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EthiCola is a program to help students learn moral
philosophy. It was last modified on 31 December 2011.
You can run it in Windows, Macintosh, or Linux.
To install EthiCola in Windows:

CLICK HERE

After you click, you'll be asked: Do you want to RUN or SAVE this file? Click RUN, and then click RUN again when asked to confirm your choice. Soon this dialog box will appear:

Or click here to install EthiCola in Windows

Teachers: Check the box to install the score processor.

After you install EthiCola, click the cola-can icon to start the program:
If you installed to your flash drive, open it using MY COMPUTER so you can get to the EthiCola icon.
Cola-can icon
EthiCola
If you installed to your computer, the icon will be on your desktop or on your Start-menu program list.


CLOUD SYNC: If you want to install EthiCola on multiple computers (not on a flash drive) and keep EthiCola scoring and configuration data in sync on all these computers, install a free Dropbox on each computer's desktop and turn on Cloud Sync using EthiCola's OPTIONS menu.

Ethics and the Golden Rule, to be published in late 2012 or early 2013 Formal Ethics Ethics: A Contemporary Introduction, second edition BOOKS: EthiCola goes with three of Gensler's Routledge books: Ethics: A Contemporary Introduction (2011 & 1998), Formal Ethics (1996), and soon Ethics and the Golden Rule (late 2012 or early 2013).

OLDER BROTHER: EthiCola has an older brother, LogiCola, about logic.

FURTHER UPDATES: If I modify EthiCola, you can repeat the process described above to update your program. But it's easier to update within EthiCola, using the TOOLS | UPDATE ETHICOLA option on the menu bar; you can check for updates automatically or manually. Update preserves your scores.

DOWNLOAD DIFFICULTIES: If you lack a Web connection or have problems installing EthiCola from the Web, you can install EthiCola to a flash drive from any computer that has EthiCola installed (use the TOOLS | COPY SCORES OR PROGRAM TO FLASH DRIVE option on EthiCola's menu bar).

MACINTOSH & LINUX: You can also run LogiCola in Macintosh or Linux.

WINDOWS VERSIONS: This current Windows version should work in Windows XP, Vista, and 7 -- whether 32- or 64-bit. For earlier Windows or DOS, use these zipped forms of my earlier MultiCola program for the Ethics and Formal Ethics books and the corresponding score processing program. EthiCola uses a different score format than the earlier MultiCola program; for EthiCola, you need to use the newer EthiSkor score processing program that installs with the EthiCola if you check the box to install it.

BLACKBOARD: You can set up Blackboard so that students can submit scores as WebCT assignments; see Chris Weigand's YouTube video and written instructions (both are about LogiCola scores, but EthiCola scores work the same way).

HANDOUT: Here's a handout about downloading EthiCola that teachers can give to their students.


Things you can access also from EthiCola's HELP menu:

SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS: a video on the golden rule, help files for EthiCola and EthiSkor, a teacher manual for the second edition Ethics: A Contemporary Introduction (and for the first edition), and classroom slides for the chapters of Ethics: A Contemporary Introduction: Introduction, Cultural Relativism, Subjectivism, Supernaturalism, Intuitionism, Emotivism, Prescriptivism, Consistency, The Golden Rule, Moral Rationality, Consequentialism, Nonconsequentialism, Virtue, Natural Law, Synthesis Chapter.