School of Life - Philosophy PHILOSOPHY – The Stoics PHILOSOPHY – Heidegger PHILOSOPHY – Sartre PHILOSOPHY – Aristotle PHILOSOPHY – Plato PHILOSOPHY – Nietzsche PHILOSOPHY – Epicurus PHILOSOPHY – La Rochefoucauld PHILOSOPHY – Augustine 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 Is Capitalism Bad For You? – 8-Bit Philosophy Do We Need Government? (The Social Contract) – 8-Bit Philosophy Are Your Actions GOOD? (Kant vs. Mill) – 8-Bit Philosophy Are Drugs GOOD For You? (Kirby + Aldous Huxley) – 8-Bit Philosophy Are You Authentic? (Heidegger + River City Ransom) – 8-Bit Philosophy Is The American Dream B.S.? – 8-Bit Philosophy What is Woman? (de Beauvoir + Metroid) – 8-Bit Philosophy Is A Cat A Cat? (Derrida + Double Dragon) – 8-Bit Philosophy Time is a Flat Circle? (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 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? (Karl Marx + Super Mario Bros.) – 8-Bit Philosophy What Is Evil? – 8-Bit Philosophy Why Do Haters Hate? – 8-Bit Philosophy Do We Crave Fascism? (Freud & Psychoanalysis) – 8-Bit Philosophy Get Away With Anything? (Plato + Zelda) – 8-Bit Philosophy Does SCIENCE = TRUTH? (Nietzsche + Mega Man) – 8-Bit Philosophy Is God Useful? – 8-Bit Philosophy Does Money Own You? – 8-Bit Philosophy Carneades of Cyrene - Philosophy The Cogito (Meditation I) Conditional Proof Answers What is Monism? (Existence vs Priority Monism) The Skeptic and the Shrink (A Psychologist’s Case for Skepticism) Semantically De Re and De Dicto The Loop Trolley Problem (90 Second Philosophy) The Free Will Dilemma Conditional Proof (Part I) Amphiboly (Logical Fallacy) Properties of Relations Bayesian Epistemology A Priori and A Posteriori Distinction (90 Second Philosophy) Final Objections to Inspiring Philosophy’s MOA Negation (Propositional Logic) Science, History, and Puzzles What is a Gödel Number? (Arithmatization) What is Logic? (Philosophical Definition) Omniscience (The 12 Days of Theology) Paradoxes of Penzance (Veridical Paradoxes) Tautology Cosmic Fine Tuning and the Monty Hall Fallacy Truth Tables The Unreality Of Time (McTaggart’s Argument) Objections to the Beginning of the Universe (Kalam Cosmological Argument) What is Knowledge? (Philosophical Definitions) In Defense of the Gettier Problem (False Lemmas and Barn Facades) Time Without Change (Thought Experiment) The Beautiful and The Sublime (Aesthetics) Appeal to Unqualified Authority (Logical Fallacy) Subalternation (Categorical Logic) False Dichotomy (Logical Fallacy) The Interval Model of Time (Temporal Logic) The Correspondence Theory of Truth Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem (The Problem of the Third Party) Boolean Venn Diagrams II Proving Invalidity (Predicate Calculus) The Experience Machine (Ninety Second Philosophy) The Will to Believe (William James) The Watch Argument (Deductive Teleological Arguments) What is Wrong with Slavery? (Thought Experiment) Major and Minor Premises (Categorical Logic) Doxastic and Epistemic Semantics (J. Hintikka) Rules of Replacement Answers II Why Science Rests On Faith Plantinga’s Elaborate Poker Equivocation (Cosmic Fine Tuning) Objective vs Subjective (Philosophical Distinction) God is the Good (William Lane Craig and the Euthyphro Dilemma) Necessary and Sufficient Conditions Ad Hominem (Logical Fallacy) What is Metaphysics? (Definition) Fernando’s Tale (Knights and Knaves) The Duplication Argument Against Evolution Uninteresting Number Paradox Objections to the Psychological Approach (Personal Identity) Contradictory (Propositional Logic) Objections to the Teleological Argument from Analogy Are Theories Verifiable? (Contrastive Underdetermination) The Prisoner’s Dilemma (90 Second Philosophy) Using Science Without Belief (a case for Instrumentalism) Life of the Indirect Skeptic Alethic Modal Logic vs Modal Logics Why Cosmology Is Not Science Who Was David Hume? (Famous Philosophers) What the Tortoise said to Achilles (Explanation) Universal Particular Affirmative Negative Rationalism vs Empiricism Traditional Square of Opposition Kant’s Objection to the Cosmological Argument Axiomatic Theories of Truth (Typed Theories) Presuppositionalism Agrippa vs Presuppositionalism Memorializing the Modal Perfection Argument The New Paradox of Dogmatism (Bayesian Epistemology) Denying the Antecedent Curry’s Paradox Valid (Propositional Logic) The Surprise Test Paradox Conjunction (Rules of Implication) The Horned Man Paradox Syntax vs Semantics (Philosophical Distinctions) The Cogito (Meditation II) Does Science Disprove God? Red Herring (Logical Fallacy) Weak Analogy (Logical Fallacy) Fallacy of Accident Symbols and Terms (Predicate Calculus) Appeal to Force (Logical Fallacy) Objections to the Definitional Ontological Argument Varieties of Voting Systems Personal Indentity (The Persistence Question) Indirect Skepticism What is the Paradox of Voting? (Downs’ Paradox) The Presumption of Atheism (Antony Flew) Reductio Ad Absurdum (Ninety Second Philosophy) Simplification (Rules of Implication) Skeptical Scenarios (Ninety Second Philosophy) Are Reason and Faith Contradictory? Linear Temporal Logic (Lt) Boolean Venn Diagrams I Abduction (Inference to the Best Explanation) Meno’s Paradox What is Vacuous Truth? Conditional and Indirect Proof (Predicate Calculus) Objections to the Principle of Causality (Kalam Cosmological Argument) The New Riddle of Induction An Intergalactic Obliteration of the Cosmic Fine Tuning Argument What is Temporal Logic? Conversion (Categorical Logic) What is Nominalism? (Universals and Abstracts) The Problem of Evil In Defense of Skepticism Realist Nights (A Musical Critique of Scientific Realism) The Paradox of The Hooded Man The Problem of Induction Are Theories Falsifiable? (Holistic Underdetermination) Truthmakers and Truthbearers The Paradox of Kant’s Law (Ought Implies Can) The Principle of Charity (Ninety Second Philosophy) Hume’s Objections to the Cosmological Argument The Problem of the Criterion What is a Formal Language? Propositional Logic Basics Modal Logic (Basics) What is Peano Arithmetic? St. Thomas Aquinas’s Cosmological Argument Alfred Tarski’s Convention T (Theories of Truth) Equivocation (Logical Fallacy) Grelling’s Paradox The Plank of Carneades (Thought Experiment) 10 Perplexing Puzzle for the Master Modal Logician The Puzzle of Propositional Attitude Reports (Philosophy of Language) Moore’s Paradox Pyrrho vs Presuppositionalism The Island of Blue Eyes Solution Religious Experience Ontological Argument Figure 3 (Categorical Syllogism) Confirmation Bias (The Skeptic and The Shrink) Existential Fallacy (Boole) General Paradoxes (Answers) Do Mistakes in Scripture Imply Atheism? Particular Negative A Dream within a Dream (Dramatic Reading) The Partial Free Will Argument (Response to the Free Will Defense) Particular Affirmative The Raven Paradox (Carl Hempel and the Paradox of Confirmation) Carneades.org Channel Guide The Indefinability of Truth (Tarski’s Theorem) The Coherence Theory of Truth Frege’s On Sense and Reference (Philosophy of Language) Teleological Arguments for the Existence of God The Arrow Paradox Rule I (Categorical Syllogisms) What is Scientific Realism? What is Philosophical Anarchism? (The Puzzle of Authority) Necessary and Contingent Distinction (90 Second Philosophy) What If You Were Dreaming? (Ninety Second Philosophy) Propositional and Categorical Logic Associativity (Propositional Logic) Debunking the Modal Ontological Argument Six Ways from Sunday October is Thought Experiment Month! The Fat Man Trolley Problem (90 Second Philosophy) Russell vs Presuppositionalism Appeal to Ignorance (Logical Fallacy) Conditional Proof (Part II) Exclusive Premises (Logical Fallacy) The Free Will Defense Commutativity (Propositional Logic) The Turing Test (Thought Experiment) Rules of Implication Answers I (100 Days of Logic) Major, Minor, and Middle Term Compound Propositions Answers Doubting Math (Russell’s Paradox) Doubting “I Exist” (The Cogito) Thomas Kuhn vs Presuppositionalism Responses to Inspiring Philosophy’s Defense of the MOA Thought Experiments in Artificial Intelligence Disjunction (Propositional Logic) Type vs Token Distinction Cantor’s Paradox Fallacy of Composition Four Famous Puzzles in the Philosophy of Language Categorical Syllogisms The Ancient Liar Paradox Objections to Personal Explanation (The Kalam Cosmological Argument) People Seeds (Abortion Thought Experiment) Aristotle Venn Diagrams I What is Functionalism? (Philosophy of Mind) The Luminous Room (Thought Experiment) Put your Beliefs to the Test at Carneades.org Russell’s Objection to the Cosmological Argument The Four Paradoxes of Eubulides The Duplication Argument (Ninety Second Philosophy) The Deflationary Theory of Truth Figure 1 (Categorical Syllogisms) Bayesian Dogmatism Inconsistent (Propositional Logic) Suppressed Evidence (Logical Fallacy) Entailment (Bayesian Epistemology) Variations of Bayesianism Pascal’s