Editor’s note: First-year students, prospective students (and some of their parents) wonder and worry how they will handle the academic transition from high school to college. In a series of stories, ...

Little kids make better philosophers than most adults. That’s the surprising argument made by Scott Hershovitz, a professor of philosophy and law at the University of Michigan. And he worries that too ...

Agnes Callard doesn’t only study and teach philosophy—she lives it. Whether debating a friend over dinner, leading a late-night discussion in Hyde Park, or questioning her own beliefs in print, she ...

I have always received high marks on student evaluations of my courses. I rank especially high in clarity, organization, and preparedness. That has been true when I teach philosophy of science (my ...

Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung, professor of philosophy at Calvin, says this love took root during graduate school at Notre Dame. “I spent the first year of grad school wondering if I really liked ...

Teaching effectiveness was measured by examining how students did in subsequent courses, (controlling for a variety of non-teacher factors, like class size) the assumption being that students with ...

Anthropic has entrusted Amanda Askell to endow its chatbot, Claude, with a sense of right and wrong.

A statement of teaching philosophy is your opportunity to discuss your motivation and preparation for a teaching career. In your own career as a student, what kinds of teachers motivated you? In your ...

This conversation is the tenth in the series, Trench Democracy: Participatory Innovation in Unlikely Places. Lisa Guenther, a philosophy professor at Vanderbilt University, holds a reading group in ...