Reflections on Teaching Logic
Colleagues and friends of mine know I can often be found (usually after a pint or two!) bemoaning the fact that for a discipline...
John Cage’s 4’33” and Experimental Phenomenology
Death Metal band Dead Territory has a wonderful video cover of John Cage’s 4'33" that I use in my Introduction to Latin American Philosophy...
Asking Effective Questions, Steven M. Cahn
In an oral examination, faculty members are probing the breadth and depth of a student’s knowledge. The usefulness of the format, however, depends on...
Philosophy and Race, Cody Gomez
This “Philosophy and Race” course began somewhat accidentally due to my being a teaching assistant, then instructor, for a similar course while a graduate...
Online Philosophy Pedagogy in the Age of AI
If you have not been living under a rock for the past two years, you should be aware of the fact that AI poses...
Collecting Nuts and Bolts: Reintroducing the Teaching and Learning Video Series
Whenever I teach an introductory-level philosophy course, I spend some time working through different reading strategies with my students, who are largely unfamiliar with...
Logic and Critical Thinking, Daniel Allen
My experience teaching both introductory and symbolic logic at Villanova was resulting in too much overlap between the courses, with too little time for...
Philosophy of Time, Nina Emery
This syllabus is for an upper-level undergraduate seminar on the philosophy of time that I offer every other year at Mount Holyoke College. MHC...
The two-draft assignment model
In my philosophy courses, I largely give take-home writing assignments. These are either focused on the course readings (no research required beyond the syllabus)...
Teaching Philosophy of Religion, Steven M. Cahn
Relatively few philosophers specialize in the philosophy of religion, but many teach an introductory problems course in which one usual topic is the existence...