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Syllabus Showcase: Philosophical-Policy & Legal Design: Methods and Applications, John Martin Gillroy

I have been teaching Philosophical-Policy And Legal Design (PPLD) for over twenty years, and with it, both my undergraduate and graduate students have found...
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Syllabus Showcase: Social, Ethical, and Professional Issues in Computer Science, Trystan Goetze

Data breaches, algorithmic bias, digital rights management, surveillance technology, facial recognition, Cambridge Analytica, online misinformation, job automation, the singularity – these are just some...
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Syllabus Showcase: The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Philosophy, Nicholas Whittaker

Editor's Note: This potentially controversial article title matches the syllabus title and, as explained by the author in the opening paragraph, is directly relevant...
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Syllabus Showcase: Philosophy of AI, Fritz McDonald

I have a longstanding interest in artificial intelligence. I liked science fiction books a lot when I was younger, and watched plenty of movies...
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Syllabus Showcase: Open Source Introduction to Philosophy, Karl Aho

Tarleton State University’s Introduction to Philosophy course is part of the Language, Philosophy, and Culture category of our core curriculum.  All sections of the...
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Syllabus Showcase: Philosophy & Film, Marc A. Joseph

The inspiration for a class on philosophy and film came to me after watching (not for the first time) Roman Polanski’s Chinatown, and thinking,...
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Syllabus Showcase: Political Violence, Jennifer Kling

Violence is endemic to our world. It is also political. This class works through both of these claims, and throughout the process, discusses how...
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Syllabus Showcase: Classical Indian Philosophy, Malcolm Keating

At Yale-NUS College in Singapore, my students are international—roughly sixty percent are Singaporean, and forty percent come from all around the world, hailing from...
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Syllabus Showcase: News & Knowing, Justin McBrayer

This is a course that focuses on the fake news epidemic in a way that non-philosophy majors can understand and appreciate.  It could function...
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Syllabus Showcase: Philosophy of Science, W. John Koolage

I teach an upper level General Philosophy of Science course every other year. My institution is a mid-sized R2 that primarily serves the local,...