Videos discuss major areas of Philosophy, such as existentialism, consciousness, and morality.

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List of Videos
• Plato's Myth of the Cave; Its Relevance Today
• Lure of Philosophy, The
• Relationship of Philosophy to Other Fields of Thought
• Socrates and His Method
• Socrates on Trial
• Plato's View of Human Nature
• Traditional Greek View of Human Nature, The
• Judao-Christian Tradition: Human Superiority Over Animals, The
• Judao-Christian Tradition: Free Will, The
• St. Thomas Aquinas and Human Nature
• Critics of Greek and Christian Views of Human Nature
• Biology's Challenge to Traditional Western View of Human Nature
• How Language Makes Human Life Distinctive
• Existentialism and Human Nature
• Renes Descartes, a Solitary Thinker
• Renes Descartes and the Mind-Body Problem
• Hobbesian Materialism and the Mind
• Gilbert Ryle and Logical Behaviorism
• Testing Computers against the Human Mind
• Distinctions Between Computers and the Human Mind
• Reductionists' Accounts of Mental Activity
• Reductionism and Consciousness
• Is There an Enduring Self?
• Identity and Culture
• Basic Nature of Reality, The
• Materialist's View of Reality, The
• Idealist's View of Reality,The
• Arguments Against Metaphysical Speculation
• Realists' Side of the Debate with Anti-realists, The
• Anti-realists' Thesis
• Comparitive Realities of Children and Adults
• Reality as a Social Construction
• Breaking Through: Finding One's Own Reality
• Phenomenology
• Question of Free Will, The
• Libertarian Perspective on Free Will
• Theory of Determinism, The
• Determinism in Relation to Freedom and Desires
• Existential View. The
• Compatibilist View. The
• Moral Responsibility and Free Will
• If Determinism were True...
• Origins and Functions of Time
• Paradox of Time
• Contrasting Perspectives on Time
• Time as an Inner Sense
• Scientific Theories of Time: Isaac Newton
• Scientific Theories of Time: Albert Einstein
• Would Newton and Einstein Have Agreed?
• Time and Human Consciousness
• St. Anselm's Ontological Proof of God's Existence
• Cosmological Proof for God's Existence by St. Thomas Aquinas
• Does the Big Bang Prove or Disprove the Existence of God?
• William Paley and the Design Proof
• God's Existence and Darwinian Evolution
• Problem of Evil and God's Existence, The
• Belief in God - a Panacea or Moral Obligation
• Sense of the Sacred, A
• Religious Experiences and Their Recurrent Features
• Religious Experiences Reflect Cultural Differences and Traditions
• Extrovertive and Introvertive Mystical Experiences
• Divine Experience or Illusion?
• Brain and Religious Experiences, The
• Principle of Credulity
• Will to Believe, The
• Matter of Faith, A
• Reason, the Source of Knowledge
• Necessary Truths
• Religious Conviction of Rationalists
• Theory of Innate Ideas, The
• Meno: Platonic Proof of Innate Ideas, The
• Descartes' Corpuscular Theory
• Locke and Leibniz Debate Theory of Innate Ideas
• Sentiment of Rationality
• John Locke's Empiricism and Its Troublesome Gap
• Berkeley's Solution to Locke's Gap
• Hume and the Necessity of Experience
• Hume and Causal Relationships
• Existence of an External Word - Real or Imagined?, The
• Empiricism's Alliance with the Natural Sciences
• W.V.O. Quine and Contemporary Empiricism
• Does the Mind Shape the World?
• Sir Francis Bacon, Spokesperson for the Scientific Revolution
• Bacon's Method of Scientific Induction
• How Science Really Worked in the 17th-19th Centuries
• Popper's 20th-century View of How Science Works
• Popper's Criterion of Falsifiability
• Thomas Kuhn's Paradigms
• Kuhn's Challenge to the Cumulative Progression of Science
• Is There a Scientific Method?
• Correspondence Theory of Truth and Scientific Realism, The
• Coherence Theory of Truth, The
• Conflict Between Consensus Theories of Truth and Popper's Scientific Realism
• Conceptual Relativism
• Pragmatism Theory of Truth, The
• Instrumental Side of Pragmatism, The
• Quantum Mechanics Challenge to Theories of Truth: Bohr and the Instrumentalist View
• Quantum Mechanics Challenge to Theories of Truth: Einstein and the Realist View
• Single Truth?, A
• Hermeneutics
• Is Morality Relative?
