Syllabus Showcase: Racial Justice and Philosophy
My specialization is the philosophy of race, post-colonial philosophy, feminism, and womanism. I developed this course at the request of my students and for...
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...
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...
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...