#  @profjeffreykaplan Jeffrey Kaplan Jeffrey Kaplan posts on YouTube about if you, spam, ready, book the most. 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Nagel 'What is it Like to be a Bat': https://youtu.be/aaZbCctlll4 Jackson's Mary's Room & Epiphenomenalism: https://youtu.be/QhTRbXpfKw8 This is a lecture video about "The Puzzle of Conscious Experience" by David Chalmers. In this [----] article from Scientific American Chalmers distinguishes the easy problems of consciousness from what he calls the hard" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7KWFhW0klf4) 2020-09-09T15:23Z 631K followers, 148.3K engagements "Advertising doesn't work the way you think it does I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Kevin Simlers website: https://meltingasphalt.com/ This is a video lecture in which I argue that association ads are best explained by what I call the social connotation theory rather than the emotional inception theory. The emotional inception theory holds that modern advertisements do not try to rationally or logically persuade us to buy" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=GFYasDoJ-98) 2024-12-03T15:47Z 631K followers, 242.4K engagements "Plato's Euthyphro - Which comes first: God or Morality I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This lecture explains the central argument that Plato is making in the voice of Socrates in the dialogue Euthyphro. The central question of the dialogue is: what is virtue The word 'virtue' is used synonymously with the word 'piety'. We can also understand the central argument as applying to what today we would call ethics or morality." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=oltsfcVWe3A) 2020-02-25T17:38Z 631K followers, 1.2M engagements "The first [--] philosophy texts you should read I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Descartes Proof of Gods Existence in Meditation #3: https://youtu.be/w4Kj6SuGYLo What is a Counterexample: https://youtu.be/jPdZ42UX41A I am Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and here is a list of the seven philosophical pieces of writing that I think someone first getting into philosophy should" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5_0Jg1VZxis) 2022-12-14T15:14Z 631K followers, 405.6K engagements "Recommending Descartes Meditations" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=FjwQIHkBLF0) 2023-01-06T21:24Z 631K followers, 49.6K engagements "Ren Descartes - Meditation #5 - The Ontological Proof of God's Existence I am writing a book If you to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a lecture video about the fifth Meditation on First Philosophy published in [----] by Rene Descartes. In this meditation Descartes offers his own version of the Ontological Argument for the Existence of God. The argument is explained by comparing it to a similar argument that we can construct involving triangles. I" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=KSfSRXQlFfc) 2020-07-08T15:32Z 631K followers, 63.7K engagements "Peter Singer - ordinary people are evil Sorry I had to disable comments on this particular video because quite a few of them were inappropriate even threatening. The views expressed in this video are those of Peter Singer and not my own. This is a summary of his most famous and controversial philosophy paper originally published in [----]. (The comments sections on my lecture videos are usually fun informative and helpful places. I am glad that they are there. Unfortunately in this case the number of genuinely threatening and abusive comments was just too high. Trust me I am just as bummed" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=KVl5kMXz1vA) 2020-01-23T16:30Z 631K followers, 5M engagements "Frank Jackson's famous 'Mary's Room' Thought Experiment I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Nagel's 'What is the like to be a bat': https://youtu.be/aaZbCctlll4 Princess Elisabeth's attack on Descartes: https://youtu.be/kJIZzmUpfmk This is a video lecture about Frank Jackson's Mary's Room thought experiment which is designed as an argument against physicalism. Mary is a vision scientist who spends her whole life in a" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=QhTRbXpfKw8) 2020-09-04T17:48Z 631K followers, 295K engagements "The Zombie Argument (from David Chalmers) I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Physicalism & Dualism: https://youtu.be/P3pmVf3Gs70 Nagel's 'What is it like to be a bat': https://youtu.be/aaZbCctlll4 This is a lecture video about a short article by Amy Kind wherein she explains David Chalmers' famous Zombie argument against physicalism. A "zombie" is a philosophical term for a creature that is micro-physically identical to a" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=VLzmYjviDsk) 2020-09-10T13:58Z 631K followers, 122K engagements "How to Read Philosophy I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. How to Write Philosophy: https://youtu.be/nKdl_VmKNmk What is Philosophy: https://youtu.be/wwT4N_v0-WQ This is a quick video lecture that provides six tips or pieces of advice for how to understand the papers or books or texts assigned in a college philosophy course. Some illustrations involve Rene Descartes Barbara MacKinnon Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia and Tommie" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=XlcrKfaJBRM) 2020-11-13T15:06Z 631K followers, 226.9K engagements "Ren Descartes - Meditation #2 - I think therefore I am I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a lecture video from Introduction to Philosophy. The lecture is about the second of Rene Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy originally published in Latin in [----]. In this medition Descartes finds the first thing that he thinks he can know for certain: that he exists. The famous phrase "Cogito Ergo Sum" or "I think" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=beFeHuC_ERY) 2020-06-29T14:55Z 631K followers, 140.7K engagements "Student Loans are Great But Only if Used Correctly This is the first lecture in a series of lectures that I am tentatively calling "How to Do Well in College." This first lecture focuses on how student loans work and how they constitute a smart risk wherein students are betting on themselves. The result is that it is incredibly important to study and graduate from college. In order to explain this I have to explain some things about my own family and my great-grandfather and also the nature of the home mortgage loan. Here are three good articles about the income boost that comes from a" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=dcjxdcPHwoM) 2021-06-04T14:36Z 631K followers, 107.8K engagements "Semester Ethics Course condensed (Part [--] of 2) I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Extended lecture of Plato's dialogue Euthyphro: https://youtu.be/oltsfcVWe3A This is the second half of an attempt to compresses an ethics course that normally takes [--] weeks into just two videos. What is the morally right thing to do Is there some moral law that applies to everyone or is morality relative in some way And whats so good about" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=dpmD6NuM_r0) 2022-07-14T19:06Z 631K followers, 106.9K engagements "How to Make College Courses Easy and How *Not* to Practice "Self-Care" This is the fourth in a series of videos intended for first-year college students tentatively titled "How to Do Well in College." This video explains that the common question "Is this course easy or hard" is misplaced. Really what determines whether a college course is hard or easy is not so much the course itself but rather *how* one goes about taking that course. I talk through several examples to illustrate this. And then I go on a little rant about the phrase "Self-Care" and how it can mislead students. Giving oneself" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=fvvX8LgNJJs) 2021-06-22T15:22Z 631K followers, 77.8K engagements "Legal Positivism - the dominant theory in jurisprudence I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Austin's theory of law: https://youtu.be/0F62gA1LGfw Hart's theory of law: https://youtu.be/Xg_9F2h89TE and https://youtu.be/4qtSYUccppc This is a video lecture that explains the central theory for the last two centuries in the philosophy of law: legal positivism. I created this additional lecture because I found that the standard" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=hWsw2Wai9BI) 2023-05-04T15:19Z 631K followers, 177.2K engagements "Lecture #7 - My Method for Defeating Procrastination I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This video lecture is the 7th in a series of lectures for first-year college students tentatively titled "How to Do Well in College." This lecture is about how to overcome procrastination. The first point is that procrastination is not a time management problem. Rather it is a problem with regulating ones emotions. As a result of this I" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=i2EEnJedcYU) 2021-07-26T16:48Z 631K followers, 370.8K engagements "The Liar Paradox - an explanation of the paradox from [---] BCE I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. The liar paradox goes back at least to Eubulides the Ancient Greek philosopher and student of Euclid in the 4th century BCE. Thats the year negative [---]. In this lecture video I explain what the liar paradox is and why it just won't go away. I also try to make some jokes about Captain Kirk of Star Trek" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=in4u2i9v4vg) 2023-03-15T15:32Z 631K followers, 1.2M engagements "The Behaviorist Theory of Mind I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Link to video on counterexamples: https://youtu.be/jPdZ42UX41A This is a video lecture about the theory in the philosophy of mind known as 'Behaviorism.' The reading that this lecture is based on was written by David Armstrong who was not himself a behaviorist but he gives an excellent summary of the view. Behaviorism is the theory that being in a mental state" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=k715B-2t-YU) 2020-08-18T00:26Z 631K followers, 97.9K engagements "Functionalism Background lecture on Identity Theory: https://youtu.be/zO0slzSuxpI This is a video lecture about Hilary Putnam's Multiple Realizability argument against the mind-brain identity theory and his argument for the functionalist theory of mind. Functionalism is the theory that being in a mental state just is being a functional state with certain inputs and outputs or causes and effects. This is part of an introductory level philosophy course focusing on the philosophy of mind" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=rd8sITBnijg) 2020-08-28T15:09Z 631K followers, 103.3K engagements "What are Possible Worlds I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a video lecture in a course on the philosophy of language. It explains possible worlds rigid designators and non-rigid designators using some basketball examples involving LeBron James and Mt Everest and some other stuff. Even though the idea of possible worlds goes back to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz this short video is specifically designed to provide the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ry84r_gw8HA) 2024-02-29T18:24Z 631K followers, 68.2K engagements "Gottlob Frege - On Sense and Reference I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. The compositionality of language: https://youtu.be/ZWP6Sv2_8c8 This is a video lecture about Frege's groundbreaking [----] paper 'On Sense and Reference' which is sometimes translated from the original German as 'On Meaning and Nominatum' though those are silly and obscure terms so I don't use them. This is the second lecture in a philosophy of language" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=sDlFaOn71n8) 2023-08-30T17:29Z 631K followers, 463K engagements "Lecture #9: How to Read so that you *Retain* Information I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is the ninth in a series of lectures intended for first-year college students tentatively titled "How to Do Well in College." This lecture however applies to anyone who reads anything. In it I recommend a specific version of marginalia whereby one summarizes information in the margins of texts. This forces the reader to engage" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=uiNB-6SuqVA) 2021-08-17T17:15Z 631K followers, 3.5M engagements "Ren Descartes - Meditation #3 - A Cosmological Proof of God's Existence I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This video lecture is about Rene Descartes' third Meditation on First Philosophy. It is part of an introduction to philosophy course. In this meditation Descartes offers a cosmological proof of the existence of god. The attempted proof starts from the fact that Descartes has the idea of an all perfect being. He argues" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=w4Kj6SuGYLo) 2020-07-03T14:59Z 631K followers, 142.7K engagements "What is Philosophy - First Lecture of the Semester I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. For more philosophy videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_hukbByJP7OZ3Xm2tszacQ This is a video intended for college students considering taking a class in philosophy but who are not sure exactly what philosophy is. This is also a video for parents or other relatives or friends of college students who have decided to major in" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=wwT4N_v0-WQ) 2020-12-09T15:56Z 631K followers, 344.9K engagements "The one true philosophical theory of names I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Video explaining Kripke's Godel-Schmidt Case: https://youtu.be/MncEzRAw3tU Video explaining Searle's Cluster Theory: https://youtu.be/YERizKusm18 This is a video lecture in a course on the philosophy of language. It summarizes Gareth Evans's theory of proper names that he puts forward in a famous [----] paper titled "The Causal Theory of Names."" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ya1PrgkOO98) 2025-06-26T14:51Z 631K followers, 156.2K engagements "Russell's Paradox - a simple explanation of a profound problem I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a video lecture explaining Russell's Paradox. At the very heart of logic and mathematics there is a paradox that has yet to be resolved. It was discovered by the mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell in [----]. In this talk Professor Jeffrey Kaplan teaches you the basics of set theory (a foundational branch of" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ymGt7I4Yn3k) 2022-09-08T15:18Z 631K followers, 9.7M engagements "This philosopher's work explains Twitter Addiction I am writing a book If you to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a video about Twitter and the philosophy of jokes or humor. It deals with the work of Thi Nguyen from the University of Utah Ted Cohen from the University of Chicago and the 3rd Earl Lord of Shaftesbury. It makes the point that jokes and tweets both centrally involve high-context speech and run the risk of context shedding or context" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4g6WPFPImcg) 2022-10-07T16:40Z 631K followers, 24.9K engagements "Hart - Concept of Law - Ch [--] (The Rule of Recognition) This is a lecture video about chapter [--] of HLA Hart's seminal [----] book The Concept of Law. The chapter is titled "The Foundations of a Legal System" and it is mostly concerned with the Rule of Recognition how such a rule halts the regress of legal validity and how it is a social rule that comes to exist because enough officials of a legal system accept it from the internal point of view. This lecture is part of a Philosophy of Law course. I have also made lecture videos about previous chapters of the book (skipping chapter [--] because that" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4qtSYUccppc) 2020-07-22T00:00Z 537K followers, 47.1K engagements "The Utilitarian Theory of Punishment Surprisingly Utilitarianism gets more-or-less intuitive results when it comes to what cases of punishment are morally permissible. But to gets those results in a way that diverges from our ordinary moral intuitions. Technically this is a lecture about chapter [--] ofJeremy Bentham's Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=FuZYa98dGRo) 2020-01-17T20:13Z 537K followers, 52.8K engagements "What is Philosophy I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a video intended for college students considering taking a class in philosophy but who are not sure exactly what philosophy is. This is also a video for parents or other relatives or friends of college students who have decided to major in philosophy but who are not sure exactly what philosophy is" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=JFfIQJsUFL4) 2020-03-10T15:54Z 493K followers, 64.6K engagements "What Philosophers Mean by "Mental" and "Physical" This is just a short video explaining the terms "mental" "physical" as they are used in contemporary academic philosophy of mind. I also give very basic explanations of Dualism and Physicalism. This video functions as a transition within Introduction to Philosophy between the unit where we read all [--] of Descartes' Meditations and the unit where we focus on the mind-body problem" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=P3pmVf3Gs70) 2020-07-13T12:23Z 573K followers, 50.9K engagements "Plessy v Ferguson - The Logical Flaw in this Infamous Supreme Court Case This is a lecture video about the landmark [----] US Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson [---] U.S. [---]. This case enshrined