Beauvoir and Colbert on Neutrality and Otherness
The clip “Neutral Man’s Burden” from The Colbert Report (Comedy Central, 2005-2014) can be used to explicate the concepts of neutrality and Otherness in Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex.
Undergraduate Philosophy Club: University of California, Riverside
Club President: Kevin Bethell
Club Advisor: Gerardo Sanchez
The Philosophy Club @ UCR officially began in 2017; before which it was an informal club that was active off-and-on for...
APA Member Interview: Jaime Castillo-Gamboa
Jaime Castillo-Gamboa is a PhD student in philosophy at the University of Southern California. Prior to USC, he attended the Pontifical Catholic University of...
Syllabus Showcase: Classical Indian Philosophy, Malcolm Keating
At Yale-NUS College in Singapore, my students are international—roughly sixty percent are Singaporean, and forty percent come from all around the world, hailing from...
What Makes a Course Effective?
One of the most difficult parts of college-level instruction is assessing the effectiveness of your teaching. Many of the conventional methods for measuring student...
Syllabus Showcase: News & Knowing, Justin McBrayer
This is a course that focuses on the fake news epidemic in a way that non-philosophy majors can understand and appreciate. It could function...
What Makes a Course Resilient?
Like universities all across the country, mine announced, mid-semester in the spring of 2020, that we’d all be transitioning to online learning in less...
Teaching and Learning Video Series
Index of posts from the Teaching and Learning Video Series
Syllabus Showcase: Philosophy of Science, W. John Koolage
I teach an upper level General Philosophy of Science course every other year. My institution is a mid-sized R2 that primarily serves the local,...
Using Discussion Cards to Balance Philosophical Conversations
Classroom discussion is our bread and butter as philosophy teachers. Here we model productive disagreement and collaborative problem solving while wrestling with philosophical arguments....