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...
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...
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...