Syllabus Showcase

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Syllabus Showcase: Philosophy of Sex and Love, Matthew Watts

I find myself preoccupied with the question of how to reach non-philosophy majors in a way that meets them where they are and confronts...

Syllabus Showcase: Engineering Ethics, Vanessa A. Bentley

Since I started my current position in Fall 2020, I’ve been teaching Engineering Ethics every fall. The Engineering Ethics course satisfies a general education...
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Syllabus Showcase: Ethics

The syllabus below is for the course Ethics at the University of Michigan. Although much of the material is pretty standard in courses in...
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Syllabus Showcase: Philosophy Summer Camp, a Portland State Faculty and Student Co-Creation

One morning you wake up and head to the kitchen, only to find someone who looks exactly like you sitting at the breakfast table...
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Syllabus Showcase: Neuroethics, Joshua May

One of my Neuroethics students quit smoking, using the tools of cognitive behavioral therapy. Another student aimed to regain his focus by deleting all...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...