Syllabus Showcase: The Buddhist Traditions, Purushottama Bilimoria
In some ways this is a standard course on Buddhist Philosophy & Religion. The title Buddhist Tradition (I expanded it to Traditions) was given...
Syllabus Showcase: Philosophy as Conversation, Matt Deaton
Taking an oral-concentration philosophy class to avoid Public Speaking is like enrolling in Astrophysics to bypass Algebra. Yet misguided students do exactly that every...
Undergraduate Philosophy Clubs: Kenyon College and Capital University (Re)Create Department Culture and Community
This will be an important year for your philosophy department’s culture.
Current seniors at four-year, undergraduate, residential institutions, have not had a typical college experience....
Pandemic Ph.D. Preparedness or, I Don’t Know Things
The first year of my Ph.D. was conducted entirely online and was something of a blur. This was punctuated by my first experience with...
Thought Experiments, “Reverse-Racism,” and Comedy
In the following clip from comedian Aamer Rahman, the concept of “reverse racism” is considered. Is it a meaningless rhetorical construction, or does it...
Syllabus Showcase, Introduction to Ethics, Laura M. Bernhardt
Introductory ethics courses are the bread and butter of university general education offerings in philosophy, typically taken by non-majors navigating basic graduation requirements and/or...
Why Location Matters When Choosing A Graduate School
When deciding where to go to graduate school, it is common to think of a state’s politics as tangential. You may take issue with...
Undergraduate Philosophy Club: Utah State University
On a sunny Tuesday autumn afternoon, the Utah State Philosophy Club meets on the grassy quad next to Old Main right at the base of the...
A (Re)Discovery and Validation of the Importance of Female Philosophers
One of the most formative courses of my graduate career has been taking a graduate seminar on moral psychology and philosophy, taught by Mike...
Irony and Analogy: Uncovering Implicit Biases – Wanda Sykes on the Opioid Health Crisis
In the following, comedian Wanda Sykes wonders why African Americans have suffered much less, if at all, from the current opioid health crisis. Ironically,...