Philosophy Tube

Season 2018

Abigail Thorn hosts free philosophy lessons on YouTube, sometimes branching out into politics, humour, and personal reflection.

Where to Watch Philosophy Tube • Season 2018

27 Episodes

  • Are You Rational? #1 Are You Motivated?
    E1
    Are You Rational? #1 Are You Motivated?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?
  • Are You Rational? #2 Are You Moral?
    E2
    Are You Rational? #2 Are You Moral?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!
  • Are You Rational? #3 Are You Emotional?
    E3
    Are You Rational? #3 Are You Emotional?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?
  • Are You Rational? #4 Are You Open Minded?
    E4
    Are You Rational? #4 Are You Open Minded?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?
  • African Philosophy & the Enlightenment
    E5
    African Philosophy & the EnlightenmentEthiopian 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!
  • YouTube Will End Someday
    E6
    YouTube Will End SomedayIn 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.
  • The Ethics of Self-Driving Cars
    E7
    The Ethics of Self-Driving CarsDoes 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?
  • Could You Upload Your Mind Into A Computer?
    E8
    Could You Upload Your Mind Into A Computer?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!
  • Is YouTube Like the Printing Press?
    E9
    Is YouTube Like the Printing Press?Does YouTube shape YouTubers, or do YouTubers shape YouTube? And can we compare the Internet to the printing press without doing bad history?
  • Flat Earth OR Why Do People Reject Science?
    E10
    Flat Earth OR Why Do People Reject Science?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?
  • Intro to Hegel (& Progressive Politics
    E11
    Intro to Hegel (& Progressive PoliticsThis video explains the work of Hegel and Frantz Fanon, and explores how the Master & Slave Dialectic can help us understand identity politics.
  • Healthcare, Ethics, & Postmodernism
    E12
    Healthcare, Ethics, & PostmodernismHow 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?
  • Intro to Plato
    E13
    Intro to PlatoWhat 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!
  • Should You Watch the News?
    E14
    Should You Watch the News?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?
  • Why the Left Will Win
    E15
    Why the Left Will WinDisability 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 Rules Made to Be Broken?
    E16
    Are Rules Made to Be Broken?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?
  • Why Do I Hate My Self?
    E17
    Why Do I Hate My Self?Self-hatred, anxiety, and internalised oppression can tell us a lot about the philosophy of mind... Have you been hearing voices?
  • What is Solitary Confinement Like?
    E18
    What is Solitary Confinement Like?In order to explain what solitary does to prisoners, we might need a whole new theory of mind...
  • Elon Musk
    E19
    Elon MuskIt's Elon Musk Vs Slavoj Žižek in the war for ironic counterculture. Whoever wins, we lose...
  • When Will Security Go Back to Normal?
    E20
    When Will Security Go Back to Normal?9/11 and the War on Terror changed a lot. Will it ever change back?
  • Suic!de and Ment@l He@lth
    E21
    Suic!de and Ment@l He@lthWho decides what a ment@l illness is? Is suic!dality always a sign of insanity? ★★★
  • Transphobia: An Analysis
    E22
    Transphobia: An AnalysisAncient Greek Scepticism is back, and this time it’s personal.
  • Witchcraft, Gender, & Marxism
    E23
    Witchcraft, Gender, & MarxismDouble, Double, Toil and Trouble...
  • Is Philosophy Just White Guys J3rk!ng Off?
    E24
    Is Philosophy Just White Guys J3rk!ng Off?With apologies to Australia
  • Reform or Revolution? An ASMR Guided Meditation
    E25
    Reform or Revolution? An ASMR Guided Meditation
  • YouTube: Art or Reality?
    E26
    YouTube: Art or Reality?"So tell me about parasocial relationships."
  • Why Does Britain Still Have A Queen?
    E27
    Why Does Britain Still Have A Queen?A Christmas story of weird waifus, rotten royals, and brave bisexuals

 

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