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Learning to Live, Not Just to Think: How Philosophy is Changing Lives at Notre Dame

...Paul Blaschko. What’s the point of studying philosophy? Is it to become an academic philosopher? Or, could it be about learning to live a better life? A growing number of...

Cultivation Requirements: Teaching Virtue Ethics for Whole-Child Education

...upcoming piece, “‘To form more than inform’: The transformative pedagogy of Philosophy as a Way of Life,” which I co-authored with Paul Blaschko, Haley Dutmer, and Blake Ziegler, soon to...

Philosophy and Work: Helping Students Conceptualize Their Careers

...of the following questions I owe to Dr. Paul Blaschko’s “The Working Life” class at the University of Notre Dame.): How do you define career success? What sacrifices are you...

TikTok Pedagogy: Teaching Philosophy in 60 Seconds or Less

I teach philosophy on TikTok, perhaps to the surprise of some colleagues in the discipline (who haven’t met me), and to parts of the internet. The core skeptical question I’m...

Teaching Philosophy for Optimal Learning: A Pedagogical Entrée into The Good Life Method

...good life. How do you teach philosophy to gain a following? In this post, I’ll be exploring ways in which Meghan Sullivan and Paul Blaschko, through ‘The Good Life Method’...

An Education that Works for Students: Paul Blaschko

Paul Blaschko has done much to foster Philosophy as a Way of Life at the University of Notre Dame.  This is an interview culled from multiple formats (in-person via Zoom,...

What Makes a Course Resilient?

Like universities all across the country, mine announced, mid-semester in the spring of 2020, that we’d all be transitioning to online learning in less than a week. This was obviously...

Designing a Philosophy Course for Relevance

My first semester as lead instructor of a philosophy course, I taught for laughs. I’d suffered through some painful core requirements as an undergrad, and my greatest fear was that...

Paul Blaschko

Paul Blaschko is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, where he teaches courses he’s designed on big questions and the philosophy of work. He...

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...in deaf studies, bioethics and disability studies. She is the first signing Deaf woman to receive a Ph.D. in philosophy in the world. Paul Blaschko Paul Blaschko is an Assistant...