The Deviant Philosopher provides users with four kinds of materials: area primers, unit plans, lesson plans, and class activities. Primers are toolkits designed to help an instructor who is new to a subject area get acquainted with it. Unit plans, lesson plans, and class activities are teaching plans suitable for various time periods within a course, ranging from a single discussion to full units of study. Instructors can draw from these to suit their own time constraints and emphases. Each item contains suggestions about how to integrate the material into a variety of philosophy courses. Though our plans are (largely) classroom tested, we encourage users to email us at thedeviantphilosopher@gmail.com and let us know how our plans are working out for them.
There are also many wonderful resources related to teaching deviant philosophy and teaching in general that may be useful.
| Page | Syllabus Topics | Suggested Papers | Other |
| APA Committee on the Status of Women Website “Diversity in Philosophy” Page (link) | Provides links to: APA Syllabi on Underrepresented Areas of Philosophy Diversifying Syllabi (Georgetown) The Underrepresented Philosopher’s Database The APA Diversity Syllabi Project | ||
| APA Syllabi on Underrepresented Areas of Philosophy (link) | Provides syllabi on the following areas (Note that some less obviously underrepresented areas are included because the syllabi provided include underrepresented areas) African/Africana, African-American, and Caribbean Philosophy American Philosophy Arabic and Islamic Philosophy Asian and Asian-American Philosophy Bioethics Continental Philosophy Feminist Philosophy History of Philosophy Indigenous Philosophy Introduction to Philosophy Jewish Philosophy Latin American Philosophy LGBTQ Philosophy Multicultural/World Philosophies Philosophy and Disability Philosophy of Action Philosophy of Art Philosophy of Economics Philosophy of Gender Philosophy of Language Philosophy of Race Philosophy of Religion Philosophy of Science Philosophy of Sex and Love Philosophy of Sport Social and Political Philosophy | ||
| The APA Diversity Syllabi Project (link) | (link) Provides diverse syllabi on the following topics: Adult Education African Philosophy Care Philosophy of Disability Feminist Philosophy Gender Indian Philosophy Justice Philosophy of Language Latin American Philosophy Philosophy of Law LGBTQ Philosophy Multicultural Ethical and Political Theory Punishment Race Racism Sex and Sexuality Sexism Social and Political Philosophy | ||
| Diversifying Syllabi (Georgetown) (link) | Provides suggested readings in: Bioethics Epistemology/Knowledge Ethics History of Philosophy, Early Modern Period Philosophy of Language Metaphysics Personal Identity and the Self Political Philosophy Social and Political Philosophy 20th Century Continental | With each suggested reading, a link to additional information is provided. The additional information includes: Difficulty level of the paper A summary Key definitions Suggested class activities A list of complimentary texts A list of texts that the paper could replace in a traditional syllabus | |
| The UP (Underrepresented Philosopher Directory) http://www.theupdirectory.com/all-entries | Provides a long list of self- (or other-) identified philosophers who are part of underrepresented groups. It also lists their areas of study. | ||
| Core readings in philosophy by female authors for undergraduate curricula (link) | Contains a long list of papers by women on diverse (deviant and non-deviant) topics with difficulty level | ||
| African Philosophy Resources (link) | Contains links to syllabi | Contains links to explanations of key debates in (and about) African Philosophy and other resources | |
| The American Society for Aesthetics Diversity Committee Grant (link) | Existing topics include: What is art? Theories of Aesthetics Topics currently in development include: Asian Aesthetics The Aesthetics of Portraiture Aesthetic Othering—The Case of Photographic Representation | Contains PDFs of curriculums developed by grant winners. Each one contains: An explanation of the approach An annotated bibliography | |
| Expanding East Asian Studies (ExEAS) (link) | (ExEAS) (link) Provides syllabi for East Asian Studies Generally. Philosophy (or partly philosophy multidisciplinary) syllabi include: Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism, and Taoism: Philosophy in Asian Traditions – Gender and Ethnicity in China and Tibet Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japanese Society Global Feminism History of Philosophy: The Classical Philosophers – Updated Fall 2015 Philosophy East and West: An Introduction Philosophy in the Classical Age Race and Ethnicity in East Asia and Beyond | Provides units or lessons on various topics in “philosophy, thought, and religion,” including: Body and Beyond: Epistemology and the Body in Japanese Philosophy Buddhism in the Classic Chinese Novel Buddhism and Japanese Aesthetics Buddhist Art in East Asia Chuang-Tzu’s Dream Conceptual Workshop Dialogue and Transformation: Buddhism in Asian Philosophy Existentialism and East and West: Conceptual Workshop Foundations and Transformations of Buddhism: An Overview Japanese Aesthetics and The Tale of Genji Language, Reality, and Politics in Early China Literary Con/Texts Ox-Herding: Stages of Zen Practice Sacred Kingship and Sacrifice in Ancient India and China Selected Teaching Resources on Zen Buddhism Translation and Interpretation: Critical Exercise | |
| Society for Teaching Comparative Philosophy (link) | Provides a syllabus on comparative ethics | Provides links to bibliographies | Provides links to articles about teaching comparative philosophy |
| Warp Weft and Way Teaching Resources (link) | Provides a few syllabi | ||
| Asia for Educators (link) | Has a “Lesson Plans” page under construction, and series of video lectures here: http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/at/ | ||
| Project Vox (link) | Provides syllabi on the following topics: Rationalism vs. Empiricism Philosophy and Science Cartesianism and its aftermath Theories of causation | Provides images, timelines, and guides to philosophers which include links to primary and secondary sources (including correspondences) and biographical information. Provides modules on the following topics: Cartesian mind-body dualism and substance monism (Princess Elisabeth, Conway, Cavendish) Leibnizian metaphysics (Masham, Du Châtelet) Knowledge, role of reason in theology (Locke and Masham) Love and sociability (Astell and Masham) Materialism (Hobbes and Cavendish) Experimental / mechanical philosophy (Cavendish, Conway) Relation between physics and metaphysics (Du Châtelet) Substance (Leibniz, Conway, Du Châtelet) Theories of causation (Masham, Conway, Du Châtelet, Princess Elisabeth) Theodicy (Leibniz and Conway) |