School of Life - Philosophy PHILOSOPHY – Sartre PHILOSOPHY – Aristotle PHILOSOPHY – Plato PHILOSOPHY – Nietzsche PHILOSOPHY – Epicurus PHILOSOPHY – The Stoics PHILOSOPHY – Heidegger PHILOSOPHY – Augustine PHILOSOPHY – La Rochefoucauld PHILOSOPHY – Ludwig Wittgenstein PHILOSOPHY – Soren Kierkegaard PHILOSOPHY – Baruch Spinoza PHILOSOPHY – Albert Camus PHILOSOPHY – Michel Foucault PHILOSOPHY – René Descartes PHILOSOPHY – Schopenhauer NIETZSCHE ON: The Superman SARTRE ON: Bad Faith PHILOSOPHY – Hegel PHILOSOPHY – Montaigne PHILOSOPHY: Immanuel Kant Burke on: The Sublime PLATO ON: The Forms PLATO ON: The Allegory of the Cave PHILOSOPHY – Thomas Aquinas Crash Course - Philosophy What is Philosophy?: Crash Course Philosophy #1 How to Argue – Philosophical Reasoning: Crash Course Philosophy #2 How to Argue – Induction & Abduction: Crash Course Philosophy #3 Leonardo DiCaprio & The Nature of Reality: Crash Course Philosophy #4 Cartesian Skepticism – Neo, Meet Rene: Crash Course Philosophy #5 Locke, Berkeley, & Empiricism: Crash Course Philosophy #6 The Meaning of Knowledge: Crash Course Philosophy #7 Karl Popper, Science, and Pseudoscience: Crash Course Philosophy #8 Anselm and the Argument for God: Crash Course Philosophy #9 Aquinas and the Cosmological Arguments: Crash Course Philosophy #10 Intelligent Design: Crash Course Philosophy #11 What is God Like?: Crash Course Philosophy #12 The Problem of Evil: Crash Course Philosophy #13 Anti-Vaxxers, Conspiracy Theories & Epistemic Responsibility: Crash Course Philosophy #14 Indiana Jones & Pascal’s Wager: Crash Course Philosophy #15 Existentialism: Crash Course Philosophy #16 Perspectives on Death: Crash Course Philosophy #17 Batman & Identity: Crash Course Philosophy #18 Personal Identity: Crash Course Philosophy #19 Arguments Against Personal Identity: Crash Course Philosophy #20 Personhood: Crash Course Philosophy #21 Where Does Your Mind Reside?: Crash Course Philosophy #22 Artificial Intelligence & Personhood: Crash Course Philosophy #23 Determinism vs Free Will: Crash Course Philosophy #24 Compatibilism: Crash Course Philosophy #25 Language & Meaning: Crash Course Philosophy #26 Netflix & Chill: Crash Course Philosophy #27 How Words Can Harm: Crash Course Philosophy #28 Nonexistent Objects & Imaginary Worlds: Crash Course Philosophy #29 Aesthetic Appreciation: Crash Course Philosophy #30 Aesthetics: Crash Course Philosophy #31 Metaethics: Crash Course Philosophy #32 Divine Command Theory: Crash Course Philosophy #33 Natural Law Theory: Crash Course Philosophy #34 Kant & Categorical Imperatives: Crash Course Philosophy #35 Utilitarianism: Crash Course Philosophy #36 Contractarianism: Crash Course Philosophy #37 Aristotle & Virtue Theory: Crash Course Philosophy #38 Leonardo DiCaprio & The Nature of Reality: Crash Course Philosophy #4 Cartesian Skepticism – Neo, Meet Rene: Crash Course Philosophy #5 Aquinas and the Cosmological Arguments: Crash Course Philosophy #10 Cartesian Skepticism – Neo, Meet Rene: Crash Course Philosophy #5 Wisecrack What is Real? (Plato’s Allegory of the Cave) – 8-Bit Philosophy Why Do We ❤️ SERIAL KILLERS!? – 8-Bit Philosophy Is It WRONG If You Don’t Vote? (Trump vs. Hillary) – 8-Bit Philosophy Does Political Correctness WORK? – 8-Bit Philosophy Will Drugs Make You Super-Human? (Adderall, Ritalin & More) – 8-Bit Philosophy Is Trump REALLY a Fascist? – 8-Bit Philosophy Is Tinder KILLING Love? – 8-Bit Philosophy Will Candy Crush Set You Free? – 8-Bit Philosophy PLATO ON: The Allegory of the Cave Is Trump the END of Politics? – 8-Bit Philosophy Does Rationality Give Life Meaning? (Kierkegaard) – 8-Bit Philosophy Can We Trust the Media? (Baudrillard) – 8-Bit Philosophy Do Humans Operate Like Computers? (Kant) – 8-Bit Philosophy Is Technology Dangerous? (Star Wars + Heidegger) – 8-Bit Philosophy Why Do We Take Selfies? (Michel Foucault) – 8-Bit Philosophy Is Boredom Worse Than Death? (Kierkegaard) – 8-Bit Philosophy What is Marxism? 