the infamous "Seperate but Equal" doctrine that formed the foundation of segregation in the American South for decades. This lecture explains the details of the case and the central argument made by Justice Brown. I claim that Brown equivocates in the crucial portion of his argument which putatively takes the form of Modus Tollens a form reasoning in deductive logic. This logical flaw of course is" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=RizbRg2zllc) 2020-07-10T17:08Z 536K followers, 32.2K engagements "Moral Skepticism and Moral Objectivism I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a video lecture about chapter [--] of Russ Shafer-Landau's book "Whatever Happened to Good and Evil" The lecture includes discussion some terminoligical points about moral skepticism and moral objectivism but it also includes the three reasons why Shafer-Landau thinks that moral skepticism which he understands to be the denial that there is one" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=_bEZM3xyDtc) 2020-02-27T15:18Z 556K followers, 121K engagements "Two possible arguments against the existence of objective morality (and possible responses) This video lecture builds off of a reading by MacKinnon & Fiala wherein they canvas four arguments or reasons that moral skepticism or relativism are attractive. In the video I only discuss two of these reasons : (1) the existence pervasiveness and persistence of moral disagreement and (2) the diversity of situations in which moral agents find themselves. This is part of an introductory level philosophy course Introduction to Ethics" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=eH2iDbmIM9M) 2020-03-12T19:34Z 556K followers, 50.2K engagements "Korematsu v United States - the U.S. Supreme Court Case legalizing Japanese Internment This lecture video is about a landmark [----] US Supreme Court case upholding the exclusion of Japanese Americans Korematsu v. United States [---] U.S. [---]. First I discuss the majority opinion authored by Justice Black which focuses mainly on whether the court should apply strict scrutiny when assess-sing Exclusion Order #34. Then there are in-depth readings of passages from two of the dissenting opinions authored by Justices Roberts and Murphy. Roberts focuses on the fact that there was another relevant order" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=eUcD_jgl_rQ) 2020-07-15T15:34Z 570K followers, 15.8K engagements "Hedonism The moral theory Utilitarianism is a hedonistic one. That is it holds that the only thing that is good for a person as an end is pleasure. This video lecture discusses Jeremy Bentham's version of Hedonism" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=m3Jwdh_EWU8) 2020-01-17T15:54Z 549K followers, 72.2K engagements "An Explanation of the Normative-Descriptive Distinction (and the varieties of normativity) This is a video lecture about the different between descriptive claims or laws on the one hand and normative claims or laws on the other. I also explain three different varieties of normativity: the moral the prudential and the epistemic. This video was originally produced for use in an introductory level philosophy course Introduction to Ethics. But it is a stand-alone explanation so it can be used in any other context" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1X6R8ze7O0I) 2020-03-16T17:23Z 613K followers, 67.4K engagements "What is Legal Positivism I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a video lecture about legal positivism (the theory in analytical jurisprudence which holds that legal facts depend ultimately on social facts alone) and non-cognitivism (the theory in metaethics which holds that moral judgements are not truth-apt). The work of Joseph Raz and HLA Hart is discussed. This is part of a course on the Philosophy of Law" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ATtqAjOkqwk) 2020-07-17T17:23Z 618K followers, 151.4K engagements "Does Occam's Razor rule out Objective Morality Video about Occam's Razor: https://youtu.be/3BxxKE-NcRo Video about the Normative-Descriptive Distinction: https://youtu.be/1X6R8ze7O0I This is a video lecture on chapter [--] titled "Values in a Scientific World" of Russ Shafer-Landau's book 'Whatever Happened to Good and Evil' The argument that this chapter considers is one that claims that if one follow's Occam's Razor then one ought to reject the reality of objective moral facts or laws. This is an argument for moral skepticism and Shafer-Landau offers several responses to it and in defense of" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=TEh_qCApvGY) 2020-03-18T13:55Z 626K followers, 40.2K engagements "Euthyphro and Socrates" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=UgHCMRmRst4) 2023-01-12T15:01Z 631K followers, 51.5K engagements "What is a Counterexample (and why philosophers use fictional examples) This is a short lecture video explaining one of the most common and most powerful philosophical tools: the counterexample. Counterexamples are examples that are given to disprove a general claim. This video also explains how general claims centrally involving a concept--i.e. those claims about conceptual truths--can be proven false with the use of a fictional or even impossible counterexample" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=jPdZ42UX41A) 2020-08-17T14:41Z 631K followers, 52.1K engagements "John Locke's argument from [----] for Divine Morality -- it's strengths and weaknesses This is a lecture concerning John Locke's Two Treatises of Government Book II Chapter [--] Sections [--] & [--]. Therein Locke presents an argument that we have moral obligations not to kill hurt enslave or steal from others. And the reason that we have those obligations Locke claims is that God created all human beings and therefore owns them. If people are the property of God Locke argues then it is wrong for us to damage his property. But even if this argument succeeds even if it is valid and ultimately sound this" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=jmngmxHhHsY) 2020-02-20T15:50Z 619K followers, 78.4K engagements "Hart - Concept of Law - Ch [--] (Attack on Austin's Theory #2) This is a lecture video on the chapter titled "Sovereign and Subject" of HLA Hart's seminal [----] book The Concept of Law. Back in chapters [--] Hart summarized John Austin's habit-based theory of law. In chapter [--] Hart argued that Austin's theory could not explain power-conferring laws and some other features of sophisticated legal systems. In this chapter Hart attacks the Austinian notion of legal authority. Basically the notion of a habit or pattern of behavior is simply not explanatorily powerful enough to explain the continuity of" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=w5Oa1sxU3is) 2020-07-16T15:59Z 611K followers, 40.8K engagements "An argument against objective morality that defeats itself This is a lecture about chapter [--] of Russ Shafer-Landau's book 'Whatever Happened to Good and Evil' This chapter is about the popular argument that starts from the claim that there is persistent disagreement about moral matters to the conclusion that there are no objective moral facts or laws. Shafer-Landau is able to turn this argument against moral skepticism itself. This is a pretty long video lecture but I spend a lot of time modifying the argument which should be helpful in learning how to deal with arguments themselves. This is" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5rizWDrvOxE) 2020-03-16T15:19Z 629K followers, 57.5K engagements "Pleasure is good as an end" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=HeXPAGMcHgY) 2022-10-21T16:35Z 631K followers, 27.5K engagements "Why do philosophers use *imaginary* examples and counterexamples I am writing a book If you to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This video explains the philosophical concept or tool known as a "counterexample." The central question answered in this video is why it is legitimate when attempting to disprove a philosophical theory to sometimes use a fictional or made-up example" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=LQaNMxNVCJQ) 2022-03-28T15:55Z 631K followers, 17.3K engagements "The Details of Brown v Board of Ed - - US Supreme Court This is a lecture video about Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka [---] U.S. [---] (1954). This famous court case outlawed segregation in public schools on the grounds that it violated the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment. It was a unanimous 9-0 ruling authored by Chief Justice Warren. In the lecture I discuss the relevant of 1860s public schooling to the [----] decision among other things. This is part of a Philosophy of Law course. For an explanation of Plessy v Ferguson the infamous court case the enshrined the doctrine of" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=T3nCIq8QjtU) 2021-01-05T15:03Z 631K followers, 16.7K engagements "Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics - Book I I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a lecture about just a few sections of book [--] of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. The lectures focuses on Aristotle's argument to the conclusion that the good for a human being is exercising the virtues. The argument stems from the claim that happiness or flourishing or eudaemonia is the 'final' and 'self-sufficient' end of human action and" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=s11sEBenlPI) 2020-02-04T16:31Z 629K followers, 230.8K engagements "Hart - Concept of Law - Ch [--] (Summary of John Austin's Theory of Law) I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is the first video lecture in a course on the philosophy of law. In this chapter Hart summarizes John Austin's habit- and sanction-based theory of law. Austin's behaviorist (or very nearly behaviorist) theory of law is presented by the introduction and step-by-step adaptation of a simple gunman scenario. The concepts" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=0F62gA1LGfw) 2020-06-22T13:09Z 630K followers, 159.8K engagements "Bertrand Russell - Theory of Descriptions I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a video lecture in a course on the philosophy of language. In it I summarize Bertrand Russell's [----] paper Descriptions where he explains the seminal transformative and influential theory of definite descriptions which was originally introduced in his [----] paper On Denoting. According to Russell sentences with phrases like "The golden" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=3lNHwUhnGBo) 2026-01-19T14:18Z 631K followers, 77.7K engagements "The most important skill college students should learn I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. It was an incredible honor to be the Convocation speaker at my alma mater Williams College on September 6th [----]. Video courtesy of Williams College Photo in thumbnail courtesy of Roman Iwasiwka In this speech I tell the story of Captain Richard de Crespigny and Qantas Flight [--] and draw from it a lesson about the power of reasons. I" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=BbqR_6Qgplw) 2025-09-16T12:39Z 631K followers, 528.8K engagements "Ronald Dworkin's attack on HLA Hart's Theory of Law I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a video lecture about the criticism or objection (mostly from "Model of Rules I" which appears in Dworkin's book "Taking Rights Seriously") that Ronald Dworkin makes of HLA Hart's version of legal positivism. The video explains Hart's theory of adjudication his concept of the open texture of law and Dworkin's distinction between" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=MfSRaXY4xh8) 2020-08-05T15:51Z 630K followers, 131.9K engagements "Does your RED look the same as my RED Functionalism: https://youtu.be/rd8sITBnijg This is a lecture video about the inverted experience thought experiment as well as about the scientific evidence that some percentage of men are in reality red-green color inverted. This is part of an introductory level philosophy course" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=UuSv1UbNCGs) 2020-09-03T12:44Z 631K followers, 120K engagements "Hart - Concept of Law - Ch [--] (Primary and Secondary Rules) This is a lecture video about chapter [--] of HLA Hart's seminal [----] book The Concept of Law. In this chapter Hart begins to present his own theory of law. He distinguishes primary rules from secondary rules. He enumerates three defects that plague systems of rules composed only of primary rules (uncertainty static-ness and inefficiency). He then explains how thee defects are remedied by secondary rules (the rule of recognition rule of change and rule of adjudication respectively). This is part of a Philosophy of Law course" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Xg_9F2h89TE) 2020-07-20T20:21Z 631K followers, 77.2K engagements "The Compositionality of Language explained I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a short lecture providing one of the foundational and essential concepts needed for a semester-long Philosophy of Language college/university course. The compositionality of language is that feature of language by which the meanings of whole sentences or phrases are composed out of the meanings of parts of those sentences (i.e. words). This" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZWP6Sv2_8c8) 2023-06-29T17:19Z 631K followers, 69.8K engagements "Lecture on Friedrich Nietzsches Genealogy of Morals" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=b3SkUGEssRQ) 2022-10-20T12:33Z 631K followers, 34.3K engagements "Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Why be moral Nietzsche's answer is: don't philosophy ethics introduction to ethics friedrich nietzsche genealogy of morals mode of valuation slave revolt morality philosophy ethics introduction to ethics friedrich nietzsche genealogy of morals mode of valuation slave revolt morality" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=e2F-T0sJfMQ) 2019-10-25T15:55Z 630K followers, 338K engagements "Saul Kripke's Causal Theory of Names I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Part 1: https://youtu.be/MncEzRAw3tU This is a video lecture in a course on the philosophy of language. It summarizes Saul Kripke's brief and suggestive theory of proper names that he offers as part of his famous [----] lectures delivered in January of [----] at Princeton University and then published as a book Naming and Necessity. Kripke presents a causal" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=eSS8-i28oho) 2024-06-18T14:42Z 631K followers, 37.6K engagements "Hilary Putnam's Super-Spartans attack on Behaviorism Video about Behaviorism: https://youtu.be/k715B-2t-YU Video about Counterexamples: https://youtu.be/jPdZ42UX41A This is a video lecture about Hilary Putnam's seminal paper "Brains and Behavior". The Super Spartans example and the x-world (or x-worlders) example are both discussed as are how those examples are meant to present a problem for the logical behaviorist theory of mind. This is part of an introductory level philosophy course Introduction to Philosophy" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=lRI95Vdc5CU) 2020-08-20T12:18Z 631K followers, 55K engagements "Lecture #10: How to Memorize Anything - EFFICIENTLY I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is the tenth lecture in a series of lectures intended for first-year college and university students loosely around the topic of "How to Do Well in College". But the information in this video may be more widely useful. There are two methods that allow people to efficiently memorize things: mnemonic cues and spaced repetition. In this" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=oBUhdwTt7ow) 2021-09-09T14:16Z 631K followers, 1.5M engagements "Keeping a Calendar in College I am writing a book If you to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is the seventh in a series of [--] video lectures tentatively titled "How to do Well in College." The videos are intended for first-year college students. This one is just making the case that one must keep a calendar and really it is a matter of stress reduction. Of course there is also the fact that without a calendar you will miss tons of assignments and not" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=qo8Ok3Me_sE) 2021-07-15T18:00Z 631K followers, 37.2K engagements "John Stuart Mill - one minor mistake I am writing a book If you to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is the first in a series of video lectures built for my college course in the philosophy of language. John Stuart Mill lived in England from [----] to [----]. He was a philosopher and also a Member of Parliament. Much of his philosophical work is in moral and political philosophy. He was the student of Jeremy Bentham and like Bentham an advocate of" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=rxHu9SGYXqM) 2023-06-04T15:15Z 631K followers, 79.3K engagements "Ren Descartes - Meditation #6 - Proof of the Physical World & Distinction Between Mind and Body I am writing a book If you to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a video lecture about the sixth and final Meditation on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes. In it Descartes argues that the physical world outside of his own mind does exist though it may be that he is wrong about some of the specific details of physical reality. He does this by arguing that" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5zkfRY1WJHc) 2020-07-10T00:42Z 631K followers, 75.6K engagements "Secret to College Success #4: Actually Learn This is the fourth in a series of lectures that I am tentatively calling "How to Do Well in