A Graduate Seminar With a Unique Topic: Teacher Training

It is not uncommon for graduate students in philosophy to be thrown into teaching without any formal training or preparation. This practice seems to rest on the misguided notion that if one knows the philosophy, then one will be able to teach it (or more pessimistically, teaching is not valued enough to prioritize it within […]

Philosophy and Work: Helping Students Conceptualize Their Careers

Ask a student why they’re in college and their answer will most likely include something about securing a well-paying job, expanding their career options, or acquiring the knowledge necessary to be successful in life. The cultural narrative that has been fed to so many college students is that receiving higher education is just what you […]

What Stepping Out of My Comfort Zone Taught Me About Teaching

Last semester I took a seminar with Renée Jorgensen on moral rights and social norms. One of the main questions we discussed throughout the seminar is how a special kind of moral ignorance about non-moral facts (what R. Jorgensen calls “normative opacity” in her book manuscript) influences how people act in a setting where some […]