Philosophy
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Begin with Unit 1: What Philosophy Is, Where It Comes From & How Arguments Work. It sets the foundation for everything that follows.
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Unit 1: What Philosophy Is, Where It Comes From & How Arguments Work 28 lessons, 1 lecture part
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- 0001 What Philosophy Is
- 0002 The Branches of Philosophy
- 0003 Philosophical vs. Empirical Questions
- 0004 Socrates and the Examined Life
- 0005 The Socratic Method
- 0006 What an Argument Is
- 0007 Thought Experiments
- 0010 Philosophy's Multiple Origins
- 0011 Confucius and the Junzi
- 0012 Daoism and Wu Wei
- 0013 Mozi and Impartial Care
- 0014 The Upanishads: Atman and Brahman
- 0015 Buddhist Philosophy: No-Self
- 0016 Ubuntu and Relational Personhood
- 0018 Deductive and Inductive Arguments
- 0019 Validity
- 0020 The Validity–Truth Confusion
- 0021 Soundness
- 0022 Strong and Weak Induction
- 0023 Cogency
- 0024 The Principle of Charity
- 0025 The Straw Man
- 0026 Counterexamples
- 0027 Necessary and Sufficient Conditions
- 0028 Confirmation Bias
- 0029 Premise and Conclusion Indicators
- 0030 Missing Premises
- 0034 Reconstructing an Argument worked example
Unit 2: Epistemology 31 lessons, 1 lecture part
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- 0045 Propositional Knowledge
- 0046 The Justified True Belief Analysis
- 0047 The Gettier Problem
- 0048 Repairing the Analysis
- 0050 The Correspondence Theory of Truth
- 0051 The Coherence Theory of Truth
- 0052 The Pragmatic Theory of Truth
- 0055 Philosophical Skepticism
- 0056 Descartes' Method of Doubt
- 0057 The Dream Argument
- 0058 The Evil Demon
- 0059 The Cogito
- 0060 The Brain in a Vat
- 0061 Moore's Two Hands
- 0065 A Priori and A Posteriori
- 0066 Rationalism
- 0067 Empiricism
- 0068 Locke's Blank Slate
- 0069 The Argument from Illusion
- 0070 Testimony
- 0071 Memory as a Source
- 0075 The Regress Problem
- 0076 Foundationalism
- 0077 Coherentism
- 0078 Internalism and Externalism
- 0079 Reliabilism
- 0082 The Problem of Induction
- 0083 Defending Induction with Induction
- 0085 Fallibilism
- 0090 Auditing a Knowledge Claim worked example
- 0091 Reconstructing the Dream Argument worked example
Unit 3: Philosophy of Religion 28 lessons, 1 lecture part
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- 0100 The Concept of God
- 0101 Theism, Atheism, Agnosticism
- 0102 Natural Theology
- 0103 The Paradox of the Stone
- 0105 The First-Cause Argument
- 0106 What Caused God?
- 0107 The Kalam Argument
- 0108 The Argument from Contingency
- 0110 The Design Argument
- 0111 Hume's Critique of Design
- 0112 Design Without a Designer
- 0113 The Fine-Tuning Argument
- 0114 The Anthropic Response
- 0116 Anselm's Ontological Argument
- 0117 Gaunilo's Island
- 0118 Existence Is Not a Predicate
- 0120 The Logical Problem of Evil
- 0121 The Free Will Defense
- 0122 The Evidential Problem of Evil
- 0123 The Soul-Making Theodicy
- 0128 Pascal's Wager
- 0129 The Many-Gods Objection
- 0130 Clifford's Evidentialism
- 0131 James's Will to Believe
- 0132 Fideism
- 0134 The Argument from Religious Experience
- 0135 The Diversity Objection
- 0138 Testing a Theodicy worked example
Unit 4: Metaphysics I: Free Will 21 lessons, 1 lecture part
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- 0145 The Problem of Free Will
- 0146 Determinism
- 0147 The Fatalism Confusion
- 0148 Indeterminism
- 0150 Incompatibilism
- 0151 The Consequence Argument
- 0152 Hard Determinism
- 0153 Libertarianism (Metaphysical)
- 0154 The Randomness Objection
- 0155 Agent Causation
- 0158 Compatibilism
- 0159 Classical Compatibilism
- 0160 The Manipulation Objection
- 0161 Hierarchical Freedom
- 0165 Responsibility Requires Control
- 0166 The Principle of Alternative Possibilities
- 0167 Frankfurt Cases
- 0168 Reactive Attitudes
- 0169 Free Will Skepticism
- 0170 Neuroscience and the Libet Experiments
- 0175 Classifying a Free-Will Position worked example
Unit 5: Metaphysics II: Personal Identity 18 lessons, 1 lecture part
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- 0185 The Question of Personal Identity
- 0186 What Hangs on the Answer
- 0187 Numerical and Qualitative Identity
- 0188 The Ship of Theseus
- 0190 The Soul Theory
- 0191 The Verification Objection
- 0192 The Body Theory
- 0193 The Prince and the Cobbler
- 0194 The Brain Criterion
- 0196 Locke's Memory Theory
- 0197 The Brave Officer Objection
- 0198 Psychological Continuity
- 0199 The Duplication Problem
- 0200 Identity Is Not What Matters
- 0201 The Narrative Self
- 0203 Hume's Bundle Theory
- 0204 The Bundle and Anatta
- 0208 Testing a Theory of Identity worked example
Unit 6: Philosophy of Mind 22 lessons, 1 lecture part
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- 0220 The Mind-Body Problem
- 0221 Intentionality
- 0222 Qualia
- 0225 Substance Dualism
- 0226 The Interaction Problem
- 0227 Property Dualism
- 0228 Epiphenomenalism
- 0230 Physicalism
- 0231 Behaviorism
- 0232 The Perfect Actor Objection
- 0233 The Identity Theory
- 0234 The Multiple Realizability Objection
- 0235 Functionalism
- 0236 The Chinese Room
- 0240 What Is It Like to Be a Bat?