College." In this lecture video I explain the purpose of intermediate assignments (which were not graded for me at Oxford and Cambridge) such as homework problem sets quizzes and essays. Their purpose as crazy as this sounds is to try to get students to actually learn the material. Once you realize this and once you study in ways that aim toward actually learning comprehending and understanding the material it makes your college courses much easier. Also I" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=vLgV5BvjpPI) 2021-06-25T17:37Z 631K followers, 63.1K engagements "Lecture #11: Taking Notes Effectively - which words should you write down I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is part of a series of lectures intended for first-year college students on 'How To Do Well in College" or university This one is about how to effectively take notes. [--]. Do not write down everything down world-for-word [--]. Do not even grab exact phrases [--]. Add felsh to the text within [--] hours [--]. Write the notes" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ATmJb3bH2E0) 2021-10-15T12:05Z 631K followers, 880.1K engagements "Semester Ethics Course condensed into 22mins (Part [--] of 2) I am writing a book If you to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Video explaining counterexamples: https://youtu.be/LQaNMxNVCJQ This is a philosophy video lecture that compresses a course that normally takes [--] weeks into just one video. Or really it only manages to condense half of that course into [--] minutes. What is the morally right thing to do Is there some moral law that applies to everyone or" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=DLCUn6h7qRo) 2022-06-09T16:25Z 631K followers, 334.1K engagements "Naming and Necessity by Saul Kripke - Part [--] I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Background lecture on Possible Worlds and Rigid Designators: https://youtu.be/ry84r_gw8HA Part [--] of this lecture: https://youtu.be/eSS8-i28oho This is a video lecture in a course on the philosophy of language. It summarizes Saul Kripke's famous [----] attack on the Descriptivist Cluster Theory of Proper Names of John Searle. This is just the first" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=MncEzRAw3tU) 2024-05-09T18:56Z 631K followers, 120.6K engagements ""Proper Names" by John Searle I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a video lecture in a course on the philosophy of language. It explains John R Searle's seminal and groundbreaking [----] paper "Proper Names". Searle discusses and ultimately rejects both Frege's and Mill's theories of proper names. But Searle does think that associated with every name there is something like Frege's sense except Searle thinks that it is" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=YERizKusm18) 2023-11-30T15:50Z 631K followers, 131.7K engagements "Rules for Interacting with College Professors - Office Hours Email Letters of Recommendation This is part of a series of lectures intended for first-year college students on 'How To Do Well in College" or university This video covers Rules and Norms for Interacting with college professors. Topics include: Office Hours Email Etiquette Letters of Recommendation How to Dress What Questions to Ask" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=hl_EldPa2NM) 2022-03-09T22:36Z 631K followers, 93.1K engagements "Princess Elisabeth's attack on Descartes' Dualist Theory of Mind (from 1643) This is a video lecture about The Problem of Mental Causation. This is a problem that is at the heart of all of philosophy of mind for the last several hundred years. It was presented by Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia in a letter to Rene Descartes in the spring of [----]. Put very briefly Princess Elisabeth's point is simply that the mind which Descartes understands as wholly non-physical/immaterial cannot move the material body because in order for something to move a physical object the mover must itself be an" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=kJIZzmUpfmk) 2020-07-13T18:29Z 631K followers, 89.6K engagements "How to Read a College Syllabus - And Strategize for How to Best Approach the Course I am writing a book If you to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is the 6th video in a series of [--] videos on How to Do Well in College. This video walks through one of my own syllabi and explains how to tailor one's strategy for taking a college course to the various policies in the video. It is also important to understand which parts of the syllabus can be skipped and" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=mQ_Xmc_Urxw) 2021-07-06T12:19Z 631K followers, 60K engagements "Guide for Writing a Philosophy Paper I am writing a book If you to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Other videos you might want to watch: What is a Counterexample: https://youtu.be/jPdZ42UX41A How to Read Philosophy: https://youtu.be/XlcrKfaJBRM What is Philosophy: https://youtu.be/wwT4N_v0-WQ Arguments vs Conclusions: https://youtu.be/GAYn5v5E20s If you are taking a college-level philosophy course and you have to write a paper or an essay then this video" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=nKdl_VmKNmk) 2020-11-17T12:59Z 631K followers, 92.5K engagements "The famous Chinese Room thought experiment - John Searle (1980) I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Dualism: https://youtu.be/P3pmVf3Gs70 Behaviorism: https://youtu.be/k715B-2t-YU Identity Theory: https://youtu.be/zO0slzSuxpI Functionalism: https://youtu.be/rd8sITBnijg This is a video lecture about "Can Computers Think" by John Searle. In this paper Searle argues again a form of functionalism which he calls "Strong AI". The" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=tBE06SdgzwM) 2020-09-01T12:39Z 631K followers, 506.8K engagements "Bernard Williams' Attack on Moral Relativism I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a lecture explaining a brief section called "Interlude: Relativism" in his book "Morality: An Introduction to Ethics." The basic idea that Williams has is that there is a tension between moral relativism and some kind of universal toleration principle. These two views which Williams believes contradict one another however are often held" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=2uBbmuvW-Kc) 2020-02-19T19:42Z 631K followers, 134.5K engagements "Occam's Razor - rational principles explained This is a video explaining Occams's Razor which is a normative rational pattern of thought. It also explains how this principle differs from Inference to the Best Explanation and some other similar principles. There is also an explanation of an individual's ontology. To illustrate all of this several examples are used involving the germ theory of disease and plate tectonics. This video was originally developed for use in an introductory level philosophy course Introduction to Ethics but it can be used for any philosophy course" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=3BxxKE-NcRo) 2020-03-17T14:01Z 631K followers, 341.1K engagements "Ren Descartes - Meditation #1 - The Method of Doubt I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a lecture about the first of Descartes' six Meditations on First Philosophy. It is part an introduction to philosophy course. In this meditation Descartes explains his plan for all six meditations then explains how his method of doubt will allow him to temporarily cease to believe all the things that he cannot know for certain and" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=3GaE0GmZ2OQ) 2020-06-25T12:34Z 631K followers, 330.2K engagements "How much of the reading do you have to do in college courses I am writing a book If you to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is another lecture that is part of a series on 'How to Do Well in College.' This series is intended for first-year college students. In this lecture I go through four types of courses (Philosophy History Science and Social Science with textbooks and Science and Social Science with articles) just as an illustration of how different" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=BykXwKFlUDg) 2021-08-06T15:12Z 631K followers, 73.8K engagements "How Aristotle Thought about the World I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a short lecture comparing the Aristotelian and Modern world-views. It is part of a larger introduction to ethics course but it can be viewed and understood independently" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Lj-Bxx-T0GM) 2020-01-30T21:31Z 631K followers, 162.9K engagements "To Do Well In College: Don't Work Hard Work Efficiently This is the third in a series of lectures that I am tentatively calling "How to Do Well in College." This video introduces the central thesis of all of the upcoming videos that present tactics for college success--for getting good grades in undergraduate college courses. That central theme is: do not work hard work efficiently. I give several examples of the kind of efficiency that I am talking about. And I tell a story about a bodybuilder" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=UY17uW7Kmqc) 2021-06-15T18:58Z 631K followers, 207.4K engagements "Immanuel Kant's Moral Theory - a summary with examples I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a lecture about version of the Kantian Categorical Imperative called "The Formula of the End in Itself." The lecture is based on a presentation of Kant's moral theory given by Onora O'Neill. The lecture concludes with a comparison between Kant's duty-based or deontological moral theory (sometimes called simply "Deontology") on" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=V-j1uKrN-aU) 2020-01-24T15:46Z 631K followers, 582.8K engagements "David Hume's Argument Against Moral Realism I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a lecture video about a short selection from book [--] of David Hume's famous work of philosophy A Treatise of Human Nature (173940). Hume was an empiricist. The lecture of basically a presentation of his argument from empiricism to the conclusion that there are no genuine objective moral facts residing in actions themselves (rather there are" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=V9_VN1ayQ5Y) 2020-02-17T20:55Z 631K followers, 193.4K engagements "What is it Like to be a Bat - the hard problem of consciousness I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Dualism & Physicalism: https://youtu.be/P3pmVf3Gs70 This is a video about Thomas Nagel's famous [----] Philosophical Review paper "What is the like to be a bat" The paper introduces a novel argument against physicalism. The basic idea is that consciousness embodies (or can only be understood) from a subjective point of view. But" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=aaZbCctlll4) 2020-09-04T14:20Z 631K followers, 610K engagements "A.J. Ayer's Emotivist Theory of Moral Language I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a lecture about a specific version of Expressivism or Non-consequentialism about moral discourse or moral talk. The version is Emotivism which was advocated most prominently by A.J. Ayer in his book Language Truth and Logic. This lecture comes from an introductory-level philosophy course Introduction to Ethics. This part of the course" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=g3f-Lfm8KNg) 2020-02-17T14:13Z 631K followers, 128.7K engagements "Gilbert Ryle attacks Descartes' Dualism as a 'Category Mistake' I am writing a book If you to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a lecture video about a selection from Gilbert Ryle objecting to what he calls "the Official Doctrine" which is the dualist theory of mind espoused by Rene Descartes and many other philosophers following him. Ryle claims that dualists are making a 'category mistake'. He explains the idea of a category mistake with a famous" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=gA-2Gc3PztI) 2020-07-14T17:52Z 631K followers, 99.7K engagements "Ren Descartes - Meditation #4 - The Problem of Error I am writing a book If you to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a lecture video about the fourth Meditation on First Philosophy by the French 17th century philosopher Rene Descartes. This meditation focuses on the problem of error which is analogous to the better-known problem of evil. The problem is that in meditation #3 Descartes takes himself to have proven that God exists. But if God is" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=lmkKgD76QCU) 2020-07-08T13:37Z 631K followers, 73.8K engagements "The Mind-Brain Identity Theory I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Here is some background material. Dualism & Physicalism: https://youtu.be/P3pmVf3Gs70 Princess Elisabeth's attack on Dualism: https://youtu.be/kJIZzmUpfmk Behaviorism: https://youtu.be/k715B-2t-YU Putnam's attack on Behaviorism: https://youtu.be/lRI95Vdc5CU This is a video lecture about a the [----] paper "Is Consciousness a Brain Process" by U.T. Place. This" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=zO0slzSuxpI) 2020-08-21T17:44Z 631K followers, 114.6K engagements "Bertrand Russell - Theory of Descriptions I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a video lecture in a course on the philosophy of language. In it I summarize Bertrand Russell's [----] paper Descriptions where he explains the seminal transformative and influential theory of definite descriptions which was originally introduced in his [----] paper On Denoting. According to Russell sentences with phrases like "The golden" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=3lNHwUhnGBo) 2026-01-19T14:18Z 631K followers, 77.7K engagements "The most important skill college students should learn I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. It was an incredible honor to be the Convocation speaker at my alma mater Williams College on September 6th [----]. Video courtesy of Williams College Photo in thumbnail courtesy of Roman Iwasiwka In this speech I tell the story of Captain Richard de Crespigny and Qantas Flight [--] and draw from it a lesson about the power of reasons. I" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=BbqR_6Qgplw) 2025-09-16T12:39Z 631K followers, 528.8K engagements "The one true philosophical theory of names I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Video explaining Kripke's Godel-Schmidt Case: https://youtu.be/MncEzRAw3tU Video explaining Searle's Cluster Theory: https://youtu.be/YERizKusm18 This is a video lecture in a course on the philosophy of language. It summarizes Gareth Evans's theory of proper names that he puts forward in a famous [----] paper titled "The Causal Theory of Names."" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ya1PrgkOO98) 2025-06-26T14:51Z 631K followers, 156.2K engagements "Advertising doesn't work the way you think it does I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Kevin Simlers website: https://meltingasphalt.com/ This is a video lecture in which I argue that association ads are best explained by what I call the social connotation theory rather than the emotional inception theory. The emotional inception theory holds that modern advertisements do not try to rationally or logically persuade us to buy" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=GFYasDoJ-98) 2024-12-03T15:47Z 631K followers, 242.4K engagements "Saul Kripke's Causal Theory of Names I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Part 1: https://youtu.be/MncEzRAw3tU This is a video lecture in a course on the philosophy of language. It summarizes Saul Kripke's brief and suggestive theory of proper names that he offers as part of his famous [----] lectures delivered in January of [----] at Princeton University and then published as a book Naming and Necessity. Kripke presents a causal" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=eSS8-i28oho) 2024-06-18T14:42Z 631K followers, 37.6K engagements "Naming and Necessity by Saul Kripke - Part [--] I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Background lecture on Possible Worlds and Rigid Designators: https://youtu.be/ry84r_gw8HA Part [--] of this lecture: https://youtu.be/eSS8-i28oho This is a video lecture in a course on the philosophy of language. It summarizes Saul Kripke's famous [----] attack on the Descriptivist Cluster Theory of Proper Names of John Searle. This is just the first" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=MncEzRAw3tU) 2024-05-09T18:56Z 631K followers, 120.6K engagements "What are Possible Worlds I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a video lecture in a course on the philosophy of language. It explains possible worlds rigid designators and non-rigid designators using some basketball examples involving LeBron James and Mt Everest and some other stuff. Even though the idea of possible worlds goes back to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz this short video is specifically designed to provide the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ry84r_gw8HA) 2024-02-29T18:24Z 631K followers, 68.2K engagements ""Proper Names" by John Searle I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a video lecture in a course on the philosophy of language. It explains John R Searle's seminal and groundbreaking [----] paper "Proper Names". Searle discusses and ultimately rejects both Frege's and Mill's theories of proper names. But Searle does think that associated with every name there is something like Frege's sense except Searle thinks that it is" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=YERizKusm18) 2023-11-30T15:50Z 631K followers, 131.7K engagements "Gottlob Frege - On Sense and Reference