Syllabus Showcase: Family and Philosophy, Brynn Welch
Here is how I put this to students: Frankenstein is not a good story. You don’t read about Dr. Frankenstein just creating a monster...
Zooming Across Boundaries: Organizing a Reading Group during a Pandemic
A Philosophy PhD program is a long and difficult experience under normal conditions. If you add a pandemic on top of that, you have...
Sophia’s Garden: Teaching Children and Teenagers Philosophy and Social Justice
SUNY Cortland’s Sophia’s Garden project helps encourage philosophical inquiry and language enrichment for children. Its motto is “Engaging Curious Young Minds to Make Learning...
Thank You for Arguing
The dark comedy Thank You For Smoking (2005) focuses on how lobbyist Nick Naylor uses crafty rhetorical tactics to promote the interests of Big...
Syllabus Showcase: Philosophical-Policy & Legal Design: Methods and Applications, John Martin Gillroy
I have been teaching Philosophical-Policy And Legal Design (PPLD) for over twenty years, and with it, both my undergraduate and graduate students have found...
Undergraduate Philosophy Club: New York University
Our Tea and Philosophy club formally began in the Spring of 2012. It sprang from regular, after-class discussions with some of my students. I suggested starting...
John Oliver and the Fallacy of Hasty Generalization
In this clip, John Oliver reveals how mainstream media morning shows make hasty generalizations based on preliminary studies. John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight deals...
Syllabus Showcase: Social, Ethical, and Professional Issues in Computer Science, Trystan Goetze
Data breaches, algorithmic bias, digital rights management, surveillance technology, facial recognition, Cambridge Analytica, online misinformation, job automation, the singularity – these are just some...
Undergraduate Philosophy Club; Mesa Community College
The Mesa Community College Philosophy Club was founded from scratch in March of 2003 (there was not an informal club before that). Before the...
The Circle: How to Foster Community in the Classroom
In 2019 the University of Toronto offered a graduate course on German Idealism, taught by Owen Ware. I had no background nor prior interest...