Thinking Contingently
During my first semester as a grad student I was plagued with thoughts of not doing enough. Not reading enough. Not writing enough. And certainly not knowing enough. Since the doubts, insecurities, and...
View ArticleWhat I Learned and Why It Was Worth It.
I have three days to write a term paper on Plato. For some reason, as I sit in my room trying to write, I find myself hitting a pretty firm wall. I can’t bring myself to write it. I have a good idea of...
View ArticleI may not be a Doctor, but…
Some people get really pissed at universities that use and abuse their graduate students and force them to teach all the mundane low-level classes to undergrads who, often with a strong sense of...
View ArticleA few weeks of my philifesophy
The past few weeks have been marked by a unique kind of bubbling deep in my belly. It’s a nervousness, or perhaps a growing awareness, and something that has resisted being put into writing. So this is...
View Article“Oh, Philosophy. So what do you want to do with that?”
“Do you want to teach?” Yes. In fact, before I even knew what philosophy was I wanted to teach, at least in some capacity. I didn’t know what I wanted to teach, but I knew that I have always felt...
View ArticleTeaching for Transformation and the Transformation of Teaching
This is a presentation I did in August at the first Liberal Arts Scholarship and Technology Summit at Penn State University. I reflect on the work that I have been doing on YouTube and this blog. You...
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