I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. The compositionality of language: https://youtu.be/ZWP6Sv2_8c8 This is a video lecture about Frege's groundbreaking [----] paper 'On Sense and Reference' which is sometimes translated from the original German as 'On Meaning and Nominatum' though those are silly and obscure terms so I don't use them. This is the second lecture in a philosophy of language" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=sDlFaOn71n8) 2023-08-30T17:29Z 631K followers, 463K engagements "The Compositionality of Language explained I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a short lecture providing one of the foundational and essential concepts needed for a semester-long Philosophy of Language college/university course. The compositionality of language is that feature of language by which the meanings of whole sentences or phrases are composed out of the meanings of parts of those sentences (i.e. words). This" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZWP6Sv2_8c8) 2023-06-29T17:19Z 631K followers, 69.8K engagements "John Stuart Mill - one minor mistake I am writing a book If you to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is the first in a series of video lectures built for my college course in the philosophy of language. John Stuart Mill lived in England from [----] to [----]. He was a philosopher and also a Member of Parliament. Much of his philosophical work is in moral and political philosophy. He was the student of Jeremy Bentham and like Bentham an advocate of" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=rxHu9SGYXqM) 2023-06-04T15:15Z 631K followers, 79.3K engagements "Legal Positivism - the dominant theory in jurisprudence I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Austin's theory of law: https://youtu.be/0F62gA1LGfw Hart's theory of law: https://youtu.be/Xg_9F2h89TE and https://youtu.be/4qtSYUccppc This is a video lecture that explains the central theory for the last two centuries in the philosophy of law: legal positivism. I created this additional lecture because I found that the standard" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=hWsw2Wai9BI) 2023-05-04T15:19Z 631K followers, 177.2K engagements "The Liar Paradox - an explanation of the paradox from [---] BCE I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. The liar paradox goes back at least to Eubulides the Ancient Greek philosopher and student of Euclid in the 4th century BCE. Thats the year negative [---]. In this lecture video I explain what the liar paradox is and why it just won't go away. I also try to make some jokes about Captain Kirk of Star Trek" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=in4u2i9v4vg) 2023-03-15T15:32Z 631K followers, 1.2M engagements "Euthyphro and Socrates" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=UgHCMRmRst4) 2023-01-12T15:01Z 631K followers, 51.5K engagements "Recommending Descartes Meditations" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=FjwQIHkBLF0) 2023-01-06T21:24Z 631K followers, 49.6K engagements "The first [--] philosophy texts you should read I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Descartes Proof of Gods Existence in Meditation #3: https://youtu.be/w4Kj6SuGYLo What is a Counterexample: https://youtu.be/jPdZ42UX41A I am Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and here is a list of the seven philosophical pieces of writing that I think someone first getting into philosophy should" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5_0Jg1VZxis) 2022-12-14T15:14Z 631K followers, 405.6K engagements "Pleasure is good as an end" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=HeXPAGMcHgY) 2022-10-21T16:35Z 631K followers, 27.5K engagements "Lecture on Friedrich Nietzsches Genealogy of Morals" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=b3SkUGEssRQ) 2022-10-20T12:33Z 631K followers, 34.3K engagements "This philosopher's work explains Twitter Addiction I am writing a book If you to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a video about Twitter and the philosophy of jokes or humor. It deals with the work of Thi Nguyen from the University of Utah Ted Cohen from the University of Chicago and the 3rd Earl Lord of Shaftesbury. It makes the point that jokes and tweets both centrally involve high-context speech and run the risk of context shedding or context" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4g6WPFPImcg) 2022-10-07T16:40Z 631K followers, 24.9K engagements "Russell's Paradox - a simple explanation of a profound problem I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a video lecture explaining Russell's Paradox. At the very heart of logic and mathematics there is a paradox that has yet to be resolved. It was discovered by the mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell in [----]. In this talk Professor Jeffrey Kaplan teaches you the basics of set theory (a foundational branch of" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ymGt7I4Yn3k) 2022-09-08T15:18Z 631K followers, 9.7M engagements "Semester Ethics Course condensed (Part [--] of 2) I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Extended lecture of Plato's dialogue Euthyphro: https://youtu.be/oltsfcVWe3A This is the second half of an attempt to compresses an ethics course that normally takes [--] weeks into just two videos. What is the morally right thing to do Is there some moral law that applies to everyone or is morality relative in some way And whats so good about" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=dpmD6NuM_r0) 2022-07-14T19:06Z 631K followers, 106.9K engagements "Semester Ethics Course condensed into 22mins (Part [--] of 2) I am writing a book If you to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Video explaining counterexamples: https://youtu.be/LQaNMxNVCJQ This is a philosophy video lecture that compresses a course that normally takes [--] weeks into just one video. Or really it only manages to condense half of that course into [--] minutes. What is the morally right thing to do Is there some moral law that applies to everyone or" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=DLCUn6h7qRo) 2022-06-09T16:25Z 631K followers, 334.1K engagements "Why do philosophers use *imaginary* examples and counterexamples I am writing a book If you to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This video explains the philosophical concept or tool known as a "counterexample." The central question answered in this video is why it is legitimate when attempting to disprove a philosophical theory to sometimes use a fictional or made-up example" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=LQaNMxNVCJQ) 2022-03-28T15:55Z 631K followers, 17.3K engagements "Rules for Interacting with College Professors - Office Hours Email Letters of Recommendation This is part of a series of lectures intended for first-year college students on 'How To Do Well in College" or university This video covers Rules and Norms for Interacting with college professors. Topics include: Office Hours Email Etiquette Letters of Recommendation How to Dress What Questions to Ask" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=hl_EldPa2NM) 2022-03-09T22:36Z 631K followers, 93.1K engagements "Lecture #11: Taking Notes Effectively - which words should you write down I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is part of a series of lectures intended for first-year college students on 'How To Do Well in College" or university This one is about how to effectively take notes. [--]. Do not write down everything down world-for-word [--]. Do not even grab exact phrases [--]. Add felsh to the text within [--] hours [--]. Write the notes" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ATmJb3bH2E0) 2021-10-15T12:05Z 631K followers, 880.1K engagements "Lecture #10: How to Memorize Anything - EFFICIENTLY I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is the tenth lecture in a series of lectures intended for first-year college and university students loosely around the topic of "How to Do Well in College". But the information in this video may be more widely useful. There are two methods that allow people to efficiently memorize things: mnemonic cues and spaced repetition. In this" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=oBUhdwTt7ow) 2021-09-09T14:16Z 631K followers, 1.5M engagements "Lecture #9: How to Read so that you *Retain* Information I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is the ninth in a series of lectures intended for first-year college students tentatively titled "How to Do Well in College." This lecture however applies to anyone who reads anything. In it I recommend a specific version of marginalia whereby one summarizes information in the margins of texts. This forces the reader to engage" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=uiNB-6SuqVA) 2021-08-17T17:15Z 631K followers, 3.5M engagements "How much of the reading do you have to do in college courses I am writing a book If you to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is another lecture that is part of a series on 'How to Do Well in College.' This series is intended for first-year college students. In this lecture I go through four types of courses (Philosophy History Science and Social Science with textbooks and Science and Social Science with articles) just as an illustration of how different" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=BykXwKFlUDg) 2021-08-06T15:12Z 631K followers, 73.8K engagements "Lecture #7 - My Method for Defeating Procrastination I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This video lecture is the 7th in a series of lectures for first-year college students tentatively titled "How to Do Well in College." This lecture is about how to overcome procrastination. The first point is that procrastination is not a time management problem. Rather it is a problem with regulating ones emotions. As a result of this I" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=i2EEnJedcYU) 2021-07-26T16:48Z 631K followers, 370.8K engagements "Keeping a Calendar in College I am writing a book If you to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is the seventh in a series of [--] video lectures tentatively titled "How to do Well in College." The videos are intended for first-year college students. This one is just making the case that one must keep a calendar and really it is a matter of stress reduction. Of course there is also the fact that without a calendar you will miss tons of assignments and not" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=qo8Ok3Me_sE) 2021-07-15T18:00Z 631K followers, 37.2K engagements "How to Read a College Syllabus - And Strategize for How to Best Approach the Course I am writing a book If you to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is the 6th video in a series of [--] videos on How to Do Well in College. This video walks through one of my own syllabi and explains how to tailor one's strategy for taking a college course to the various policies in the video. It is also important to understand which parts of the syllabus can be skipped and" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=mQ_Xmc_Urxw) 2021-07-06T12:19Z 631K followers, 60K engagements "Secret to College Success #4: Actually Learn This is the fourth in a series of lectures that I am tentatively calling "How to Do Well in College." In this lecture video I explain the purpose of intermediate assignments (which were not graded for me at Oxford and Cambridge) such as homework problem sets quizzes and essays. Their purpose as crazy as this sounds is to try to get students to actually learn the material. Once you realize this and once you study in ways that aim toward actually learning comprehending and understanding the material it makes your college courses much easier. Also I" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=vLgV5BvjpPI) 2021-06-25T17:37Z 631K followers, 63.1K engagements "How to Make College Courses Easy and How *Not* to Practice "Self-Care" This is the fourth in a series of videos intended for first-year college students tentatively titled "How to Do Well in College." This video explains that the common question "Is this course easy or hard" is misplaced. Really what determines whether a college course is hard or easy is not so much the course itself but rather *how* one goes about taking that course. I talk through several examples to illustrate this. And then I go on a little rant about the phrase "Self-Care" and how it can mislead students. Giving oneself" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=fvvX8LgNJJs) 2021-06-22T15:22Z 631K followers, 77.8K engagements "To Do Well In College: Don't Work Hard Work Efficiently This is the third in a series of lectures that I am tentatively calling "How to Do Well in College." This video introduces the central thesis of all of the upcoming videos that present tactics for college success--for getting good grades in undergraduate college courses. That central theme is: do not work hard work efficiently. I give several examples of the kind of efficiency that I am talking about. And I tell a story about a bodybuilder" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=UY17uW7Kmqc) 2021-06-15T18:58Z 631K followers, 207.4K engagements "Student Loans are Great But Only if Used Correctly This is the first lecture in a series of lectures that I am tentatively calling "How to Do Well in College." This first lecture focuses on how student loans work and how they constitute a smart risk wherein students are betting on themselves. The result is that it is incredibly important to study and graduate from college. In order to explain this I have to explain some things about my own family and my great-grandfather and also the nature of the home mortgage loan. Here are three good articles about the income boost that comes from a" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=dcjxdcPHwoM) 2021-06-04T14:36Z 631K followers, 107.8K engagements "The Details of Brown v Board of Ed - - US Supreme Court This is a lecture video about Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka [---] U.S. [---] (1954). This famous court case outlawed segregation in public schools on the grounds that it violated the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment. It was a unanimous 9-0 ruling authored by Chief Justice Warren. In the lecture I discuss the relevant of 1860s public schooling to the [----] decision among other things. This is part of a Philosophy of Law course. For an explanation of Plessy v Ferguson the infamous court case the enshrined the doctrine of" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=T3nCIq8QjtU) 2021-01-05T15:03Z 631K followers, 16.7K engagements "What is Philosophy - First Lecture of the Semester I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. For more philosophy videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_hukbByJP7OZ3Xm2tszacQ This is a video intended for college students considering taking a class in philosophy but who are not sure exactly what philosophy is. This is also a video for parents or other relatives or friends of college students who have decided to major in" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=wwT4N_v0-WQ) 2020-12-09T15:56Z 631K followers, 344.9K engagements "Guide for Writing a Philosophy Paper I am writing a book If you to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Other videos you might want to watch: What is a Counterexample: https://youtu.be/jPdZ42UX41A How to Read Philosophy: https://youtu.be/XlcrKfaJBRM What is Philosophy: https://youtu.be/wwT4N_v0-WQ Arguments vs Conclusions: https://youtu.be/GAYn5v5E20s If you are taking a college-level philosophy course and you have to write a paper or an essay then this video" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=nKdl_VmKNmk) 2020-11-17T12:59Z 631K followers, 92.5K engagements "How to Read Philosophy I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. How to Write Philosophy: https://youtu.be/nKdl_VmKNmk What is Philosophy: https://youtu.be/wwT4N_v0-WQ This is a quick video lecture that provides six tips or pieces of advice for how to understand the papers or books or texts assigned in a college philosophy course. Some illustrations involve Rene Descartes Barbara MacKinnon Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia and Tommie" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=XlcrKfaJBRM) 2020-11-13T15:06Z 631K followers, 226.9K engagements "The Zombie Argument (from David Chalmers) I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Physicalism & Dualism: https://youtu.be/P3pmVf3Gs70 Nagel's 'What is it like to be a bat': https://youtu.be/aaZbCctlll4 This is a lecture video about a short article by Amy Kind wherein she explains David Chalmers' famous Zombie argument against physicalism. A "zombie" is a philosophical term for a creature that is micro-physically identical to a" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=VLzmYjviDsk) 2020-09-10T13:58Z 631K followers, 122K engagements "The Hard Problem of Consciousness I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Nagel 'What is it Like to be a Bat': https://youtu.be/aaZbCctlll4 Jackson's Mary's Room & Epiphenomenalism: https://youtu.be/QhTRbXpfKw8 This is a lecture video about "The Puzzle of Conscious Experience" by David Chalmers. In this [----] article from Scientific American Chalmers distinguishes the easy problems of consciousness from what he calls the hard" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7KWFhW0klf4) 2020-09-09T15:23Z 631K followers, 148.3K engagements "Frank Jackson's famous 'Mary's Room' Thought Experiment I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Nagel's 'What is the like to be a