School of Life - Philosophy PHILOSOPHY – Sartre PHILOSOPHY – Aristotle PHILOSOPHY – Plato PHILOSOPHY – Nietzsche PHILOSOPHY – Epicurus PHILOSOPHY – The Stoics PHILOSOPHY – Heidegger 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 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 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 Carneades of Cyrene - Philosophy Doubting “I Think Therefore I Am” (The Cogito) The Coherence Theory of Truth Cosmic Fine Tuning and the Monty Hall Fallacy Why Science Rests On Faith The New Paradox of Dogmatism (Bayesian Epistemology) Confirmation Bias (The Skeptic and The Shrink) Zeno’s Paradox: Achilles and the Tortoise (90 Second Philosophy) The Problem of Logical Omniscience (Bayesian Epistemology) Boolean Venn Diagrams I Rationalism vs Empiricism The Paradox of the Barber Pyrrho vs Presuppositionalism Are Theories Verifiable? (Contrastive Underdetermination) Existential Fallacy (Boole) The Ancient Liar Paradox The Confirmation Fine Tuning Argument Hume’s Objections to the Cosmological Argument What If You Were Dreaming? (Ninety Second Philosophy) Truth Tables The Unreality Of Time (McTaggart’s Argument) Who Was Rene Descartes? (Famous Philosophers) Final Logic Problems (100 Days of Logic) Objections to Inspiring Philosophy’s Ontological Argument Final Logic Problems (Beginner Answers) What is Wisdom? (Philosophical Definitions) What is Egoism? (Philosophical Positions) Rules of Implication Answers II We Don’t Know Objections to Pascal’s Wager 10 Perplexing Puzzle for the Master Modal Logician The Chinese Gym (Thought Experiment) The Indefinability of Truth (Tarski’s Theorem) Rule V (Categorical Syllogisms) Berry’s Paradox A Dream within a Dream (Dramatic Reading) Teleological Arguments for the Existence of God Addition (Rules of Implication) The Boolean Liar Paradox What is Doxastic Voluntarism? (Definition) Straw Man (Logical Fallacy) Memorializing the Modal Perfection Argument The City of Lem (Knights and Knaves) October is Thought Experiment Month! The Ethics of Belief (William Clifford) A Theory is Just a Theory (Underdetermination in Scientific Theory) The Grandfather Paradox (90 Second Philosophy) Thomas Kuhn vs Presuppositionalism Objections to the Teleological Argument from Analogy Pascal’s Wager The Problem with Proving God (Video 500) St. Thomas Aquinas’s Cosmological Argument The Afterlife (Four Minute Philosophical Positions) Agrippa vs Presuppositionalism What is Wrong with Slavery? (Thought Experiment) Rule II (Categorical Syllogisms) Syntactically De Re and De Dicto (90 Second Philosophy) The Deflationary Theory of Truth Commutativity (Propositional Logic) Hypothetical Syllogism In Defense of Skepticism Negation (Propositional Logic) Disjunction (Propositional Logic) Psychological Approach to Personal Identity The Turing Test (Thought Experiment) Brain in a Vat (Ninety Second Philosophy) Ninety Second Philosophy: Deductive vs Inductive Arguments Ethics vs Morality (Philosophical Distinctions) Responses to Inspiring Philosophy’s Defense of the MOA Inconsistent (Propositional Logic) Thought Experiments in Artificial Intelligence De Morgan’s Rule (Part I) Time Without Change (Thought Experiment) Entailment (Bayesian Epistemology) Modal Ontological Argument Implication (Propositional Logic) Jus ad Bellum (Just War Theory) What is a Gödel Number? (Arithmatization) Existential Fallacy (Aristotle) The Paradox of Buridan’s Ass The Duplication Argument (Ninety Second Philosophy) Objections to the Psychological Approach (Personal Identity) Red Herring (Logical Fallacy) The Instant Model of Time (Temporal Logic) Higher Order Ontological Argument Four Famous Puzzles in the Philosophy of Language One Hundred Days of Logic The Knower Paradox The Resurrection of Objections to the MOA Ad Hominem (Logical Fallacy) The Problem of Induction The Beautiful and The Sublime (Aesthetics) What is Peano Arithmetic? Aristotle Venn Diagrams I Symbols and Terms (Predicate Calculus) Modus Tollens The Borda Count (Voting Theory) Science vs Philosophy of Science (Distinction) The Horned Man Paradox Generalization and Instantiation (Predicate Calculus) Change of Quantifier (Predicate Calculus) In Defense of the Gettier Problem (False Lemmas and Barn Facades) Russell vs Presuppositionalism Undistributed Middle (Logical Fallacy) Implicit vs Explicit Knowledge (Philosophical Distinctions) The Skeptic and the Shrink (A Psychologist’s Case for Skepticism) The A Series vs The B Series (Unreality of Time) Put your Beliefs to the Test at Carneades.org The Lottery Paradox The Modern Liar Paradox What is Epistemic Logic? Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem (The Problem of the Third Party) Rules of Implication Answers I (100 Days of Logic) The Life As We Know It Objection (Cosmic Fine Tuning) Doubting Truth (The Law of the Excluded Middle) Objections to the Watch Argument (Deductive Teleological Arguments) What is Philosophical Anarchism? (The Puzzle of Authority) Propositional and Categorical Logic Teleological Arguments From Analogy Twin Earth (Thought Experiment) Doubting Math (Russell’s Paradox) Linear Temporal Logic (Lt) Realist Nights (A Musical Critique of Scientific Realism) Appeal to Ignorance (Logical Fallacy) Modern Square of Opposition Plantinga’s Elaborate Poker Equivocation (Cosmic Fine Tuning) Figure 2 (Categorical Syllogism) Material Equivalence An Intergalactic Obliteration of the Cosmic Fine Tuning Argument Jus in Bello (Just War Theory) What is Knowledge? (Philosophical Definitions) Rules of Replacement Answers I Axiomatic Theories of Truth (Typed Theories) The Interval Model of Time (Temporal Logic) Affirmative From Negative (Logical Fallacy) Modus Ponens Contrary (Categorical Logic) Pragmatism (William James and Charles Sanders Peirce) Omnipotence (12 Days of Theology) Weak Analogy (Logical Fallacy) The Month of Paradox What is Vacuous Truth? First Past The Post (Voting System) The Principle of Charity (Ninety Second Philosophy) Do Mistakes in Scripture Imply Atheism? Is Science Rational? What is Ontology? (Definition) Figure 1 (Categorical Syllogisms) People Seeds (Abortion Thought Experiment) William James vs Presuppositionalism The Unintentional Liar Paradox Using Science Without Belief (a case for Instrumentalism) Occam’s Razor (and why you should be skeptical of it) Complex Question (Logical Fallacy) Major and Minor Premises (Categorical Logic) Pyrrho and the Academics (Types of Skepticism) Who Was Immanuel Kant? (Famous Philosophers) Modal Perfection Argument (Proof) The Cogito (Meditation I) Paradox of the Preface Necessary and Contingent Distinction (90 Second Philosophy) Conjunction (Propositional Logic) What is Functionalism? (Philosophy of Mind) The Four Paradoxes of Eubulides The Decision Paradox Appeal to Unqualified Authority (Logical Fallacy) Russell’s Objection to the Cosmological Argument Are Theories Falsifiable? (Holistic Underdetermination) What Is Stoicism? (Philosophical Position) The Problem of Evil Hasty Generalization (Logical Fallacy) Conditional and Indirect Proof (Predicate Calculus) Curry’s Paradox Equivalence (Propositional Logic) Final 10 Days of Logic (Predicate Calculus) Figure 3 (Categorical Syllogism) The Presumption of Atheism (Antony Flew) The New Riddle of Induction Analytic and Synthetic Distinciton (90 Second Philosophy) Dutch Book Arguments (Bayesian Epistemology) Suppressed Evidence (Logical Fallacy) The Gettier Problem Distribution (Propositional Logic) The Illusion of Control (The Skeptic and The Shrink) What is Philosophy? (Philosophical Definitions) The Man in the Yard Trolley Problem (90 Second Philosophy) The Cyclical Liar Paradox Who Was David Hume? (Famous Philosophers) Simplification (Rules of Implication) What the Tortoise said to Achilles (Explanation) The Cosmic Fine Tuning Argument Universal Particular Affirmative Negative What is Modality? (Definition) Bayes’ Theorem and the Monty Hall Fallacy The Multiverse Objection (to the Cosmic Fine Tuning Argument) Hypothetical vs Categorical Good (Philosophical Distinctions) Why Science Isn’t Knowledge You Can’t Handle The Truth! The Correspondence Theory of Truth Illicit Conversion (Categorical Logic Fallacy) Type vs Token Distinction Carneades of Cyrene (Enslaver of Souls, Destroyer of Gods, and Last Great Scholarch of the Academy) Paradoxes of Penzance (Veridical Paradoxes) A February Fortnight of Knights and Knaves Are Reason and Faith Contradictory? Objections to Personal Explanation (The Kalam Cosmological Argument) Meno’s Paradox Boole vs Aristotle (Categorical Logic) The Unexpected Hanging Paradox (90 Second Philosophy) Figure 1 Conditionally Valid Rules of Replacement Answers II Indirect Proof Answers Uninteresting Number Paradox Final Thoughts on the Cosmological Argument Free Will (4 Minute Philsophical Positions) Categorical Logic Contradictory (Propositional Logic) Who Was Friedrich Nietzsche? (Famous Philosophers) What are Qualia? (Philosophical Definitions) Who Was Mary Wollstonecraft? (Famous Philosophers) Boolean Venn Diagrams II Subalternation (Categorical Logic) The Precedence Relation (Temporal Logic) Bayesian Dogmatism Truthmakers and Truthbearers The Paradox of Theseus’s Ship (90 Second Philosophy) False