Teaching Outside the Classroom: Dena Shottenkirk on Think Olio
Think Olio is a New York-based interdisciplinary lecture series founded by CUNY students Chris Zumtobel and David Kurfirst in March 2015, who started with...
Should Philosophy Classrooms Get Gritty? (Part 2)
Welcome again to The Teaching Workshop, where your questions related to pedagogy are answered. Each post features questions submitted by readers with answers from...
The Case Against Education?
Princeton University Press recently published a book by the economist Bryan Caplan titled The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a...
The PLATO Philosophy Fund
by Jana Mohr Lone
Applications are now being accepted for the PLATO Philosophy Fund (PPF), supporting a wide range of innovative philosophy programs around the...
Issues Concerning Faculty Appointments
Searching for a new colleague is rarely a smooth process. Indeed, it can intensify departmental friction or create it where none existed.
Once a department...
A Classroom Game for Teaching Climate Ethics
I’d known, in some sense, that games could be effective teaching tools. But, appropriately enough, it took playing a game at a conference to...
What are you teaching?
In an effort to get a sense of what philosophers are doing day-to-day, the blog been asking them to share what they are teaching...
What are you teaching?
In an effort to get a sense of what philosophers are doing day-to-day, the blog has been asking them to share what they are...
What are you teaching?
In an effort to get a sense of what philosophers are doing day-to-day, the blog has been asking them to share what they are...
Doctoral Education
Many years ago, when my late friend James Rachels and I were assistant professors at New York University, we used to discuss all aspects...