bat': https://youtu.be/aaZbCctlll4 Princess Elisabeth's attack on Descartes: https://youtu.be/kJIZzmUpfmk This is a video lecture about Frank Jackson's Mary's Room thought experiment which is designed as an argument against physicalism. Mary is a vision scientist who spends her whole life in a" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=QhTRbXpfKw8) 2020-09-04T17:48Z 631K followers, 295K engagements "What is it Like to be a Bat - the hard problem of consciousness I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Dualism & Physicalism: https://youtu.be/P3pmVf3Gs70 This is a video about Thomas Nagel's famous [----] Philosophical Review paper "What is the like to be a bat" The paper introduces a novel argument against physicalism. The basic idea is that consciousness embodies (or can only be understood) from a subjective point of view. But" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=aaZbCctlll4) 2020-09-04T14:20Z 631K followers, 610K engagements "Does your RED look the same as my RED Functionalism: https://youtu.be/rd8sITBnijg This is a lecture video about the inverted experience thought experiment as well as about the scientific evidence that some percentage of men are in reality red-green color inverted. This is part of an introductory level philosophy course" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=UuSv1UbNCGs) 2020-09-03T12:44Z 631K followers, 120K engagements "The famous Chinese Room thought experiment - John Searle (1980) I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Dualism: https://youtu.be/P3pmVf3Gs70 Behaviorism: https://youtu.be/k715B-2t-YU Identity Theory: https://youtu.be/zO0slzSuxpI Functionalism: https://youtu.be/rd8sITBnijg This is a video lecture about "Can Computers Think" by John Searle. In this paper Searle argues again a form of functionalism which he calls "Strong AI". The" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=tBE06SdgzwM) 2020-09-01T12:39Z 631K followers, 506.8K engagements "Functionalism Background lecture on Identity Theory: https://youtu.be/zO0slzSuxpI This is a video lecture about Hilary Putnam's Multiple Realizability argument against the mind-brain identity theory and his argument for the functionalist theory of mind. Functionalism is the theory that being in a mental state just is being a functional state with certain inputs and outputs or causes and effects. This is part of an introductory level philosophy course focusing on the philosophy of mind" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=rd8sITBnijg) 2020-08-28T15:09Z 631K followers, 103.3K engagements "The Mind-Brain Identity Theory I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Here is some background material. Dualism & Physicalism: https://youtu.be/P3pmVf3Gs70 Princess Elisabeth's attack on Dualism: https://youtu.be/kJIZzmUpfmk Behaviorism: https://youtu.be/k715B-2t-YU Putnam's attack on Behaviorism: https://youtu.be/lRI95Vdc5CU This is a video lecture about a the [----] paper "Is Consciousness a Brain Process" by U.T. Place. This" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=zO0slzSuxpI) 2020-08-21T17:44Z 631K followers, 114.6K engagements "Hilary Putnam's Super-Spartans attack on Behaviorism Video about Behaviorism: https://youtu.be/k715B-2t-YU Video about Counterexamples: https://youtu.be/jPdZ42UX41A This is a video lecture about Hilary Putnam's seminal paper "Brains and Behavior". The Super Spartans example and the x-world (or x-worlders) example are both discussed as are how those examples are meant to present a problem for the logical behaviorist theory of mind. This is part of an introductory level philosophy course Introduction to Philosophy" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=lRI95Vdc5CU) 2020-08-20T12:18Z 631K followers, 55K engagements "The Behaviorist Theory of Mind I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Link to video on counterexamples: https://youtu.be/jPdZ42UX41A This is a video lecture about the theory in the philosophy of mind known as 'Behaviorism.' The reading that this lecture is based on was written by David Armstrong who was not himself a behaviorist but he gives an excellent summary of the view. Behaviorism is the theory that being in a mental state" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=k715B-2t-YU) 2020-08-18T00:26Z 631K followers, 97.9K engagements "What is a Counterexample (and why philosophers use fictional examples) This is a short lecture video explaining one of the most common and most powerful philosophical tools: the counterexample. Counterexamples are examples that are given to disprove a general claim. This video also explains how general claims centrally involving a concept--i.e. those claims about conceptual truths--can be proven false with the use of a fictional or even impossible counterexample" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=jPdZ42UX41A) 2020-08-17T14:41Z 631K followers, 52.1K engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
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"The Hard Problem of Consciousness I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Nagel 'What is it Like to be a Bat': https://youtu.be/aaZbCctlll4 Jackson's Mary's Room & Epiphenomenalism: https://youtu.be/QhTRbXpfKw8 This is a lecture video about "The Puzzle of Conscious Experience" by David Chalmers. In this [----] article from Scientific American Chalmers distinguishes the easy problems of consciousness from what he calls the hard"
YouTube Link 2020-09-09T15:23Z 631K followers, 148.3K engagements
"Advertising doesn't work the way you think it does I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Kevin Simlers website: https://meltingasphalt.com/ This is a video lecture in which I argue that association ads are best explained by what I call the social connotation theory rather than the emotional inception theory. The emotional inception theory holds that modern advertisements do not try to rationally or logically persuade us to buy"
YouTube Link 2024-12-03T15:47Z 631K followers, 242.4K engagements
"Plato's Euthyphro - Which comes first: God or Morality I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This lecture explains the central argument that Plato is making in the voice of Socrates in the dialogue Euthyphro. The central question of the dialogue is: what is virtue The word 'virtue' is used synonymously with the word 'piety'. We can also understand the central argument as applying to what today we would call ethics or morality."
YouTube Link 2020-02-25T17:38Z 631K followers, 1.2M engagements
"The first [--] philosophy texts you should read I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Descartes Proof of Gods Existence in Meditation #3: https://youtu.be/w4Kj6SuGYLo What is a Counterexample: https://youtu.be/jPdZ42UX41A I am Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and here is a list of the seven philosophical pieces of writing that I think someone first getting into philosophy should"
YouTube Link 2022-12-14T15:14Z 631K followers, 405.6K engagements
"Recommending Descartes Meditations"
YouTube Link 2023-01-06T21:24Z 631K followers, 49.6K engagements
"Ren Descartes - Meditation #5 - The Ontological Proof of God's Existence I am writing a book If you to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a lecture video about the fifth Meditation on First Philosophy published in [----] by Rene Descartes. In this meditation Descartes offers his own version of the Ontological Argument for the Existence of God. The argument is explained by comparing it to a similar argument that we can construct involving triangles. I"
YouTube Link 2020-07-08T15:32Z 631K followers, 63.7K engagements
"Peter Singer - ordinary people are evil Sorry I had to disable comments on this particular video because quite a few of them were inappropriate even threatening. The views expressed in this video are those of Peter Singer and not my own. This is a summary of his most famous and controversial philosophy paper originally published in [----]. (The comments sections on my lecture videos are usually fun informative and helpful places. I am glad that they are there. Unfortunately in this case the number of genuinely threatening and abusive comments was just too high. Trust me I am just as bummed"
YouTube Link 2020-01-23T16:30Z 631K followers, 5M engagements
"Frank Jackson's famous 'Mary's Room' Thought Experiment I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Nagel's 'What is the like to be a bat': https://youtu.be/aaZbCctlll4 Princess Elisabeth's attack on Descartes: https://youtu.be/kJIZzmUpfmk This is a video lecture about Frank Jackson's Mary's Room thought experiment which is designed as an argument against physicalism. Mary is a vision scientist who spends her whole life in a"
YouTube Link 2020-09-04T17:48Z 631K followers, 295K engagements
"The Zombie Argument (from David Chalmers) I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Physicalism & Dualism: https://youtu.be/P3pmVf3Gs70 Nagel's 'What is it like to be a bat': https://youtu.be/aaZbCctlll4 This is a lecture video about a short article by Amy Kind wherein she explains David Chalmers' famous Zombie argument against physicalism. A "zombie" is a philosophical term for a creature that is micro-physically identical to a"
YouTube Link 2020-09-10T13:58Z 631K followers, 122K engagements
"How to Read Philosophy I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. How to Write Philosophy: https://youtu.be/nKdl_VmKNmk What is Philosophy: https://youtu.be/wwT4N_v0-WQ This is a quick video lecture that provides six tips or pieces of advice for how to understand the papers or books or texts assigned in a college philosophy course. Some illustrations involve Rene Descartes Barbara MacKinnon Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia and Tommie"
YouTube Link 2020-11-13T15:06Z 631K followers, 226.9K engagements
"Ren Descartes - Meditation #2 - I think therefore I am I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a lecture video from Introduction to Philosophy. The lecture is about the second of Rene Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy originally published in Latin in [----]. In this medition Descartes finds the first thing that he thinks he can know for certain: that he exists. The famous phrase "Cogito Ergo Sum" or "I think"
YouTube Link 2020-06-29T14:55Z 631K followers, 140.7K engagements
"Student Loans are Great But Only if Used Correctly This is the first lecture in a series of lectures that I am tentatively calling "How to Do Well in College." This first lecture focuses on how student loans work and how they constitute a smart risk wherein students are betting on themselves. The result is that it is incredibly important to study and graduate from college. In order to explain this I have to explain some things about my own family and my great-grandfather and also the nature of the home mortgage loan. Here are three good articles about the income boost that comes from a"
YouTube Link 2021-06-04T14:36Z 631K followers, 107.8K engagements
"Semester Ethics Course condensed (Part [--] of 2) I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Extended lecture of Plato's dialogue Euthyphro: https://youtu.be/oltsfcVWe3A This is the second half of an attempt to compresses an ethics course that normally takes [--] weeks into just two videos. What is the morally right thing to do Is there some moral law that applies to everyone or is morality relative in some way And whats so good about"
YouTube Link 2022-07-14T19:06Z 631K followers, 106.9K engagements
"How to Make College Courses Easy and How Not to Practice "Self-Care" This is the fourth in a series of videos intended for first-year college students tentatively titled "How to Do Well in College." This video explains that the common question "Is this course easy or hard" is misplaced. Really what determines whether a college course is hard or easy is not so much the course itself but rather how one goes about taking that course. I talk through several examples to illustrate this. And then I go on a little rant about the phrase "Self-Care" and how it can mislead students. Giving oneself"
YouTube Link 2021-06-22T15:22Z 631K followers, 77.8K engagements
"Legal Positivism - the dominant theory in jurisprudence I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Austin's theory of law: https://youtu.be/0F62gA1LGfw Hart's theory of law: https://youtu.be/Xg_9F2h89TE and https://youtu.be/4qtSYUccppc This is a video lecture that explains the central theory for the last two centuries in the philosophy of law: legal positivism. I created this additional lecture because I found that the standard"
YouTube Link 2023-05-04T15:19Z 631K followers, 177.2K engagements
"Lecture #7 - My Method for Defeating Procrastination I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This video lecture is the 7th in a series of lectures for first-year college students tentatively titled "How to Do Well in College." This lecture is about how to overcome procrastination. The first point is that procrastination is not a time management problem. Rather it is a problem with regulating ones emotions. As a result of this I"
YouTube Link 2021-07-26T16:48Z 631K followers, 370.8K engagements
"The Liar Paradox - an explanation of the paradox from [---] BCE I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. The liar paradox goes back at least to Eubulides the Ancient Greek philosopher and student of Euclid in the 4th century BCE. Thats the year negative [---]. In this lecture video I explain what the liar paradox is and why it just won't go away. I also try to make some jokes about Captain Kirk of Star Trek"
YouTube Link 2023-03-15T15:32Z 631K followers, 1.2M engagements
"The Behaviorist Theory of Mind I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Link to video on counterexamples: https://youtu.be/jPdZ42UX41A This is a video lecture about the theory in the philosophy of mind known as 'Behaviorism.' The reading that this lecture is based on was written by David Armstrong who was not himself a behaviorist but he gives an excellent summary of the view. Behaviorism is the theory that being in a mental state"
YouTube Link 2020-08-18T00:26Z 631K followers, 97.9K engagements
"Functionalism Background lecture on Identity Theory: https://youtu.be/zO0slzSuxpI This is a video lecture about Hilary Putnam's Multiple Realizability argument against the mind-brain identity theory and his argument for the functionalist theory of mind. Functionalism is the theory that being in a mental state just is being a functional state with certain inputs and outputs or causes and effects. This is part of an introductory level philosophy course focusing on the philosophy of mind"
YouTube Link 2020-08-28T15:09Z 631K followers, 103.3K engagements
"What are Possible Worlds I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a video lecture in a course on the philosophy of language. It explains possible worlds rigid designators and non-rigid designators using some basketball examples involving LeBron James and Mt Everest and some other stuff. Even though the idea of possible worlds goes back to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz this short video is specifically designed to provide the"
YouTube Link 2024-02-29T18:24Z 631K followers, 68.2K engagements
"Gottlob Frege - On Sense and Reference I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. The compositionality of language: https://youtu.be/ZWP6Sv2_8c8 This is a video lecture about Frege's groundbreaking [----] paper 'On Sense and Reference' which is sometimes translated from the original German as 'On Meaning and Nominatum' though those are silly and obscure terms so I don't use them. This is the second lecture in a philosophy of language"
YouTube Link 2023-08-30T17:29Z 631K followers, 463K engagements
"Lecture #9: How to Read so that you Retain Information I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is the ninth in a series of lectures intended for first-year college students tentatively titled "How to Do Well in College." This lecture however applies to anyone who reads anything. In it I recommend a specific version of marginalia whereby one summarizes information in the margins of texts. This forces the reader to engage"
YouTube Link 2021-08-17T17:15Z 631K followers, 3.5M engagements
"Ren Descartes - Meditation #3 - A Cosmological Proof of God's Existence I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This video lecture is about Rene Descartes' third Meditation on First Philosophy. It is part of an introduction to philosophy course. In this meditation Descartes offers a cosmological proof of the existence of god. The attempted proof starts from the fact that Descartes has the idea of an all perfect being. He argues"
YouTube Link 2020-07-03T14:59Z 631K followers, 142.7K engagements
"What is Philosophy - First Lecture of the Semester I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. For more philosophy videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_hukbByJP7OZ3Xm2tszacQ This is a video intended for college students considering taking a class in philosophy but who are not sure exactly what philosophy is. This is also a video for parents or other relatives or friends of college students who have decided to major in"
YouTube Link 2020-12-09T15:56Z 631K followers, 344.9K engagements
"The one true philosophical theory of names I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Video explaining Kripke's Godel-Schmidt Case: https://youtu.be/MncEzRAw3tU Video explaining Searle's Cluster Theory: https://youtu.be/YERizKusm18 This is a video lecture in a course on the philosophy of language. It summarizes Gareth Evans's theory of proper names that he puts forward in a famous [----] paper titled "The Causal Theory of Names.""
