Philosophy Tube

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!

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?

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!

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?

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...)

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?

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...

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?

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

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

Double, Double, Toil and Trouble...

With apologies to Australia

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"So tell me about parasocial relationships."

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