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Philosophy Tube

Season 2018 2018

  • 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z on Nebula
  • 45m
  • 19h 30m (26 episodes)
  • United States
I'm Abigail, giving away a philosophy degree for free!

27 episodes

Season Premiere

2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

2018x01 Are You Rational? #1 Are You Motivated?

Season Premiere

2018x01 Are You Rational? #1 Are You Motivated?

  • 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z45m

Part 1 in a new 4-part series; what does it mean to be rational? To have a reason to do something? What does that tell us about law enforcement and artificial intelligence?

Part 2: Continuing our discussion of what rationality is, let's talk about moral reasons, and what happens if someone just wants to be bad!

Part 3: Are feels and reals really so different? Why have reason and emotion historically been opposed? Why is it that women and subalterns have been assigned emotionality and irrationality?

Part 4: What does it mean to be open minded? How can art and creativity help us make more people open minded? How can we make socially conscious art?

Ethiopian philosopher Zera Yacob came up with philosophy that prefigured Enlightenment thinkers Hume, Descartes, Locke, Kant, and the US Founding Fathers! Once lost to history, now his ideas about God and ethics can be celebrated and learned!

2018x06 YouTube Will End Someday

  • 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z45m

In the fifth instalment of the Philosophy of YouTube I talk about how YouTube might end, and what that possible end might teach us about where it's going now.

Does the Trolley Problem tell us anything about self-driving cars? What are the moral, legal, or ethical issues thrown up by autonomous vehicles? Should we be more critical of corporations like Uber?

Biology meets computer science meets philosophy! Following a discussion between Antonio Damasio and Aubrey de Grey I was inspired to talk about minds and brains, computers, artificial intelligence, and technology!

Does YouTube shape YouTubers, or do YouTubers shape YouTube? And can we compare the Internet to the printing press without doing bad history?

Why do some people believe the globe is flat? What is the philosophical position known as Direct Realism, and how can optical illusions help us learn about what science is?

This video explains the work of Hegel and Frantz Fanon, and explores how the Master & Slave Dialectic can help us understand identity politics.

How can we ethically distribute healthcare resources? And what does Foucault have to do with it? How does biopolitics help us understand medical decision-making for smokers and fat people?

2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

2018x13 Intro to Plato

2018x13 Intro to Plato

  • 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z45m

What are the Forms, and what do they do? What is the Allegory of the Cave? Here's bits and pieces from the Meno, the Parmenides, the Phaedo, and the Republic - all as an intro to Plato's metaphysics!

Aired June 15, 2018

The news is often so depressing and tough to watch, but do we have a moral duty to be informed about the world? How can we watch the news responsibly, telling the fake news from the real?

2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

2018x15 Why the Left Will Win

2018x15 Why the Left Will Win

  • 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z45m

Disability studies can teach us a huge amount about political philosophy! Even though the right have gained ground, there's a fundamental ideological reason why the Left will win (or at least never fully lose...)

2018x16 Are Rules Made to Be Broken?

  • 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z45m

Are the laws of the land made to be broken? How does philosophy, and activists like Rosa Parks, tell us what good and bad laws are?

2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

2018x17 Why Do I Hate My Self?

2018x17 Why Do I Hate My Self?

  • 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z45m

Self-hatred, anxiety, and internalised oppression can tell us a lot about the philosophy of mind... Have you been hearing voices?

In order to explain what solitary does to prisoners, we might need a whole new theory of mind...

2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

2018x19 Elon Musk

2018x19 Elon Musk

  • 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z45m

It's Elon Musk Vs Slavoj Žižek in the war for ironic counterculture. Whoever wins, we lose...

9/11 and the War on Terror changed a lot. Will it ever change back?

2018x21 Suic!de and Ment@l He@lth

  • 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z45m

Who decides what a ment@l illness is? Is suic!dality always a sign of insanity? ★★★

2018x22 Transphobia: An Analysis

  • 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z45m

Ancient Greek Scepticism is back, and this time it’s personal.

2018x23 Witchcraft, Gender, & Marxism

  • 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z45m

Double, Double, Toil and Trouble...

With apologies to Australia

2018x26 YouTube: Art or Reality?

  • 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z45m

"So tell me about parasocial relationships."

A Christmas story of weird waifus, rotten royals, and brave bisexuals

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