A Graduate Seminar With a Unique Topic: Teacher Training
It is not uncommon for graduate students in philosophy to be thrown into teaching without any formal training or preparation. This practice seems to...
Planning a Successful Academic Conference
One of the very first conferences that I presented for when I was a graduate student at Montclair State University was the Mid-Atlantic Region...
Positive Propaganda: Dave Chappelle and his White Buddy “Chip”
This video highlights, via humorous understatement in a brief narrative, the very different experiences white and black people often have with the police. An...
Syllabus Showcase: Philosophy on the Spectrum: The Philosophy of Autism and Autistic Philosophy, Travis...
Some have suggested that the “very idea of an autistic person is a philosophical one” (Murray 2011, 9) and that the “subject of autism...
Syllabus Showcase: What is Philosophy? Global Perspectives on Philosophical History, Christopher P. Noble
I am a historian of philosophy at New College of Florida, a small, public liberal arts college. When I arrived first in 2018, one...
Undergraduate Philosophy Club: Mount Holyoke College
Mount Holyoke College’s Philosophy Club has been active for at least 40 years. The origin of the club is lost in history but is...
George Carlin and the Philosophy of Religion
In this clip from the 1999 stand-up comedy special You Are All Diseased, the late comedian George Carlin offers a scathing attack on religion...
When Students Fail: Lessons From Geno Auriemma
Suppose you are teaching introductory philosophy, and early in the semester you present the concept of a valid argument, noting that it can have...
Syllabus Showcase: Dawn of Western Thought, Robert Earle
I designed this ancient (mostly Greek) philosophy course around three units: the Presocratics through Socrates and the sophists, Plato and Aristotle, and Hellenistic thought....
Undergraduate Philosophy Club: UMass Boston
The Philosophy Club at UMass Boston has been meeting since the 1980s. As far back as the mid-1990s, the club has met weekly. The...