How Teachers Succeed
What are the fundamentals of pedagogic success? The essence is contained in three strategic concepts.
The first is commonly referred to as “motivation.” Without it...
The Teaching Workshop: Why Philosophy is a Good Introduction to Science
Another thing we can do to improve our pedagogy, along with reflecting on our failures, is to experiment. For this week, we have an...
“Psychiatry and the Humanities”: Postgraduate Course in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal
As contemporary psychiatry works through the current version of our identity crisis, some leaders in my field argue for a more scientific psychiatry, grounded...
How Teaching Should Matter
Like other academics, philosophers pay lip service to the importance of teaching, but as a recent report published in Teaching Philosophy demonstrates, practice does not...
Philosophy with School Teachers
Beginning in 2010, I have led a number of Summer Seminars for School Teachers on Existentialism sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities....
The Teaching Workshop: Teaching Abortion
Welcome again to The Teaching Workshop, where your questions related to pedagogy are answered. Each post features questions submitted by readers with answers from...
New Prize for Excellence in Philosophy Teaching
The American Philosophical Association (APA), the American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT), and the Teaching Philosophy Association (TPA) are pleased to announce the establishment...
The Teaching Workshop: Experiments in Grading
Another thing we can do to improve our pedagogy, along with reflecting on our failures, is to experiment. So, for this installment of the...
Non-Canonical Texts and Teaching the History of Modern Philosophy: Why We Might as Well...
In my previous post, I made a case for abandoning the survey approach to the teaching of modern philosophy. In place of the survey...
Non-Canonical Texts and Teaching the History of Modern Philosophy: Why We Might as Well...
There has been significant discussion of late regarding the importance of expanding the canon when discussing the early modern period. (See O'Neill, 2005 and...