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1. Teaching Philosophy: Volume > 38 > Issue: 3
Leslie Burkholder Impartial Grading Revisited
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In a much-discussed article on fair grading, Daryl Close said that impartial and consistent grading of students forbids practices like grading on a curve and dropping the lowest grade. I show—negatively—that impartiality and consistency don’t forbid these practices. I also show—positively—that some other conditions on fair and reasonable grading do rule out grading on a curve and dropping the lowest grade.
2. Teaching Philosophy: Volume > 38 > Issue: 3
Court D. Lewis Engaging Student Aversions to Moral Obligations
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This essay examines why some introductory ethics students are averse to any sort of moral requirement (i.e., moral obligation). It provides a series of descriptions and techniques to help teachers recognize, diagnose, and engage such students. After discussing the nature of student aversions to moral obligations, I discuss three causes and several ways to engage each: 1) Student Relativism; 2) student fears and misunderstandings of obligations; and 3) the phenomenon of what I call fetishized liberty, which leads to the “liberty paradox”—where students actively fight for liberties, yet actively give up or fail to use the ones they currently have.
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Jane Drexler Philosophy for General Education: Teaching Introductory Environmental Ethics for Non-Majors
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This article explores the value of teaching Environmental Ethics as an introductory-level general education course for non-majors. It focuses on how philosophy can help students discern multiple voices within discourses, texts and thinking, and by doing so disrupt several untenable mental paradigms that new and underprepared students often bring with them to college: fixed and dualistic notions of truth, relativistic conceptions of difference, and decontextualized approaches to issues and ideas. This article also presents examples of class activities that are designed to foster multivocal thinking and that are also manageable for faculty with high teaching loads.
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4. Teaching Philosophy: Volume > 38 > Issue: 3
Anthony Ferrucci Recent Texts in Logic
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In this review, the relative strengths and weaknesses of four recent logic books are presented. This review is organized thematically, where each text is examined under the following metrics: aesthetic qualities, organization, accessibility, problems and exercises, student resources, instructor resources, and price. Instead of examining each textbook one at a time, a comparison by category showcases each book’s prominent features and themes within that category. Attention is also given in this review to the needs of logic students at the junior college level, whose diverse backgrounds increasingly factor into textbook decisions. Selecting a logic textbook can seem especially daunting given the abundance of choices on the market. Instructors are increasingly forced to select a textbook with numerous, and even competing, considerations in mind. This review intends to make the often difficult process of selecting between new textbooks on the market a little bit easier.
reviews
5. Teaching Philosophy: Volume > 38 > Issue: 3
Chris Calvert-Minor Minds Online: Teaching Effectively with Technology, by Michelle D. Miller
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Jay Ciaffa Medical Ethics Education: An Interdisciplinary and Social Theoretical Perspective, by Nathan Emmerich
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Liam Harte Reading the Dao: A Thematic Introduction, by Keping Wang
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William Hasselberger Morality’s Critics and Defenders: A Philosophical Dialogue, by Timm Triplett
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Christina Hendricks Philosophy in Schools: An Introduction for Philosophers and Teachers, ed. Sara Goering, Nicholas J. Shudak, and Thomas E. Wartenberg
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Debra Jackson Intellectual Empathy: Critical Thinking for Social Justice, by Maureen Linker
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Joseph John Portraits of American Philosophy, ed. Steven M. Cahn
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Jeff Kasser The Problem of Evil, by Daniel Speak
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Andrew Kissel Free: Why Science Hasn’t Disproved Free Will, by Alfred R. Mele
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Dennis Knepp Philosophy Through Teaching, ed. Emily Esch, Kevin Hermberg, Rory E. Kraft, Jr.
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Janet M. Levin Consciousness, by Josh Weisberg
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Michael T. McFall The Outrageous Idea of the Missional Professor, by Paul M. Gould
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Announcement of the Arnold Wilson Prize Essay Competition
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