YouTube Link 2025-06-26T14:51Z 631K followers, 156.2K engagements
"Russell's Paradox - a simple explanation of a profound problem I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a video lecture explaining Russell's Paradox. At the very heart of logic and mathematics there is a paradox that has yet to be resolved. It was discovered by the mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell in [----]. In this talk Professor Jeffrey Kaplan teaches you the basics of set theory (a foundational branch of"
YouTube Link 2022-09-08T15:18Z 631K followers, 9.7M engagements
"This philosopher's work explains Twitter Addiction I am writing a book If you to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a video about Twitter and the philosophy of jokes or humor. It deals with the work of Thi Nguyen from the University of Utah Ted Cohen from the University of Chicago and the 3rd Earl Lord of Shaftesbury. It makes the point that jokes and tweets both centrally involve high-context speech and run the risk of context shedding or context"
YouTube Link 2022-10-07T16:40Z 631K followers, 24.9K engagements
"Hart - Concept of Law - Ch [--] (The Rule of Recognition) This is a lecture video about chapter [--] of HLA Hart's seminal [----] book The Concept of Law. The chapter is titled "The Foundations of a Legal System" and it is mostly concerned with the Rule of Recognition how such a rule halts the regress of legal validity and how it is a social rule that comes to exist because enough officials of a legal system accept it from the internal point of view. This lecture is part of a Philosophy of Law course. I have also made lecture videos about previous chapters of the book (skipping chapter [--] because that"
YouTube Link 2020-07-22T00:00Z 537K followers, 47.1K engagements
"The Utilitarian Theory of Punishment Surprisingly Utilitarianism gets more-or-less intuitive results when it comes to what cases of punishment are morally permissible. But to gets those results in a way that diverges from our ordinary moral intuitions. Technically this is a lecture about chapter [--] ofJeremy Bentham's Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation"
YouTube Link 2020-01-17T20:13Z 537K followers, 52.8K engagements
"What is Philosophy I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a video intended for college students considering taking a class in philosophy but who are not sure exactly what philosophy is. This is also a video for parents or other relatives or friends of college students who have decided to major in philosophy but who are not sure exactly what philosophy is"
YouTube Link 2020-03-10T15:54Z 493K followers, 64.6K engagements
"What Philosophers Mean by "Mental" and "Physical" This is just a short video explaining the terms "mental" "physical" as they are used in contemporary academic philosophy of mind. I also give very basic explanations of Dualism and Physicalism. This video functions as a transition within Introduction to Philosophy between the unit where we read all [--] of Descartes' Meditations and the unit where we focus on the mind-body problem"
YouTube Link 2020-07-13T12:23Z 573K followers, 50.9K engagements
"Plessy v Ferguson - The Logical Flaw in this Infamous Supreme Court Case This is a lecture video about the landmark [----] US Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson [---] U.S. [---]. This case enshrined the infamous "Seperate but Equal" doctrine that formed the foundation of segregation in the American South for decades. This lecture explains the details of the case and the central argument made by Justice Brown. I claim that Brown equivocates in the crucial portion of his argument which putatively takes the form of Modus Tollens a form reasoning in deductive logic. This logical flaw of course is"
YouTube Link 2020-07-10T17:08Z 536K followers, 32.2K engagements
"Moral Skepticism and Moral Objectivism I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a video lecture about chapter [--] of Russ Shafer-Landau's book "Whatever Happened to Good and Evil" The lecture includes discussion some terminoligical points about moral skepticism and moral objectivism but it also includes the three reasons why Shafer-Landau thinks that moral skepticism which he understands to be the denial that there is one"
YouTube Link 2020-02-27T15:18Z 556K followers, 121K engagements
"Two possible arguments against the existence of objective morality (and possible responses) This video lecture builds off of a reading by MacKinnon & Fiala wherein they canvas four arguments or reasons that moral skepticism or relativism are attractive. In the video I only discuss two of these reasons : (1) the existence pervasiveness and persistence of moral disagreement and (2) the diversity of situations in which moral agents find themselves. This is part of an introductory level philosophy course Introduction to Ethics"
YouTube Link 2020-03-12T19:34Z 556K followers, 50.2K engagements
"Korematsu v United States - the U.S. Supreme Court Case legalizing Japanese Internment This lecture video is about a landmark [----] US Supreme Court case upholding the exclusion of Japanese Americans Korematsu v. United States [---] U.S. [---]. First I discuss the majority opinion authored by Justice Black which focuses mainly on whether the court should apply strict scrutiny when assess-sing Exclusion Order #34. Then there are in-depth readings of passages from two of the dissenting opinions authored by Justices Roberts and Murphy. Roberts focuses on the fact that there was another relevant order"
YouTube Link 2020-07-15T15:34Z 570K followers, 15.8K engagements
"Hedonism The moral theory Utilitarianism is a hedonistic one. That is it holds that the only thing that is good for a person as an end is pleasure. This video lecture discusses Jeremy Bentham's version of Hedonism"
YouTube Link 2020-01-17T15:54Z 549K followers, 72.2K engagements
"An Explanation of the Normative-Descriptive Distinction (and the varieties of normativity) This is a video lecture about the different between descriptive claims or laws on the one hand and normative claims or laws on the other. I also explain three different varieties of normativity: the moral the prudential and the epistemic. This video was originally produced for use in an introductory level philosophy course Introduction to Ethics. But it is a stand-alone explanation so it can be used in any other context"
YouTube Link 2020-03-16T17:23Z 613K followers, 67.4K engagements
"What is Legal Positivism I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a video lecture about legal positivism (the theory in analytical jurisprudence which holds that legal facts depend ultimately on social facts alone) and non-cognitivism (the theory in metaethics which holds that moral judgements are not truth-apt). The work of Joseph Raz and HLA Hart is discussed. This is part of a course on the Philosophy of Law"
YouTube Link 2020-07-17T17:23Z 618K followers, 151.4K engagements
"Does Occam's Razor rule out Objective Morality Video about Occam's Razor: https://youtu.be/3BxxKE-NcRo Video about the Normative-Descriptive Distinction: https://youtu.be/1X6R8ze7O0I This is a video lecture on chapter [--] titled "Values in a Scientific World" of Russ Shafer-Landau's book 'Whatever Happened to Good and Evil' The argument that this chapter considers is one that claims that if one follow's Occam's Razor then one ought to reject the reality of objective moral facts or laws. This is an argument for moral skepticism and Shafer-Landau offers several responses to it and in defense of"
YouTube Link 2020-03-18T13:55Z 626K followers, 40.2K engagements
"Euthyphro and Socrates"
YouTube Link 2023-01-12T15:01Z 631K followers, 51.5K engagements
"What is a Counterexample (and why philosophers use fictional examples) This is a short lecture video explaining one of the most common and most powerful philosophical tools: the counterexample. Counterexamples are examples that are given to disprove a general claim. This video also explains how general claims centrally involving a concept--i.e. those claims about conceptual truths--can be proven false with the use of a fictional or even impossible counterexample"
YouTube Link 2020-08-17T14:41Z 631K followers, 52.1K engagements
"John Locke's argument from [----] for Divine Morality -- it's strengths and weaknesses This is a lecture concerning John Locke's Two Treatises of Government Book II Chapter [--] Sections [--] & [--]. Therein Locke presents an argument that we have moral obligations not to kill hurt enslave or steal from others. And the reason that we have those obligations Locke claims is that God created all human beings and therefore owns them. If people are the property of God Locke argues then it is wrong for us to damage his property. But even if this argument succeeds even if it is valid and ultimately sound this"
YouTube Link 2020-02-20T15:50Z 619K followers, 78.4K engagements
"Hart - Concept of Law - Ch [--] (Attack on Austin's Theory #2) This is a lecture video on the chapter titled "Sovereign and Subject" of HLA Hart's seminal [----] book The Concept of Law. Back in chapters [--] Hart summarized John Austin's habit-based theory of law. In chapter [--] Hart argued that Austin's theory could not explain power-conferring laws and some other features of sophisticated legal systems. In this chapter Hart attacks the Austinian notion of legal authority. Basically the notion of a habit or pattern of behavior is simply not explanatorily powerful enough to explain the continuity of"
YouTube Link 2020-07-16T15:59Z 611K followers, 40.8K engagements
"An argument against objective morality that defeats itself This is a lecture about chapter [--] of Russ Shafer-Landau's book 'Whatever Happened to Good and Evil' This chapter is about the popular argument that starts from the claim that there is persistent disagreement about moral matters to the conclusion that there are no objective moral facts or laws. Shafer-Landau is able to turn this argument against moral skepticism itself. This is a pretty long video lecture but I spend a lot of time modifying the argument which should be helpful in learning how to deal with arguments themselves. This is"
YouTube Link 2020-03-16T15:19Z 629K followers, 57.5K engagements
"Pleasure is good as an end"
YouTube Link 2022-10-21T16:35Z 631K followers, 27.5K engagements
"Why do philosophers use imaginary examples and counterexamples I am writing a book If you to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This video explains the philosophical concept or tool known as a "counterexample." The central question answered in this video is why it is legitimate when attempting to disprove a philosophical theory to sometimes use a fictional or made-up example"
YouTube Link 2022-03-28T15:55Z 631K followers, 17.3K engagements
"The Details of Brown v Board of Ed - - US Supreme Court This is a lecture video about Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka [---] U.S. [---] (1954). This famous court case outlawed segregation in public schools on the grounds that it violated the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment. It was a unanimous 9-0 ruling authored by Chief Justice Warren. In the lecture I discuss the relevant of 1860s public schooling to the [----] decision among other things. This is part of a Philosophy of Law course. For an explanation of Plessy v Ferguson the infamous court case the enshrined the doctrine of"
YouTube Link 2021-01-05T15:03Z 631K followers, 16.7K engagements
"Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics - Book I I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a lecture about just a few sections of book [--] of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. The lectures focuses on Aristotle's argument to the conclusion that the good for a human being is exercising the virtues. The argument stems from the claim that happiness or flourishing or eudaemonia is the 'final' and 'self-sufficient' end of human action and"
YouTube Link 2020-02-04T16:31Z 629K followers, 230.8K engagements
"Hart - Concept of Law - Ch [--] (Summary of John Austin's Theory of Law) I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is the first video lecture in a course on the philosophy of law. In this chapter Hart summarizes John Austin's habit- and sanction-based theory of law. Austin's behaviorist (or very nearly behaviorist) theory of law is presented by the introduction and step-by-step adaptation of a simple gunman scenario. The concepts"
YouTube Link 2020-06-22T13:09Z 630K followers, 159.8K engagements
"Bertrand Russell - Theory of Descriptions I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a video lecture in a course on the philosophy of language. In it I summarize Bertrand Russell's [----] paper Descriptions where he explains the seminal transformative and influential theory of definite descriptions which was originally introduced in his [----] paper On Denoting. According to Russell sentences with phrases like "The golden"
YouTube Link 2026-01-19T14:18Z 631K followers, 77.7K engagements
"The most important skill college students should learn I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. It was an incredible honor to be the Convocation speaker at my alma mater Williams College on September 6th [----]. Video courtesy of Williams College Photo in thumbnail courtesy of Roman Iwasiwka In this speech I tell the story of Captain Richard de Crespigny and Qantas Flight [--] and draw from it a lesson about the power of reasons. I"
YouTube Link 2025-09-16T12:39Z 631K followers, 528.8K engagements
"Ronald Dworkin's attack on HLA Hart's Theory of Law I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a video lecture about the criticism or objection (mostly from "Model of Rules I" which appears in Dworkin's book "Taking Rights Seriously") that Ronald Dworkin makes of HLA Hart's version of legal positivism. The video explains Hart's theory of adjudication his concept of the open texture of law and Dworkin's distinction between"
YouTube Link 2020-08-05T15:51Z 630K followers, 131.9K engagements
"Does your RED look the same as my RED Functionalism: https://youtu.be/rd8sITBnijg This is a lecture video about the inverted experience thought experiment as well as about the scientific evidence that some percentage of men are in reality red-green color inverted. This is part of an introductory level philosophy course"
YouTube Link 2020-09-03T12:44Z 631K followers, 120K engagements
"Hart - Concept of Law - Ch [--] (Primary and Secondary Rules) This is a lecture video about chapter [--] of HLA Hart's seminal [----] book The Concept of Law. In this chapter Hart begins to present his own theory of law. He distinguishes primary rules from secondary rules. He enumerates three defects that plague systems of rules composed only of primary rules (uncertainty static-ness and inefficiency). He then explains how thee defects are remedied by secondary rules (the rule of recognition rule of change and rule of adjudication respectively). This is part of a Philosophy of Law course"
YouTube Link 2020-07-20T20:21Z 631K followers, 77.2K engagements
"The Compositionality of Language explained I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a short lecture providing one of the foundational and essential concepts needed for a semester-long Philosophy of Language college/university course. The compositionality of language is that feature of language by which the meanings of whole sentences or phrases are composed out of the meanings of parts of those sentences (i.e. words). This"
YouTube Link 2023-06-29T17:19Z 631K followers, 69.8K engagements
"Lecture on Friedrich Nietzsches Genealogy of Morals"
YouTube Link 2022-10-20T12:33Z 631K followers, 34.3K engagements
"Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Why be moral Nietzsche's answer is: don't philosophy ethics introduction to ethics friedrich nietzsche genealogy of morals mode of valuation slave revolt morality philosophy ethics introduction to ethics friedrich nietzsche genealogy of morals mode of valuation slave revolt morality"
YouTube Link 2019-10-25T15:55Z 630K followers, 338K engagements
"Saul Kripke's Causal Theory of Names I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Part 1: https://youtu.be/MncEzRAw3tU This is a video lecture in a course on the philosophy of language. It summarizes Saul Kripke's brief and suggestive theory of proper names that he offers as part of his famous [----] lectures delivered in January of [----] at Princeton University and then published as a book Naming and Necessity. Kripke presents a causal"
