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Short video explaining Aristotle's virtue ethics by Fall 2019 student, Alaxandrine Makhoul.

A learning glass overview of the concept of utilitarianism and some of the common objections to the view.

This short video provides some background to help students understand Section I of Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals.

This is a longer video drawing out 4 examples of perfect and imperfect duties as analyzed according to Immanuel Kant's three formulations of the categorical imperative.

Aristotle on intellectual and moral virtues, books 2 and 6 of the Nicomachean Ethics. Focus is on the role of character, habits, and deliberation in virtuous actions.

This is a brief lecture covering, roughly, Book 1 of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics where he demonstrates how happiness is the highest good of human action and how the virtuous action of the…

This is an overview of Metaethics for Introduction to Ethics, PHIL 2306, Module 1.

A brief introductory lecture to Plato's Euthyphro. This was prepared for an online Introduction to Ethics (PHIL 2306) class, Module 1: Metaethics.

Median 78. 81, 82, 56, 84

This short movie demonstrates a step by step method to evaluate arguments in English, by translating them into symbolic form and applying the truth table method.

This short video presents the philosophical problem of free will.

This is a short video on the philosophical area of epistemology.

This video explains the basic logical concepts of validity and soundness.

Dr. Smith works through two more examples of proofs using the subproof method.

This video shows how to use truth tables to assess logical concepts such as tautology, contradiction, contingency, logical equivalence, consistency, and validity.

This video provides an introduction to subproofs: conditional proof and indirect proof. The video provides several examples of proofs using the subproof method.