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Education in Crisis

One-Sheet for SOPHIA Conversations

Adobe logo, to serve as a link to the one-sheet in Adobe PDF.

One-sheet as a printable Adobe PDF.

SOPHIA’s Executive Director Eric Thomas Weber created this SOPHIA one-sheet for the facilitation of a conversation with the Albuquerque Philosophy Collective, our SOPHIA Chapter in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The prompts on this one-sheet consider both current matters involving education in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, as well as broader, continuing crises in education concerning real problems as well as problems of misunderstanding concerning education.

Image of an old school building falling apart.

Thanks to spoilt.exile for permission to share this photo.

The COVID-19 pandemic prompted nations around the world to make sudden and radical changes to schooling practices in the spring of 2020. For a generation prior to the pandemic, scholars and critics of all stripes have proclaimed a variety of crises in education, from questions of whether students are learning anything and are being “left behind” to concerns over inequality and inadequacy of school funding. In 2020, the health crisis saw kids returned home without plans for how parents and guardians would care for their children and the economic effects of the virus and quarantining practices put many people out of work. There have emerged two narratives of crisis in education, then, one long-standing concern over how best to educate people and another about education in times of crisis. This SOPHIA one-sheet presents two prompts, which can either be considered in sequence or separately, in two different meetings.

Click on the Adobe PDF logo on right, on the featured image hereabove, or here to open a printable, Adobe PDF version of the one-sheet.

Special thanks go to the Albuquerque Philosophy Collective and especially to Ty Camp for prompting the creation of this one-sheet and inviting Executive Director Weber to meet with their dynamic and energetic SOPHIA chapter in September of 2020!

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What Is Public Philosophy?

One-Sheet for SOPHIA Conversations

Thumbnail image of the One-Sheet, which links to a printable, Adobe PDF version of this one-sheet.There is a growing movement for public philosophy today. Leaders of the Milwauke SOPHIA Chapter created a SOPHIA One-Sheet asking “What Is Public Philosophy?” given all the different outlooks on what the practice is that such a movement might entail. For a little more background on the call for more public philosophy, see the statement that the American Philosophical Association issued on valuing public philosophy here.

Photo of Dr. Gregory B. Sadler being interview on television news. Click this image to link to the printable, Adobe PDF version of the one-sheet.

This one-sheet was created by Gregory B. Sadler and Kreigh A. Knerr of the Milwauke SOPHIA Chapter, with some questions added by Eric Thomas Weber.

SOPHIA is grateful to Greg, Knerr, and the Milwauke SOPHIA Chapter for sharing this one-sheet! 

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059: Ep55 – Evaluating Public Philosophy

Philosophy Bakes Bread radio show & podcast

Dr. Eric Thomas Weber.Photo of Dr. Anthony Cashio.In this fifty-fifth episode of the Philosophy Bakes Bread radio show and podcast, Anthony and Eric talk about “Evaluating Public Philosophy,” in an episode based upon their recently co-authored paper, titled “Lessons Learned Baking Bread.” In this episode and in our paper, Anthony and Eric propose four criteria by which public philosophy can be evaluated: substance, accessibility, invitingness, and community building.

Judges scoring with numbers raised high.

Anthony and Eric presented this paper in the summer of 2017 at the Future of Philosophical Practice conference at UNC Asheville, in the beautiful hills of Asheville, North Carolina. We are grateful to Brian Butler for hosting a great event there, as well as for all the great feedback that we received at the event. In fact, that is where we met and interviewed Cole Nasrallah, our guest from episode 36, “Quality Philosophy for Everyone.” While we were there, we also interviewed John Shook and Randy Auxier for episode 34, on “Saving American Culture in a Yurt.”

Listen for our “You Tell Me!” questions and for some jokes in one of our concluding segments, called “Philosophunnies.” Reach out to us on Facebook @PhilosophyBakesBread and on Twitter @PhilosophyBB; email us at philosophybakesbread@gmail.com; or call and record a voicemail that we play on the show, at 859.257.1849. Philosophy Bakes Bread is a production of the Society of Philosophers in America (SOPHIA). Check us out online at PhilosophyBakesBread.com and check out SOPHIA at PhilosophersInAmerica.com.


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Notes

  1. UPDATE: As of this podcast release, our updated numbers are: 27,500 downloads from 99 countries!
  2. Freeman Dyson, “What Can You Really Know,” The New York Review of Books, November 8, 2012. In that review essay, Dyson asks, “When and why did philosophy lose its bite? How did it become a toothless relic of past glories?”
  3. Our episode with Nancy McHugh, on “Philosophy and Social Change,” episode 47.
  4. Our episode with Amy Leask, on “Philosophy at Home,” episode 46.

 

You Tell Me!

