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fromApaonline
1 week ago

Combating "Opinion": Gilles Deleuze Meets Timothy "Speed" Levitch

Common sense and popular opinion can exclude critical thought; teaching must distinguish opinion from philosophical thinking to cultivate scrutiny and argumentative rigor.
fromApaonline
2 weeks ago

"Philosophical Projects: Bringing Everyday Life into Intro to Philosophy," Mateo Duque

I have been teaching Introduction to Philosophy at least once a year since 2012, beginning in my second year of graduate school at the CUNY Graduate Center. Teaching in New York City shaped me in countless ways, and each new iteration of "Intro" has pushed me to refine the course-even if only incrementally. The class I teach now at Binghamton University looks very different from the one I first taught as a graduate student using a borrowed syllabus.
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