...general advice do you have for other philosophers interested in diversifying their syllabi? I think it is good to be on the lookout for work outside the canon that addresses...
...onto the syllabi. However, both early modern specialists whose research has been canon-focused and those many non-specialists teaching early modern survey courses need not only an easily accessible set of...
...the affirmation to answer the philosophical issues important to me regardless of whether said topics are orthogonal to what is considered “canon.” One of the most important pieces of advice...
...are you doing in your own classroom or university to diversify the philosophical canon? I’m currently teaching at Yale-NUS College, which has a multicultural Common Core that introduces students to...
...philosophers who have explicitly normalized the oppression of traditionally marginalized people. When we recruit people from underrepresented groups without decolonizing the canon, we essentially teach them how to become experts...
...Of course there are many more ways of diversifying the canon! On a very general level: I make an effort to avoid following traditional or very set narratives when teaching,...
...What are you doing in your classroom to diversify the philosophical canon? For the most part, discussions about diversifying the philosophy classroom take an additive approach: assign texts written by...
...diversifying their syllabi? My advice about diversifying syllabi isn’t terribly sophisticated, to be perfectly honest, but I can explain the process that I went through. My main goal in reworking...
...own classroom or university to diversify the philosophical canon? I try not to think of diversifying the canon in terms of adding authors here and there for the sake of...
With this post, the blog is kicking off a new series of interviews dedicated to diversifying the canon. We’d love for you to share your thoughts. Please contact us via...