YouTube Link 2024-06-18T14:42Z 631K followers, 37.6K engagements
"Hilary Putnam's Super-Spartans attack on Behaviorism Video about Behaviorism: https://youtu.be/k715B-2t-YU Video about Counterexamples: https://youtu.be/jPdZ42UX41A This is a video lecture about Hilary Putnam's seminal paper "Brains and Behavior". The Super Spartans example and the x-world (or x-worlders) example are both discussed as are how those examples are meant to present a problem for the logical behaviorist theory of mind. This is part of an introductory level philosophy course Introduction to Philosophy"
YouTube Link 2020-08-20T12:18Z 631K followers, 55K engagements
"Lecture #10: How to Memorize Anything - EFFICIENTLY I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is the tenth lecture in a series of lectures intended for first-year college and university students loosely around the topic of "How to Do Well in College". But the information in this video may be more widely useful. There are two methods that allow people to efficiently memorize things: mnemonic cues and spaced repetition. In this"
YouTube Link 2021-09-09T14:16Z 631K followers, 1.5M engagements
"Keeping a Calendar in College I am writing a book If you to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is the seventh in a series of [--] video lectures tentatively titled "How to do Well in College." The videos are intended for first-year college students. This one is just making the case that one must keep a calendar and really it is a matter of stress reduction. Of course there is also the fact that without a calendar you will miss tons of assignments and not"
YouTube Link 2021-07-15T18:00Z 631K followers, 37.2K engagements
"John Stuart Mill - one minor mistake I am writing a book If you to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is the first in a series of video lectures built for my college course in the philosophy of language. John Stuart Mill lived in England from [----] to [----]. He was a philosopher and also a Member of Parliament. Much of his philosophical work is in moral and political philosophy. He was the student of Jeremy Bentham and like Bentham an advocate of"
YouTube Link 2023-06-04T15:15Z 631K followers, 79.3K engagements
"Ren Descartes - Meditation #6 - Proof of the Physical World & Distinction Between Mind and Body I am writing a book If you to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a video lecture about the sixth and final Meditation on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes. In it Descartes argues that the physical world outside of his own mind does exist though it may be that he is wrong about some of the specific details of physical reality. He does this by arguing that"
YouTube Link 2020-07-10T00:42Z 631K followers, 75.6K engagements
"Secret to College Success #4: Actually Learn This is the fourth in a series of lectures that I am tentatively calling "How to Do Well in College." In this lecture video I explain the purpose of intermediate assignments (which were not graded for me at Oxford and Cambridge) such as homework problem sets quizzes and essays. Their purpose as crazy as this sounds is to try to get students to actually learn the material. Once you realize this and once you study in ways that aim toward actually learning comprehending and understanding the material it makes your college courses much easier. Also I"
YouTube Link 2021-06-25T17:37Z 631K followers, 63.1K engagements
"Lecture #11: Taking Notes Effectively - which words should you write down I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is part of a series of lectures intended for first-year college students on 'How To Do Well in College" or university This one is about how to effectively take notes. [--]. Do not write down everything down world-for-word [--]. Do not even grab exact phrases [--]. Add felsh to the text within [--] hours [--]. Write the notes"
YouTube Link 2021-10-15T12:05Z 631K followers, 880.1K engagements
"Semester Ethics Course condensed into 22mins (Part [--] of 2) I am writing a book If you to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Video explaining counterexamples: https://youtu.be/LQaNMxNVCJQ This is a philosophy video lecture that compresses a course that normally takes [--] weeks into just one video. Or really it only manages to condense half of that course into [--] minutes. What is the morally right thing to do Is there some moral law that applies to everyone or"
YouTube Link 2022-06-09T16:25Z 631K followers, 334.1K engagements
"Naming and Necessity by Saul Kripke - Part [--] I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Background lecture on Possible Worlds and Rigid Designators: https://youtu.be/ry84r_gw8HA Part [--] of this lecture: https://youtu.be/eSS8-i28oho This is a video lecture in a course on the philosophy of language. It summarizes Saul Kripke's famous [----] attack on the Descriptivist Cluster Theory of Proper Names of John Searle. This is just the first"
YouTube Link 2024-05-09T18:56Z 631K followers, 120.6K engagements
""Proper Names" by John Searle I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a video lecture in a course on the philosophy of language. It explains John R Searle's seminal and groundbreaking [----] paper "Proper Names". Searle discusses and ultimately rejects both Frege's and Mill's theories of proper names. But Searle does think that associated with every name there is something like Frege's sense except Searle thinks that it is"
YouTube Link 2023-11-30T15:50Z 631K followers, 131.7K engagements
"Rules for Interacting with College Professors - Office Hours Email Letters of Recommendation This is part of a series of lectures intended for first-year college students on 'How To Do Well in College" or university This video covers Rules and Norms for Interacting with college professors. Topics include: Office Hours Email Etiquette Letters of Recommendation How to Dress What Questions to Ask"
YouTube Link 2022-03-09T22:36Z 631K followers, 93.1K engagements
"Princess Elisabeth's attack on Descartes' Dualist Theory of Mind (from 1643) This is a video lecture about The Problem of Mental Causation. This is a problem that is at the heart of all of philosophy of mind for the last several hundred years. It was presented by Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia in a letter to Rene Descartes in the spring of [----]. Put very briefly Princess Elisabeth's point is simply that the mind which Descartes understands as wholly non-physical/immaterial cannot move the material body because in order for something to move a physical object the mover must itself be an"
YouTube Link 2020-07-13T18:29Z 631K followers, 89.6K engagements
"How to Read a College Syllabus - And Strategize for How to Best Approach the Course I am writing a book If you to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is the 6th video in a series of [--] videos on How to Do Well in College. This video walks through one of my own syllabi and explains how to tailor one's strategy for taking a college course to the various policies in the video. It is also important to understand which parts of the syllabus can be skipped and"
YouTube Link 2021-07-06T12:19Z 631K followers, 60K engagements
"Guide for Writing a Philosophy Paper I am writing a book If you to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Other videos you might want to watch: What is a Counterexample: https://youtu.be/jPdZ42UX41A How to Read Philosophy: https://youtu.be/XlcrKfaJBRM What is Philosophy: https://youtu.be/wwT4N_v0-WQ Arguments vs Conclusions: https://youtu.be/GAYn5v5E20s If you are taking a college-level philosophy course and you have to write a paper or an essay then this video"
YouTube Link 2020-11-17T12:59Z 631K followers, 92.5K engagements
"The famous Chinese Room thought experiment - John Searle (1980) I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Dualism: https://youtu.be/P3pmVf3Gs70 Behaviorism: https://youtu.be/k715B-2t-YU Identity Theory: https://youtu.be/zO0slzSuxpI Functionalism: https://youtu.be/rd8sITBnijg This is a video lecture about "Can Computers Think" by John Searle. In this paper Searle argues again a form of functionalism which he calls "Strong AI". The"
YouTube Link 2020-09-01T12:39Z 631K followers, 506.8K engagements
"Bernard Williams' Attack on Moral Relativism I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a lecture explaining a brief section called "Interlude: Relativism" in his book "Morality: An Introduction to Ethics." The basic idea that Williams has is that there is a tension between moral relativism and some kind of universal toleration principle. These two views which Williams believes contradict one another however are often held"
YouTube Link 2020-02-19T19:42Z 631K followers, 134.5K engagements
"Occam's Razor - rational principles explained This is a video explaining Occams's Razor which is a normative rational pattern of thought. It also explains how this principle differs from Inference to the Best Explanation and some other similar principles. There is also an explanation of an individual's ontology. To illustrate all of this several examples are used involving the germ theory of disease and plate tectonics. This video was originally developed for use in an introductory level philosophy course Introduction to Ethics but it can be used for any philosophy course"
YouTube Link 2020-03-17T14:01Z 631K followers, 341.1K engagements
"Ren Descartes - Meditation #1 - The Method of Doubt I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a lecture about the first of Descartes' six Meditations on First Philosophy. It is part an introduction to philosophy course. In this meditation Descartes explains his plan for all six meditations then explains how his method of doubt will allow him to temporarily cease to believe all the things that he cannot know for certain and"
YouTube Link 2020-06-25T12:34Z 631K followers, 330.2K engagements
"How much of the reading do you have to do in college courses I am writing a book If you to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is another lecture that is part of a series on 'How to Do Well in College.' This series is intended for first-year college students. In this lecture I go through four types of courses (Philosophy History Science and Social Science with textbooks and Science and Social Science with articles) just as an illustration of how different"
YouTube Link 2021-08-06T15:12Z 631K followers, 73.8K engagements
"How Aristotle Thought about the World I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a short lecture comparing the Aristotelian and Modern world-views. It is part of a larger introduction to ethics course but it can be viewed and understood independently"
YouTube Link 2020-01-30T21:31Z 631K followers, 162.9K engagements
"To Do Well In College: Don't Work Hard Work Efficiently This is the third in a series of lectures that I am tentatively calling "How to Do Well in College." This video introduces the central thesis of all of the upcoming videos that present tactics for college success--for getting good grades in undergraduate college courses. That central theme is: do not work hard work efficiently. I give several examples of the kind of efficiency that I am talking about. And I tell a story about a bodybuilder"
YouTube Link 2021-06-15T18:58Z 631K followers, 207.4K engagements
"Immanuel Kant's Moral Theory - a summary with examples I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a lecture about version of the Kantian Categorical Imperative called "The Formula of the End in Itself." The lecture is based on a presentation of Kant's moral theory given by Onora O'Neill. The lecture concludes with a comparison between Kant's duty-based or deontological moral theory (sometimes called simply "Deontology") on"
YouTube Link 2020-01-24T15:46Z 631K followers, 582.8K engagements
"David Hume's Argument Against Moral Realism I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a lecture video about a short selection from book [--] of David Hume's famous work of philosophy A Treatise of Human Nature (173940). Hume was an empiricist. The lecture of basically a presentation of his argument from empiricism to the conclusion that there are no genuine objective moral facts residing in actions themselves (rather there are"
YouTube Link 2020-02-17T20:55Z 631K followers, 193.4K engagements
"What is it Like to be a Bat - the hard problem of consciousness I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Dualism & Physicalism: https://youtu.be/P3pmVf3Gs70 This is a video about Thomas Nagel's famous [----] Philosophical Review paper "What is the like to be a bat" The paper introduces a novel argument against physicalism. The basic idea is that consciousness embodies (or can only be understood) from a subjective point of view. But"
YouTube Link 2020-09-04T14:20Z 631K followers, 610K engagements
"A.J. Ayer's Emotivist Theory of Moral Language I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a lecture about a specific version of Expressivism or Non-consequentialism about moral discourse or moral talk. The version is Emotivism which was advocated most prominently by A.J. Ayer in his book Language Truth and Logic. This lecture comes from an introductory-level philosophy course Introduction to Ethics. This part of the course"
YouTube Link 2020-02-17T14:13Z 631K followers, 128.7K engagements
"Gilbert Ryle attacks Descartes' Dualism as a 'Category Mistake' I am writing a book If you to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a lecture video about a selection from Gilbert Ryle objecting to what he calls "the Official Doctrine" which is the dualist theory of mind espoused by Rene Descartes and many other philosophers following him. Ryle claims that dualists are making a 'category mistake'. He explains the idea of a category mistake with a famous"
YouTube Link 2020-07-14T17:52Z 631K followers, 99.7K engagements
"Ren Descartes - Meditation #4 - The Problem of Error I am writing a book If you to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a lecture video about the fourth Meditation on First Philosophy by the French 17th century philosopher Rene Descartes. This meditation focuses on the problem of error which is analogous to the better-known problem of evil. The problem is that in meditation #3 Descartes takes himself to have proven that God exists. But if God is"
YouTube Link 2020-07-08T13:37Z 631K followers, 73.8K engagements
"The Mind-Brain Identity Theory I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Here is some background material. Dualism & Physicalism: https://youtu.be/P3pmVf3Gs70 Princess Elisabeth's attack on Dualism: https://youtu.be/kJIZzmUpfmk Behaviorism: https://youtu.be/k715B-2t-YU Putnam's attack on Behaviorism: https://youtu.be/lRI95Vdc5CU This is a video lecture about a the [----] paper "Is Consciousness a Brain Process" by U.T. Place. This"
YouTube Link 2020-08-21T17:44Z 631K followers, 114.6K engagements
"Bertrand Russell - Theory of Descriptions I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a video lecture in a course on the philosophy of language. In it I summarize Bertrand Russell's [----] paper Descriptions where he explains the seminal transformative and influential theory of definite descriptions which was originally introduced in his [----] paper On Denoting. According to Russell sentences with phrases like "The golden"
YouTube Link 2026-01-19T14:18Z 631K followers, 77.7K engagements
"The most important skill college students should learn I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. It was an incredible honor to be the Convocation speaker at my alma mater Williams College on September 6th [----]. Video courtesy of Williams College Photo in thumbnail courtesy of Roman Iwasiwka In this speech I tell the story of Captain Richard de Crespigny and Qantas Flight [--] and draw from it a lesson about the power of reasons. I"
YouTube Link 2025-09-16T12:39Z 631K followers, 528.8K engagements
"The one true philosophical theory of names I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Video explaining Kripke's Godel-Schmidt Case: https://youtu.be/MncEzRAw3tU Video explaining Searle's Cluster Theory: https://youtu.be/YERizKusm18 This is a video lecture in a course on the philosophy of language. It summarizes Gareth Evans's theory of proper names that he puts forward in a famous [----] paper titled "The Causal Theory of Names.""
