WILLIE COSTELLO

Philosophy & Emerging Technologies

• Syllabus
• Assignments: Midterm Paper | Research Project: Brainstorm | Prospectus | Presentation | Paper
• Class Blog (featuring students' final papers as blog posts)

"Can good people like bad music?" and other questions

• Syllabus
• Assignments: First Paper | Second Paper | Third Paper | Fourth Paper

Literature & Philosophy

• Syllabus
• Assignments: Midterm Paper | Term Paper: Brainstorm | Exploration | Bibliography | Presentation | Paper

Ancient Greek Philosophy as a Way of Life

• Syllabus
• Assignments: Argument Analysis #1 | Argument Analysis #2 | Final Exam
• Explorations: "Be The Gadfly" | "The Apology of [You]" | "Three Days in the Life"

Stoicism, Scepticism, & Epicureanism: Philosophies of Life

• Syllabus
• Assignments: Philosophical Journals | Engagement Self-Reflections (How to engage) | Final Exam | Paper: First Draft | Final Draft
• How to live like a... Stoic | Sceptic | Epicurean

Shame, in Antiquity & Today

• Syllabus
• Assignments: Micro-Assignments | Term Paper: Think Piece | Peer Review | Term Paper

Love, Sex, & Sexuality in Ancient Greek Thought

• Syllabus

Beauty in Ancient Greek Philosophy

• Syllabus (2017) | Syllabus (2015)
• Assignments: Response Pieces | Think Piece | Peer Review | Term Paper

Engagement Self-Reflections (plus How to engage)

Qualitative Grading Rubric

"Five Virtues of Good Philosophical Writing"

Exercises for Better Philosophical Writing:

• Argument Analysis
• Paragraph Editing
• Defending a Position
• Validity & Invalidity
• Assessing Validity