Teach Graduate Students How To Teach
There are two important aspects to professional academic work: academic research and course instruction. In a graduate program, coursework supports the transfer of knowledge...
Knowing Others and Knowing Oneself
No one is an island and through shared experience we come to know each other. Yet the gap between what others say and who...
Hearts and Minds: Are feelings a truer guide to reality?
Should intuition or reason guide us in our actions? Are feelings a truer guide to reality?
In this week's video from the Institute of Art...
Where the Philosophical and Literary Collide
Hugh D. Reynolds attended the Fiction Writing for Philosophers Workshop that was held at Oxford Brookes University on June 1-2, 2017 and supported by the...
The Story of Romance
From love at first sight to falling head over heels, it seems love isn’t something we do but something that happens to us. Yet...
Fiction as Experimental Philosophy: Interview with Bryony Pierce
Bryony Pierce attended the Fiction Writing for Philosophers Workshop that was held at Oxford Brookes University on June 1-2, 2017 and here she reflects on...
Philosophy and Wonder Woman
When I saw the Wonder Woman (2017) film, I felt ambivalent. I have had the opportunity to apply different philosophical lenses to analyze superheroes...
Can Effective Altruism Create a World of Wellbeing?
Global development has struggled to live up to expectations and has failed to meet the needs of millions of people living in poverty. Economic...
How does language describe the world?
We effortlessly use language to describe the world. Yet the puzzle of how language achieves this has stumped philosophers for a century. Are we...
Lies and Beauty: Is lying somehow essential to our lives?
Weapons of mass destruction, the NSA, and Watergate: many have felt cheated by the lies of the powerful. Yet we all twist the truth...