scholarly journals When Plato Meets Popkin: Combining Political Philosophy and Empirical Content in the Classroom

2012 ◽  
Vol 45 (04) ◽  
pp. 748-752 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin R. Knoll
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Political Psychology ◽  
Local Politics ◽  
Empirical Content ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Course Syllabus

AbstractGiven that students often express a desire for course content to be more “relevant” and applicable to their lives, I describe one method for effectively addressing this concern through the organization of the course syllabus. The content of empirically driven courses can be framed within the context of philosophically driven normative questions. In other words, instructors can explicitly construct course narratives that frame the empirically based course content as an attempt to answer (or, at least, shed new light on) important, relevant, and on-going questions raised by political philosophy. I offer examples from two of my own courses, Political Psychology and Local Politics, and discuss the various pedagogical and instructional advantages of such a method.

Introduction

Taxation ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Martin O’Neill ◽  
Shepley Orr
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Political Psychology ◽  
Tax Policy ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Public Justification ◽  
Theory Of Justice ◽  
State Neutrality ◽  
Further Development

This chapter situates philosophical discussions of taxation with reference to the strongly contrasting approaches to tax, property, and justice embodied in Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia, and John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice. The twelve chapters of the book are situated against the opposing philosophical poles provided by the libertarian and Rawlsian approaches to tax, and we describe in particular the further development of the Rawlsian view by Liam Murphy and Thomas Nagel in their book The Myth of Ownership: Taxes and Justice, which is a focal point for a number of the following chapters. We explain why and how taxation should be seen as central to political philosophy, given the importance of tax policy for both domestic and global justice, and given the close connections that taxation has to issues of property rights, democracy, public justification, state neutrality, stability, political psychology, and a range of other issues.

Undergraduate Human Factors Curriculum and Introductory Human Factors Course Content

1998 ◽  
Vol 42 (7) ◽  
pp. 619-623 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randall W. Gibb ◽  
Barrett S. Caldwell ◽  
Daniel J. Garland ◽  
Joseph H. Goldberg ◽  
Joseph C. Hickox ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Grading Practices ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Text Book ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Course Objectives ◽  
Discussion Format ◽  
Course Syllabus

This panel provided a discussion format for six academic institutions to share their Human Factors (HF) curriculum and more specifically, to educate others on how they teach their introductory HF course. Each panelist addressed the following topics regarding their HF curriculum: foundation courses of the department's degree and specific HF courses offered. Then the panelists focused their discussions to their specific introductory HF course: philosophy; text book(s) used; course objectives; course syllabus flow; grading practices; and specific lesson exercises/labs.

Taxation

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Political Psychology ◽  
Sustained Attention ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Public Justification ◽  
Philosophical Work ◽  
Tax System ◽  
State Neutrality ◽  
Philosophical Questions

Taxation: Philosophical Perspectives is the first edited collection devoted to addressing philosophical issues relating to tax. The tax system is central to the operation of states and to the ways in which states interact with individual citizens. Taxes are used by states to fund the provision of public goods and public services, to engage in direct or indirect forms of redistribution, and to mould the behaviour of individual citizens. As the chapters in this volume show, there are a number of pressing and significant philosophical issues relating to the tax system, and these issues often connect in fascinating ways with foundational questions regarding property rights, democracy, public justification, state neutrality, stability, political psychology, and a range of other issues. Many of these deep and challenging philosophical questions about tax have not always received as much sustained attention as they clearly merit. Our hope is that this book will advance the debate along a number of these philosophical fronts, and be a welcome spur to further work. The book’s aim of advancing the debate about tax in political philosophy has both general and more specific aspects, involving both overarching issues regarding the tax system as a whole and more specific issues relating to particular forms of tax policy. Serious philosophical work on the tax system requires an interdisciplinary approach, and this volume therefore includes contributions from a number of scholars whose expertise spans neighbouring disciplines, including political science, economics, public policy, and law.

The Anatomy of Teaching Biopolitics: Some Reflections

1986 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Shelly Hartigan
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Interdisciplinary Collaboration ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Institutional Collaboration ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
The Past ◽  
Scholarly Pursuit

In recent years many scholars in political science have begun to employ the data of the life sciences in their studies. The emerging field of biopolitics is now an identifiable scholarly pursuit. The question now arises as to how that pursuit can and should be taught.This article describes several courses which I have offered in the past few years in which I have attempted to integrate political philosophy and biopolitics. Course content, along with student and peer reaction are discussed, as are the advantages and disadvantages of interdisciplinary collaboration. This approach is rejected in favor of a design which would begin with a departmental core of courses which would then provide a base for inter-institutional collaboration among students and faculty.

Leadership in Teaching: Using Student Perspectives on Administration, Supervision and Private Practice

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-28
Author(s):  
Mary J. Emm ◽  
Christine P. Cecconi
Keyword(s):  
Student Perceptions ◽  
Clinical Supervision ◽  
Private Practice ◽  
Universal Design ◽  
Professional Preparation ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Functional Information ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Group Activities ◽  
Assessment Procedures

Clinical supervision is recognized as a distinctive area of practice and expertise, yet professional preparation in this area remains inadequate. This paper presents functional information describing the development and implementation of an experimental course on administration, supervision, and private practice, based on graduate student perceptions and preferences for course content and types of learning activities. Current pedagogical trends for universal design in learning and fostering student engagement were emphasized, including problem-based and collaborative learning. Results suggest that students were highly pleased with course content, interactive and group activities, as well as with assessment procedures used.

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