Writing for My Students
For whom do I write philosophy? Personally, more and more the answer is for my students; I want to write about things that can...
Jennifer Morton wins inaugural Scheffler Prize for insights into student and teacher behaviors
The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce that Dr. Jennifer Morton (City College of New York) has been selected as the winner of...
Elon’s Bloch-Schulman wins inaugural philosophy teaching prize for transformative college courses
The American Philosophical Association (APA), the American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT), and the Teaching Philosophy Association (TPA) are pleased to announce that Professor...
Using The Deviant Philosopher This Fall
It’s that time of year when many of us are finalizing, or starting to finalizing (or finalizing to start) our course syllabi for the...
Teach Graduate Students How To Teach
There are two important aspects to professional academic work: academic research and course instruction. In a graduate program, coursework supports the transfer of knowledge...
Building a Philosophical Playground
I spend most of my working days in the company of an eight-year-old cartoon girl with crazy pigtails, and her robot sidekick. If someone...
The Teaching Workshop: Digital Tools for Learning in Philosophy
Welcome again to The Teaching Workshop, where your questions related to pedagogy are answered. Have a question? Send it to PhilTeacherWorkshop@gmail.com, or participate in...
Some Students Are Satanists: Religion in the Philosophy Classroom
Religion may or may not be “the opium of the people,” as Karl Marx famously wrote, but students certainly like to talk about it in...
The Deviant Philosopher – A Teaching Resource
In a wonderful keynote address at the Harvard East Asia Society Graduate Conference this year, Professor Michael Puett warned against the dangers of ideological...
APA Newsletters, Spring 2017 Edition – Part One
The latest edition of the APA newsletters was posted online recently. In case you haven’t had a chance to check them out yet, I’m...