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...
Syllabus Showcase: Jennifer Morton, The Self: Aspiration and Transformation
by Jennifer Morton
Jennifer M. Morton is Associate Professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Her research areas are philosophy of action,...
The Fallacy of False Analogy and Mercedes Benz
This short commercial tells the story of Raymond. Raymond, it seems, has denied himself ice cream despite desperately wanting it and having no real...