Already a subscriber? - Login here
Not yet a subscriber? - Subscribe here

Browse by:



Displaying: 1-17 of 17 documents


1. Teaching Philosophy: Volume > 42 > Issue: 3

view |  rights & permissions | cited by

articles

2. Teaching Philosophy: Volume > 42 > Issue: 3
Stuart Hanscomb

abstract | view |  rights & permissions | cited by
In the film and play Twelve Angry Men, Juror 8 confronts the prejudices and poor reasoning of his fellow jurors, exhibiting an unwavering capacity not just to formulate and challenge arguments, but to be open-minded, stay calm, tolerate uncertainty, and negotiate in the face of considerable group pressures. In a perceptive and detailed portrayal of a group deliberation a ‘wheel of virtue’ is presented by the characters of Twelve Angry Men that allows for critical thinking virtues and vices to be analysed in context. This article makes the case for (1) the film being an exceptional teaching resource, and (2), drawing primarily on the ideas of Martha Nussbaum concerning contextualised detail, emotional engagement, and aesthetic distance, its educational value being intimately related to its being a work of fiction.
3. Teaching Philosophy: Volume > 42 > Issue: 3
Simoni Iliadi, Kostas Theologou, Spyridon Stelios

abstract | view |  rights & permissions | cited by
Philosophy courses help students develop logical reasoning and argument skills or so it is widely assumed. To test if this is actually the case, we examined university students’ familiarity with the basic tools for argument. Our findings, based on a sample of 651 students enrolled in philosophy courses at six Greek universities, indicate that students who have prior experience with philosophy are more familiar with the basic tools for argument, and that students who have taken philosophy courses at the university have stronger argument-recognition and argument-evaluation skills compared to university students with no prior experience with philosophy. Moreover, our findings suggest that students get more familiar with the basic tools for argument as their level of engagement with philosophy increases, and that they get significantly better at evaluating arguments when they become graduate students in philosophy. However, our findings also suggest that the majority of students in philosophy classrooms haven’t developed fluency in (at least some) basic argument-related concepts and skills. To remedy this, we argue that philosophy instructors need to re-think (a) the place that the teaching of argument has in philosophy courses, and (b) the way that they teach students about argument.
4. Teaching Philosophy: Volume > 42 > Issue: 3
Jonas Pfister

abstract | view |  rights & permissions | cited by
Student relativism is a widespread phenomenon in introductory philosophy courses. It is a pressing issue for teachers because it seems to undermine the very purpose of philosophy. Since the 1980s there is a debate about how to understand and how to deal with student relativism. However, there is as yet no comprehensive presentation of the debate. The first aim of the article is to offer a classification of the strategies for dealing with student relativism and a presentation and short assessment of the main strategies from the debate. The second aim is to present a new strategy based on the theory of conceptual change and drawing on the results from empirical research in developmental psychology on epistemic cognition. I call it the epistemic conceptual change strategy.
5. Teaching Philosophy: Volume > 42 > Issue: 3
Duncan Pritchard

abstract | view |  rights & permissions | cited by
This paper describes a pilot study devoted to developing the teaching of philosophy within prison education in Scotland. The study paired the CoPI (community of philosophical inquiry) approach to learning and teaching with a set of educational resources created around a high-profile MOOC (massive open online course) that introduced students to core topics in philosophy. The primary goal of the study was to determine the extent to which the teaching of philosophy in prisons in this specific manner could enhance the intellectual virtues, and thereby the intellectual character, of the students. The results that were collected suggested that the project generated significant success on this front. In addition, the study had a further consequence, which had not been anticipated, in that it also helped the students to develop important personal and interpersonal skills, and thereby also enhanced their character more generally.
6. Teaching Philosophy: Volume > 42 > Issue: 3
Tricia Van Dyk

abstract | view |  rights & permissions | cited by
How do you effectively teach moral philosophy to classes of twenty to thirty-five students who come from diverse national, ethnic, religious, linguistic, and educational backgrounds, and most of whom have little or no interest in philosophy? In seeking ways to create a course that is relevant, practical, and engaging, I hit upon the idea of adapting literature circles to the study of moral philosophies. In this paper, I contextualize the need for an approach that promotes individual student responsibility within a teamwork context, introduce the appropriateness and adaptability of the literature circles concept in a philosophy classroom, and uncover the theoretical structure underneath the strategy in order to make it more adaptable to other classrooms and courses.
7. Teaching Philosophy: Volume > 42 > Issue: 3
Nicola Zippel

abstract | view |  rights & permissions | cited by
“The Dawn of Wonder” is a philosophical laboratory that the author, a high school philosophy teacher, has for many years led in several elementary schools in Rome. The paper aims at presenting the main characteristics of such experience of teaching philosophy to children, which doesn’t adopt the methodology of Philosophy for Children, but develops an original approach based on a historical narration of ideas and thinkers coming from both Western and Eastern traditions. According to this perspective, teaching philosophy to children means dealing with theoretical issues by keeping them in their historical and geographical context. In this way, a child who meets philosophy can reason on the basic problems of human understanding without losing sight of their geo-historical origins.

reviews

8. Teaching Philosophy: Volume > 42 > Issue: 3
Dimitra Amarantidou

view |  rights & permissions | cited by
9. Teaching Philosophy: Volume > 42 > Issue: 3
Margaret Betz

view |  rights & permissions | cited by
10. Teaching Philosophy: Volume > 42 > Issue: 3
Deborah Boyle

view |  rights & permissions | cited by
11. Teaching Philosophy: Volume > 42 > Issue: 3
Teresa Bruno-Niño

view |  rights & permissions | cited by
12. Teaching Philosophy: Volume > 42 > Issue: 3
Todd M. Furman

view |  rights & permissions | cited by
13. Teaching Philosophy: Volume > 42 > Issue: 3
Fr. Justin Charles Gable

view |  rights & permissions | cited by
14. Teaching Philosophy: Volume > 42 > Issue: 3
Caroline R. Lundquist

view |  rights & permissions | cited by
15. Teaching Philosophy: Volume > 42 > Issue: 3
Shannon B. Proctor

view |  rights & permissions | cited by
16. Teaching Philosophy: Volume > 42 > Issue: 3
Nils Ch. Rauhut

view |  rights & permissions | cited by
17. Teaching Philosophy: Volume > 42 > Issue: 3
Clayton Shoppa

view |  rights & permissions | cited by