Wager The Anti Expertise Paradox What is Doxastic Voluntarism? (Definition) Implication (Propositional Logic) The Paradox of Buridan’s Ass Change of Quantifier (Predicate Calculus) Direct vs Indirect Realism (Philosophy of Perception) The Evil Deceiver (Skeptical Scenarios) Rule III (Categorical Syllogisms) Arguments of Indirect Skepticism Yablo’s Paradox The Cosmic Fine Tuning Argument Final 10 Days of Logic (Predicate Calculus) Objections to the Somatic Approach (Personal Identity) Fitch’s Paradox of Knowability Implicit vs Explicit Knowledge (Philosophical Distinctions) The Multiverse Objection (to the Cosmic Fine Tuning Argument) Generalization and Instantiation (Predicate Calculus) The Chinese Room (Thought Experiment) Affirmative From Negative (Logical Fallacy) Objections to the Watch Argument (Deductive Teleological Arguments) The Unexpected Hanging Paradox (90 Second Philosophy) Antinomies (Impossible Paradoxes) Disjunctive Syllogism Why Science Isn’t Knowledge Final Logic Problems (100 Days of Logic) Analytic and Synthetic Distinciton (90 Second Philosophy) Jus in Bello (Just War Theory) The Deontic Trifold Classification The Expanding Child (Abortion Thought Experiment) The Grandfather Paradox (90 Second Philosophy) The Problem with Proving God (Video 500) What is a Theodicy? 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(Philosophical Definitions) Pluralist Theories of Truth Begging the Question (Logical Fallacy) Brain in a Vat (Ninety Second Philosophy) Modus Ponens A Theory is Just a Theory (Underdetermination in Scientific Theory) Abductive Teleological Arguments for the Existence of God The Fat Villain Trolley Problem (90 Second Philosophy) False Cause (Logical Fallacy) Mary the Color Scientist (The Knowledge Argument) Carneades of Cyrene (Enslaver of Souls, Destroyer of Gods, and Last Great Scholarch of the Academy) Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma (90 Second Philosophy) Straw Man (Logical Fallacy) Analytic vs Continental Philosophy (Distinction) The Cyclical Liar Paradox Defending the Liar (Use and Mention with Frank Dunleavy) Contradictory and Undetermined The Decision Paradox The Bald King of France (Philosophy of Language) How to Climb the Social Ladder in Lem (Knights and Knaves) Relations and Overlapping Quantifiers Laws of Probability (Basics) Harrison Bergeron (Dramatic Reading) You Can’t Handle The Truth! Modern Square of Opposition Jus ad Bellum (Just War Theory) Doubting “I Think Therefore I Am” (The Cogito) Rules of Implication Answers II The City of Lem (Knights and Knaves) The Knower Paradox Figure 1 Conditionally Valid Conceptual Ontological Argument Belief and Knowledge Notation (Epistemic Logic) The Free Choice Permission Paradox Ethics vs Morality (Philosophical Distinctions) What Is Stoicism? (Philosophical Position) The Illusion of Control (The Skeptic and The Shrink) Final Logic Problems (Beginner Answers) Pyrrho and the Academics (Types of Skepticism) The Month of Paradox Who Was Mary Wollstonecraft? (Famous Philosophers) Final Thoughts on the Cosmological Argument Teleological Arguments From Analogy Pragmatism (William James and Charles Sanders Peirce) Dutch Book Arguments (Bayesian Epistemology) Complex Question (Logical Fallacy) What is Wisdom? (Philosophical Definitions) What is Modality? (Definition) The Chinese Gym (Thought Experiment) Paradox of the Preface The Gettier Problem What are Qualia? (Philosophical Definitions) Three Major Distinctions Final (90 Second Philosophy) Figure 2 (Categorical Syllogism) One Hundred Days of Logic Is Science Rational? The Brain Simulator (Thought Experiment) Faith and Violence (Irrational Disagreements) Boole vs Aristotle (Categorical Logic) First Past The Post (Voting System) Jeffrey Conditionalization (The Problem of Uncertain Evidence) Russell’s Theory of Definite Descriptions (Philosophy of Language) Modus Tollens Munchhausen’s Trilemma Are Our Theories Correct? (Transient Underdetermination) Optimism Bias (The Skeptic and the Shrink) We Don’t Know Kalam Cosmological Argument Modal Ontological Argument Do Third Parties Destroy Democracy? Modal Perfection Argument (Proof) The Boolean Liar Paradox Godel’s Incompleteness Theorem (Doubting Math) Rules of Replacement Answers I Ninety Second Philosophy: Arguments The Afterlife (Four Minute Philosophical Positions) The Liar’s Revenge Paradox Swinburne’s Objection (To The New Riddle of Induction) Objections to the Conceptual Ontological Argument