The Argument Clinic and Introduction to Philosophy
The following clip, known as “The Argument Clinic," is from the British TV show, Monty Python’s Flying Circus (1972). It depicts a man who visits a...
Syllabus Showcase: Open Source Introduction to Philosophy, Karl Aho
Tarleton State University’s Introduction to Philosophy course is part of the Language, Philosophy, and Culture category of our core curriculum. All sections of the...
Undergraduate Philosophy Club: Middlesex County College
Giuseppe (on the left) and Anthony (on the right) recording a session of their podcast, For the Love of Sophia!
Carrying Philosophical Discourse Beyond Academia
“Doing...
Empowering Student Learning (in Philosophy)
When I was a Philosophy student - first as an undergraduate major, and then as a Ph.D. student - it never occurred to me...
He is the Park Ranger, she is the Other: gender in Parks and Recreation
This clip from Parks and Recreation plays on stereotypes of femininity and can be used to explore the concept of the Other in Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex."
Syllabus Showcase: Philosophy & Film, Marc A. Joseph
The inspiration for a class on philosophy and film came to me after watching (not for the first time) Roman Polanski’s Chinatown, and thinking,...
Undergraduate Philosophy Club: University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Club Advisor: Matthew Meyer
The Philosophy Club of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire began, in its current iteration, in the Fall of 2015. The club...
Virtue Experiments: Cultural Appropriation or Engaged Learning?
For a class on the good life I’m teaching this semester, I’m asking students to experiment with the concepts we’re exploring. In some cases,...
Teaching Practiced Liberatory Virtue Ethics
Epigraph:
“All I’m saying is simply this, that all life is interrelated, that somehow we’re caught in an inescapable network of mutuality tied in a...
The Argument Clinic
This video excerpts the “Argument Clinic” provides a rich basis from which to introduce and explore the philosophical conception of argumentation.