Syllabus Showcase: What is Philosophy? Global Perspectives on Philosophical History, Christopher P. Noble

I am a historian of philosophy at New College of Florida, a small, public liberal arts college. When I arrived first in 2018, one of my duties was to expand the philosophy curriculum into areas beyond the Western tradition, and I set about building a course introducing students to the history of philosophy from a […]

Syllabus Showcase: Dawn of Western Thought, Robert Earle

I designed this ancient (mostly Greek) philosophy course around three units: the Presocratics through Socrates and the sophists, Plato and Aristotle, and Hellenistic thought. In this blog entry, I will focus on sharing the essay topic ideas I developed for units one and two as well as the culminating class activity which is a dramatic […]

Syllabus Showcase: The Buddhist Traditions, Purushottama Bilimoria

In some ways this is a standard course on Buddhist Philosophy & Religion. The title Buddhist Tradition (I expanded it to Traditions) was given by another—an excellent—teacher. This is one of a number of courses that fits the bill of diversifying philosophy and engaging non-Western thought, hopefully, across Departments of Philosophy. San Francisco State University […]