Is it Better to Be Socrates Dissatisfied or Homer Simpson Satisfied? Higher and Lower...
A clip from The Simpsons Emmy-award winning episode HOMR (Season 12, Episode 9) provides a vivid illustration—and critique of—the contrast between higher and lower...
Ethical Dilemmas in the Pharmacy (Teaching on TikTok)
This video is of an ethical dilemma posed by a Pharmacy student and illustrates the conflicts between respecting autonomy (by keeping medical information confidential)...
Thank You for Arguing
The dark comedy Thank You For Smoking (2005) focuses on how lobbyist Nick Naylor uses crafty rhetorical tactics to promote the interests of Big...
John Oliver and the Fallacy of Hasty Generalization
In this clip, John Oliver reveals how mainstream media morning shows make hasty generalizations based on preliminary studies. John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight deals...
John Oliver on Vaccines and the Fallacy of Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
John Oliver uses humor to show how the vaccine debate stems largely from a causal fallacy.
John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight discusses the sensitive topic...
Seinfeld, Friends, and the Moral Permissibility of Lying
The following two clips, one from Seinfeld and another from Friends, are comedic examples to prompt a discussion about the ethics of lying. As...
The Argument Clinic and Introduction to Philosophy
The following clip, known as “The Argument Clinic," is from the British TV show, Monty Python’s Flying Circus (1972). It depicts a man who visits a...
He is the Park Ranger, she is the Other: gender in Parks and Recreation
This clip from Parks and Recreation plays on stereotypes of femininity and can be used to explore the concept of the Other in Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex."
The Argument Clinic
This video excerpts the “Argument Clinic” provides a rich basis from which to introduce and explore the philosophical conception of argumentation.
Beauvoir and Colbert on Neutrality and Otherness
The clip “Neutral Man’s Burden” from The Colbert Report (Comedy Central, 2005-2014) can be used to explicate the concepts of neutrality and Otherness in Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex.