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Reference worksThe Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Gated) Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy (Gated) Bites: David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton conduct ten- to twenty-minute interviews.: A series of short introductory videos, created by Gaurav Vazirani. history of philosophy without any gaps: Peter Adamson’s behemothic series on the history of philosophy. Includes non-Western philosophy. Nation: Barry Lam’s engaging philosophy podcast. Our Time: Longer discussions of the history of philosophy, hosted by Melvyn Bragg. Ethics: An ethics podcast produced by The Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics at DePauw University. videos from the Institute of Art and Ideas. Talk: A radio show, hosted by professors at Stanford University. This is the show that “questions everything … except your intelligence.” Philosophers’ Zone: A radio show presented by David Rutledge. 24/7: A philosophy podcast created by David Edmonds.Introductory philosophy lectures, by Peter Millican. Philosopher’s Arms: A chatty radio show about philosophy, presented by Matthew Sweet. on Reading and WritingAngela Mendelovici’s short discussion of what a philosophy paper should look like. Pryor’s “Guidelines on Writing a Philosophy Paper” and “Guidelines on Reading Philosophy.” other short guides to writing philosophy papers, from Douglas Portmore, Simon Rippon and Eric Schwitzgebel. much longer guide to writing philosophy papers, by Elijah Chudnoff. Benn, Christina Cameron, Amanda Cawston and Shyanne Siriwardena on “Tackling the Philosophy Essay.” Includes “annotated model essays”. 1: What is philosophy? David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton have asked many philosophers about what philosophy is. XV of Bertrand Russell’s The Problems of Philosophy contains a discussion of the value of philosophy. number of philosophers comment on “why philosophy matters.” 2: What are arguments, and how should we evaluate them?Videos from Wi-Phi on critical thinking. Talbot’s lectures on critical reasoning. H. Cohen on the value of argument. short essay by Paul Graham on how to disagree. people to find it helpful to classify and name the different fallacies (i.e. errors in reasoning). It’s easy to find lists and taxonomies of fallacies online; Bradley Dowden’s list is our favorite. 3: Does God exist?A series of short videos by Elmar Kramer on “classical theism.” very short video on Aquinas’s “first mover” argument. Written by Nigel Warburton. Yenter discusses the cosmological argument. Sutherland discusses Hume’s response to the design argument.. Clifford’s “The Ethics of Belief.” Focus on the first section, “The Duty of Inquiry.” James’ “The Will to Believe.” Donaldson’s short summary of the Clifford/James dispute. Bragg and his guests discuss the ontological argument. Lane Craig and Peter Millican debate whether God exists. beginning of an older debate on the existence of God, between Bertrand Russell and Frederick Copleston. Byrne discusses some arguments for God’s existence. Rinard discusses an argument for the rationality of theism, due to the seventeenth century French philosopher Blaise Pascal. 4: Why does God leave us to suffer?Sally Haslanger introduces the problem of evil. Ganssle presents the problem of evil and surveys some putative solution. Law thinks that the problem of evil cannot be solved. McCord Adams presents a novel response to the problem of evil. Bennett’s translation of Leibniz’s Theodicy.’s Poem on the Lisbon Disaster, and his Candide. 5: Can we be completely certain of anything?Jonathan Bennett’s translation of Descartes’s Meditations on First Philosophy. Schmid discusses Descartes’s cogito. Grayling discusses Descartes’s cogito. Bragg and his guests discuss Descartes’s cogito. Rosenberg says that you don’t know your own mind. 6: Can we trust our senses?Eugen Fischer discusses “paradoxes of perception” and motivates indirect realism. Bragg and his guests discuss empiricism. Bragg and his guests discuss Berkeley. I – IV of Russell’s The Problems of Philosophy concern the philosophy of perception. explains his distinction between primary and secondary qualities in Book 2, Chapter viii of his Essay Concerning Human Understanding. This version is translated by Jonathan Bennett. Bennett’s translation of Berkeley’s Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous. Byrne asks what the colors are. section 12 of his Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Hume asks “by what argument can it be proved that the perceptions of the mind must be caused by external objects”? This version is translated by Jonathan Bennett. 7: Will the Sun rise tomorrow?Paul Henne explains what “deductive validity” is. presents his problem of induction in section 4 of his Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. This version is translated by Jonathan Bennett. Greco introduces Hume’s problem of induction. Sweet and Helen Beebee discuss the problem of induction. Bragg and his guests discuss David Hume. very short introduction to Karl Popper’s philosophy of science, written by Nigel Warburton. Bragg and his guests discuss Karl Popper. prize-winning geneticist Sir Paul Nurse talks about how he was influenced by Karl Popper.lse.ac.uk/Events/2016/09/20160928t1830vOT/How-Philosophy-Drives-DiscoveryChapter VI of Bertrand Russell’s The Problems of Philosophy concerns induction. Lange and Sinan Dogramaci discuss two further philosophical problems about induction. 