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Logic and Critical Thinking, Matthew Lampert

I begin my Logic course with a selection from Descartes’s Discourse on Method (parts of §§1 and 2), because for me that book lays...
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Philosophy of Language, Landon D. C.Elkind

This syllabus is designed for a course that introduces students to some issues in the philosophy of language. There are seven-ish units to the...

Making a Club for Everyone

In good ol’ philosophy fashion, we may ask, what is a club and what should a club be like? The following is merely a...
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Collective Final Projects or: Who’s Actually in This Class?, Ryan Johnson

Shockingly Simple RealizationsI used to dread grading. In-class discussion thrilled me, but the grading was terrible. Or at least until I realized something shockingly...
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Omelas Escape Room: Energizing the Classroom , Kathryn Petrozzo

Introducing foundational ethical theories can be a dreaded task for instructors; thwarting off cultural relativism and fielding questions such as “Yeah, but does this...

Contexts and Contest: Propositional (i.e., Sentential) Logic as a Method of Asking Narrow &...

At the start of every term, I always tell students that my aim is to have them leave class with more questions than answers....
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Identity and Memoir, Jarrad A. Felgenhauer

I taught this class, Identity and Memoir, in the spring of 2023 as a section of the Philosophy of the Human Person course at...
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Introduction to Philosophy, Carolina Flores

I taught this course as a large lecture course with 300 students, most of whom were there to complete General Education requirements, at UC...
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The Gnosis Factory: Haverford College’s Philosophy Club

From Haverford’s Philosophy Department website: “Roger Lin '25 and Ben Fitzgerald '26, the 2024-2025 Philosophy Student Representatives, pose as Plato and Aristotle in homage to Raphael's fresco "The School of Athens" (1509-1511). Photo by Patrick Montero”

What are We (Not) Doing When We Struggle to Ask Good Questions?

One of my favorite moments in class is when a student says something like, “I think I have a question, but I’m not sure...