Syllabus Showcase: Thrills, Chills, and Some Spills: The Philosophy of Horror, Kenneth Brewer
About ten years ago, I started idly musing about how horror movies are able to frighten and disgust viewers when they know that what...
Syllabus Showcase: Perspectives on Work and Leisure, Mark Coppenger
Back around 1980, when I was a philosophy professor at Wheaton College in Illinois, I introduced a course on work and leisure, and, in...
Syllabus Showcase: Business Ethics, Cecilea Mun
To listen to audio recordings of Dr. Mun teaching Business Ethics click here, here and here.
Some philosophers might regard an introductory business ethics course...
Syllabus Showcase: Infinity, Russell Marcus
Philosophy 122: Infinity introduces philosophy exclusively to first-year students. It is one of several thematic introductory courses taught in my department, where some of...
Syllabus Showcase: Environmental Ethics with a North American Indigenous Philosophy Emphasis, Janella Baxter
My Environmental Ethics course includes an extended unit on North American Indigenous philosophy. My interest in this literature is deeply personal. My father is...
Syllabus Showcase: Ethics in the Novel, Felicia Nimue Ackerman
One of my favorite courses that I have developed is Ethics in the Novel. Why organize an ethics course around novels?
Philosophy teachers are well...
Syllabus Showcase: An Intro 50 Years in the Making, Charles Cardwell
For many, “philosophy” primarily evokes activity related to the love of wisdom rather than a body of knowledge or collection of facts. First seen...
Syllabus Showcase: Yoga and Philosophy, Steve Geisz
There are many ways of doing good and beautiful philosophy, and there are many ways of teaching philosophy that can transform students’ lives and...
Syllabus Showcase: Ethics Bowl and Democratic Deliberation, Michael Vazquez
This post is about an experiential education course I redesigned and have taught two times at UNC-Chapel Hill (Fall ‘20 and ‘21). As an...
Syllabus Showcase: Philosophical English, Peter Finocchiaro
For some students, the first day of my course might be the first time they see a numbered-premise argument. It might also be the...