Tag: teaching
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Teaching Under Hostile Conditions
“The many sources of harm and hostility we collectively face—as philosophers, as educators, and as humans—seem too numerous to name, let alone to seriously…
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Should Humanities Faculty Aim to Ban AI from Their Classrooms?
“Because of the ubiquity of AI technology, students will likely be using it persistently outside the classroom in their personal lives. The humanities classroom…
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Teaching Humanities in the AI Era: Is this the Bargaining or the Acceptance Stage?
“What, again, is education? The non-coercive rearranging of desire.”
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A Trove of Data about Philosophy Departments in the US
How many philosophy departments are there in the United States? How many people do they employ? How many students are there in philosophy courses…
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Here Come the AI-Powered Bot Students
“We didn’t use to have to decide if our students were human, they were all people. But now there’s this skepticism because a growing…
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So, philosophers tend to have these occupational tics, right?
Many years ago I realized that, while teaching, I was automatically adding the one-word question, “right?” to the end of a lot of my…
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Logic Meets Tetris in New Video Game
In his spare time over the past couple of years, philosopher Ivo Pezlar (Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences) has been…
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The Multi-Day In-Class LockDown Browser Essay Assignment (guest post)
Many professors in philosophy and other disciplines believe that having students write take-home essays is important. Essays give students the opportunity to spend a…
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Philosophers Develop AI-Based Teaching Tool to Promote Constructive Disagreement (guest post)
One way of thinking about the job of a philosophy instructor is that it’s about teaching students to disagree well. Yet when it comes…
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A Philosopher’s Reflections on Teaching in a World with AI
“I once believed my students and I were in this together, engaged in a shared intellectual pursuit. That faith has been obliterated over the…
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Professors, How Are You Using AI in Your Day to Day Work?
More outside of academia than within it, one hears things like “in a few years saying ‘I don’t use AI’ will sound as weird…
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Trying & Writing about New Teaching Methods: Does It Require IRB Approval?
A philosophy professor interested in writing an article about her experiences trying out new teaching techniques was told by her administration that in order…
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The Teaching of Writing in the AI Era (Updated)
“Every professor I know wasted countless hours of 2024 in the prevention or detection of AI-powered cheating. It is a miserable war of attrition…
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Philosophy of AI / AI Ethics Syllabi, Lessons, Readings
As artificial intelligence (or “artificial intelligence” if you insist) is put to increased use in an increased variety of ways, teaching about it has…
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For Faculty: the Northeast Workshop to Learn About Multicultural Philosophy
The Northeast Workshop to Learn About Multicultural Philosophy (NEWLAMP) will be taking place once again this summer.
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Harness AI to Help Your Students Learn Basic Logic (and more) (guest post)
Michael Rota, professor of philosophy at the University of St. Thomas, has been using AI in his teaching, and is trying to make it…
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An Unconventional and Fruitful Approach to Studying Philosophy
The New Yorker published a profile of L.A. Paul (Yale) today. It’s a detailed, positive piece that covers her background, education, career, and ideas.
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What I Said to My Students about the Election
There’s been a lot of discussion on social media today among professors about what they should say to their students about the election.
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First-Year “Proseminars” in Philosophy Grad Programs
Many philosophy graduate programs have a course all of their first-year students are supposed to take together. They go by different names at different…