Teachers Assemble: The Case for High School Philosophy Across Disciplines
Of all the major disciplines, philosophy is the least likely to be taught in American primary or secondary schools, either as a core subject...
A Template for High School Philosophy Summer Camps at Colleges and Universities
This document has been inspired by our experiences leading the Western Michigan University Lyceum, a weeklong philosophy summer camp for high school students facilitated...
Teaching All the Students
Years ago the department of which I was then a member invited to campus a promising candidate for a faculty position. He had been...
Stop Teaching Kierkegaard in (Most of) your Undergraduate Classes
Introduction
This is a hard post for me to write because, as anyone who knows me also knows, I love Kierkegaard. A large amount of...
Syllabus Showcase: Ian Church, Introduction to Logic
PHL207: Introduction to Logic (syllabus below) is the core logic course for philosophy majors at Hillsdale College. All students at the College are required to...
The Loss of Meaningful Work
It was the last Friday in February of 2019 and I had two small seminar-size classes to run in the morning. This day was...
Syllabus Showcase: Jacob J. Andrews, Ethics in Classical China
I got the idea for this course the most scholarly, academic way possible: by binge-watching a fantasy TV show for eight year olds. The...
Philosophy of Perception and Biology
The short video presents some interesting facts about the mantis shrimp in a comical way and it emphasizes how unusually the shrimp’s eyes are...
Syllabus Showcase: Jonathan R. Cohen, Constructing Our World, Constructing Ourselves, Nineteenth Century German Philosophy
“Constructing Our World, Constructing Ourselves” is the third semester in a four-semester sequence covering the history of philosophy from Thales to Zizek. The focus...
Mentoring the Mentors
“Mentoring the Mentors” is a workshop that the APA has hosted at various divisional meetings over the last four years thanks to funding from...