The Race Problem Summed up in a Comic Strip
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Breaking the “Thou Shall Not Critique Religion” Commandment
In my Western Civilization course, students and I discuss the biblical books of Genesis, Job, and Mark in several meetings of the course. We do this in order to examine what life was like living in the Ancient Near East and in an occupied area of the Roman Empire. We also discuss the scriptures to
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Don’t Trust Professor Wikipedia!
When I was younger, if I wanted to learn a fact I went to the encyclopedia. Of course it was a huge collection and only if you were fortunate did you have any in your house. But for school assignments I could always count on getting the facts right for my projects and homework assignments by reading
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Lessons from the Philosophical Bouncer
It’s the first week of classes and it’s during this time that I attempt to sell my kids on philosophy. I want them to know what philosophy is and what philosophers do way before we actually get deep into material. What I do in class is also what I’m interested in doing outside of it.
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What Does Your Moral Reasoning Look Like?
In my Philosophy 62 course my students and I have been reading out of Michael Sandel’s Justice. We have started the semester off discussing moral theories. I explained to my students, according to Sandel, that usually when we engage in moral reasoning our decisions will be based on which of these three we consider most:
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Must Read Links on Race, Sex, & Politics
Well its Monday. There is no better way to start the week off than with some intellectual goodies about race, sex, and politics. In the Guardian there is a good chunk of a chapter of Faramerz Dabhoiwala’s book on the first sexual revolution. It gives a historical account on how sexual liberation began. The Human Rights Campaign
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Take a Philosophy Course for Free 99 at Harvard and MIT
Ever wish you took that philosophy course in college? Ever wonder exactly what philosophy really is?? Thanks to the internet you can take a philosophy course at institutions like Harvard and MIT for Free!!! Now you will not get a degree or degree credits, but you will have the opportunity to sit in on the
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What Atheists Can Learn from Religion and Vice Versa
Today atheists and theists are always disagreeing. One believes in the truth of the divine the other think its ridiculous. One thinks the world is better because of religion the other thinks the opposite. Common ground has not been a popular place for the two views. However, Alain de Botton has a new book that
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How NOT to Teach with Digital Media
Well today is my first day of class for the spring semester. With every semester comes the opportunity to try new things and also to improve on the old. As a person who uses digital media in the classroom, I want to make sure that Im using it in its most effective way. One of
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Are We Born Greedy & Selfish?
If you look within American culture you will agree that greed and self-interest dominate our way of living. Greed echos in our music and on our TVs. It’s on 5th Avenue and on Wall Street. It seems that the American Dream is just another way of saying “A life in which I get mine by
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