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...
A Foundation for Online Teaching and Learning
Given the current pandemic with the coronavirus, several institutions are transitioning to remote learning for the remainder of the semester. Educators and students who...
Teaching Ethics with Dungeons & Dragons
When I first started playing Dungeons and Dragons about five years ago, I immediately began dreaming of how I could use the game to...