Sarah Silverman’s “I Love You, America” and World-Traveling
In the clip from I Love You, America (2017–2018), comic Sarah Silverman talks to a conservative family about their beliefs regarding gun control, Donald...
Race and Animals, Maya von Ziegesar
I taught this course at Wesleyan University in Spring 2025 to a class of 15 students, mostly seniors and sophomores. I was tasked the...
“Chidi Kills Janet!” Unpacking Sentience and the Moral Status of AI
This clip, “Chidi Kills Janet!,” from the first season of NBC’s The Good Place, lets us gauge our intuitions about how computers fit with...
Interdisciplinary Humanities (SEARCH), Benjamin E. Curtis
The SEARCH program has existed at Rhodes College, in one form or another, since 1946. This chronologically oriented, three-semester “Great Books” interdisciplinary humanities sequence...
Ethical Leadership, Trevor Hedberg
The W.A. Franke Honors College at the University of Arizona launched its Civic Leadership Certificate Program (CLC) in Spring 2023. Ethical Leadership, which I...
Zen and the Art of Automotive Design
This brief Mazda advertisement describes the Japanese philosophy of jinba-ittai, the experience of a rider being one with their horse through the communication of...
Feminist Themes in Philosophy Film and Literature, Philip Bold & Tamara Fakhoury
We share a deep belief in the philosophical power of film—and in its unique ability to connect abstract thought with lived experience, imagination, and...
A Question about Grading, Steven M. Cahn
In a generous, extended review of my recent book Exploring Academic Ethics, Michael Goldman fairly summarizes my view that a grade should represent an...
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...