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...
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...