Syllabus Showcase

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 Existentialism, Joshua M. Hall

During COVID, I was part of the 40% of the tenure-line faculty laid off by William Paterson University in New Jersey, after which I...
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Responses to Liberalism, Alexis Dianda

Responses to Liberalism is both an elective in Xavier’s Department of Philosophy and one of a series of political philosophy courses in an interdisciplinary...
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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...

History of American Philosophy, Robin M. Muller

The origin story for this course is a bit unusual. State law in California requires students in the California State University system to engage...

Philosophy Argument & Exposition, Jimmy Alfonso Licon

This course is a staple in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University that aims to sharpen techniques for...

Metaphysics, Colin C. Smith

The syllabus for Metaphysics is the result of my aim to put the “classical” subjects in contemporary metaphysics like personhood, mind, and the potentiality-actuality...
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Data Ethics, Zina B. Ward

Data Ethics is a required course in Florida State University’s Interdisciplinary Data Science Master’s Program (IDS). The IDS program was brand new when I...
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Philosophy of Economics, Patricia Marino

Philosophy of economics is a topic I became interested in during the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. A lot of my post-PhD research...
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Problems of Knowledge and Valuation, Daniel Drucker

I’m Daniel Drucker, an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. I’m presenting the second half of a two-semester course...
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Syllabus Showcase: The Philosophy of Education, Kristopher G. Phillips

Part of what I love about teaching philosophy is that it affords me the opportunity to take things that students find familiar or banal...