We have students read books and articles, write essays, answer test questions, and make presentations. These all mainly involve words. Is it worth thinking about how to teach philosophy in ways t...
https://dailynous.com/2024/05/07/teaching-philosophy-with-non-linguistic-media/
“Far from abandoning the traditional values of philosophical pedagogy, LLM dialogues promote these values better than papers ever did.” ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs) have phi...
You may occasionally think about a topic you think you should add to a course you teach, but put off doing so because you don’t believe you know enough about it to teach it well. The preparatio...
https://dailynous.com/2024/02/27/learning-to-teach-philosophy-you-dont-already-know/
Philosophy teachers—Michael Rota, a professor of philosophy at the University of St. Thomas (Minnesota), is about to make your teaching a bit better and your life a bit easier. Professor Rota...
And if they’re not, what can be done to get them to do it? Or is that the wrong way to think about it? These questions come up in response to a recent piece by Adam Kotsko (North Central Col...
https://dailynous.com/2024/02/16/are-your-students-doing-the-reading/
Some philosophy professors, realizing that many of their students are unfamiliar with writing philosophy papers, provide them with “how-to” guides to the task. I thought it might be useful t...
https://dailynous.com/2024/01/23/write-philosophy-paper-online-guides/
A survey conducted at the end of last year indicated that 30% of college students had used ChatGPT for schoolwork. Undoubtedly, the number has gone up since then. Teachers: what have your experie...
https://dailynous.com/2023/12/11/teachers-was-the-semester-ai-pocalyptic-or-was-it-ai-ok/
How do large language models (LLMs) affect how we understand our job as teachers, and how does it affect what we should do in order to do that job well? Zak Kopeikin, Ted Shear, and Julia Staffel...
https://dailynous.com/2023/08/21/resources-for-teaching-in-the-age-of-chatgpt-other-llms/
“ChatGPT has just woken many of us up to the fact that we need to be better teachers, not better cops.” In the following guest post, Matthew Noah Smith, associate professor of philosophy at N...
As teachers, we have certain basic expectations of our students, and from our own perspectives, some of these expectations may be so basic that we may not think to tell the students about them. A...
https://dailynous.com/2023/08/02/what-we-assume-undergraduates-know/
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 had as being among your most effective teachers ...
https://dailynous.com/2023/07/31/the-best-worst-feedback-youve-received-from-a-teacher/
“Argument mapping is about twice as effective at improving student critical thinking as other methods,” writes Jonathan Surovell (Texas State University). However, “there are obstacles pre...
https://dailynous.com/2023/07/28/an-accessible-and-user-friendly-argument-mapping-app-guest-post/
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 work. In it, Fr...
“There is such an enormous and useful energy in bouncing back and forth between the theoretical and the practical.” In the following guest post, Cat Saint-Croix (University of Minnesota) and ...
What materials exist for teaching large introductory logic courses, and how do they compare? This summer, Curtis Franks, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, has tak...
“All I did was go to a website that is designed to facilitate cheating and set up a kind of camera to see who visited it.” That’s Garret Merriam, associate professor of philosophy at Sacram...
AutomatED, a guide for professors about AI and related technology run by philosophy PhD Graham Clay (mentioned in the Heap of Links last month), is running a challenge to professors to submit ass...
https://dailynous.com/2023/04/07/the-ai-immune-assignment-challenge/
“Learn formal logic in lessons of 200 words per day.” That’s the tagline for a project from Josh Dever, professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. So far, he has created ...
https://dailynous.com/2023/03/15/a-little-logic-each-day-semantics-too/
“There is room to think creatively about how to improve learning and love of philosophy via innovation in pedagogy.” That’s Russell Marcus, professor of philosophy at Hamilton College, and ...
https://dailynous.com/2023/02/01/what-do-experiments-in-philosophy-teaching-look-like-guest-post/
“It will be difficult to make an entire class completely ChatGPT cheatproof. But we can at least make it harder for students to use it to cheat.” (I’m reposting this to encourage those teac...
Martin Luther King, Jr. was a visiting professor at Morehouse College in the early 1960’s.* While there, he taught a senior seminar in social and political philosophy. What was on the syllabus...
https://dailynous.com/2023/01/16/martin-luther-king-jr-s-social-philosophy-course/
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 upside? Eric Schliesser (Amsterdam) entertains the possibility: ...
https://dailynous.com/2023/01/05/ai-teaching-and-our-willingness-to-give-bullshit-a-pass/
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 papers, the idea of making use of oral exams, a...
https://dailynous.com/2022/12/07/oral-exams-in-undergrad-courses/
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 of all ages ab...
https://dailynous.com/2022/10/31/models-of-philosophical-thought-experiments/
“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 the flames: for it contain nothing but sophistry an...
https://dailynous.com/2022/10/27/teaching-hume-and-his-racism/
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, or by those responding to it. Daniel Groll (Carleto...
https://dailynous.com/2022/10/13/philosophical-dialogues-beyond-the-usual-suspects/
A team of scholars at Georgetown University have developed a set of open-access resources for teaching and learning business ethics. The package of materials, “Business Ethics in a Box” was c...
https://dailynous.com/2022/10/12/free-business-ethics-course-materials/
Over the past few years we have seen some startling progress from Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-3, and some of those paying attention to these developments, such as philosopher John Symon...