PBS
Top 4 Tips to Spot Bad Science Reporting
How can people make good decisions about their health when modern news reporting is so unreliable? Using an informative video resource, viewers discover the acronym GLAD. They learn to get past the clickbait, look for crazy claims,...
PBS
Why Do Our Brains Love Fake News?
Fake news is all about the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex versus the orbitofrontal cortex. Huh? Get the facts, the real deal, with a short video that explains clearly and succinctly what's going on in our brains that leads us to listen...
PBS
Fact vs. Fiction in the Media
How can people tell the difference between real news and inaccurate stories? Viewers watch a video about discerning fact from fiction in news sources. Next, pupils use a set of discussion questions to further analyze the topic.
Macat
An Introduction to Aristotle's Metaphysics
Metaphysics explores concepts of reality and being. A video summary provides an introduction to Aristotle's Metaphysics. Clear narration and creative animation help viewers understand the deep concepts presented in the text.
Macat
An Introduction to Kant's Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason
When you look at the word around you, it can be difficult to believe in the benefits of living a virtuous life. A video summary of Immanuel Kant's Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason addresses those benefits as part of a...
Macat
An Introduction to Alan Baddeley's Working Memory
The brain is an amazing and complex organ. A video summary of Alan Baddley's Working Memory provides an in-depth look at the brain, particularly how short-term memory works. Visual elements and clear narration help make the text more...
Macat
An Introduction to Saba Mahmood’s Politics of Piety
Do traditional customs of Islam contradict western feminism? Explore this and more using a video summary of Saba Mahmood's Politics of Piety, part of an extensive playlist about the world's greatest ideas. It addresses a common...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Argumentative Papers
This video lesson explains the purpose of argumentative papers and the construction of paper as follows: thesis states claim, evidence supports claim, identify counterargument, evidence refutes counterargument, and conclusion restates...
Other
What Is Critical Thinking and Why Is It Important?
One of the thinking skills for the 21st century is that of critical thinking. This site defines what critical thinking is and explains why it is important in today's world.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Language: Conditionals, Part 2
Justin Khoo invites us to think about conditional sentences ('if P then Q'). Perhaps surprisingly, the question of what these sentences mean has vexed philosophers for thousands of years. In part 2 of the series on conditionals, Justin...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Epistemology: The Will to Believe
Tom asks whether it is moral to believe something even when you have no evidence that it is true. He discusses a classic debate on that subject, between philosophers William James and William Clifford.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Language: Conditionals, Part 1
Justin invites us to think about conditional sentences ('if P then Q'). Perhaps surprisingly, the question of what these sentences mean has vexed philosophers for thousands of years. In part one, Justin motivates the question and...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Language: Meaning and Language
Kate explores the connection between language and meaning. This video introduces two ways in which philosophers have answered the question 'what makes a sound or some marks meaningful?'.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Religion: Cosmological Argument, Part 2
Part 2 of a pair. Dr. Tim Yenter moves on to the version of the Cosmological Argument for the existence of God called 'the Modal Argument.' The idea is that all the contingent facts about the world need to be explained by some necessary...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Religion: Cosmological Argument, Part 1
Part 1 of a pair. Dr. Tim Yenter lays out a classic argument for the existence of God, called 'The Cosmological Argument' -- roughly, the idea that something has to explain why the world is the way it is, and that something is God. He...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Epistemology: Rationality
Ram Neta (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) considers whether we're as rational as we often think we are. Help us caption & translate this video!
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Worked Example: Seeing Color Through Homer's Eyes
The purpose of this video is to demonstrate how to approach reading and answering questions using an example from the critical analysis and reasoning skills section of the MCAT. [20:24]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Identify the Conclusion Worked Example
Watch a demonstration of one way to approach a logical reasoning question that asks you to identify the conclusion of an argument. [5:18]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Identify the Conclusion Video Lesson
Watch a demonstration of one way to approach a question that asks you to identify the conclusion of an argument on the Logical Reasoning section of the LSAT. [6:13]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Identify an Entailment Worked Example
Watch a demonstration of one way to approach a question that asks you to identify an entailment that follows logically from a set of premises. [6:44]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Identify an Entailment Video Lesson
Watch a demonstration of one way to approach questions that ask you to identify an entailment that would follow logically from a series of statements. [8:40]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Identify the Technique Video Lesson
Watch a demonstration of how to approach a question that asks you to identify the technique on the logical reasoning section of the LSAT. [6:44]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Identify the Role Worked Example
Watch a demonstration of one way to approach questions that ask you to identify the role a piece of information plays in an argument. [5:33]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Identify the Principle Worked Example
Watch a demonstration of one way to approach questions that ask you to identify a principle from a stimulus at work in other situations. [3:38]