Dichotomy (Logical Fallacy) Exportation (Propositional Logic) The Evil Deceiver (Skeptical Scenarios) The Paradox of Kant’s Law (Ought Implies Can) Russell’s Theory of Definite Descriptions (Philosophy of Language) Antinomies (Impossible Paradoxes) Major, Minor, and Middle Term Conceptual Ontological Argument Religious Experience Ontological Argument Equivocation (Logical Fallacy) Objective vs Subjective (Philosophical Distinction) Proving Invalidity (Predicate Calculus) Conditional Proof Answers Conditional Proof (Part I) Doubting “I Exist” (The Cogito) The Fat Man Trolley Problem (90 Second Philosophy) God is the Good (William Lane Craig and the Euthyphro Dilemma) The Problem of The Priors (Bayesian Epistemology) Fallacy of Accident Modal Logic (Basics) Illicit Major and Minor (Logical Fallacy) Alfred Tarski’s Convention T (Theories of Truth) Double Negation (Propositional Logic) Paradoxes of Heaps and Sets Denying the Antecedent The Anti Expertise Paradox Appeal to Force (Logical Fallacy) Hume’s Objections to the Teleological Argument Objections to Bayesian Epistemology Particular Affirmative The Surprise Test Paradox Rule I (Categorical Syllogisms) The Brain Simulator (Thought Experiment) Fitch’s Paradox of Knowability Tautology Contraposition (Categorical Logic) Answering Objections to Skepticism Objections to the Principle of Causality (Kalam Cosmological Argument) Valid (Propositional Logic) Exclusive Premises (Logical Fallacy) Philosophical Zombies (Thought Experiment) The Raven Paradox (Carl Hempel and the Paradox of Confirmation) Direct vs Indirect Realism (Philosophy of Perception) Compound Propositions Answers Amphiboly (Logical Fallacy) Kant’s Objection to the Cosmological Argument Debunking the Modal Ontological Argument Six Ways from Sunday Harrison Bergeron (Dramatic Reading) Frege’s On Sense and Reference (Philosophy of Language) The Arrow Paradox Objections to the Conceptual Ontological Argument Skeptical Scenarios (Ninety Second Philosophy) The Liar’s Revenge Paradox The Loop Trolley Problem (90 Second Philosophy) Final Objections to Inspiring Philosophy’s MOA Yablo’s Paradox What is Scientific Realism? Munchhausen’s Trilemma Ninety Second Philosophy: Arguments The Experience Machine (Ninety Second Philosophy) Kalam Cosmological Argument Confirmation and Disconfirmation (Bayesian Epistemology) The Free Will Defense Cantor’s Paradox The Watch Argument (Deductive Teleological Arguments) What is Temporal Logic? Traditional Square of Opposition Fernando’s Tale (Knights and Knaves) Disjunctive Syllogism Conjunction (Rules of Implication) What is the Paradox of Voting? (Downs’ Paradox) Arguments of Indirect Skepticism The Bald King of France (Philosophy of Language) Mary the Color Scientist (The Knowledge Argument) Reductio Ad Absurdum (Ninety Second Philosophy) The Matrix (Skeptical Scenarios) Science, History, and Puzzles Syntax vs Semantics (Philosophical Distinctions) Identity (Predicate Calculus) How to Climb the Social Ladder in Lem (Knights and Knaves) Belief and Knowledge Notation (Epistemic Logic) Three Major Distinctions Final (90 Second Philosophy) The Duplication Argument Against Evolution Rule IV (Categorical Syllogisms) What is a Theodicy? (Augustinian and Irenaean) Presuppositionalism The Paradox of the Heap (90 Second Philosophy) General Paradoxes (Answers) Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma (90 Second Philosophy) A Priori and A Posteriori Distinction (90 Second Philosophy) Meinong’s Jungle (Theory of Objects) Relations and Overlapping Quantifiers The Expanding Child (Abortion Thought Experiment) The Plank of Carneades (Thought Experiment) Pluralist Theories of Truth What is a Formal Language? Does Science Disprove God? Rule III (Categorical Syllogisms) The Luminous Room (Thought Experiment) Conditional Proof (Part II) Abduction (Inference to the Best Explanation) The Paradox of The Hooded Man Formal and Informal Logic Frege’s Puzzle (Philosophy of Language) Objections to the Somatic Approach (Personal Identity) Alethic Modal Logic vs Modal Logics Are Our Theories Correct? (Transient Underdetermination) Ninety Second Philosophy: Valid and Sound Necessary and Sufficient Conditions Three Major Philosophical Distinctions (90 Second Philosophy) The Violinist (Abortion Thought Experiment) The Partial Free Will Argument (Response to the Free Will Defense) Properties of Relations Bayesian Epistemology March 100 Days of Logic (Categorical Syllogisms) Indirect Skepticism Simple Principle of Conditionalization (Bayesian Epistemology) Grelling’s Paradox The Trolley Problem (90 Second Philosophy)