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Teaching Moral Reasoning with Terminator and Jesus
Semester after semester, I embarked on helping students to appreciate that morally relevant decisions are not a matter of personal preference, and I struggled to enable them to consider that moral judgments cannot simply be borrowed from an alleged moral authority – be it God, some political leader, or...
Introducing the Question-Focused Pedagogy (QFP) Series
“Wait… but Stephen… there are no bad questions.”
And there is it. Even as it has continued to happen, class after class, every time it does, I am taken aback. And, again, I am surprised by the tone: often a mixture of incredulity and insistence and it sometimes comes tinged...
How can we be good allies as bystanders during war?
Being from the Middle East, it is hard to avoid thinking about war. I’ve lived through three, as well as an event I’ll discuss here that may as well have been war. But I am fortunate enough to be a bystander to the many ongoing wars today, and this...
Digital Ideology
The digital is material ideology. As the operating principle of the technologies it labels, the digital bears on the world not just in any way but in a particular way. Using digital technologies and living in a world shaped by the digital, people come to think and act accordingly. This...
Moral Psychology, Jada Wiggleton-Little
The following syllabus is for a virtual 5-week summer course on Moral Psychology forundergraduate students at a public university. The course specifically looked at how one’s racial or gender identity influences the expressions of feelings, like anger, pain, and empathy. Because this was such a short course, I share...
University of Arizona Philosophy Club
The University of Arizona Philosophy Club was founded a few years ago around 2020. Each semester we reserve rooms in one of the classrooms of the Social and Behavioral Studies building on the ground floor where many of the Philosophy professors have their offices and teach. We are a...
“If you become a monster, the fight is not worth it”: An interview with...
Mouhamadou El Hady Ba is an associate professor of Philosophy at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal. Professor Hady Ba is also the head of the Philosophy Department and Cheikh Anta Diop University’s Teachers College and the former Director of the Laboratory for the Study of Educational Systems....
What Do We Owe Our Neighbors?
(Please note: This post contains my personal reflections on my own experiences within my current neighborhood, and as such I believe it is important to acknowledge my positionality. I am writing this post as a white, middle-class cis woman who lives in a primarily residential working-class neighborhood in St....
Friedlaender Fever
Salomo Friedlaender with his son Heinz Ludwig and his wife Marie Luise (Image has been AI-enhanced).
Who isn’t eager to learn more about a philosopher who relished describing himself as a synthesis of Chaplin and Kant? About the author of a work on Kant used in 1945 by U.S. military intelligence...
TikTok: The Surveillance State and Your Role
Lately, you cannot walk down a busy street, go to work, eat at a restaurant, workout at the gym, or go grocery shopping without seeing either a Ring light and its accompanying dancer, monologist, storyteller, or a gaggle of influencers—or want-to-be-influencers.
As a result, you become a nonconsensual unpaid background...