Workshops at the 17th International Workshop-Conference on Teaching Philosophy

University of Guelph
Guelph, Ontario
August 6-10, 2008

Teaching Introductory Philosophy

Ethics in 90 minutes: What does an ethics consultant really do? Teaching tales from a new ethics center director
If Ethics Courses Do Not Improve Behavior, Then What Is the Point of Taking Them?
Morality: Human Nature and Nurture --- the Intersection of Philosophy and Psychology in the 21st Century
The Case of Leopold and Loeb: Using a Mock Trial to Engage your Students in the Free Will Debate

Critical Thinking across the Curriculum
Using Natural-Language Proofs to Make Propositional Logic More Useful
Teaching Modeling in Critical Thinking
Taking a Step Backward on Critical Thinking: Why Think Critically?
Teaching Critical Thinking Without a Textbook
Integrating Sherlock Holmes into Logic Classes
Teaching the Dog's Breakfast: Some dangers and how to deal with them the first-year course in critical reasoning, informal logic, critical thinking, baby logic, etc., etc.
Taking a Step Backward on Critical Thinking: Why Think Critically?
How do we distinguish arguments from causal explanations? Why bother?

Using Classical Greek Drama to Introduce Students to Greek Philosophy
Teaching American Philosophy
Teaching Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
Teaching Realism and Idealism via Paley’s Teleological Argument
Not Just a Course on Existentialism, but an Existentialist Course
Teaching Ancient Philosophy
No Sex Thanks, We're Philosophers: Aristophanes and Pausanias on The Genesis of Desire
Adjudicating the Objections and Replies: A Cooperative Lesson Using the Objections and Replies to Descartes’s Meditations

Civic Engagement: The Ancients and the Moderns
Philosophy in a Learning Community: Doing Everything Wrong But Succeeding for 33 Years
Philosophy in Philosophy with Children
Philosophy for Children as a Potential Bullying Intervention
Three Class Activities in Political Philosophy
Who’s Afraid of Politics? On the Need to Teach Political Engagement
What’s this have to do with me? … my major? … my life? A non-defensive defense of philosophy
“Amore Ac Studio” and Other Warm Fuzzy Thoughts: Selling Philosophy as a Money-Making Discipline
X and Philosophy Books and the Presentation of Philosophy to the Public
Teaching Philosophy in China: Exporting Western Education and the Hybrid Model
Succeeding in a Small Department: Challenges and Strategies for Life in a Small Philosophy Department

Some Benefits of Dialogue Writing For Students
Teaching Undergraduate Philosophical Writing
Socratic Assignments: How to Teach Students to Write Philosophically in One Lecture
Measuring Critical Evaluation Skills through the Use of Writing Portfolio Projects
Overcoming Student Inertia: Active Reading and Writing in Philosophy
Dialectical Arguments: A New Model of Critical, Persuasive Writing

Pedagogy for the Unimpressed: meeting the challenges of teaching philosophy to the unprepared and uninterested via a revisiting of childhood
Motivational Interviewing as a Pedagogical Style for the Philosophy Classroom
Techniques for Teaching Large Classes and Their Implications for Teaching Smaller Classes
‘Hot Moments’ as Pedagogical Opportunities: Race and Gender in the Philosophy Classroom
Teaching in the Politically Polarized Classroom
Teaching Wisdom Using Narrative and Movement Imagery
Creating the Freedom to Learn in Undergraduate Classrooms
Doing Philosophy can be fun too!
Reintegrating Lost Voices in the Teaching of Philosophy
Teaching Philosophy to Non-Majors or: How I Came to Stop Worrying and Love ‘Service Courses’
Non-traditional Projects in Philosophy Classes
The Big Bang
Teaching Philosophy Philosophically
Doing philosophy as classroom activity: an historical-cultural perspective.
Interactive Workshop on Contemplative Practices in Philosophy Class
“It’s like going to the gym, but for your brain” Teaching philosophy to nursing students: Issues, problems and (some) solutions

What Encourages Student Preparation And Participation?
Mobilizing theoretical lenses: Perspectives of a student and a teacher engaging with a critical issues in education course
But I haven’t taught that in years!
Substance and Accessibility: Finding Balance in the Classroom
Mobilizing theoretical lenses: Perspectives of a student and a teacher engaging with a critical issues in an education course
Groups that work: How to have productive in-class discussion groups
Moral Issues in Teaching
The Unprepared Professor
Using College Students to Teach Philosophy
Close Reading: A Key to Student Performance
Making Them Think

Identifying and Addressing Student Perceptions and Misperceptions of Philosophy in the Classroom
Teaching Philosophy in a World of Higher Education Assessment
Assessment in Distance Philosophy Courses for Community College Learners
Doing Peer Reviews in Philosophy Classes
The Dummies Guide to Assessment or: How to Get a Rabidly Anti-Assessment Philosopher to Embrace Learning Outcomes Assessment
Is It Time to End Student “Evaluations” of Philosophy Faculty?
Engaging Students in the Assessment of the Value of Philosophy at the General Education Level via Port folios of Reflection Papers
A grotesque, unintentional parody of social science and “accountability”? The death of the humanities at the hands of the social sciences? A philosophical assessment of the strongest arguments against academic assessment.
Exams by Interview

Web 2.0 for the Philosophy Class
Should Philosophy be Taught Online?
Lessons in Leadership from The Last place on Earth: Multi-media Instructional Strategies for Teaching the Rhetoric of Leadership
Film as Philosophical Text: Using the Films of Woody Allen to Teach Philosophy