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Dialogues #68 Read in browser↗️ I sometimes worry that the very things that make me love teaching will lead me to quit teaching. At its best, there's nothing like it. Even so, there are so many factors working against a successful classroom right now. It is difficult not to get discouraged. — Dolores G. Morris I love teaching, but I’m now convinced that the formal education system has reached full crisis mode on any metric. I recently saw a post from a philosophy professor that expressed her...
Dialogues #67 Read in browser↗️ For the first time in history, women hold substantial cultural and institutional power. Men and women differ, on average, in their values: women are more harm-averse, equity-oriented, and prone to resolving conflict through social exclusion. As a result, shifting sex compositions can bring palpable cultural change. The transition has been particularly dramatic in academia, where women were once almost entirely excluded and now constitute majorities. - Dr. Cory...
Dialogues #65 Read in browser↗️ Public discourse is ailing. Instead of yielding mutual understanding and respect, our debates are often infected with suspicions, accusations, belief polarization, and ideological entrenchment. One malady is what Richard Lipsky calls the athleticization of politics, “the transposition of sports values into political discourse”. - Robert Garcia and Nate King I had just finished teaching on consequentialism in my ethics class. If you’re not familiar with...