Tag: college
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How To Write A Philosophy Paper: Online Guides
Some philosophy professors, realizing that many of their students are unfamiliar with writing philosophy papers, provide them with “how-to” guides to the task.
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If You’re An Egalitarian, How Come You Teach At An Elite College?
The title of this post, a riff on G.A. Cohen’s If You’re An Egalitarian, How Come You’re So Rich?, is one way Jonny Thakkar (Swarthmore)…
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First-Generation College Students and Philosophy
A philosophy professor has embarked on a project to understand and address issues faced by philosophy students who are first-generation college students or members…
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Philosophy Threatened at SUNY Fredonia
The administration at the State University of New York at Fredonia has targeted the school’s Department of Philosophy.
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MIT Launches Billion Dollar Ethics-Oriented AI Initiative
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is establishing a new college focused on the development and “ethical application” artificial intelligence.
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Teaching Philosophy as the Search for Complication
Most students in philosophy classrooms in the United States are taking their first and only philosophy course. Why is it their only one?
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Where the Open Exchange of Ideas is Most Protected and Valued
“[A] commonly held, and wrong, belief is that colleges and universities suppress speech as a matter of course. In fact, the higher education sector is…
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How to Teach (Philosophy): Readings Sought
What readings about teaching would you assign to philosophy graduate students?
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The “Moral Panic” of Campus Free Speech
People get awfully solemn in the United States about the civic function of our institutions of higher education. They talk about college as the…
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AAUP and AAC&U Issue Statement in Defense of Liberal Arts Education
“We believe that institutions of higher education, if they are truly to serve as institutions of higher education, should provide more than narrow vocational training and…
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The “PC College Students vs. Free Speech” Narrative is Baloney
Overall public support for free speech is rising over time, not falling. People on the political right are less supportive of free speech than…
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Robot Takes Philosophy of Love Course
William Barry, associate professor of philosophy at Notre Dame de Namur University and director of its “Virtual Learning Lab,” taught a new kind of student…
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Sharp Declines in Philosophy, History, & Language Majors Since 2010 (guest post by Eric Schwitzgebel)
The following is a guest post* by Eric Schwitzgebel, professor of philosophy at University of California, Riverside. It first appeared at his blog, The Splintered Mind.
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Recent APA Grants Fund Projects on Outreach and Diversity
The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced the winners of several of its grants for the 2017-2018 academic year. All of the funded projects…
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51 Years Teaching Philosophy Is Not Good Enough, says Accreditor
Professor Katherine Butler has taught philosophy at Wayne State College (WSC) in Wayne, Nebraska, for 51 years. It doesn’t look like she’ll be doing it…
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Teach Everyone Logic?
[William] Clifford argued that we are morally responsible not merely for what we do and say, but also for what we believe… When we…
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Launching a PPE Program
A philosopher writes in seeking advice on starting a new program at his college: I teach at a Catholic small liberal arts college. My…
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Summer 2017 Philosophy Programs for Undergraduates
Are you organizing a philosophy program for undergraduates for the Summer of 2017? If so, please share information—dates, location, theme, website or email contact,…
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Starting and Maintaining a College Philosophy Club
A professor of philosophy at a U.S. college writes in with a request for information about undergraduate philosophy clubs: My university currently does not…
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A Surprisingly Overlooked Gap in Philosophy (guest post by Bob Fischer)
Bob Fischer is an assistant professor of philosophy at Texas State University. In a brief conversation over the summer, he shared with me an observation about a…