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1. Teaching Philosophy: Volume > 26 > Issue: 4
Ibrahim Kalin History of Islamic Philosophy
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Roger S. Gottlieb Alienation and Freedom
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Christina Hentricks Socratic Citizenship
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Joseph Grcic Morality and the Market: Ethics & Virtue in the Conduct of Business
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Tove Finnestad Personal Identity
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Richard Polt Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy: An Introduction
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Dale Lugenbehl Learning at a Deeper Level
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This paper contends that the focus on “conceptual learning” at the expense of “deeper learning” is an important and pervasive problem in educational institutions. Whereas students are able to articulate philosophical concepts and offer strong arguments for their preferred philosophical positions, these views often are not instantiated in their daily lives, e.g. they are able to articulate the importance of analyzing an argument before casting judgment on an argument, but when actually faced with an argument, they ignorance analysis for judgment. This paper provides an account of what “deeper learning” is and offers several suggestions for how to produce deeper learning in students.
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Corey Beals Finding Phronimos: Making a Place for Practical Wisdom in the Classroom
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Drawing upon Aristotle’s understanding of phronesis, this paper argues for the importance of listening to older people who have practical wisdom. The paper begins by responding to the objection that practical wisdom is not age-related, arguing that while advanced age is neither a necessary nor sufficient condition for having practical wisdom, there is a correlation between the two. Next, the paper turns to the relevance of practical wisdom in the philosophy classroom, specifically with whether wisdom can be taught, and, if it can be taught, what is the best method for teaching it. After concluding that practical wisdom is age-related, something cultivated over a lifetime, and something that is possible to develop in the classroom, the paper describes an assignment where students engage a phronimos (a person of advanced age whom students consider has a high level of practical wisdom).
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George T. Hole Pragmatic Platonism: Skillful Means for Everyday Enlightenment
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This paper describes a method and a practical exercise that offers students a glimpse of everyday enlightenment by using Socrates’ technique of questioning, Plato’s account of the ascent to the form of the good, along with an aspect of Buddha’s Eight Fold Path. The practical exercise prompts students to consider the form of honesty by considering what honesty is for them. The exercise then proceeds to a discussion of how they know they are honest and what rules one must follow to be honest. With this initial account of honesty, the paper then details a set of “proto-philosophical questions” that challenges the student to further articulate their account of honesty, to compare it to dishonesty, and to contextualize it by imagining themselves as the victim of deception or as a deceiver.
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John K. Alexander Two Practical Exercises for Teaching Business and Professional Ethics
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The paper describes two practical exercises (and their learning outcomes) requiring students to consider certain concrete decisions made by managers in business and professional life. The first exercise requires students to consider that competitive economic exchange inevitably puts managers in situations where they cannot accurately predict the outcomes of their decisions, and often results in harm to innocent people. In this practical exercise, seven discussion situations are described and students are asked to make decisions that take into account the individuals affected by these managerial decisions. Students are asked to consider various ethical theories and devise creative solutions so as to avoid unnecessary harm. The second exercise places students in roles that represent shareholders and stakeholders and asks them to consider the relocation of a manufacturing company to their community.
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Carl Chung Enhancing Introductory Symbolic Logic with Student-Centered Discussion Projects
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This paper describes two collaborative projects that illustrate the value of learning symbolic logic and provide students (and instructors) a break from the routine work of learning new symbols or proof techniques. The first project has students work together to reconstruct the argument in Peter Singer’s “Famine, Affluence, and Morality”. This project has the benefit of showing students that what they are reading in college has an underlying logical structure and that their knowledge of conditionals, conjunctions, etc. functions in real, argumentative discourse. The second project introduces students to four key concepts: self-reference, paradox, and metatheory, and then exposes them to key metatheoretic concepts (consistency and completeness) and to Gödel’s incompleteness proof.
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Irfan Khawaja Why We Fight: Moral Clarity and the War on Terrorism
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Edmund F. Byrne Joining Hands: Politics and Religion Together for Social Change
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Ryan Nichols Reading Hume’s Dialogues: A Veneration for True Religion
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Peter Ludlow On the Internet
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Richard W. Momeyer Bioethics as Practice
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Shannon Sullivan Strangers, Gods and Monsters
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Robert B. Talisse Puzzles and Perplexities: Collected Essays
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Bruce B. Suttle On Literature