Videos of Talks

Below, scrolling down, are videos of a few of the talks I've given over the last several years -- some of them at conferences, others of them invited talks, still others guest lectures in colleagues' classes.


Talks About Plato:

• Plato, Persons, and the Highest Good
• Just What Is a Platonic Virtue?

Talks about Aristotle:

• What Is Aristotelian Prohairesis?
• Aristotle's Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Anger
• An Aristotelian Account of Anger's Seduction of Practical Rationality
• Virtuous and Vicious Anger: What Aristotle Has To Teach Us 
• Aristotle, Anger, and Akrasia (Lack of Self-Control)
• Aristotle Meets Escoffier: Purposes, Production, Practice

Talks About Saint Anselm:

• What Kind of Moral Theory Does St. Anselm Hold?
• An Anselmian Account of the Grounding of Morality
• St. Anselm on Marriage, Congugal Love, and Sexual Desire
• Justice as a Degree of Ontological Dignity: An Anselmian Investigation
• An Overlooked Medieval Occasion: Anselm on Moral Inquiry, Justice, Virtues and Vices  

Talks About Jeremy Bentham

• It's Not Just Consequences: Jeremy Bentham's Philosophy of Action

Talks About Friedrich Nietzsche

• Ages of Nihilism and Renewal in Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy

Talks About Rainer Maria Rilke

• "We Are Building God": Rainer Maria Rilke on the Divine
• Rilke's "Letters to a Young Poet" and Boulud's "Letter's to a Young Chef"

Talks About Other Matters:

• The Seven Deadly Sins - Are There Really Seven? Are They Really Deadly?
• Motive, Moral Discourse, and Conflict in the Song of Ice and Fire
• Why Teach Philosophy in Prison? Ethics and Moral Development
• Service Learning, Critical Thinking, and Food Awareness
• Teaching (with the) Virtues and Supplemental Instruction