I need to help develop an undergraduate course on ethics in journalism and the media, to be taken primarily by aspiring TV/film writers and producers. Have any of our readers ever taught such a course? Anyone willing to share syllabi, advice about texts, etc.? Thanks!
Yes, well, I realize that the genuine article is not transferable.
I am teaching a 400-level course on virtue ethics next spring. I’m looking for reading-list suggestions. They need to be relatively short, readable, accessible to majors. I’d ideally like a broad selection of ancient/modern/contemporary, East/West, religious/secular. I’m also a fan of intro-level hand-holding kinds of texts for students, so any suggestions on that front would be welcome as well. Thanks!
<Cross-posted at In Socrates' Wake>
I wanted to put in a plug for what is certainly one of the best pedagogical developments in philosophy over the past decade: Ethics Bowl. I'm sure many of our readers are familiar with this competition and its value as a teaching tool. I'll only add my own observations here about the value of Ethics Bowl as a teaching tool and invite others to discuss their experiences with it. (I also have some tips for those interested in getting Ethics Bowl started on their campus, so please contact me if you're interested.)
As I see it, Ethics Bowl provides three things that are very hard to come by in traditional philosophy classroom settings:
Anyone interested in metaethics should take a look at Antti Kauppinen's brilliant slideshows at the University of St Andrews. They can be accessed from the webpage of his course HERE.
A shameless plug/invitation: I've created a new blog on the teaching of philosophy, In Socrates' Wake. Please come visit, offer comments, etc. I'd also be interested if anyone would like to join up as a contributor. Thanks!
Greetings, all. Sorry that my first official post will be so mundane, but here goes. I'll be teaching an upper-level undergraduate course in metaethics for the first time this fall. I'm wondering if anyone who has taught metaethics at this level can recommend an anthology to use. Many of the big anthologies and overviews of the field I've looked at seem pitched a bit high for undergraduates. I may end up scrapping the book idea altogether, but it would be nice to know if anyone's had particular success with a collection. And while we're at it, if you've got favorite articles for teaching metaethics to undergraduates, I'll happily take those recommendations as well. Thanks.
I’m very grateful for the invitation to join PEA Soup. For my first post, I want to focus on an issue in the area of teaching philosophy. And it is mainly a question, not a positive idea.
By choice, I have never taught an ethics course (though I TA’d for several). The reason is that I have never been able to think of a way to teach ethics that I didn’t think was, in all likelihood, morally destructive for my students. I am not happy with this state of affairs, however, so I am wondering if anyone else has had similar thoughts, and how they have dealt with them. But wait, you ask: Why would taking an ethics class be morally destructive?
The following are some thoughts I've been mulling over in anticipation of a lecture I will be giving at CSU Long Beach's Applied Ethics Center next Thursday. I've been thinking about these issues with regard to business ethics, but I think the concerns extend to most other areas of applied ethics as well.
Continue reading "How Useful is Moral Theory for Applied Ethics?" »
Over at the Leiter Reports, there's beena lively discussion about irresponsible (or even abusive) advising and teaching in philosophy graduate programs. But the larger question is what is to be done?
Those familiar with the satirical publication The Onion ("America's Finest News Source") might have seen this already, but for those who haven't, here's a gem that hits close to home.
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