For our future “You Tell Me!” segments, Anthony and Eric posed the following questions in this episode:

“Whom should we have on the show? It doesn’t have to be a philosopher, just someone thoughtful and fun to talk to, from any walk of life.”

“What rewards would be attractive for people who might want to support the show?”

Let us know what you think! Via Twitter, Facebook, Email, or by commenting here below.

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040: Ep36 – Quality Philosophy for Everyone

Philosophy Bakes Bread radio show & podcast

This thirty-sixth episode of the Philosophy Bakes Bread radio show and podcast features an interview with Cole Nasrallah, talking with co-hosts Eric Weber and Anthony Cashio about the paper that she gave at the Future of Philosophical Practice seminar at the University of North Carolina Asheville in July of 2017. Cole’s paper was on “The Elements of High Value Philosophy and Audience Accessibility.”

Photo of Cole Nasrallah.

Cole is a philosopher, an author, and a teacher, as well as an artist and photographer. She teaches philosophy at a private girls academy and at the College of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas, Nevada. Cole has written for the public, studied bioethics, and has been a professional photographer. She has a knack for speaking and writing in accessible and clever ways. For one example, in this interview, she explains that “YOLO,” which stands for “You only live once,” is “the poor man’s carpe diem!” We had a great time talking with Cole in Asheville and since then on social media.

Listen for our “You Tell Me!” questions and for some jokes in one of our concluding segments, called “Philosophunnies.” Reach out to us on Facebook @PhilosophyBakesBread and on Twitter @PhilosophyBB; email us at philosophybakesbread@gmail.com; or call and record a voicemail that we play on the show, at 859.257.1849. Philosophy Bakes Bread is a production of the Society of Philosophers in America (SOPHIA). Check us out online at PhilosophyBakesBread.com and check out SOPHIA at PhilosophersInAmerica.com.


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Notes

Albert Camus, looking way cooler than just about anyone.

Camus, looking crazy cool.

      1. Introduction to Truth Tables.
      2. Philosophy Bro.
      4. Albert Camus, Nobel Prize winner.
      5. Cole’s essay on Facebook that attracted over 18,000 engagements.
      6. WebMD on tubal ligation.
      7. Photo of Cole Nasrallah, showing her full bunny ears.

        Cole’s full photo, featuring Louise’s bunny ears.

        In case you were wondering, yes, Cole’s photo above is a tribute to Louise from Bob’s Burgers.

       

You Tell Me!

For our future “You Tell Me!” segments, Cole proposed the following question in this episode, for which we invite your feedback: When you’re writing or making an argument, the question always to ask yourself is why it matters. It’s the “So what?” question.

Let us know what you think matters!  Twitter, Facebook, Email, or by commenting here below.

 

 

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020: Ep16 – On Disability & American Philosophy

Philosophy Bakes Bread radio show & podcast

This sixteenth episode of Philosophy Bakes Bread aired on WRFL Lexington, 88.1 FM, on Monday, April 17th of 2017, and was a special episode on the subject of disability and American philosophy. It was another special episode recorded on location at a conference, except for Eric Weber, who skyped in from a closet in Ohio. This episode features four guests who were all on a panel at the annual gathering of the 2017 Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy in Birmingham, AL.

Person in a wheelchair beside an inaccessible curb, that drops off down to the road.

Our guests included:

Dr. Justin BellDr. Justin Bell, a.k.a. “Papa J.B.,” of the University of Houston Victoria;

 

Dr. Daniel Brunson.Friend of the show and returning guest, Dr. Daniel Brunson of Morgan State University, who was featured also in Episode 6, on philosophy for first-generation college students;

Dr. Nate JacksonDr. Nate Jackson. of Capital University;

 

Dr. Sarah WoolwineDr. Sarah Woolwine. of the University of Central Oklahoma;

 

Listen for our “You Tell Me!” questions and for some jokes in one of our concluding segments, called “Philosophunnies.” Reach out to us on Facebook @PhilosophyBakesBread and on Twitter @PhilosophyBB; email us at philosophybakesbread@gmail.com; or call and record a voicemail that we play on the show, at 859.257.1849. Philosophy Bakes Bread is a production of the Society of Philosophers in America (SOPHIA). Check us out online at PhilosophyBakesBread.com and check out SOPHIA at PhilosophersInAmerica.com.

 

 

(56 mins)

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Notes

  1. Victor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning (New York: Beacon Press, 2006).
  2. Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (New York: Modern Library, 1999).
  3. Soren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling (New York: Penguin Classics, 1986).
  4. Soren Kierkegaard, Sickness Unto Death (New York: Penguin Classics, 1989).

 

You Tell Me!

For our future “You Tell Me!” segments, our guests proposed an excellent question for you, the listener. We’d love to know what you think about it! Here’s the question: “How are you disabled? What does that mean about your vision of the good life?”

What do you think?

Let us know!  Twitter, Facebook, Email, or by commenting here below!

 

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