Adding philosophical depth to anything and everything
Corporatization is diluting higher education By a remarkable stroke of good fortune, I get to teach university courses online and live and travel wherever I want. Online instruction can never be as good as in-person classes, but online courses can be very good IF administrators and tech corporations don’t insert […]
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The two cursed cohorts have reached college and they are struggling In my two decades of teaching university courses, I’ve never seen more students have more struggles than in the last two years. That’s especially the case this current year. I have a suspicion as to why this is. One […]
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In my years of teaching college courses, I’ve never seen more students struggle so much as in the last two years. That’s especially the case this current year . I have a suspicion as to why this is. One can’t consider everyone in any group as being the same, but there […]
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A subject that has been in the news quite a lot lately as a political issue is diversity, equity, and inclusion, and this is a topic that’s dear to my heart as a philosophy professor. I have taught at 12 different universities over the course of my career. At first, […]
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“Gee, Mr. Wizard …” “… <heh, heh> we’re gonna need another Timmy.” (my eternal admiration for anyone who gets that reference.) As in so many things in life, I find myself eternally situated between divergent spheres. This situation is most evident in my two great avocations in life, music and philosophy. […]
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I’ve taught philosophy to university students for over 20 years. In trying to explain philosophy to others, I have learned more about philosophy than when I was a student. Always, I have sought to show students how philosophy relates to their everyday lives. I present to them how the ideas […]
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Excerpts from How We Are and How We Got Here: A Practical History of Western Philosophy. British Reform Movement Significant developments in social philosophy and social reform took place in the United Kingdom in the 1800s. The Parliament of the United Kingdom passed a progressive series of laws beginning in […]
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I began teaching philosophy in 1998, and I love talking with students and helping them discover new ideas. Several years ago, I gave up on the mass produced introduction to philosophy textbooks. The offerings from the Big Four corporate educational publishers (Cengage, McGraw Hill, Pearson, and Oxford) are overpriced […]
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Transcript: Welcome to the insert philosophy here podcast. Inserting the principles of philosophy into real life. The last week of August and the first week of September is when students across the United States, Canada, and most European countries go back to school. There’s no overestimating the importance […]
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…but I’m really talking about the human perceptions of time. (Source: Piqsels) Yes, time. Yesterday, my spouse reminded me that this year is one of those decade-defined anniversaries of my graduation from high school. It honestly had never crossed my mind. I was too busy living in the present. Humans do […]
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