The topic is: “Asking the Right Questions in Humanities Classes”:
The ability to ask better questions is among the highest goals of humanities pedagogy. But what are the most productive questions? And what are the best ways to teach meaningful inquiry? How do we build classes that invite authenticity and contemplation of essential human questions?
Participants are invited to read “Asking the Right Questions,” an interview with Meghan Sullivan and Paul Blaschko of Notre Dame University. You are welcome to come even if you do not have time to read.
Meghan Sullivan is the Wilsey Family College Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, where she also serves as director of Notre Dame’s university-wide ethics initiative and the Institute for Ethics and the Common Good. Her 2018 book, Time Biases, was featured in a 2021 New Yorker article. In 2022, Sullivan and her teaching collaborator, Paul Blaschko, published The Good Life Method, a book about their introductory philosophy course “God and the Good Life,” which has been recognized with major grants from the NEH, the Mellon Foundation, and the John Templeton Foundation. Sullivan has received Notre Dame’s Joyce Award for Teaching, a Provost’s All-Faculty Team Award, and a City of South Bend 40 Under 40 Award. She is a co-editor of the philosophy journal, Nous.
