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Category: Teaching Intro-Courses Series
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My ideal curriculum for an Intro class in Philosophy is the one conceived by Jay Garfield and others and taught by Malcolm Keating and others at Yale-NUS College in Singapore, namely a completely non-Eurocentric introductory class (they have three main foci, namely Sanskrit, Chinese and European philosophy). But, what to do until we get there?…
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Teaching “On Bullshit” by C. Thi Nguyen I recently taught a "Bullshit and Assholes Week" in my introductory ethics class, and just had a lifetime peak teaching experience. It was for my first attempt at teaching Harry Frankfurt's "On Bullshit". Raw, pure, unrefined teaching ecstasy. I was actually prepping for the class the day before and…
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This is the first in a two-part post by Sara Uckelman of the Department of Philosophy, Durham University. It first appeared on her blog, Diary of Doctor Logic. We're grateful to her for allowing us to repost it here. I am quite optimistic about the prospects for the students in my tutorial group, and at the urging of a…
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by Stacey Goguen Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU), lower-division gen. ed. course: “Ethics” The Context I teach at a medium-sized public university (7,000-8,000 students) which caters to a racially and socio-economically diverse population of mostly Chicago-area residents, especially (a) students looking to transfer, either from more expensive nearby schools or community colleges, (b) non-traditional students who…