Full Description
Steven Cahn belongs to that exclusive class of professors who have not only contributed influentially to the leading debates of their discipline, but have also written insightfully about the academic vocation itself. This volume comprises 13 essays, authored by Cahn's colleagues and former students, presented in his honor on the occasion of his 25th year as Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York. The chapters focus on topics that have been central to Cahn's philosophical work, such as the teaching of Philosophy, the responsibilities of Philosophy professors, the nature of happiness, and the concept of the good life.
Contents
Part 1 Introduction
Part 2 About Steven M. Cahn
Chapter 3 Lessons for Philosophers from Business Ethics
Chapter 4 Academic Standards and Constitutive Luck
Chapter 5 Meaningful Lives
Chapter 6 Teaching Ethics: The Relevance of Empirical Findings in Psychology
Chapter 7 The Teaching Profession
Chapter 8 Philosophy and its Teaching
Chapter 9 Philosophical Humor: Lewis Carroll and Introductory Philosophy
Chapter 10 Shake Em' Up: On Teaching Weird or Irrelevant Philosophical Views
Chapter 11 Global Norming: An Inconvenient Truth
Chapter 12 Intercollegiate Athletics and Educational Values
Chapter 13 How to Duck out of Teaching
Chapter 14 The Happy Immoralist
Chapter 15 Mentoring
Part 16 Afterword
