Philosophy PowerPoints



I don’t use PowerPoint in my philosophy classes (because PowerPoint is evil), but I’ve sometimes used it for philosophy modules in team-taught interdisciplinary sciences-and-humanities courses (call it a form of upaya-kaushalya). I’ve posted these PowerPoints below; they’re a bit simplistic sometimes, but remember that they would have been accompanied by lecture. (I’ve broken some up into more than one file because there’s a 5MB limit on what I can upload at one time.)

A few technical notes: a) For best results, open these files in Mozilla Firefox. b) In opening some of these files I get an “unreadable content” error message, but when I click “yes” on the dialogue box, everything seems to be readable. c) Some of these are .ppt files while others are .pptx files; if you can open the former but not the latter, see here.

Nanoethics 1: The Methodology of Moral Reasoning: Socratic dialectic, utilitarianism, etc.

Nanoethics 2: Ethical Theories: Introduction: consequentialism, deontology, etc.
Nanoethics 3: Ethical Theories: Conclusion: act vs. rule utilitarianism, Kant, etc.

Nanoethics 4: Application to Questions of Justice and Social Welfare: Introduction: Rawls
Nanoethics 5: Application to Questions of Justice and Social Welfare: Conclusion: property rights – Lockean vs. other views

Nanoethics 6: Western and Nonwestern Ethical Approaches: Part 1: Taoism
Nanoethics 6: Western and Nonwestern Ethical Approaches: Part 2: Taoism continued, Confucianism, Akan teachings
Nanoethics 6: Western and Nonwestern Ethical Approaches: Part 3: Hinduism, Buddhism

Nanoethics 7: Further Social Implications: Introduction: Part 1: constructivist rationalism vs. spontaneous order
Nanoethics 7: Further Social Implications: Introduction: Part 2: constructivist rationalism vs. spontaneous order continued
Nanoethics 8: Further Social Implications: Conclusion: corporations and the market, intellectual property, tragedy of the commons

Nanoethics 9: Science Fiction, Philosophy and the Future: Part 1: Verne and Wells
Nanoethics 9: Science Fiction, Philosophy and the Future: Part 2: prediction vs. influence; science fiction’s relation to philosophy
Nanoethics 9: Science Fiction, Philosophy and the Future: Part 3: utopias and dystopias

Human Odyssey: Determinism, Free Will, and Quantum Physics, Part 1
Human Odyssey: Determinism, Free Will, and Quantum Physics, Part 2



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