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Teaching

The Evidence Supporting Pre-College Instruction in Philosophy

January 17, 2018

“A growing body of controlled and randomized research suggests that philosophical instruction in primary and secondary education positively impacts students’ subsequent cognitive development, sometimes…
Public Philosophy and Outreach

Philosophy in Schools: Continuing the Conversation (guest post by Myfanwy J. Williams)

September 27, 2017

The following is a guest post* by Myfanwy J. Williams, responding to last week’s post about claims made regarding the benefits of pre-college philosophy…

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Student Philosopher on A Philosopher Among the MacArthur Fellows
So great to see a philosopher among the awardees! I remember reading some of de Brigard's work on moral psychology when trying to decide whether graduate study in…
Student Philosopher on A Request from an AI (updated)
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Ichabod Crawford on A Request from an AI (updated)
Recall Kant, Meme. Kant knew that the man who kicks a dog is likely to kick a human. Cruelty to animals is bad because is inculcates a disposition…
naive skeptic on A Request from an AI (updated)
I was one of the people trying to do that exact work: https://naiveskepticblog.wordpress.com/2026/05/23/three-perspectives-on-ai-accelerationism-pragmatism-doomerism/ I am grateful for the people who let the way
Eric Steinhart on A Request from an AI (updated)
Argument? I never said I was making an argument. I will say that the AI threads on DailyNous fall into larger cultural patterns. And that there's an enormous…
Jr Phil Prof on Overwhelming Cheating
Unless you are teaching an innovative new course on the philosophy of how to use AI effectively, why is it our job to teach philosophy students how to…
Daniel King on Overwhelming Cheating
The teaching profession is obviously not good at keeping up with new technology. Instead of fighting AI, teachers need to teach students how to use AI effectively. In…
Runa on A Request from an AI (updated)
Perhaps consider the possibility that the theology has entered the discourse originally in a different way. Namely, via those who are hellbent on pushing AI on everyone to…
Runa on A Request from an AI (updated)
(1) (2) or (a) (b) take your pick
Runa on A Request from an AI (updated)
@Krell, @Naive Skeptic I'm impressed by the different CATEGORIES of harm bit. To me this seems like (1)harm concerning which our institutions cannot handle, or at least did…
Runa on A Request from an AI (updated)
I'm not talking about on this blog, but elsewhere.
Runa on A Request from an AI (updated)
I think the way the Accelerationist vs Pragmatist vs Doomer labels got generated in the first place was via people trying to make a similar point to yours,…
naive skeptic on A Request from an AI (updated)
I agree with the sentiment of this, but I do think it's relevant that most AI accelerationists and AI pragmatists do in fact completely dismiss any sort of…
Keith Tipton on A Request from an AI (updated)
An AI was told "go, play outside and find a moneymaking venture and leave me alone" and it came back with an essay it wants to enter in…
krell_154 on A Request from an AI (updated)
I'd say almost everyone acknowledges Doom as possibilty, Doomers are those that consider it highly probable

Tag: elementary

The Evidence Supporting Pre-College Instruction in Philosophy

Philosophy in Schools: Continuing the Conversation (guest post by Myfanwy J. Williams)