The hedgehog knows one big thing, but the fox knows many little things—Archilochus Over twenty-plus years of teaching, I have collected several useful lines, phrases, conceptual frameworks, and gimmicks that serve as centering, organizational references when introducing students to the wonderful and largely unfamiliar territory of philosophy. The unity/plurality debate of the early pre-Socratics, Aristotle’s form/matter distinction, Descartes’ mind/body dualism, the simple basics of Darwin’s theory of natural selection—each of these can be used as sorting devices, kind of like... Read more