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(Nietzsche + Mega Man) – 8-Bit Philosophy Is Change Impossible? – 8-Bit Philosophy Why Do We Get F#*&% Up? – 8-Bit Philosophy Should Animals Have Human Rights? (Pokémon + Speciesism) – 8-Bit Philosophy Why Shouldn’t We Commit Suicide? (Donkey Kong & The Myth of Sisyphus) – 8-Bit Philosophy Do We Enjoy Being Free? (Final Fantasy + Sartre) – 8-Bit Philosophy Will History END? – 8-Bit Philosophy What is Real? (Plato’s Allegory of the Cave) – 8-Bit Philosophy Is Gender REAL? – 8-Bit Philosophy Is Kanye West Even Human? – 8-Bit Philosophy Is Batman JUST? – 8-Bit Philosophy Who Was Machiavelli? (The Prince) – 8-Bit Philosophy Does Christianity Make Us Weak? (Nietzsche) – 8-Bit Philosophy Who Was Socrates? – 8-Bit Philosophy Can We Be Certain of Anything? (Descartes) – 8-Bit Philosophy Does Privilege Matter? – 8-Bit Philosophy Carneades of Cyrene - Philosophy What are Qualia? (Philosophical Definitions) Final Logic Problems (100 Days of Logic) The Liar’s Revenge Paradox Jus in Bello (Just War Theory) The Luminous Room (Thought Experiment) Indirect Skepticism Appeal to Ignorance (Logical Fallacy) Defending the Liar (Use and Mention with Frank Dunleavy) The A Series vs The B Series (Unreality of Time) The Skeptic and the Shrink (A Psychologist’s Case for Skepticism) What is Knowledge? (Philosophical Definitions) Modus Ponens Carneades.org Channel Guide Boolean Venn Diagrams I Personal Indentity (The Persistence Question) Objections to Pascal’s Wager The Dunning-Kruger Effect The Matrix (Skeptical Scenarios) Associativity (Propositional Logic) A Priori and A Posteriori Distinction (90 Second Philosophy) Doubting Math (Russell’s Paradox) Universal Particular Affirmative Negative Traditional Square of Opposition What is Wisdom? (Philosophical Definitions) Weak Analogy (Logical Fallacy) Epistemology (5 Minute Philosophical Positions) The Expanding Child (Abortion Thought Experiment) Who Was Mary Wollstonecraft? (Famous Philosophers) Truthmakers and Truthbearers Agrippa vs Presuppositionalism De Morgan’s Rule (Part I) The Ethics of Belief (William Clifford) Conversion (Categorical Logic) Rule V (Categorical Syllogisms) The New Riddle of Induction The Unreality Of Time (McTaggart’s Argument) Are Theories Falsifiable? (Holistic Underdetermination) The Prisoner’s Dilemma (90 Second Philosophy) Contradictory (Propositional Logic) Amphiboly (Logical Fallacy) What Is Stoicism? (Philosophical Position) Thomas Kuhn vs Presuppositionalism The Duplication Argument Against Evolution The Loop Trolley Problem (90 Second Philosophy) The Problem of Induction The Borda Count (Voting Theory) The Paradox of The Hooded Man Three Months of Modal Logics The Problem of Logical Omniscience (Bayesian Epistemology) Rules of Implication Answers I (100 Days of Logic) Final Objections to Inspiring Philosophy’s MOA What is Peano Arithmetic? Equivocation (Logical Fallacy) Fallacy of Accident What is Temporal Logic? The Month of Paradox Are Our Theories Correct? (Transient Underdetermination) What is Egoism? (Philosophical Positions) Omniscience (The 12 Days of Theology) Rule I (Categorical Syllogisms) Appeal to Force (Logical Fallacy) What is Scientific Realism? The Modern Liar Paradox Russell’s Objection to the Cosmological Argument Commutativity (Propositional Logic) Frege’s Puzzle (Philosophy