Engineers, Expertise, and Organizations: The Challenger Space Shuttle Disaster
A central component of my Engineering Ethics course, which you can read more about in the Blog of the APA’s Syllabus Showcase series, is...
Flirting with Personhood: Will Smith’s Date with Sophia the Robot
With the increased prevalence of AI chatbots on dating apps, many users wonder if their date-to-be is really a person. The following clip depicts...
Smart Ass Pawn: Ideology and Ideological Interpellation in The Wire
For the most part, The Wire (2002-2008) has been embraced by educators for its realism, for the way that it shows in almost journalistic...
John Cage’s 4’33” and Experimental Phenomenology
Death Metal band Dead Territory has a wonderful video cover of John Cage’s 4'33" that I use in my Introduction to Latin American Philosophy...
Collecting Nuts and Bolts: Reintroducing the Teaching and Learning Video Series
Whenever I teach an introductory-level philosophy course, I spend some time working through different reading strategies with my students, who are largely unfamiliar with...
The Godfather’s Mafia Meeting Scene: A Fictional Narrative of Hobbesian Contractarianism
Whenever I teach the undergraduate courses of Ethical Theory and Contemporary Social Ethics, I include The Godfather’s mafia meeting scene as part of these...
Teaching Moral Reasoning with Terminator and Jesus
Semester after semester, I embarked on helping students to appreciate that morally relevant decisions are not a matter of personal preference, and I struggled...
Dusty Slay and Zhuangzi’s Three in the Morning
Comedian Dusty Slay tells a story about trying to purchase some DVDs at a flea market. The DVDs are cheap: three for five dollars....
Zeno’s Paradox Illustrated by an Impossible Dance
It can be difficult to teach Zeno’s paradox to a class of incoming freshmen. Therefore, I was delighted when a student of mine pointed...
Abbott Elementary and Utilitarianism
In this clip, the teachers at an underfunded Philadelphia public elementary school are debating the pros and cons of having a “gifted” program that...