MAGAZINE, NEWSPAPER & JOURNAL ARTICLES
The Thinker
Jonathan Mahler: The New York Times; September 19, 2008
How did Auburn University become a hotbed of philosophical talent? Read this essay from the Sunday Magazine's College Issue.
Just think: it's important
Laura Parker: The Sydney Morning Herald; August 25, 2008
Why is philosophy as a subject such a fizzer in schools?
Decades Later, Still Asking: Would I Pull That Switch?
Benedict Carey: The New York Times; July 1 , 2008
Stanley Milgram's Shock Experiments Still Provide Insight.
Frog, Toad & the Big Questions:
Grant to help foster philosophical education for kids
Bob Flaherty: Daily Hampshire Gazette; June 11, 2008.
In this profile of Dr. Thomas E. Wartenberg of Mount Holyoke College, learn about the SFF grant to support his work on philosophy for children.
A Natural Bent for Deep Thought
Bob Flaherty: Daily Hampshire Gazette; June 11, 2008.
This are article explores current innovations in ethics education for youths in Massachusetts.
A review of Susan Neiman's
Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists
K. Anthony Appiah: Slate Magazine; May 27, 2008.
As an academic discipline and as a practical, everyday concern, ethics is alive and well, says Appiah, Professor of Philosophy at Princeton's Center for Human Values, in his review of Susan Neiman's new book.
In a New Generation of College Students,
Many Opt for the Life Examined.
Winnie Hu: The New York Times; April 6, 2008.
Once scoffed at as a luxury major, philosophy is being embraced by a new generation of college students who are drawing lessons from the age-old discipline as they try to make sense of their world.
Birds Do It. Bees Do It. Dragons Don’t Need To.
Neil Shubin: The New York Times; February 24, 2008.
The big question that virgin births raise is this: If some females can get along without males, why does any species have males?
A review of Experiments in Ethics by Princeton's Kwame Appiah
Paul Bloom: The New York Times; February 3, 2008.
Imagine that you are standing next to a railway track and you see a runaway trolley... Today, the quandry of moral dilemmas is no longer the purview solely of the philosopher.
When a Murderer Wants to Practice Medicine
Lawrence K. Altman, M.D.: The New York Times; January 29, 2008.
A Nazi sympathizer entered a famed Swedish medical school in 2007, seven years after being convicted of a hate murder. Should a murderer ever be allowed to practice medicine?
Moral Principle vs. Military Necessity
David Bosco: The American Scholar, Winter 2008.
The first code of conduct during warfare, created by Civil War–era Prussian immigrant Francis Lieber, reflected ambiguities we struggle with to this day. David Bosco is an assistant professor at the American University School of International Service and a contributing writer to Foreign Policy magazine.
The Moral Instinct
Steven Pinker: The New York Times; January 13, 2008.
Steven Pinker is the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and the author of "The Language Instinct" and "The Stuff of
Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature."
Are We Born Moral?
John Gray: New York Review of Books; May 10, 2007.
Scientist Finds the Beginnings of Morality in Primate Behavior
Nicholas Wade: The New York Times; March 20, 2007.
Mind Makes Right: Brain Damage, Evolution, and
the Future of Morality
William Saletan: Slate.com; March 31, 2007.
Moral Psychology and the Misunderstanding of Religion
Jonathan Haidt: The Third Culture; Edge.org.
Jonathan Haidt is a professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia.
Ethics -- by the Numbers: Survey of Ethics Education in Schools
Bongsoon Zubay: Independent School, Fall, 2007.
Single copies of the magazine can be purchased at the National Association of Independent Schools website:
www.nais.org/go/bookstore.
Teaching Philosophy to High School Students:
Indiana University's Summer Philosophy Institute
Stephen Hicks and Monica Holland: Teaching Philosophy, 12:2, 1989.
The Summer Philosophy Institute of Colorado: Building Bridges
Robert Figueroa and Sara Goering: Teaching Philosophy, 20:2, 1997.
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