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20videosIntroduction to Philosophy (Descartes' Meditations & the Mind-Body Problem)
Jeffrey KaplanPlaylist · 20 videos · 7 h 56 min
15videosPhilosophy of Law (with particular focus on Hart and landmark court cases
Jeffrey KaplanPlaylist · 15 videos · 6 h 4 min
27:43Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics - Book I
276K viewsBook I of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: the function argument and eudaimonia.
30:35Bernard Williams' Attack on Moral Relativism
167K viewsBernard Williams's critique of 'vulgar' moral relativism.
23:39David Hume's Argument Against Moral Realism
235K viewsHume's argument that moral judgments are not matters of fact discoverable by reason.
21:11Frank Jackson's famous 'Mary's Room' Thought Experiment
310K viewsFrank Jackson's Mary's Room thought experiment and the knowledge argument against physicalism.
34:06Gottlob Frege - On Sense and Reference
483K viewsFrege's distinction between sense and reference and why it matters for meaning and identity statements.
18:17How to Read Philosophy
270K viewsPractical method for reading a philosophy text: finding the thesis and argument.
25:04Immanuel Kant's Moral Theory - a summary with examples
715K viewsKant's moral theory with worked examples: maxims, universalizability and treating people as ends.
18:54Legal Positivism - the dominant theory in jurisprudence
292K viewsLegal positivism: the view that law's validity depends on social facts, not morality.
22:35Naming and Necessity by Saul Kripke - Part 1
136K viewsSaul Kripke's Naming and Necessity part 1: the attack on descriptivist theories of names.
25:28Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals
384K viewsNietzsche's Genealogy of Morals: master and slave morality and ressentiment.
11:34Occam's Razor - rational principles explained
347K viewsWhat Occam's razor actually says and when the principle of parsimony is rational.
28:41Plato's Euthyphro - Which comes first: God or Morality?
1.28M viewsPlato's Euthyphro dilemma: is something good because God commands it, or commanded because it's good?
40:59René Descartes - Meditation #1 - The Method of Doubt
379K viewsDescartes' First Meditation: the method of doubt, the dream argument and the evil demon.
22:48René Descartes - Meditation #2 - I think, therefore, I am
156K viewsDescartes's second Meditation and the cogito.
27:14Riggs v Palmer - famous court case about a grandson murdering his grandfather
366K viewsRiggs v. Palmer: can a murderer inherit from his victim? The case that launched Dworkin's challenge to legal positivism.
28:28Russell's Paradox - a simple explanation of a profound problem
10.5M viewsRussell's paradox: the set of all sets that don't contain themselves, why it broke naive set theory and Frege's project.
24:54The Hard Problem of Consciousness
159K viewsChalmers's hard problem of consciousness and why it resists physical explanation.
14:17The Liar Paradox - an explanation of the paradox from 400 BCE
1.15M viewsThe liar paradox ('this sentence is false') and why it has troubled logicians since antiquity.
18:27The Zombie Argument (from David Chalmers)
138K viewsDavid Chalmers' zombie argument against physicalism, premise by premise.
28:15The famous Chinese Room thought experiment - John Searle (1980)
522K viewsSearle's Chinese Room argument against strong AI, and the main replies to it.
31:37Utilitarianism
352K viewsUtilitarianism: its core principle, how it evaluates actions, and key objections.
33:44What is Legal Positivism?
177K viewsWhat legal positivism holds about the nature of law, contrasted with natural law.
29:27What is Philosophy? - First Lecture of the Semester
378K viewsWhat philosophy is and how philosophical arguments work, from a first lecture of the semester.
30:55What is it Like to be a Bat? - the hard problem of consciousness
630K viewsThomas Nagel's 'What Is It Like to Be a Bat?' and the hard problem of consciousness.
33:51Peter Singer - ordinary people are evil
5.71M viewsJeffrey Kaplan reconstructs Peter Singer's 'Famine, Affluence, and Morality' argument and why it implies most comfortable people are acting wrongly.
29:57"Proper Names" by John Searle
142K viewsA 30-minute video from Jeffrey Kaplan's catalogue; the title names its topic.
18:32A Few of the Most Interesting Parts of The US Constitution
36.5K viewsA 19-minute video from Jeffrey Kaplan's catalogue; the title names its topic.
47:59A.J. Ayer's Emotivist Theory of Moral Language
150K viewsA 48-minute video from Jeffrey Kaplan's catalogue; the title names its topic.
22:27An Explanation of Terminology used in Metaethics
93.4K viewsA 22-minute video from Jeffrey Kaplan's catalogue; the title names its topic.
13:24An Explanation of the Normative-Descriptive Distinction (and the varieties of normativity)
83.6K viewsA 13-minute video from Jeffrey Kaplan's catalogue; the title names its topic.
43:29An argument against objective morality that defeats itself
88.9K viewsA 43-minute video from Jeffrey Kaplan's catalogue; the title names its topic.
20:57Bertrand Russell - Theory of Descriptions
134K viewsA 21-minute video from Jeffrey Kaplan's catalogue; the title names its topic.
22:21Does Moral Error prove that there are Objective Moral Laws?
47.2K viewsA 22-minute video from Jeffrey Kaplan's catalogue; the title names its topic.
1:13:55Does Objective Morality Exist? - A philosophical presentation and discussion
67K viewsA 74-minute video from Jeffrey Kaplan's catalogue; the title names its topic.
24:17Does Occam's Razor rule out Objective Morality?
52.4K viewsA 24-minute video from Jeffrey Kaplan's catalogue; the title names its topic.
26:32Does your RED look the same as my RED?
126K viewsA 27-minute video from Jeffrey Kaplan's catalogue; the title names its topic.