of Language) What If You Were Dreaming? (Ninety Second Philosophy) Indirect Proof Answers Alethic Modal Logic vs Modal Logics The Watch Argument (Deductive Teleological Arguments) Pluralist Theories of Truth General Paradoxes (Answers) We Don’t Know The Problem of the Criterion Figure 1 Conditionally Valid Double Negation (Propositional Logic) Occam’s Razor (and why you should be skeptical of it) Harrison Bergeron (Dramatic Reading) The Partial Free Will Argument (Response to the Free Will Defense) The Free Will Dilemma The City of Lem (Knights and Knaves) Who Was Rene Descartes? (Famous Philosophers) Objections to the Definitional Ontological Argument Direct vs Indirect Realism (Philosophy of Perception) What is Metaphysics? (Definition) A Dream within a Dream (Dramatic Reading) Paradoxes of Penzance (Veridical Paradoxes) Categorical Logic Hume’s Objections to the Cosmological Argument Necessary and Contingent Distinction (90 Second Philosophy) The Deflationary Theory of Truth The Decision Paradox Pragmatism (William James and Charles Sanders Peirce) Propositional Logic Basics Varieties of Voting Systems Does Science Disprove God? Memorializing the Modal Perfection Argument Major, Minor, and Middle Term Objections to the Psychological Approach (Personal Identity) Distribution (Propositional Logic) Exportation (Propositional Logic) Appeal to Unqualified Authority (Logical Fallacy) What is Modality? (Definition) The Paradox of the Heap (90 Second Philosophy) The Bald King of France (Philosophy of Language) One Equals Two (Falsidical Paradoxes) Zeno’s Paradox: Achilles and the Tortoise (90 Second Philosophy) The Deontic Trifold Classification Why Cosmology Is Not Science What the Tortoise said to Achilles (Explanation) Modus Tollens Objections to the Beginning of the Universe (Kalam Cosmological Argument) Axiomatic Theories of Truth (Typed Theories) Alfred Tarski’s Convention T (Theories of Truth) Bayes’ Theorem and the Monty Hall Fallacy October is Thought Experiment Month! Pascal’s Wager The Puzzle of Negative Existentials (Philosophy of Language) The Problem of Evil Are Theories Verifiable? (Contrastive Underdetermination) Who Was Immanuel Kant? (Famous Philosophers) Dutch Book Arguments (Bayesian Epistemology) The Ancient Liar Paradox The Resurrection of Objections to the MOA Jus ad Bellum (Just War Theory) Doxastic and Epistemic Semantics (J. Hintikka) Hume’s Objections to the Teleological Argument What is Vacuous Truth? The Coherence Theory of Truth The Beautiful and The Sublime (Aesthetics) Particular Affirmative An Intergalactic Obliteration of the Cosmic Fine Tuning Argument Arguments of Indirect Skepticism Do Third Parties Destroy Democracy? Variations of Bayesianism Semantically De Re and De Dicto Doubting “I Think Therefore I Am” (The Cogito) Boole vs Aristotle (Categorical Logic) Symbols and Terms (Predicate Calculus) Ninety Second Philosophy: Arguments Final Logic Problems (Beginner Answers) Disjunctive Syllogism The Fat Man Trolley Problem (90 Second Philosophy) What is a Formal Language? The Paradox of the Barber Major and Minor Premises (Categorical Logic) Thought Experiments in Artificial Intelligence Straw Man (Logical Fallacy) Syntax vs Semantics (Philosophical Distinctions) Undistributed Middle (Logical Fallacy) Ad Hominem (Logical Fallacy) Free Will (4 Minute Philsophical Positions) Objections to Inspiring Philosophy’s Ontological Argument The Raven Paradox (Carl Hempel and the Paradox of Confirmation) The Multiverse Objection (to the Cosmic Fine Tuning Argument) Berry’s Paradox A Theory is Just a Theory (Underdetermination in Scientific Theory) Modal Logic (Basics) Hasty