a thespian. Check out everything she does and try to keep up : )
Professor, Claremont McKenna College. I met Dr. Locke at an American Philosophical Association (APA) - Central Division Meeting. A fellow graduate student and I were giving talks in the same colloquium on the metaphysics of dispositions. Locke was my commentator. I was arguing for a position that he was very sympathetic to. I actually invited him to join the Q&A session in light of the fact that he had been studying the issue much longer than I. It was an excellent session - I learned a lot. Many years later I discovered his work in the study of teaching and learning in philosophy. As it turned out, he had been putting together a system very similar to the one that I was developing. The details differ greatly, but the elements of his pedagogical frameworks and mine align quite well. Not only has he shaped some really significant pedagogical tools, I have benefitted greatly from his analytic research that supports the framework.