Contexts and Contest: Propositional (i.e., Sentential) Logic as a Method of Asking Narrow &...
At the start of every term, I always tell students that my aim is to have them leave class with more questions than answers....
What are We (Not) Doing When We Struggle to Ask Good Questions?
One of my favorite moments in class is when a student says something like, “I think I have a question, but I’m not sure...
Asking Humanly Historical Questions in Philosophy Classrooms
My students were mad the day I told them they’d have to debate the merits of The Origin of Species. Obviously, they told me,...
Questioning Questions
I struggle mightily with the question of what it’s fair to explore in a philosophy class. First, I teach in a state that recently...
Call for Blog Posts for the Question-Focused Pedagogy Series Written by Current Undergraduate Students
Blog posts due November 22nd, 2024
Please submit them at sschulman@elon.edu.
Students have unique perspectives on teaching and learning that occur in philosophy classes. In addition,...
How I got to Questions
In December 2013, I defended my dissertation. As joyous as it was, it was most notable for sparking the beginning of a pedagogical transformation....
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...
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...
Introducing the Question-Focused Pedagogy (QFP) Series
“Wait… but Stephen… there are no bad questions.”
And there is it. Even as it has continued to happen, class after class, every time it...