Syllabus Showcase: Foundations of Educational Research, Michael Skyer
A graduate student approaches me, signing in ASL, “Dr. Skyer… can we have a meeting? I have something to ask you.” This question used...
Syllabus Showcase: Death and Immortality, Heinrik Hellwig
In the Spring of 2022, I had the honor of teaching a capstone course for senior philosophy majors at the University of Alabama at...
Syllabus Showcase: First Contact, Adam Etinson
In theory, philosophy can be about anything. In practice, this is mostly fantasy. Philosophy is today as specialized a discipline as any other, which...
Syllabus Showcase: Philosophy on the Spectrum: The Philosophy of Autism and Autistic Philosophy, Travis...
Some have suggested that the “very idea of an autistic person is a philosophical one” (Murray 2011, 9) and that the “subject of autism...
Syllabus Showcase: What is Philosophy? Global Perspectives on Philosophical History, Christopher P. Noble
I am a historian of philosophy at New College of Florida, a small, public liberal arts college. When I arrived first in 2018, one...
Syllabus Showcase: Dawn of Western Thought, Robert Earle
I designed this ancient (mostly Greek) philosophy course around three units: the Presocratics through Socrates and the sophists, Plato and Aristotle, and Hellenistic thought....
Syllabus Showcase: The Buddhist Traditions, Purushottama Bilimoria
In some ways this is a standard course on Buddhist Philosophy & Religion. The title Buddhist Tradition (I expanded it to Traditions) was given...
Syllabus Showcase: Philosophy as Conversation, Matt Deaton
Taking an oral-concentration philosophy class to avoid Public Speaking is like enrolling in Astrophysics to bypass Algebra. Yet misguided students do exactly that every...
Syllabus Showcase, Introduction to Ethics, Laura M. Bernhardt
Introductory ethics courses are the bread and butter of university general education offerings in philosophy, typically taken by non-majors navigating basic graduation requirements and/or...
Syllabus Showcase: Ignorance, Distraction, and Confusion, Georgi Gardiner
We started the semester in ignorance, we ended with confusion, and there was lots of distraction along the way. That was the overarching structure...