• Does The End Justify The Means?
• Kantian Ethics
• Character-based Ethics
• Virtue Ethics--A Learned Skill
• Using Virtue Ethics in Complex Situations
• Virtue Ethics and Modern Psychology
• Importance of Character and Narrative in Virtue Ethics
• Criticisms and Concerns about Virtue Ethics
• How to Address Ethical Issues
• Moral Dilemmas - Can Ethics Help?
• Social Contract Theory
• Right to Dissent, The
• John Rawl's Theory of Justice
• Communitarian Ideal: Aristotle, The
• Communitarian Ideal: Hegel, The
• Communitarian Ideal: Nurturing Community Values, The
• Issues That Separate Liberals and Communitarians
• Call for Reasoned Public Debate, A
• What is Justice?
• What Is Art?
• What is the Meaning of Life?
• Human Beings: Description and Origins
• Replication
• Reason, Reflection and Language
• Minds and Matter
• Darwin's Dangerous Idea
• Natural Selection and Differential Reproduction
• Natural Selection and Distant Ancestors
• Charles Darwin and the Problem of Continuity
• Socrates, Darwin and the Essence of Things
• Humans As Rational Animals
• Are Humans Unique?
• Design and Natural Selection
• God, Design, and Cosmology
• The Past, The Future, and the Human Mind
• Computers, Consciousness and the Brain
• The Self: Who We Are
• The Enduring Self
• Character
• The Social Role in the Self
• The Soul
• Memes
• Free Will: Why Do We Do What We Do
• Free Will and Reason
• Elbow Room
• Socrates and Plato on Knowledge
• Aristotle on Knowledge
• Inner Self and External World
• Heidegger and Kierkegaard
• Kierkegaard and the Infinite
• Kierkegaard: The Temporal and the Eternal
• How Do We Encounter Reality?
• Merleau-Ponty and the Intentional Arc
• Meaning in Life: From Heidegger to Dostoyevsky
• Getting in Contact with Reality
• Being and Nothingness: Jean Paul Sartre
• Human Nature: From Ancient Times to Pascal
• Human Nature: From Kierkegaard to Sartre
• Darwin and Human Nature
• Science and Human Life
• The Scientific View of Human Nature
• Artificial Intelligence
• Artificial Intelligence: The Common Sense Problem
• Nietzsche and the Death of God
• Philosophy Over Time
• How Old Is The Mind? (Part 1)
• How Old Is The Mind? (Part 2)
• Functionalism
• Turning Away From Functionalism
• Turing Test, The: Is it Valid?
• The Nature of the Mind
• Perception
• Artificial Intelligence and the Mind
• Dualist or Pluralist?
• Is the Real World Independent of Our Minds? (Part 1)
• Is the Real World Independent of Our Minds? (Part 2)
• Is the Real World Independent of Our Minds? (Part 3)
• Unconceptualized Reality
• The Role of Language
• Scientific Realism
• Quantum Mechanics
• Scientific Theories and Realism
• Theories of Truth
• Is Truth an Idealization of Rational Acceptability?
• Brain in a Vat (Part 1)
• Brain in a Vat (Part 2)
• Connecting Different Fields of Philosophy
• The Role of Philosophers
• Philosophy and Science
• Ontology
• Observation Sentences
• Ontological Relativity
• Language, Meaning and Truth
• Truth
• Behaviorism
• How A Child Learns Language (Part 1)
• How A Child Learns Language (Part 2)
• Philosophy: An Overview
• The Mind-Body Problem
• The Rediscovery of the Mind
• Behaviorism, Identity Theory and Functionalism
• The Turing Test
• Computer Simulations
• Chess: Humans vs. Computers
• The Brain
• The Irreducibility of Consciousness
• The Mind and the Body
• The Realism vs. Anti-Realism Debate (Part 1)
• The Realism vs. Anti-Realism Debate (Part 2)
• Social Reality
• The Chinese Room Argument
• The Correspondence Theory of Truth
• Coherence Theory
• The Darwinian Revolution
• Wittgenstein, Language and Philosophy
• Language and Religion
• The Justification of the State
• The Power of the State
• Consciousness
• Chomsky and Language
• Intentionality
• Freedom and Free Will
• Pragmatism, Language and Reality
• Is There One Truth?