Generalization (Logical Fallacy) Godel’s Incompleteness Theorem (Doubting Math) Rules of Implication Answers II Time Without Change (Thought Experiment) The Cosmic Fine Tuning Argument Objections to the Conceptual Ontological Argument The Principle of Charity (Ninety Second Philosophy) What is Functionalism? (Philosophy of Mind) The Unintentional Liar Paradox Do Mistakes in Scripture Imply Atheism? Suppressed Evidence (Logical Fallacy) Are Reason and Faith Contradictory? The Paradox of Kant’s Law (Ought Implies Can) Analytic and Synthetic Distinciton (90 Second Philosophy) The Lottery Paradox The Horned Man Paradox Rationalism vs Empiricism Illicit Conversion (Categorical Logic Fallacy) Confirmation and Disconfirmation (Bayesian Epistemology) Change of Quantifier (Predicate Calculus) Optimism Bias (The Skeptic and the Shrink) Grelling’s Paradox Religious Experience Ontological Argument The Precedence Relation (Temporal Logic) Presuppositionalism You Can’t Handle The Truth! What is Philosophy? (Philosophical Definitions) The New Paradox of Dogmatism (Bayesian Epistemology) Objections to Bayesian Epistemology Science vs Philosophy of Science (Distinction) Objections to the Principle of Causality (Kalam Cosmological Argument) Existential Fallacy (Aristotle) Final 10 Days of Logic (Predicate Calculus) Plantinga’s Elaborate Poker Equivocation (Cosmic Fine Tuning) March 100 Days of Logic (Categorical Syllogisms) The Knower Paradox Confirmation Bias (The Skeptic and The Shrink) Psychological Approach to Personal Identity Propositional and Categorical Logic Fitch’s Paradox of Knowability Disjunction (Propositional Logic) The Fat Villain Trolley Problem (90 Second Philosophy) The Free Choice Permission Paradox A February Fortnight of Knights and Knaves First Past The Post (Voting System) Figure 1 (Categorical Syllogisms) Equivalence (Propositional Logic) Identity (Predicate Calculus) Modern Square of Opposition Contraposition (Categorical Logic) Bayesian Dogmatism Brain in a Vat (Ninety Second Philosophy) Hypothetical vs Categorical Good (Philosophical Distinctions) Cosmic Fine Tuning and the Monty Hall Fallacy Proving Invalidity (Predicate Calculus) Realist Nights (A Musical Critique of Scientific Realism) Conditional and Indirect Proof (Predicate Calculus) What is Monism? (Existence vs Priority Monism) The Will to Believe (William James) The Problem with Proving God (Video 500) The Cogito (Meditation II) Linear Temporal Logic (Lt) Contrary (Categorical Logic) Four Famous Puzzles in the Philosophy of Language William James vs Presuppositionalism The Unexpected Hanging Paradox (90 Second Philosophy) Ninety Second Philosophy: Deductive vs Inductive Arguments The Evil Deceiver (Skeptical Scenarios) What is a Gödel Number? (Arithmatization) The Paradox of Buridan’s Ass The Four Paradoxes of Eubulides The Surprise Test Paradox Type vs Token Distinction Entailment (Bayesian Epistemology) The Brain Simulator (Thought Experiment) Teleological Arguments for the Existence of God Swinburne’s Objection (To The New Riddle of Induction) Who Was Friedrich Nietzsche? (Famous Philosophers) False Dichotomy (Logical Fallacy) Implicit vs Explicit Knowledge (Philosophical Distinctions) Science, History, and Puzzles Laws of Probability (Basics) Paradoxes of Heaps and Sets What is Doxastic Voluntarism? (Definition) What is Philosophical Anarchism? (The Puzzle of Authority) Abductive Teleological Arguments for the Existence of God Fernando’s Tale (Knights and Knaves) The Man in the Yard Trolley Problem (90 Second Philosophy) The Instant Model of Time (Temporal Logic) Truth Tables Meinong’s Jungle (Theory of Objects) Mary the Color