Units | The Deviant Philosopher

Units and Lessons

Get ideas for individual lectures with our Lessons, or combine multiple lectures into an entire Unit of deviant philosophy in your course.

Units offer suggestions about how to devote a course unit to an area of deviant philosophy. Units provide recommended reading schedules, background information about the unit’s topics and readings, and suggestions regarding how the unit might fit into the course’s larger arc.

List of Units

Title	Topics	Author
Social Epistemology	Epistemology, Social Epistemology, Epistemic Injustice	Wayne Riggs
Theism and Atheism in Classical Indian Philosophy	Hinduism, Indian Philosophy, Atheism	Ethan Mills
Lynching, the Milgram Experiments, and the Question of Whether "Human Nature Is Good"	Human Nature, Chinese Philosophy, Evil	Eric Schwitzgebel
Chinese Philosophy of Human Rights	Ethics, Human Rights, Confucianism	Stephen C. Angle
Wollstonecraft	Ethics, Women Philosophers, Political Philosophy	Liz Goodnick
Care of the Dead	Ethics, Values, and Politics, Early Chinese Philosophy, Death	Amy Olberding
The Cartesian Self and Buddhist Alternatives	Metaphysics, Buddhism, Self	Bryan W. Van Norden
The Ethics of Sexual Preference	Ethics, Values, and Politics, Gender, Race	Robin Zheng
Psychological Obstacles to Acting Ethically	Ethics, Values, and Politics, Applied Ethics, Moral Psychology	Trevor Hedberg