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...
Teaching Between (In)Justice and Care
Part One of a Three-part Series on Adjunct Teaching and Student Learning
Take your job. Teach your usual course load and maintain your research program. Add...
The Teaching Workshop: More Writing without Extra Grading
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 Teaching Workshop: Encouraging Participation in Large Lectures
Welcome again to The Teaching Workshop, where your questions related to pedagogy are answered. Each post features questions submitted by readers with answers from...
Pitted Against Yourself: Credibility and False Confessions
For the past eight months, I’ve been teaching courses at a maximum-security men’s prison in a suburb of Chicago. One of the many surprising...
The Teaching Workshop: Diversity and the Canon
Welcome again to The Teaching Workshop, where your questions related to pedagogy are answered. Each post features questions submitted by readers with answers from...
To Podcast, or Not to Podcast?
As I mentioned in a previous post here, I have, since 2010, been producing a weekly podcast series on the history of philosophy. Podcasts are an increasingly...