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41. Teaching Philosophy: Volume > 29 > Issue: 1
J. Lenore Wright, Anne-Marie Bowery Creating Community in the Philosophy Classroom: Using Blackboard’s Online Journal to Improve Reading, Writing, Thinking, and Speaking
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In this paper, we describe Blackboard’s Online Journal program and explain how we use the online journal in a variety of philosophy courses. We outline our pedagogical motivation for using online journals and analyze how online journals help to improve our students’ ability to read, write and think philosophically. We analyze the strengths and weaknesses of online journals in comparison to online discussion boards. Finally, we address several concerns that philosophy teachers may have about using online journals.
42. Teaching Philosophy: Volume > 29 > Issue: 1
Laura Duhan Kaplan Autobiographical Writing in Philosophy Classes: Address to a Plenary Session of the AAPT, August 2004
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Autobiographical writing in philosophy class encourages beginning students to use their own philosophical questions, emotions, and difficult experiences to unlock the meaning of a philosophical text, and encourages advanced students to engage in original philosophical writing. Philosophical justification for the approach can be found in the concepts of metaphorical thinking, historicity, multicultural voices, textual hermeneutics, the metaphysics of experience, the logic of discovery, and intersubjectivity. Examples of student assignments and student writing illustrate the approach. Learning resources for teachers and suggested solutions to practical problems offer a helpful starting point.
43. Teaching Philosophy: Volume > 29 > Issue: 1
Ernest W. Hankamer Reply to “Is the Unexamined Life Not Worth Living?”
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In the December 2004 issue of Teaching Philosophy, readers were challenged to respond to Richard Schmitt’s essay, “Is the Unexamined Life Not Worth Living?” Here is one response.
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44. Teaching Philosophy: Volume > 29 > Issue: 1
D. D. Hutchins Promises, Promises: Teaching Conditionals and Disjunctions
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For many students, success or failure hinges on their ability to locate logic within the context of everyday thought. One way of accomplishing this task is to emphasize the connections between natural and symbolic language. Many students, however, find that symbolic logic occasionally deviates from their expectations. In particular, they commonly have difficulty understanding the rationale behind the false antecedent conditional and the inclusive disjunction. In this article, I outline a teaching strategy that employs promise keeping as an analogy for these standard interpretations of the propositional operators.
45. Teaching Philosophy: Volume > 29 > Issue: 1
Dale Jacquette An Elementary Deductive Logic Exercise: Maximus Tyrius’s Proof That There Is No Injustice
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A philosophical argument in ordinary language is made the basis for a series of deductive logic exercises. Problems of translating the reasoning and alternative symbolizations are discussed to help guide students toward accurate charitable formalizations. Finally, the inference is critically evaluated in light of its deductive validity.
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46. Teaching Philosophy: Volume > 29 > Issue: 1
Allison B. Wolf Bioethics and Social Reality
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47. Teaching Philosophy: Volume > 29 > Issue: 1
Allyson L. Robichaud Biomedial Ethics
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48. Teaching Philosophy: Volume > 29 > Issue: 1
James Bell The Moral of the Story: An Anthology of Ethics through Literature
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John R. Wright Common Morality: Deciding What to Do
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50. Teaching Philosophy: Volume > 29 > Issue: 1
Andrew P. Mills Introducing Symbolic Logic
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51. Teaching Philosophy: Volume > 29 > Issue: 1
Sean D. Kirkland The Blackwell Guide to Ancient Philosophy
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52. Teaching Philosophy: Volume > 29 > Issue: 1
Robert L. Perkins Kierkegaard and Philosophy: Selected Essays
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53. Teaching Philosophy: Volume > 29 > Issue: 1
Eric Thomas Weber A Community of Individuals
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54. Teaching Philosophy: Volume > 29 > Issue: 1
David Weberman The Theory of Difference: Readings in Contemporary Continental Thought
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James A. Manos Jean Baudrillard: Live Theory
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