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Khan Academy: Religion: Classical Theism, Part 5 (God's Goodness and Justice)
People often say that God is good, and that God is just. But in what sense is God good and just? This video presents an argument from Classical Theism that God's goodness and justice do not, as Theistic Personalists, think, count as...
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Khan Academy: Religion: Classical Theism, Part 4 (God's Omniscience)
What does it mean to say God *knows* things? This video examines two answers to that question. Theistic personalists hold that God knows things in the same sense in which we know things: by observing them. Classical Theists deny this...
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Khan Academy: Religion: Classical Theism, Part 3 (God's Omnipotence)
Both Classical Theists and Theistic Personalists agree that God created the world. But they disagree about how we should understand God's causality. Does God cause things in the same sense in which we humans cause things, or is God's...
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Khan Academy: Religion: Classical Theism, Part 2 (In Favor of Classical Theism)
In this video, Elmar Kremer (University of Toronto) introduces two theories of the nature of God: classical theism and theistic personalism. In part 2, he considers several arguments for and against classical theism.
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Khan Academy: Religion: Classical Theism, Part 1 (Two Conceptions of God)
In this video, Elmar Kremer (University of Toronto) introduces two theories of the nature of God: classical theism and theistic personalism. In part 1, he considers the arguments that have been made for each theory.
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Khan Academy: Metaphysics: Problem of Free Will
Richard discusses one of the classic philosophical problem of free will --- that is, the question of whether we decide things for ourselves, or are forced to go one way or another. He distinguishes between two different worries. One...
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Khan Academy: Epistemology: The Puzzle of Grue
In this video, Sinan Dogramaci (The University of Texas at Austin) explains the puzzle of grue. He discusses how this puzzle undercut the attempt to formally develop inductive logic, the logic of probabilistic support.
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Khan Academy: Epistemology: Virtue Epistemology
In this Wireless Philosophy video, Geoff Pynn (Northern Illinois) introduces virtue epistemology, an approach to epistemology that takes intellectual virtue as the central concept in discussions of theory of knowledge. Along the way, he...
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Khan Academy: Epistemology: The Value of Knowledge
People tend to value knowledge; it's better to know something than just to believe it, even if your belief is correct by pure luck. But why? What's so great about knowledge? In this Wireless Philosophy video, Jeremy Fantl (University of...
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Khan Academy: Epistemology: The Preface Paradox
Everybody has false beliefs, including you. But that means everyone's beliefs are self-contradictory. If we wrote down everything you believe in a book, we'd have to include one more statement in the book's preface: 'some of the...
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Khan Academy: Mind: Personal Identity (The True Self)
Does our ordinary notion of a "true self" simply pick out a certain part of the mind? or is this notion actually wrapped up in some inextricable way with our own values and ideals?
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Khan Academy: Mind: Personal Identity (The Narrative Self)
In this video, Elisabeth Camp (Rutgers University) introduces the narrative view of personal identity and its major problems.
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Khan Academy: Mind: Personal Identity (The Essential Moral Self)
Using the method of experimental philosophy, Nina Strohminger (Yale University) and Shaun Nichols (University of Arizona) compare philosophical and everyday answers to the question 'Which aspect of the self is most essential for personal...
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Khan Academy: Mind: Mind Body Dualism
Are we just physical things? or perhaps just mental things? Maybe both? In this video, Alex Byrne (MIT) explains a modern argument due to Saul Kripke for mind-body dualism.
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Khan Academy: Metaphysics: The Grandfather Paradox
Agustin Rayo explains the grandfather paradox, one of the classic paradoxes of time travel.
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Khan Academy: Metaphysics: Sizes of Infinity, Part 2 (Getting Real)
Part 2 of a pair. After part 1, you might have thought that all different infinite collections of things are the same size. Not so! In this video, Agustin shows us another of Georg Cantor's results: that for every size of infinity, there...
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Khan Academy: Metaphysics: Sizes of Infinity, Part 1 (Hilbert's Hotel)
Part 1 of a pair. Agustin teaches us about some weird properties of infinity, using an example due to mathematician David Hilbert called 'Hilbert's Hotel'. He shows us a result proved by another mathematician, Georg Cantor: that many...
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Khan Academy: Language: Conditionals, Part 4
In this video, Justin picks up where part 3 left off. He introduces the Conditional Assertion Theory of conditionals, which aims to resolve the problems presented for the other theories of conditionals. In the end, Justin presents yet...
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Khan Academy: Language: Conditionals, Part 3
In part 3 of the series on conditionals, Justin picks up where part 2 leaves off, introducing an alternative theory of conditionals: the strict conditional theory. According to the strict theory, conditionals express necessary...
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Khan Academy: Language: Conditionals, Part 2
Justin Khoo invites us to think about conditional sentences ('if P then Q'). Perhaps surprisingly, the question of what these sentences mean has vexed philosophers for thousands of years. In part 2 of the series on conditionals, Justin...
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Khan Academy: Epistemology: The Will to Believe
Tom asks whether it is moral to believe something even when you have no evidence that it is true. He discusses a classic debate on that subject, between philosophers William James and William Clifford.
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Khan Academy: Epistemology: The Epistemic Regress Problem
'But why?' In this Wireless Philosophy video, Kevin McCain (University of Alabama at Birmingham) explains the Epistemic Regress Problem. The epistemic regress problem arises from the need to give a reason for your belief, a reason for...
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Khan Academy: Language: Conditionals, Part 1
Justin invites us to think about conditional sentences ('if P then Q'). Perhaps surprisingly, the question of what these sentences mean has vexed philosophers for thousands of years. In part one, Justin motivates the question and...
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Khan Academy: Epistemology: Sleeping Beauty
In this video, Michael introduces the Sleeping Beauty problem. This is a problem in formal epistemology about how to correctly assign probabilities to an odd scenario in which we flip a coin and, depending on the outcome, wake Sleeping...