Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted by Peter Bradley in Videos, Sample arguments, Electronic Resources | No Comments »
In his second video on happiness (linked below), Alain de Boton consults an advertising agency to produce ads reminding us of Epicurus' central insight that happiness is not found in ... Read more..Thursday, February 28th, 2008 Posted by Phil Jenkins in Teaching Philosophies | No Comments »
Unlike brain surgery, the practice of philosophy shouldn’t be limited to professionals. That’s why I run a Socrates Café at the Scranton, PA public library. We are having our fourth ... Read more..Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 Posted by Peter Bradley in Electronic Resources | No Comments »
Alain de Botton produced a 6-part series on Philosophy called 'A Guide to Happiness': Socrates on Self-Confidence, Epicurus on Happiness, Seneca on Anger, Montaigne on Self-Esteem, Schopenhauer on Love and ... Read more..Saturday, February 23rd, 2008 Posted by Gualtiero Piccinini in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
In one of my current classes, 4 out of 13 students are regularly missing classes and skipping many of the assignments and some of the quizzes. At this rate, they ... Read more..Friday, February 22nd, 2008 Posted by Peter Bradley in Teachable Moments, Teaching Philosophies, Sample arguments | No Comments »
Con Houlihan, a columnist for the Irish Independent, has an op-ed arguing for increased emphasis on philosophy in education, because journalists and - worse yet - ordinary people are not ... Read more..Friday, February 22nd, 2008 Posted by Peter Bradley in Electronic Resources | No Comments »
I created these as part of the Inquiry project a few years ago. They've been updated and modified a couple of times since then. I use Peter Wason's four-card task ... Read more..Thursday, February 21st, 2008 Posted by Peter Bradley in Teachable Moments | No Comments »
A student of mine lent me Plato and a Platypus walk into a bar a few weeks ago. Forbes has reviewed (kindly) the sequel: Aristotle and an Aardvark Go to ... Read more..Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 Posted by Peter Bradley in Teachable Moments | 4 Comments »
There is an interesting article in Drury University's student paper about approaches to teaching abortion. When I taught contemporary issues in ethics, I did. But I hated it. I sincerely ... Read more..Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 Posted by Peter Bradley in Sample arguments | No Comments »
A few years ago, all my illustrations of complex philosophic concepts came from the Simpsons or bad sci-fi. Now, I find myself bringing things like the following to class: (From Tiggers ... Read more..Monday, February 18th, 2008 Posted by Peter Bradley in Sociology of the discipline | No Comments »
The Columbus Dispatch has an article about Ohio's program allowing highschool students to take courses at the college level - and it focuses on a student taking Phil 101, ... Read more..