• Language, Truth and Happiness
• Ancient Philosophers
• Aristotle and Social Democracy
• Aristotle and Social Justice
• John Rawls: Misunderstandings and Misrepresentations
• Justice: From Aristotle to Rawls
• Global Justice
• Institutional Justice
• Utilitarianism (Part One)
• Utilitarianism (Part Two)
• Human Flourishing
• Bentham, Mill and Human Flourishing
• Virtue Ethics
• Aristotle and Ancient Ethics
• Developing Ethics From Childhood
• Feminist Ethics
• History of Virtue Ethics
• Greed
• Individual and the Community, The
• Ancient Views of the Self
• Aristotle on Man as a Social and Political Animal
• Good Life, The
• Philosophy, Justice, and the Meaning of Life
• Ancient Philosophers and the Meaning of Life
• Feminist Theories and the Meaning of Life
• Changes in Our Conception of Human Nature (Part One)
• Changes in Our Conception of Human Nature (Part Two)
• Sir Francis Bacon And The Case For Curiosity
• Scientific Method: From Bacon to Popper, The
• Karl Popper and Falsification
• Theoreticians and Experimenters
• Thomas Kuhn
• Thomas Kuhn: His Core Ideas
• Feyerabend and Kuhn
• Scientific Truth
• Empiricism and Rationalism
• Innate Ideas and Mathematical Proof
• Innate Ideas: Plato and the Meno
• Experience and Innate Ideas
• Memory and the Soul
• Locke and the Self
• Making Up People
• Classifying and Conceptualizing Human Life
• Encountering External Reality
• Kant and the Distinction Between Scheme and Reality
• Meaning of Life, The
• Philosophy: Argument, Questions and Ideas
• Rationalism
• Descartes and the Greeks (Part One)
• Descartes and the Greeks (Part Two)
• Descartes and the Greeks (Part 3)
• Plato, Artistotle and Scientific Theory
• Scientific Theory
• Scientific Method, The
• Coherence in the Sciences
• Mind and the World (Part One), The
• Mind and the World (Part Two), The
• Language and the Limits of Reason
• Wittgenstein and Meaningful Language
• Philosophical Theology
• Skepticism
• Mathematics and Change
• Fatalism (Part One)
• Fatalism (Part Two)
• History of Scientific Ideas, The
• Science and Myths
• Aristotle and Ethics
• Philosophy of Ethics (Part One), The
• Philosophy of Ethics (Part Two), The
• Time and Cosmology
• The Discovery of Time
• Liberalism and the Self
• Encumbered Self, The
• Moral Issues and the Self
• Liberal and Communitarian Theories of Government
• What Justifies the Power of the State? (Part One)
• What Justifies the Power of the State? (Part Two)
• Republicanism: Aristotle and Hegel
• Interpreting the Bill of Rights
• Republicanism and Freedom
• Physician-Assisted Suicide
• Abortion Rights and Slavery
• Moral Pluralism
• Philosophy: In Search of a Definition
• Self and Unconditional Value, The
• Self in Historical Context (Part One), The
• Self in Historical Context (Part Two), The
• Self in Historical Context (Part Three), The
• Reductive Theories of the Self
• Modern Dualism
• Community and Individual Identity, The
• Recognition in the Formation of Self
• Significant Others
• Cultural Identity
• Minority Rights, Cultural Survival and the Self
• Aristotle on the State
• Knowledge
• Hegel and the Goals of Life
• "What is Philosophy?"
• "What is Human Nature?"
• "Is Mind Distinct from Body?"
• What is Real?
• Do We Have Free Will?
• Is Time Real?
• "Does God Exist?"
• "Can We Know God Through Experience?"
• Is Reason the Source of Knowledge?
• "Does All Knowledge Come from Experience?"
• "How Does Science Add to Knowledge?"
• "Does Science Give Us Truth?"
• "Is Ethics Based on Character?"
• "What Justifies the State?"