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, ...

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 ...

The Certificate in College Teaching for faculty is a non-credit online cohort-based program designed to help college instructors at all levels develop their teaching craft within a community of ...

In addition, Lindsay Brainard, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy, received the 2024 Article Prize from the American Philosophical Association for her article, “The Curious ...

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 ...

When I began to teach philosophy at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas in 1999, I wondered whether such an environment might pose special challenges for teaching critical thinking. In the land of ...

I remember sitting in an Intro to Education class as a college sophomore almost two decades ago, when our teacher (a retired public school teacher turned adjunct professor) asked us to go around the ...

The physics preceptor sat down with Fifteen Minutes to discuss New York City, interdisciplinarity, and the origins of math.