Psychological traps laid by the Condorcet Paradox, and how they affect group decision making. @PhiloofAlexandria

Philip Pettit's dilemma, showing that individual rationality does not guarantee group rationality. @PhiloofAlexandria

Why you should never give anyone a head start :) @PhiloofAlexandria

Lecture 14, Philo, of PHL 354/CTI 335, History of Christian Philosophy, The University of Texas at Austin, Spring 2013

A practical paradox concerning reflection and moral evaluation discussed by Adolf Reinach (1883–1917). @PhiloofAlexandria

Lorenzo Valla, a 15th century Italian scholar, breaks from Aristotle and the Scholastic tradition, simplifying Aristotle's metaphysics and developing a different approach to virtue and the highest good.@PhiloofAlexandria

Lecture 11, Gnosticism, of PHL 354/CTI 335, History of Christian Philosophy, The University of Texas at Austin, Spring 2013

Aspasius wrote the earliest surviving commentary on Aristotle, starting a tradition that would last for a millennium. He raises a number of interesting issues, including this one: Is the mean that defines virtue a point or a region? How hard is it to be virtuous?@PhiloofAlexandria

John Milton's Areopagitica, his case for freedom of speech.@PhiloofAlexandria

Socrates discusses wisdom, concluding that it is a self-replicating craft. @PhiloofAlexandria