Scientist (The Knowledge Argument) Doubting Equality What is Epistemic Logic? The Interval Model of Time (Temporal Logic) Red Herring (Logical Fallacy) Tautology The Indefinability of Truth (Tarski’s Theorem) The Arrow Paradox Russell’s Theory of Definite Descriptions (Philosophy of Language) The Duplication Argument (Ninety Second Philosophy) Why Science Rests On Faith The Confirmation Fine Tuning Argument The Trolley Problem (90 Second Philosophy) The Presumption of Atheism (Antony Flew) Life of the Indirect Skeptic Hypothetical Syllogism Meno’s Paradox Who Was David Hume? (Famous Philosophers) Ninety Second Philosophy: Valid and Sound Three Major Distinctions Final (90 Second Philosophy) Rule IV (Categorical Syllogisms) What is Ontology? (Definition) Pyrrho and the Academics (Types of Skepticism) Yablo’s Paradox The Illusion of Control (The Skeptic and The Shrink) Jeffrey Conditionalization (The Problem of Uncertain Evidence) Put your Beliefs to the Test at Carneades.org Answering Objections to Skepticism Belief and Knowledge Notation (Epistemic Logic) Affirmative From Negative (Logical Fallacy) Doubting Truth (The Law of the Excluded Middle) The Free Will Defense Formal and Informal Logic Objective vs Subjective (Philosophical Distinction) Negation (Propositional Logic) Objections to Personal Explanation (The Kalam Cosmological Argument) What is Nominalism? (Universals and Abstracts) Reductio Ad Absurdum (Ninety Second Philosophy) Kant’s Objection to the Cosmological Argument Conceptual Ontological Argument Philosophical Zombies (Thought Experiment) Rules of Replacement Answers I Figure 2 (Categorical Syllogism) Munchhausen’s Trilemma Simple Principle of Conditionalization (Bayesian Epistemology) Doubting “I Exist” (The Cogito) What is a Theodicy? (Augustinian and Irenaean) Russell vs Presuppositionalism The Anti Expertise Paradox Implication (Propositional Logic) Properties of Relations Bayesian Epistemology Complex Question (Logical Fallacy) In Defense of the Gettier Problem (False Lemmas and Barn Facades) Analytic vs Continental Philosophy (Distinction) Inconsistent (Propositional Logic) What is Logic? (Philosophical Definition) Aristotle Venn Diagrams I Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma (90 Second Philosophy) The Cogito (Meditation I) The Afterlife (Four Minute Philosophical Positions) Denying the Antecedent Rule II (Categorical Syllogisms) The Island of Blue Eyes Solution Higher Order Ontological Argument How to Climb the Social Ladder in Lem (Knights and Knaves) Three Major Philosophical Distinctions (90 Second Philosophy) Teleological Arguments From Analogy Subalternation (Categorical Logic) Conditional Proof (Part I) Modal Ontological Argument Final Thoughts on the Cosmological Argument The Chinese Gym (Thought Experiment) Rule III (Categorical Syllogisms) Skeptical Scenarios (Ninety Second Philosophy) People Seeds (Abortion Thought Experiment) Is Science Rational? Conditional Proof (Part II) The Cyclical Liar Paradox The Boolean Liar Paradox One Hundred Days of Logic Material Equivalence The Turing Test (Thought Experiment) The Paradox of Theseus’s Ship (90 Second Philosophy) Modal Perfection Argument (Proof) The Grandfather Paradox (90 Second Philosophy) Response to Swinburne’s Objection Carneades of Cyrene (Enslaver of Souls, Destroyer of Gods, and Last Great Scholarch of the Academy) St. Thomas Aquinas’s Cosmological Argument Ethics vs Morality (Philosophical Distinctions) Why Science Isn’t Knowledge Necessary and Sufficient Conditions The Correspondence Theory of Truth In Defense of Skepticism The Puzzle of Propositional Attitude Reports (Philosophy of Language)