Indigenous Critical Theory
When I teach Indigenous social and political theory, I draw on a perspective which emphasizes that the states of the so-called First, Second, and...
The Moral Life, Yvonne Tam
“The Moral Life” is a course in a series of seminars in Northwestern University’s Brady Scholars Program in Ethics and Civic Life. A cohort...
A Customizable Rawls Game for the Philosophy Classroom
Editable character cards for this game are available for download at the end of this post.
The genius of John Rawls’s Original Position thought experiment...
Illustrating Buddhist Challenges to Western Substance Metaphysics with I <3 Huckabees’s “The Blanket Thing”
David O. Russell’s I <3 Huckabees (2004), inspired in part by the scholar of Tibetan Buddhism Robert Thurman (father of Uma Thurman), explores a...
Class, Status, and Aesthetics, Clotilde Torregrossa
In 2021, the Diversity Reading List (DRL) conducted research on the teaching provision of the top 10 UK departments. It showed that very little...
Making a Space for Ethics: Santa Fe College’s Ethics Club
Ethics, as a field of study, is often overlooked when students consider their career paths. Some incoming students may see it as a subject...
Offloading to AI Means Not Doing Philosophy: on the importance of exploring the space...
When I write philosophy, my task is not merely to generate the most persuasive argument for some target claim. Rather, my task is to...
Philosophy of Forensic Science, Kathryn Petrozzo
In the past few decades, there has been a meteoric rise in fascination with forensic science. The advent of true crime podcasts, internet forums,...
‘When Life Gives You LLMs’ – a teaching recipe for limiting the impacts of...
The way I teach my classes has changed more in the past three years than in my entire prior career. This change was forced...
From a Polish Soccer Field to Philosophy: The Story Behind the Inference Studios Tournament
In the summer of 2024, I played professional youth soccer for Ursus Warszawa in Poland, and I was racially abused by 200 supporters who...