Madness, Mental Illness, and Emotional Distress, Emily R. Douglas
My course, Madness, Mental Illness, and Emotional Distress, is taught at Vanier College in St-Laurent, Québec, a CÉGEP (Collège d'enseignement général et professionnel). CÉGEPs...
Engineers, Expertise, and Organizations: The Challenger Space Shuttle Disaster
A central component of my Engineering Ethics course, which you can read more about in the Blog of the APA’s Syllabus Showcase series, is...
Questioning the Doubting Game
Things are going well in Symbolic Logic. Students are mastering truth tables, and they’re symbolizing English sentences into our truth-functional language with increasing facility....
Encouraging Students to Reflect
College courses, unlike most high school courses, require students to engage in a good deal of independent learning. What they do outside of class...
Flirting with Personhood: Will Smith’s Date with Sophia the Robot
With the increased prevalence of AI chatbots on dating apps, many users wonder if their date-to-be is really a person. The following clip depicts...
Technology and Disability, Ashley Shew, Damien P. Williams, and Joshua Earle
The three of us have taught classes about Technology and Disability through a philosophical lens, though this class has not been taught exclusively through...
Free Speech and the Philosophy Classroom: The Wrong Question
Welcome to the APA Mini-Series Blog organized by the APA Committee on Professional Rights and Academic Freedom, formerly, the Committee on the Professional Rights of Philosophers. We...
Why should your students do the work?
Most philosophy teachers we know have adopted strikingly defensive positions on AI use in their classes. One faction—call them Luddites—rejects these novel “labor-saving” technologies...
Smart Ass Pawn: Ideology and Ideological Interpellation in The Wire
For the most part, The Wire (2002-2008) has been embraced by educators for its realism, for the way that it shows in almost journalistic...
Social and Political Philosophy, Idris Robinson
In Fall 2023 and again in Spring 2025, I taught Texas State University’s graduate-level Social and Political Philosophy course. My aim was to design...