What I Have Learned about the History of Philosophy from My Students
Insights from my students collected over the years. Updated this semester.
I offer you: “A Student History of Philosophy” (Being a compilation of student research, gently edited by Stephen Hicks, Rockford College). [pdf]
Ha. Once upon a time I made a webpage for students who might be thinking about taking one of my courses. In the “for” section I quoted from my course reviews, and in the “against” section I listed some of the things I had apparently taught them:
http://rjohara.net/teaching/coursereviews#against
Don’t worry. The students who made those absurd comments can still make a living as postmodernists.
Don’t despair; your teachings weren’t completely lost: “sex without the possibility of recreation is immoral” and “One thing religions teach is that you should prey regularly.” - A gold mine of Freudian slips.
By the way, I just looked up the definition for the fallacy of hoc poc der doc: “reasoning that renders an argument stupid.”