On the First Day of Your Intro-Level Philosophy Course

You’re teaching a lower-level philosophy course. Many of your students may be encountering philosophy for the first time ever on the first day of your course.   Besides going over the syllabus and course logistics—which should never be the first thing you do—what else do you do on day 1 to (as one reader put it) “get the philosophical juices flowing”? We had a post about this 8 years ago, and there were some good ideas bandied about then, but I’m sure that by now more people have some more interesting approaches to the first day of philosophy course. Let’s hear them.  
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