You and your friend are in Lolitaville in search of Vladimir Nabokov’s recently released and incomplete novel, The Original of Laura, and happen upon two bookstores: R and L. You know without a doubt that the sole copy of Laura in Lolitaville is in one (but only one) of the two bookstores, but are unsure [...]
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Lolitaville
Posted in General Interest, Logic, Teaching Philosophy on November 17, 2009 | 5 Comments »
“Philosophical Readiness”
Posted in CFPs, Conferences, Teaching Philosophy on June 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Call for abstracts of presentations for a symposium on teaching philosophy to be part of the 55th annual conference of the Florida Philosophical Association, to be held November 13-14, 2009, in Gainesville, Florida, hosted by Santa Fe College.
DEADLINE: August 14, 2009
More information on the 2009 meeting is available here.
Symposium organizer: Charlotte Pressler, South Florida [...]
Video Lecture: Introduction to Modal Logic by Rajeev Gore
Posted in Logic, Teaching Philosophy on June 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Rajeev Goré of Australia National University gives a very approachable introduction to propositional modal logic in this video lecture here. It’s a nice, non-technical exposition of the relationship of syntax, semantics and derivation calculus for modal logic. Particularly interesting (and convincing!) is Goré’s assertion that Kripke frames can be intuitively understood in terms of graph [...]
How Can Non-Elite PhD Programs Help Their Students?
Posted in Grad School, Job Market, Teaching Philosophy on January 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Should they encourage them to publish?
(HT: Leiter)
On Teaching Logic
Posted in Teaching Philosophy on January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Heath White asks whether the standard logic curriculum needs a re-think.
Visual Illusion Blog
Posted in General Interest, Teaching Philosophy on December 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s an entire blog of visual illusions brought to you by Arthur Shapiro which may be helpful to philosophy teachers when talking about such things as optical illusions, trusting our senses, duck-rabbits, and consciousness.
Elon: An Exception to the Rule
Posted in General Interest, Job Market, News & Notes, Teaching Philosophy on December 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Inside Higher Ed has an article about Elon University’s attempts to go against the grain and become less reliant on contingent faculty. Excerpt:
The percentage of faculty members who are off the tenure track keeps going up, and they are quite possibly in the majority in American higher education. Administrators have justified the hiring pattern — [...]
The less they know, the less they know it?
Posted in Action Theory, Moral Psychology, Teaching Philosophy on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Via In Socrates’ Wake, I find this psychological gem:
[C]ognitive science offers some fairly sobering observations about our ability to judge ourselves and others…
[T]wo Cornell psychologists began with the following assumptions.
1. Incompetent individuals tend to overestimate their own level of skill.
2. Incompetent individuals fail to recognize genuine skill in others.
3. Incompetent individuals fail to recognize the [...]
Thinking about Implicit Bias
Posted in General Interest, Grad School, Job Market, News & Notes, Teaching Philosophy on November 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Feminist Philosophers have begun a series of posts on implicit bias and hiring practices. As readers may remember from discussions last year, women are only about twenty percent of philosophers, making philosophy among the worst in the humanities with regard to sex parity. Statistics are similarly dismal for racial and ethnic minorities.
There have been [...]
Civic Responsibility, Authenticity, and Guilt
Posted in Teaching Philosophy on October 15, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I admit to being, at any given time, mostly unaware of what goes on in the world aside from those parts of my daily life that require interaction beyond my students, colleagues, family, and two adoring cats. I’m always shocked to learn — usually from my students or parents, and only occasionally from my cats [...]
In Praise of Academic Effort
Posted in General Interest, Grad School, Philosophy of Psychology, Teaching Philosophy on January 2, 2008 | 14 Comments »
With the Spring semester right around the corner, I thought this article would be appropriate. The article is geared toward teachers and parents, but I think it’s helpful for students to think about what theory of intelligence they hold and how it might affect their academic performance:
Our society worships talent, and many people assume that [...]
God and The Perfect Burger Maker
Posted in General Interest, Teaching Philosophy on September 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
A few months ago I blegged for examples for teaching Introduction to Philosophy. And I got some great examples! Today I am not here to bleg. I am here to give. (But, of course, if anyone out there has more examples or advice to share, I’m always looking for things to put in my bag of [...]
Formal Book Review Written Informally
Posted in News & Notes, Teaching Philosophy on August 17, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Philosophers and people who don’t get philosophy, while perusing the local book store I fell upon a wonderful book that I think any person with at least a minimum college education and a good sense of humor will enjoy putting into their collection.
What’s the Value of Teaching Moral Skepticism?
Posted in Ethics, Teaching Philosophy on July 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Daniel Callcut (UNF) provides an answer. The discussion of his article – Teaching Philosophy 29 (2006): 223-235 — at In Socrates Wake is worth a look.
More on Teaching Philosophy
Posted in Teaching Philosophy on July 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This new blog on teaching philosophy might be of interest to our readers, especially to those of you who found this discussion beneficial.
- Rico Vitz
Examples for Teaching Intro
Posted in General Interest, Teaching Philosophy on April 27, 2007 | 14 Comments »
Of the many things I plan to do this summer, one of them is to work on lesson plans for Introduction to Philosophy. This post is to solicit stories, examples and/or references from other philosophy TA’s, professors and students.
