African American Philosophy II, Patrick D. Anderson
My course, PHI 4220: African American Philosophy II, provides students with an in-depth survey of the major historical periods and schools of thought in...
Teaching General Education Philosophy Courses to Underprepared College Students
I teach at Central State University (CSU), Ohio’s only state HBCU, where many students are first-generation college students and where most of our students’...
Tabletop Philosophy: Catharine Saint-Croix
When I arrived at the University of Minnesota, I applied for a small “teaching innovation grant” to support what I took to be a...
Bring Public Ethics to Life: Host the Bowl in Your Campus (PBS Documentary +...
The Film & the Early-Access Opportunity
The APA is pleased to share a high-impact opportunity to put philosophy in front of more students and communities. The...
The Trajectory of a Life: Steven M. Cahn and Christine Vitrano
A topic apt to be covered in an ethics course is the nature of living well. The theory we have defended in our book...
Healthcare Ethics, Gisela Reyes
This course on healthcare ethics came to be as an amalgamation of my experiences both as a graduate teaching assistant at Northwestern University and...
Sarah Silverman’s “I Love You, America” and World-Traveling
In the clip from I Love You, America (2017–2018), comic Sarah Silverman talks to a conservative family about their beliefs regarding gun control, Donald...
Race and Animals, Maya von Ziegesar
I taught this course at Wesleyan University in Spring 2025 to a class of 15 students, mostly seniors and sophomores. I was tasked the...
“Chidi Kills Janet!” Unpacking Sentience and the Moral Status of AI
This clip, “Chidi Kills Janet!,” from the first season of NBC’s The Good Place, lets us gauge our intuitions about how computers fit with...
Interdisciplinary Humanities (SEARCH), Benjamin E. Curtis
The SEARCH program has existed at Rhodes College, in one form or another, since 1946. This chronologically oriented, three-semester “Great Books” interdisciplinary humanities sequence...