- 0241 The Knowledge Argument
- 0242 The Ability Reply
- 0243 The Hard Problem
- 0248 The Problem of Other Minds
- 0249 The Argument from Analogy
- 0250 The Turing Test
- 0255 Diagnosing a Mind-Body Position worked example
Unit 7: Ethics (survey) 28 lessons, 1 lecture part
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- 0265 Normative and Descriptive Claims
- 0266 The Is-Ought Gap
- 0267 Cultural Relativism
- 0268 The Reformer's Dilemma
- 0269 Simple Subjectivism
- 0270 The Disagreement Problem
- 0271 Divine Command Theory
- 0272 The Euthyphro Dilemma
- 0275 Psychological Egoism
- 0276 The Redescription Objection
- 0277 Ethical Egoism
- 0280 Utilitarianism
- 0281 The Injustice Objection
- 0282 Higher and Lower Pleasures
- 0283 Rule Utilitarianism
- 0284 The Demandingness Objection
- 0288 The Good Will
- 0289 Hypothetical and Categorical Imperatives
- 0290 The Formula of Universal Law
- 0291 The Inquiring Murderer
- 0292 The Formula of Humanity
- 0295 Virtue Ethics
- 0296 The Guidance Objection
- 0297 Eudaimonia
- 0298 The Golden Mean
- 0299 Aristotle and Confucius
- 0302 The Ethics of Care
- 0308 Running a Case Through Three Theories worked example
Unit 8: Political Philosophy 22 lessons, 1 lecture part
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- 0320 Political Legitimacy
- 0321 The State of Nature
- 0322 Hobbes's State of Nature
- 0323 Locke's State of Nature
- 0324 Rousseau and the General Will
- 0325 The Social Contract
- 0326 The Consent Problem
- 0327 Tacit Consent
- 0330 Negative and Positive Liberty
- 0331 The Harm Principle
- 0332 Paternalism
- 0336 Distributive Justice
- 0337 The Veil of Ignorance
- 0338 The Difference Principle
- 0339 Nozick's Entitlement Theory
- 0340 The Wilt Chamberlain Argument
- 0341 The Capability Approach
- 0345 Civil Disobedience
- 0346 Just and Unjust Laws
- 0347 Governing by Virtue
- 0348 Philosophical Anarchism
- 0352 Auditing a Distribution worked example
Unit 9: Capstones 12 lessons, 2 lecture parts
- 0365 The Euthyphro Thread review
- 0366 Descartes, Start to Finish review
- 0367 Hume's Campaign review
- 0368 The Evil Debate, Mapped review
- 0369 What Survives Skepticism review
- 0370 The Self Under Fire review
- 0371 Free Will in the Courtroom review
- 0372 Minds, Machines, and the Test review
- 0373 One Dilemma, Every Lens review
- 0374 Building a State on Paper review
- 0375 The Good Life, Four Ways review
- 0376 The Toolkit, In Review review
Who this subject is for
- Humanities and pre-law students
- Anyone who enjoys big questions
- Adult learners
- Homeschool students
- Anyone who wants to read philosophers on their own terms
Why Philosophy matters
Philosophy asks what we can know, what exists and how we should live, and it trains careful argument along the way. It prepares you for:
- Ethics
- Logic
- Political theory
- Law
- Theology and religious studies
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