Syllabus Showcase: Introduction to Philosophy, Samuel A. Taylor
I’ve been teaching Introduction to Philosophy at Tuskegee University for approximately five years. The course helps fulfill a general education requirement and, while we...
Effective Online Teaching
The underpinning of education is that teachers help students. Whether we are called teachers, instructors, faculty, professors, or facilitators, this is the essence of...
Undergraduate Philosophy Club: The University of North Carolina
UNC’s Philosophy Club emerged a few years ago in conjunction with the dissolution of our Phi Sigma Tau honors society chapter. It was founded...
Syllabus Showcase: Ethics of Data Science
The summer before my arrival at Purdue, I was asked to teach a version of Intermediate Ethics of Data Science, having never done it...
New Series Editor: Philosophical Reflections From an Intelligence Analyst
When I was recently invited to volunteer as a Series Editor for the American Philosophical Association, I didn’t question whether I have the proper...
Diversifying the Philosophy Syllabus
If you are like me and received your philosophical training at the tail end of the twentieth century, there are probably significant gaps in...
How to Teach How to Write: Empowering Students to Take Ownership of the English...
I love the craft of writing and I love teaching the craft of writing. But for the past few years, my love has grown...
Syllabus Showcase: Philosophy of Science (Without Mentioning Logical Positivism, Popper, or Kuhn), Joel Katzav
Standard philosophy of science courses tells us that philosophy of science emerged in the US as a result of the arrival of the Logical...
Taking Teaching More Seriously
In a generous review of my recent book Professors as Teachers, Martin Benjamin supports most of its major contentions, yet he finds outdated my...
Undergraduate Philosophy Club: Fordham University
The Fordham Philosophers’ Society, commonly known on campus as “PhilSoc,” began as a typical, yet uneventful undergraduate philosophy club. The association, originally founded in...