8: What is knowledge?Jennifer Nagel and Geoff Pynn discuss the analysis of knowledge. Nagel discusses skepticism. Schwitzgebel discusses skepticism. McCain discusses foundationalism, coherentism, and so on. 9: Do we have free will?Hume presents his version of compatibilism in “Liberty and Necessity” – section eight of his Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. This version is translated by Jonathan Bennett. Sweet and Wayne Martin discuss free will. Holton argues that determinism doesn’t imply that it is possible for us to predict all of our future actions. Caruso discusses free will and punishment. Dennett presents his version of compatibilism. Bragg and his guests discuss of free will. famous experiment, carried out by Benjamin Libet, has been taken to show that we lack free will. Nigel Warburton explains in this short video. Roskies disscusses free will from a neuroscientific perspective. classic essay by William James, “The Dilemma of Determinism.” 10: How is your mind related to your body?The “Correspondence between Descartes and Princess Elisabeth,” translated by Jonathan Bennett. Bragg and his guests discuss the mind-body problem. Bragg and his guests discuss the soul. Chalmers asks, “How do you explain consciousness?” Crane argues that we don’t understand consciousness. Byrne discusses an argument for dualism. Byrne discusses consciousness. He warns us to avoid the “temptation to see a profound philosophical problem in a place where there is really none” Churchland argues that some of our ordinary psychological concepts may need to be reformed (or even abandoned!) as neuroscience advanced. Harris and Paul Bloom ask, “What’s wrong with cruelty to robots?” 11: Will you be the same person in ten years? Could you survive death?John Locke discusses personal identity in chapter 27 “Identity and Diversity” of the second book of his An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. This version is translated by Jonathan Bennett. Reid criticizes Locke’s theory of personal identity in chapter 6 of the third of his Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man. This version is translated by Jonathan Bennett. Shields discusses personal identity. very short introduction to Locke’s views on personal identity, written by Nigel Warburton. Della Rocca discusses Locke on personal identity. Dennett asks whether there can be two selves in one body, or one self in two bodies. Beebee discusses the question of personal identity as it arises in the movie Blade Runner. Grey argues that the transporter in Star Trek is a "suicide box." (In the video, Grey mentions the ship of Theseus. Jennifer Wang discusses this story.) 12: Are there objective truths about right and wrong?William Lane Craig asks whether we can be “good without God”. Sinnott-Armstrong discusses morality without God. Darwall discusses God and morality. Harris argues that science can answer moral questions. Stich discusses the persistence of moral disagreement. Boghossian discusses moral relativism. Byrne asks if morality is a natural phenomenon. 13: What really matters?Alain de Botton discusses the meaning of life … in under five minutes. Landau and David Edmonds ask, “Is Life Without Meaning?” Rowland presents an objection to hedonism. de Botton discusses Epicurus. Bragg and his guests discuss Epicureanism. Wilson discusses Epicureanism. Bragg and his guests discuss happiness. Bragg and his guests discuss Sartre. happiness be a goal of public policy? Lord Layard says yes, and responds to criticism. Bragg and his guests discuss existentialism. discussions of Sartre on bad faith, from Sebastian Gardner and Alain de Botton. Wolf discusses meaning in life. Chang talks about how to make hard choices. Kahneman says that, to understand happiness, one must distinguish the “experiencing self” and the “remembering self”. Surprenant discusses Kant’s views on the good life. 14: What should we do? (Part I)John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism is a classic exposition of this ethical theory. Driver discusses consequentialism. Markovits discusses utilitarianism. Schofield discusses Bentham’s utilitarianism. Crisp discusses Mill’s utilitarianism. Bragg and his guests discuss utilitarianism. Bragg and his guests discuss Kant’s categorical imperative. very short presentation of Kant’s views about lying, written by Nigel Warburton. longer discussion of lying, by Christine Korsgaard. brief introduction to Philippa Foot’s infamous “Trolley Problem”, written by Eleanor Nelsen. Sweet and David Edmonds discuss the trolley problem. 15: What should we do? (Part II)Russ Roberts interviews two economists with different views about the efficacy of aid programs: Jeffrey Sachs, and William Easterly. Singer on effective altruism. responds to critics. Temkin discusses our (supposed) obligations to the needy.2018/04/larry-temkin-on-obligations-to-the-needy.htmlGiveWell is a “nonprofit dedicated to finding outstanding giving opportunities through in-depth analysis” MacAskill and Russ Roberts discuss altruism. Doggett on killing animals for food. McMahan on vegetarianism. Huemer’s “Dialogues on Ethical Vegetarianism.” Kantian take on the moral status of animals, from Christine Korsgaard. McPherson is a vegan, and he thinks you should be one too.“To Serve Man” is a classic episode of The Twighlight Zone. Roache on abortion. Harman discusses abortion with James Franco (no, really). ................
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