I guess the emoticon clue didn't actually clue you in to the fact that I was teasing.
I love over-explaining to you, Dan. Even though you know I was teasing.
Yeah. Sports bickering, eh?
Take a look anyway: I've only watched the first lecture, but it was fun. The professor gives a few moral conundrums to the class, and then they debate them. It's amusing to see the kids try to justify their moral choices. He then uses the moral conundrums as a way to introduce them to moral philosophy.
However, I wish the professor would mention the fact that most of our moral choices are pretty much instinctive: we choose
and then we rationalize, not the other way around.
One of my friends teaches philosophy (metaphysics!) at Ohio State, and from him, I get the impression that it's a common habit of philosophy professors to believe that human beings are more rational than they actually are.
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