Teaching Moral Reasoning with Terminator and Jesus
Semester after semester, I embarked on helping students to appreciate that morally relevant decisions are not a matter of personal preference, and I struggled...
Introducing the Question-Focused Pedagogy (QFP) Series
“Wait… but Stephen… there are no bad questions.”
And there is it. Even as it has continued to happen, class after class, every time it...
Moral Psychology, Jada Wiggleton-Little
The following syllabus is for a virtual 5-week summer course on Moral Psychology forundergraduate students at a public university. The course specifically looked at...
University of Arizona Philosophy Club
The University of Arizona Philosophy Club was founded a few years ago around 2020. Each semester we reserve rooms in one of the classrooms...
Two Principles of Academic Ethics
Some time ago, while I was advising a doctoral student regarding her search for an academic position, she showed me her graduate school transcript....
Philosophical Mastery and Conceptual Competence
I roughly sort pedagogical issues into two broad categories: engagement and mastery. By “engagement” I mean roughly discussion and reflection on teaching methods that...
Dusty Slay and Zhuangzi’s Three in the Morning
Comedian Dusty Slay tells a story about trying to purchase some DVDs at a flea market. The DVDs are cheap: three for five dollars....
History of American Philosophy, Robin M. Muller
The origin story for this course is a bit unusual. State law in California requires students in the California State University system to engage...
How to Practice Embodied Pedagogy
When preparing my poster for the AAPT/APA conference in New York in January 2024, I had to consider not only what topics would interest...
Philosophy Club Vox: Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan, Astana
Somewhere almost in the middle of the Eurasian continent, on the wuthering planes of Central Kazakhstan, in Astana, our university arose just 13 years...