Why Reflections on Teaching Philosophy Matter: A Call for Contributions
When Gustav Klimt unveiled Philosophy at the Vienna Secession in 1900, the painting didn’t attempt to explain philosophy so much as to evoke the...
Rick Rubin, Kant, and the Tasteful Genius
What does it mean to be a creative genius? The following clip is from a 2023 60 Minutes interview with legendary music producer Rick...
Teaching Normative and Applied Ethics: How, and to What End? Stephen Scher
My new book, Revitalizing Health Care Ethics: The Clinician’s Voice (2025)—co-authored with the psychiatrist Kasia Kozlowska of the University of Sydney Medical School—begins in...
CPP and Ethics Bowl: Powerful Partners for Peace, Matt Deaton
Ethics Bowls are known for modeling the democratic ideal: high-brow, collaborative discussion about difficult moral and political matters. Participants author their own positions, are...
Sartre and Freedom: Teaching Responsibility in May 1968, Luis Maurin Hakala
Paris, May 1968. Barricades rose in the Latin Quarter, tear gas filled the French boulevards, and students occupied the Sorbonne. What started as a...
Viewpoint Diversity, Steven M. Cahn
Opponents of programs for racial, ethnic, or gender diversity often argue that while these policies are misguided, an appropriate sort of diversity is viewpoint...
Two Persons in One Man: John Locke’s Theory of Personal Identity in Severance
In the TV show Severance, employees at the mysterious company Lumon agree to have their consciousness severed between their work-selves (the “innies”) and their...
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...