Teaching Philosophy

I’ve updated the prototype flash document from which all of these diverge, so the functionality is a little different than the last time I posted versions of these (Dynamic Formal argument demos). Specifically:

• added the ‘valid?’ box on the left, which highlights and explains the answer
• moved the checkbox to the right, and added ‘conclusion false?’ above that column
• changed the color of the overlaid box that appears when one clicks the checkbox to yellow - as a highlight, not a grey-out

Overall, the functionality is basically the same: (1) Click ’start’ to populate the truth table with ‘T’s and ‘F’s. (2) complete the truth table with the combo boxes provided - click ‘check’ to verify. (3) check off all rows with a false conclusion, making sure there is at least 1 false conclusion in each set of premises, and finally (4) decide whether or not the argument is valid and click ‘yes’ or ‘no’ on the right.

Modus Ponens Truth-Table Static Link (Right /Ctrl click to ‘Save Target/File As…’ to download).

Modus Tollens Truth-Table Static Link (Right /Ctrl click to ‘Save Target/File As…’ to download).

Affirming the Consequent Truth-Table Static Link (Right /Ctrl click to ‘Save Target/File As…’ to download).

Denying the Antecedent Truth-Table Static Link (Right /Ctrl click to ‘Save Target/File As…’ to download).

The two variations of disjunctive syllogism and the updated version of hypothetical syllogism should be up next week.

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