Conference Resources

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Incorporating Digital Media in HZB3M and HZT4U

Bailey Rose and Elan Umholtz (Toronto District School Board)

The Good Place: Learning How to be a Good Person... a little too late

Veronica Tuzi

A Footnote to Plato: The Problem of Change and the Metaphysics of Time

Scott Nicholson(Contacted with Request)

Teaching Philosophy Through Literature

Sheldon Lawrence(Contacted with Request)

Teaching Ethics with the help of two immoral literary characters: Plato's Callicles and J.K. Rowling's Lord Voldemort

Alistair Macrae(Retired)

Sophistry Lives! Rhetorical Writing for Students of Philosophy

Jeff Hanlon

Genetic Engineering: (How Far) Should We Shape Nature for Human Ends?

Prof. Meredith Schwartz(Toronto Metropolitan University)

Resources for Teaching The Meaning of Life

Prof. David Jopling(York University)

Two Accounts of Friendship: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and Plato's Lysis

Alistair Macrae(Retired)

Philosophy Fun: Teaching Logic

Tamara Ray(Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board)

Philosophy Fun: Enhancing Learning Through Games

Tamara Ray(Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board)

Edward Said's Orientalism as a Tool for Students' Philosophical Identity Development

Sheldon Lawrence

Harkness Discussions

Alistair Macrae(Retired)