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...
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...