Teaching Asian Texts through Bridge Concepts
Bridges give us access to unconnected places, places we would have found unreachable or difficult otherwise. Bridge concepts, too, give us access to spatially,...
How to Support Graduate Student Teaching in the Time of COVID-19
The recent transition to online learning has negatively impacted many of us in higher education. We know that those who are currently teaching or...
49 Days: Thinking Creatively, Living Creatively
COVID 19 is closing down so much of the world's activities. I teach at Montclair State University. Our doors are shut and most classes...
A Bit of Fry & Laurie and the Is/Ought Problem
A Bit of Fry & Laurie lets us ask: just because this is a way that I can make money, is it something that I ought to do?
Teaching Philosophy and Teaching ‘Philosophically’
When I was first hired at Mira Costa High School in 2012 as an English Teacher, I was already a semester-deep in a Masters...
Collaborative Classes and Conferences: A How-To Guide
One of the greatest challenges in today’s classroom is increasing and diversifying student participation. I developed a format to improve participation in small classrooms,...
Moral Luck and Amber Alerts
In this video clip, a person playing a video game is interrupted when his phone blares out an amber alert. The person’s unlikely journey...
Real Philosophical Communities
Let's give it up to the actual communities that shape our philosophy.
Philosophy Begins in Apathy: Teaching Curiosity in Intro Courses
A semi-recent survey of philosophy faculty confirmed what many of us already know: we teach a TON of students every year who are non-majors....
Teaching Philosophy With Podcasts: A Few Modest Proposals
Recent years have seen an increasing pressure on university teachers to include new media in their teaching practices. I recently had a conversation with...