The Teaching Workshop: Diversifying the Syllabus
It’s the start of a new academic year and The Teaching Workshop is back to answer your pedagogy related questions. Welcome back! Each post...
The Teaching Workshop: August 2016 Roundup
As the fall semester approaches, now is a good time to have a look at some of the advice and suggestions that have come out...
Stand Up, Stoicism, and Facing Death
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Comedians and philosophers have a lot in common. They both try to come up with theories to explain phenomena they’ve observed, spend long...
The Teaching Workshop: July 2016 Roundup
One broad theme that has emerged in the topics so far addressed in the Teaching Workshop is student engagement. Student engagement can make or...
“Philosophy for Children in the Borderlands,” an 18-minute, bilingual documentary funded by an APA...
University of Texas at El Paso Assistant Professor Amy Reed-Sandoval is executive producer of the documentary funded by the American Philosophical Association through a Diversity...
The Teaching Workshop: The Analytic Synthetic Distinction
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 PLATO Philosophy Fund: A New Funding Initiative
Update 12/30/16: 45 institutions have now become PPF Founding Members, with membership contributions of $250 or more. With a challenge grant from the Squire Family...
What Institutions, Departments, and Individuals Can Do to Help Adjuncts
Part Three of a Three-part Series on Adjunct Teaching and Student Learning (Part 1 / Part 2)
Here a few things we can do—some at very...
The Teaching Workshop: Making Group Work “Work” for Your Philosophy Students
Welcome again to The Teaching Workshop, where your questions related to pedagogy are answered. Each post features questions submitted by readers with answers from...
How Philosophy Neglects Its Most Vulnerable Students
Part Two of a Three-part Series on Adjunct Teaching and Student Learning (Part 1)
There are two academias, and our discipline is focused on the wrong...