What can Philosophers Teach Non-philosopher Students, if not Philosophy?

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  • 哲学を専門とする教員は、哲学を専門としない学生に、哲学以外の何を教えたらよいのか？
  • テツガク オ センモン ト スル キョウイン ワ テツガク オ センモン ト シナイ ガクセイ ニ テツガク イガイ ノ ナニ オ オシエタラ ヨイ ノ カ

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Today those who specialize in philosophy often have to teach non-philosophy courses. In such cases, philosophers may feel embarrassed because it is not clear what they can and should teach, if not philosophy, to students who do not specialize in philosophy. In this paper, I, as a philosopher facing this problem, present my own struggle with it. Having taught bioethics, neuroethics, critical thinking, and other topics in non-philosophy courses, I found that there is a dilemma here. If philosophers choose philosophical issues as their course topics, more and more students will lose interest in the courses and keep away from them. If philosophers try to be less philosophical, more and more students may attend the courses, but it does not seem necessary for philosophers to teach those courses. Teaching critical thinking might be a good choice here because critical thinking requires the abilities that philosophers are trained to acquire, though this strategy may work only under certain circumstances.

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