Tag: teaching
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What We Assume Undergraduates Know
As teachers, we have certain basic expectations of our students, and from our own perspectives, some of these expectations may be so basic that…
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Free Online Philosophy Teaching Workshop
Cogtweeto and the American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT) and are putting on a free, two-day workshop on the teaching of philosophy.
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The Best Worst Feedback You’ve Received from a Teacher
As we saw in the discussion of last week’s post about Harry Frankfurt’s recollections of Max Black, some of you recall hard-ass professors you…
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An Accessible and User-Friendly Argument Mapping App (guest post)
[archived image unavailable]“Argument mapping is about twice as effective at improving student critical thinking as other methods,” writes Jonathan Surovell (Texas State University). However, “there…
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The Hard-Ass Philosophy Professor: an “Inestimably Valuable Educational Experience”
Last week, following Harry Frankfurt’s death, Katrien Schaubroeck (Antwerp) circulated an intellectual autobiography Frankfurt had written for a 2011 volume she co-edited on his…
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“Am I the unethical one?” A Philosophy Professor & His Cheating Students
“All I did was go to a website that is designed to facilitate cheating and set up a kind of camera to see who…
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Study Abroad Courses in Philosophy
Have you taught a “study abroad” or “destination” course in philosophy? Do you have any ideas for a good one?
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The AI-Immune Assignment Challenge
AutomatED, a guide for professors about AI and related technology run by philosophy PhD Graham Clay (mentioned in the Heap of Links last month),…
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What Do Experiments in Philosophy Teaching Look Like? (guest post)
“There is room to think creatively about how to improve learning and love of philosophy via innovation in pedagogy.”
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Teaching Philosophy in a World with ChatGPT
“It will be difficult to make an entire class completely ChatGPT cheatproof. But we can at least make it harder for students to use…
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AI, Teaching, and “Our Willingness to Give Bullshit a Pass”
There has been a fair amount of concern over the threats that ChatGPT and AI in general pose to teaching. But perhaps there’s an…
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Oral Exams in Undergrad Courses?
Between the developments in large language models (like GPT-3) and their possible use by students, and being in the thick of end-of-term grading of…
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Models of Philosophical Thought Experiments
A philosophy professor has launched a project to create 3D-printed models of philosophical thought experiments, along with other open-access materials “designed to teach learners…
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Teaching Hume and His Racism
“Whenever someone claims that we should not mention Hume’s racism because he was a product of his time we should commit that argument ‘to…
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Philosophical Dialogues: Beyond The Usual Suspects
About five years ago I posted about philosophical dialogues, but I recently received a question about them that wasn’t taken up in that post,…
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Free Business Ethics Course Materials
A team of scholars at Georgetown University have developed a set of open-access resources for teaching and learning business ethics.
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Philosophy Teaching & Learning Materials on Professors’ Websites
Individual philosophy instructors often post publicly available resources for students on their websites. Here’s a place to share them.
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Teaching and Writing About Abortion in Idaho (and elsewhere?)
“Academic freedom is not a defense to violation of law, and faculty or others in charge of classroom topics and discussion must themselves remain…
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Agenda-Setting, Area-Defining, Influential Philosophy Textbooks
Philosophy textbooks—anthologies or introductory-level commentaries—can take on roles beyond the pedagogical purposes for which they’re put together. Through editorial and authorial choices of inclusion…