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Service-Learning in Philosophy Courses

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The students in my “Philosophy of Food” course are expected to complete at least 21 hours of community-engaged service during the course of the semester. Service activities include: In this brief video, he and his students talk about the benefits…

Which Questions Can’t Philosophy Answer By Itself?

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What other questions do philosophers take up about which we should believe that philosophical progress will not be possible absent certain kinds of scientific (or social scientific) progress? (Is this one of those questions?) What practical implications does the answer…

How Do You Teach Your Students To Read?

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It’s not just that most students aren’t the kinds of students professors themselves remember being. Musgrave shares data showing that students consume most of their media on digital devices, and get most of their news through social media. They did…

Mintz-Woo Wins 2021 Light Award

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The award aims “to recognize public philosophers working in environmental ethics and philosophy, broadly construed, and who bring unique insights or methods that broaden the reach, interaction, and engagement of philosophy with the wider public. This may be exemplified in…

Philosophers Among ERC Starting Grant Winners

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Enrico Terrone (Università degli Studi di Genova)“The Philosophy of Experiential Artifacts” Sander Verhaegh (Tilburg University)“Exiled Empiricists: American Philosophy and the Great Intellectual Migration” (via Matthew Duncombe and Simon Columbus) Philosophers awarded the Starting Grants include: Lorenz Demey (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)“Towards…