• Engaged Philosophy is a new resource that gives faculty and students tools to implement activist or service projects in philosophy classes—assignment guidelines, sample projects, and testimonials and data supporting civic engagement results.

• Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization (PLATO). This website is a very thorough on-line resource for people who are teaching pre-college philosophy. There is, however, much of interest here to college teachers as well.

• Closer to Truth is a PBS series with programs on various philosophical topics, including episodes on consciousness and God.

• PhilosophyExperiments.com. This amusing website has a lot of philosophical thought experiments, such as a variation on the trolley problem. 

• Institute for Philosophy in Public Life produces a radio show and podcast called Why? Philosophical Discussions about Everyday Life. 

• Podcasts. As podcasts proliferate, philosophy podcasts naturally proliferate as well. Some other podcasts of interests are: Philosophy Talk is a Public Radio program from Stanford University on KALW San Francisco and The Partially Examined Life (also available on iTunes). The current editor's favorite philosophy podcast is The History of Philosophy without any Gaps. There's also Hi-Phi Nation and Philosophy Bites to name just two more. 

• PLATO (Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization) offers a wide variety of resources for  people interested in pre-college philosophy instruction.

• PhilosophyPages, compiled by Garth Kemerling has a wealth of resources, including a dictionary of philosophical terms, cross linked to some of the Internet encyclopedias.

• In Socrates' Wake is an interesting blog, which features frequent postings on teaching philosophy. It is no longer active, but there are lots of great posts in its archives.

• American Association of Philosophy Teachers. The AAPT's website contains a variety of useful and regularly updating links, blog posts, and more.

• Ohio State University has a terrific Teaching Handbook. 

• Professor David Hildebrand (University of Colorado Denver) has a website with a variety of useful philosophy handouts and lecture notes. 

• Louis Schmier's Random Thoughts is a blog of his meditations on teaching, education, and life in general, and his essays are also collected in several published volumes. 

• The Foundation for Critical Thinking has useful material on teaching and assessing development of the critical thinking.

• AskPhilosophers takes a completely different approach. Students can submit a question about philosophy and volunteers answer the questions.

• Socrates Cafe a nonprofit organization that facilitates meetings all over the world called "inquiry groups" and hosts a podcast and YouTube channel.

 

 

Update: 17 Dec. 2015; April 2020; 2-13-2026