Naming and Muddling: Messiness as Pedagogy
In my first year of graduate studies I took a seminar called Feminist Methods taught by Elisabeth Paquette. This course was paradigm shifting for...
Reflection on: “Ethics and Educational Decision Making”
My personal mission drives my current educational experience, and this new quest is much more about the journey than the destination. The courses available...
My First Semester: Refining Argumentation Through Philosophy of Mind
In the first year of my program, I enrolled in a class titled Philosophy of Mind. By this time in my studies I had...
A Graduate Seminar With a Unique Topic: Teacher Training
It is not uncommon for graduate students in philosophy to be thrown into teaching without any formal training or preparation. This practice seems to...
What Stepping Out of My Comfort Zone Taught Me About Teaching
Last semester I took a seminar with Renée Jorgensen on moral rights and social norms. One of the main questions we discussed throughout the...
What Does It Mean to Be a Race in a Loving World?: Healing the...
In this post, I will reflect on my experience in the Critical Philosophy of Race class I took with Jackie Scott at Loyola University...
Pandemic Ph.D. Preparedness or, I Don’t Know Things
The first year of my Ph.D. was conducted entirely online and was something of a blur. This was punctuated by my first experience with...
A (Re)Discovery and Validation of the Importance of Female Philosophers
One of the most formative courses of my graduate career has been taking a graduate seminar on moral psychology and philosophy, taught by Mike...
The Free Syllabus System: A New Course Paradigm for Theory-Based Philosophy Classes
Since the dawn of time undergraduates have used "fluff" to addend their work in the classroom. Students bemoan the busy work that comes with...
Expanding the Canon Through Storytelling: A Pedagogically Queer Approach
For much of philosophy’s past, the canon has been exclusively favorable to those whom society privileged. Think of any philosopher whose name you may...