Category: Teaching & Student Life
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Learn Philosophy Without Enrolling: 4 Conversations with Professors from Columbia, UConn, UC Riverside & LMU
Tapping into my eternal student syndrome, I was on Harvard’s free online course webpage, giddy over which class to pick. The opportunity to enroll in one of these course offerings reminded me of why I wanted to create and continue to produce Good Is In The Details podcast, namely, access for a broad public to…
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What Makes Someone an Expert? Understanding Expertise vs. the Appeal to Authority Fallacy
Expert, “Expert,” or Appeal to Authority? Every day we’re told to “listen to the experts.” At the same time, we’re warned not to trust experts. The result is confusion over a surprisingly basic philosophical question: What makes someone an expert? Before we can debate medicine, education, economics, or public policy, we have to understand the…
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Press Release: “Public Philosophy in Action. ‘Philosophy Unplugged’ Creates Meaningful Dialogue and Brings Philosophy into the Classroom.”
Good Is In The Details podcast episodes as a tool for educators and the philosophy curious. The first in a series, Philosophy Unplugged provides discussion questions for five interviews offering contemporary insight on big philosophical ideas: Determinism and Justice, Virtue Ethics and Genetic Engineering, Existentialism, Film and its reflection of culture, and the trajectory of…
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The Book Divergent Got Me Thinking…
I’ve been wrestling with a way to address a nagging question regarding the reason for undergraduate general education (G.E.s) courses. Upon finishing Divergent, a parallel between the dystopia described in the novel and the way in which we view education came to my mind. What makes the society in the book dystopian? What makes Tris an…
