From the Hermeneutic Priority to a Phenomenology of (Shared) Questioning
I. The Hermeneutic Priority of Questioning
How does a sentence heard, seen, or felt transform into a meaning understood? We—linguistically shaped human beings—hear and see...
Undergraduate Philosophy Club: Aporia at Lehman College
There used to be a philosophy club at Lehman College a couple of years ago, but this one was inactive for a while. It...
Stoicism, Sandra Woien
Stoicism, an ancient school of thought originating with Zeno of Citium (334-262 BC), is experiencing a resurgence. Several thriving and robust Stoic communities exist...
Two Easy Techniques to Restore (or at Least Affirm) Academic Honesty
In reading social media posts by philosophers and speaking with colleagues around the country, there seem to be four faculty responses to the academic...
A Question for Teachers, Steven M. Cahn
To highlight a key element of successful teaching, consider this question: When you prepare to teach a class, is your primary focus on the...
The Godfather’s Mafia Meeting Scene: A Fictional Narrative of Hobbesian Contractarianism
Whenever I teach the undergraduate courses of Ethical Theory and Contemporary Social Ethics, I include The Godfather’s mafia meeting scene as part of these...
Philosophy of Language, Helen L. Daly
My department at Colorado College lists the Philosophy of Language as an introductory course, but in my experience prior to this position, the philosophy...
Where Questions Come From
A lot of emphasis in education is placed on showing what you know. But for at least a decade now, as I’ve thought about...
On Student-Faculty Relationships
It might seem as if since COVID swept the world, everyone has suffered a significant decrease in social interactions. Classes were disrupted, social events...
Existentialism, Joshua M. Hall
During COVID, I was part of the 40% of the tenure-line faculty laid off by William Paterson University in New Jersey, after which I...