Reviews of professor Eric MacPhail

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Although his intelligence is clearly visible, his teaching ability is severely lacking. He does not follow the syllabus and decides to change the entire course depending on his mood. The readings are much too complicated for an introductory philosophy class, but if you want to learn about the most famous philosophical papers, this class is for you.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Hands down the hardest class I've ever taken in my life. If you are an HOD major do not for whatever reason take this class. The professor is fine but the content is incomprehensible. The workload for this class surpasses the combined workload for all my other classes combined this semester...

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
The professor often snaps at students and changes the class at will depending on his mood. The class is dead silent except for the hour long droning of his voice because we fear that expressing a different idea about the text than he does will lead to a more critical grading of our assignments. Short temper, hard class.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I dont understand why the reviews are so bad. Hes a nice guy and is obviously interested in philosophy. Very heavy workload and and often annoying grading scheme. However, he awarded a lot of extra credit and let us redo papers.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This is the hardest class I've ever taken in Vanderbilt. I am one of the few if not only person who received an A but was only able to achieve this because I have taken upper level philosophy courses that provided me with the knowledge that the professor expects us to have. He dislikes questions or any ideas that conflict with his own. Hard class