#SocietySpotlight: A PhilSoc Debate
November 2, 2023
As the next instalment of our #SocietySpotlight series, I’m going to take you through my first PhilSoc debate of the year. I joined PhilSoc during Welcome Week when I wasn’t too sure about joining a society but thought it could be a good way to make friends on my course. I was given an invite …
Could robots replace your lecturers? What it means to teach!
May 7, 2019
Thursday morning, coffee in hand, I attended a philosophy lecture given by Andrew Fisher, here at the Uni of Nottingham, on teaching and learning. Tired eyes and sore heads from the night before filled the room, also hoping their coffee would help spring them into life…ready to learn! But what is it, exactly, to learn? Carry on …
Have Teachers Been Teaching
May 2, 2019
So picture this, it’s a 9am on a Monday morning, you’re in the lecture and the first thing the lecturer asks is “are teachers teaching?”. Well you know this isn’t going to be a typical lecture. Learning is Teaching How can we decide if teaching is taking place? One way …
I’ve got the power. Why teaching is actually dependent on you.
So I have just sat in on a philosophy lecture that asked ‘what does it mean to teach?’. I know what you are thinking… duh, teaching is when learning occurs. Or, even, only when someone has the intention to bring about learning. However, Fisher and Tallant claim that neither learning nor intention are necessary conditions for …
So…What even IS teaching?
Today I attended a Philosophy lecture discussing a paper which gave a whole new approach to teaching. As students, we do so much learning but never think about what teaching is. Fisher and Tallant, in their paper “What does it mean to teach?”, argue that you don’t even need to learn anything for something to …
Are your teachers teaching you well? You can decide…
TEACHING. It’s a simple word, and after all these years at school you think you know what it is right? Wrong! I’ve just finished an interesting lecture questioning what teaching is, and I’m going to give you a taste of what philosophy at Nottingham is like… 1. What is teaching? You might think if …
The Machines Are Taking Over!
May 1, 2019
My dream after I graduate is to become a teacher. You can imagine how excited I was when I went to Andy Fisher’s lecture today and heard this lecture’s philosophy was all about teaching! However, according to Fisher and Tallants’ paper ‘What does it mean to teach?’ it may be that in the future teachers …
What Does Teaching Mean to You?
April 11, 2019
By Digital Communications team member, Immanuelle Kant. I’ve just attended an interesting lecture on Andy Fisher and Jonathan Tallant’s Philosophy of Teaching where we discussed the enduring question: ‘What Does It Mean to Teach?’. I am going to breakdown the main ideas from the lecture to give you a better insight into what a Philosophy lecture …
Teaching: It’s Not What You Think It Is! An insight to Philosophy Lectures at the University of Nottingham
Hey soon to be University of Nottingham philosophy students! Ever wondered what a philosophy lecture at the University of Nottingham might be like? Well we’ve got just the blog post for you! We sat in on a philosophy lecture discussing Fisher and Tallant’s paper ‘What does it mean to teach?’ and we’re here to tell …
Feeling Empowered: A Day In The Life Of A UoN Philosophy Student
April 10, 2019
This morning I went to a 9am Philosophy lecture and I learnt something; a wild phenomenon considering I hadn’t even had my morning coffee! You’d hope that I did learn something, bearing in mind we were learning about teaching in Teaching and Learning (building). We Philosophers do love a meta moment, sorry. We got told …