A Question for Teachers, Steven M. Cahn
To highlight a key element of successful teaching, consider this question: When you prepare to teach a class, is your primary focus on the...
The Godfather’s Mafia Meeting Scene: A Fictional Narrative of Hobbesian Contractarianism
Whenever I teach the undergraduate courses of Ethical Theory and Contemporary Social Ethics, I include The Godfather’s mafia meeting scene as part of these...
Philosophy of Language, Helen L. Daly
My department at Colorado College lists the Philosophy of Language as an introductory course, but in my experience prior to this position, the philosophy...
Where Questions Come From
A lot of emphasis in education is placed on showing what you know. But for at least a decade now, as I’ve thought about...
On Student-Faculty Relationships
It might seem as if since COVID swept the world, everyone has suffered a significant decrease in social interactions. Classes were disrupted, social events...
Existentialism, Joshua M. Hall
During COVID, I was part of the 40% of the tenure-line faculty laid off by William Paterson University in New Jersey, after which I...
Responses to Liberalism, Alexis Dianda
Responses to Liberalism is both an elective in Xavier’s Department of Philosophy and one of a series of political philosophy courses in an interdisciplinary...
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...