YouTube Link 2025-06-26T14:51Z 631K followers, 156.2K engagements
"Advertising doesn't work the way you think it does I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Kevin Simlers website: https://meltingasphalt.com/ This is a video lecture in which I argue that association ads are best explained by what I call the social connotation theory rather than the emotional inception theory. The emotional inception theory holds that modern advertisements do not try to rationally or logically persuade us to buy"
YouTube Link 2024-12-03T15:47Z 631K followers, 242.4K engagements
"Saul Kripke's Causal Theory of Names I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Part 1: https://youtu.be/MncEzRAw3tU This is a video lecture in a course on the philosophy of language. It summarizes Saul Kripke's brief and suggestive theory of proper names that he offers as part of his famous [----] lectures delivered in January of [----] at Princeton University and then published as a book Naming and Necessity. Kripke presents a causal"
YouTube Link 2024-06-18T14:42Z 631K followers, 37.6K engagements
"Naming and Necessity by Saul Kripke - Part [--] I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Background lecture on Possible Worlds and Rigid Designators: https://youtu.be/ry84r_gw8HA Part [--] of this lecture: https://youtu.be/eSS8-i28oho This is a video lecture in a course on the philosophy of language. It summarizes Saul Kripke's famous [----] attack on the Descriptivist Cluster Theory of Proper Names of John Searle. This is just the first"
YouTube Link 2024-05-09T18:56Z 631K followers, 120.6K engagements
"What are Possible Worlds I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a video lecture in a course on the philosophy of language. It explains possible worlds rigid designators and non-rigid designators using some basketball examples involving LeBron James and Mt Everest and some other stuff. Even though the idea of possible worlds goes back to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz this short video is specifically designed to provide the"
YouTube Link 2024-02-29T18:24Z 631K followers, 68.2K engagements
""Proper Names" by John Searle I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a video lecture in a course on the philosophy of language. It explains John R Searle's seminal and groundbreaking [----] paper "Proper Names". Searle discusses and ultimately rejects both Frege's and Mill's theories of proper names. But Searle does think that associated with every name there is something like Frege's sense except Searle thinks that it is"
YouTube Link 2023-11-30T15:50Z 631K followers, 131.7K engagements
"Gottlob Frege - On Sense and Reference I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. The compositionality of language: https://youtu.be/ZWP6Sv2_8c8 This is a video lecture about Frege's groundbreaking [----] paper 'On Sense and Reference' which is sometimes translated from the original German as 'On Meaning and Nominatum' though those are silly and obscure terms so I don't use them. This is the second lecture in a philosophy of language"
YouTube Link 2023-08-30T17:29Z 631K followers, 463K engagements
"The Compositionality of Language explained I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a short lecture providing one of the foundational and essential concepts needed for a semester-long Philosophy of Language college/university course. The compositionality of language is that feature of language by which the meanings of whole sentences or phrases are composed out of the meanings of parts of those sentences (i.e. words). This"
YouTube Link 2023-06-29T17:19Z 631K followers, 69.8K engagements
"John Stuart Mill - one minor mistake I am writing a book If you to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is the first in a series of video lectures built for my college course in the philosophy of language. John Stuart Mill lived in England from [----] to [----]. He was a philosopher and also a Member of Parliament. Much of his philosophical work is in moral and political philosophy. He was the student of Jeremy Bentham and like Bentham an advocate of"
YouTube Link 2023-06-04T15:15Z 631K followers, 79.3K engagements
"Legal Positivism - the dominant theory in jurisprudence I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Austin's theory of law: https://youtu.be/0F62gA1LGfw Hart's theory of law: https://youtu.be/Xg_9F2h89TE and https://youtu.be/4qtSYUccppc This is a video lecture that explains the central theory for the last two centuries in the philosophy of law: legal positivism. I created this additional lecture because I found that the standard"
YouTube Link 2023-05-04T15:19Z 631K followers, 177.2K engagements
"The Liar Paradox - an explanation of the paradox from [---] BCE I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. The liar paradox goes back at least to Eubulides the Ancient Greek philosopher and student of Euclid in the 4th century BCE. Thats the year negative [---]. In this lecture video I explain what the liar paradox is and why it just won't go away. I also try to make some jokes about Captain Kirk of Star Trek"
YouTube Link 2023-03-15T15:32Z 631K followers, 1.2M engagements
"Euthyphro and Socrates"
YouTube Link 2023-01-12T15:01Z 631K followers, 51.5K engagements
"Recommending Descartes Meditations"
YouTube Link 2023-01-06T21:24Z 631K followers, 49.6K engagements
"The first [--] philosophy texts you should read I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Descartes Proof of Gods Existence in Meditation #3: https://youtu.be/w4Kj6SuGYLo What is a Counterexample: https://youtu.be/jPdZ42UX41A I am Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and here is a list of the seven philosophical pieces of writing that I think someone first getting into philosophy should"
YouTube Link 2022-12-14T15:14Z 631K followers, 405.6K engagements
"Pleasure is good as an end"
YouTube Link 2022-10-21T16:35Z 631K followers, 27.5K engagements
"Lecture on Friedrich Nietzsches Genealogy of Morals"
YouTube Link 2022-10-20T12:33Z 631K followers, 34.3K engagements
"This philosopher's work explains Twitter Addiction I am writing a book If you to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a video about Twitter and the philosophy of jokes or humor. It deals with the work of Thi Nguyen from the University of Utah Ted Cohen from the University of Chicago and the 3rd Earl Lord of Shaftesbury. It makes the point that jokes and tweets both centrally involve high-context speech and run the risk of context shedding or context"
YouTube Link 2022-10-07T16:40Z 631K followers, 24.9K engagements
"Russell's Paradox - a simple explanation of a profound problem I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is a video lecture explaining Russell's Paradox. At the very heart of logic and mathematics there is a paradox that has yet to be resolved. It was discovered by the mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell in [----]. In this talk Professor Jeffrey Kaplan teaches you the basics of set theory (a foundational branch of"
YouTube Link 2022-09-08T15:18Z 631K followers, 9.7M engagements
"Semester Ethics Course condensed (Part [--] of 2) I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Extended lecture of Plato's dialogue Euthyphro: https://youtu.be/oltsfcVWe3A This is the second half of an attempt to compresses an ethics course that normally takes [--] weeks into just two videos. What is the morally right thing to do Is there some moral law that applies to everyone or is morality relative in some way And whats so good about"
YouTube Link 2022-07-14T19:06Z 631K followers, 106.9K engagements
"Semester Ethics Course condensed into 22mins (Part [--] of 2) I am writing a book If you to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Video explaining counterexamples: https://youtu.be/LQaNMxNVCJQ This is a philosophy video lecture that compresses a course that normally takes [--] weeks into just one video. Or really it only manages to condense half of that course into [--] minutes. What is the morally right thing to do Is there some moral law that applies to everyone or"
YouTube Link 2022-06-09T16:25Z 631K followers, 334.1K engagements
"Why do philosophers use imaginary examples and counterexamples I am writing a book If you to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This video explains the philosophical concept or tool known as a "counterexample." The central question answered in this video is why it is legitimate when attempting to disprove a philosophical theory to sometimes use a fictional or made-up example"
YouTube Link 2022-03-28T15:55Z 631K followers, 17.3K engagements
"Rules for Interacting with College Professors - Office Hours Email Letters of Recommendation This is part of a series of lectures intended for first-year college students on 'How To Do Well in College" or university This video covers Rules and Norms for Interacting with college professors. Topics include: Office Hours Email Etiquette Letters of Recommendation How to Dress What Questions to Ask"
YouTube Link 2022-03-09T22:36Z 631K followers, 93.1K engagements
"Lecture #11: Taking Notes Effectively - which words should you write down I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is part of a series of lectures intended for first-year college students on 'How To Do Well in College" or university This one is about how to effectively take notes. [--]. Do not write down everything down world-for-word [--]. Do not even grab exact phrases [--]. Add felsh to the text within [--] hours [--]. Write the notes"
YouTube Link 2021-10-15T12:05Z 631K followers, 880.1K engagements
"Lecture #10: How to Memorize Anything - EFFICIENTLY I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is the tenth lecture in a series of lectures intended for first-year college and university students loosely around the topic of "How to Do Well in College". But the information in this video may be more widely useful. There are two methods that allow people to efficiently memorize things: mnemonic cues and spaced repetition. In this"
YouTube Link 2021-09-09T14:16Z 631K followers, 1.5M engagements
"Lecture #9: How to Read so that you Retain Information I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is the ninth in a series of lectures intended for first-year college students tentatively titled "How to Do Well in College." This lecture however applies to anyone who reads anything. In it I recommend a specific version of marginalia whereby one summarizes information in the margins of texts. This forces the reader to engage"
YouTube Link 2021-08-17T17:15Z 631K followers, 3.5M engagements
"How much of the reading do you have to do in college courses I am writing a book If you to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is another lecture that is part of a series on 'How to Do Well in College.' This series is intended for first-year college students. In this lecture I go through four types of courses (Philosophy History Science and Social Science with textbooks and Science and Social Science with articles) just as an illustration of how different"
YouTube Link 2021-08-06T15:12Z 631K followers, 73.8K engagements
"Lecture #7 - My Method for Defeating Procrastination I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This video lecture is the 7th in a series of lectures for first-year college students tentatively titled "How to Do Well in College." This lecture is about how to overcome procrastination. The first point is that procrastination is not a time management problem. Rather it is a problem with regulating ones emotions. As a result of this I"
YouTube Link 2021-07-26T16:48Z 631K followers, 370.8K engagements
"Keeping a Calendar in College I am writing a book If you to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is the seventh in a series of [--] video lectures tentatively titled "How to do Well in College." The videos are intended for first-year college students. This one is just making the case that one must keep a calendar and really it is a matter of stress reduction. Of course there is also the fact that without a calendar you will miss tons of assignments and not"
YouTube Link 2021-07-15T18:00Z 631K followers, 37.2K engagements
"How to Read a College Syllabus - And Strategize for How to Best Approach the Course I am writing a book If you to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. This is the 6th video in a series of [--] videos on How to Do Well in College. This video walks through one of my own syllabi and explains how to tailor one's strategy for taking a college course to the various policies in the video. It is also important to understand which parts of the syllabus can be skipped and"
YouTube Link 2021-07-06T12:19Z 631K followers, 60K engagements
"Secret to College Success #4: Actually Learn This is the fourth in a series of lectures that I am tentatively calling "How to Do Well in College." In this lecture video I explain the purpose of intermediate assignments (which were not graded for me at Oxford and Cambridge) such as homework problem sets quizzes and essays. Their purpose as crazy as this sounds is to try to get students to actually learn the material. Once you realize this and once you study in ways that aim toward actually learning comprehending and understanding the material it makes your college courses much easier. Also I"
YouTube Link 2021-06-25T17:37Z 631K followers, 63.1K engagements
"How to Make College Courses Easy and How Not to Practice "Self-Care" This is the fourth in a series of videos intended for first-year college students tentatively titled "How to Do Well in College." This video explains that the common question "Is this course easy or hard" is misplaced. Really what determines whether a college course is hard or easy is not so much the course itself but rather how one goes about taking that course. I talk through several examples to illustrate this. And then I go on a little rant about the phrase "Self-Care" and how it can mislead students. Giving oneself"
YouTube Link 2021-06-22T15:22Z 631K followers, 77.8K engagements
"To Do Well In College: Don't Work Hard Work Efficiently This is the third in a series of lectures that I am tentatively calling "How to Do Well in College." This video introduces the central thesis of all of the upcoming videos that present tactics for college success--for getting good grades in undergraduate college courses. That central theme is: do not work hard work efficiently. I give several examples of the kind of efficiency that I am talking about. And I tell a story about a bodybuilder"
YouTube Link 2021-06-15T18:58Z 631K followers, 207.4K engagements
"Student Loans are Great But Only if Used Correctly This is the first lecture in a series of lectures that I am tentatively calling "How to Do Well in College." This first lecture focuses on how student loans work and how they constitute a smart risk wherein students are betting on themselves. The result is that it is incredibly important to study and graduate from college. In order to explain this I have to explain some things about my own family and my great-grandfather and also the nature of the home mortgage loan. Here are three good articles about the income boost that comes from a"
YouTube Link 2021-06-04T14:36Z 631K followers, 107.8K engagements
"The Details of Brown v Board of Ed - - US Supreme Court This is a lecture video about Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka [---] U.S. [---] (1954). This famous court case outlawed segregation in public schools on the grounds that it violated the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment. It was a unanimous 9-0 ruling authored by Chief Justice Warren. In the lecture I discuss the relevant of 1860s public schooling to the [----] decision among other things. This is part of a Philosophy of Law course. For an explanation of Plessy v Ferguson the infamous court case the enshrined the doctrine of"
YouTube Link 2021-01-05T15:03Z 631K followers, 16.7K engagements
"What is Philosophy - First Lecture of the Semester I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. For more philosophy videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_hukbByJP7OZ3Xm2tszacQ This is a video intended for college students considering taking a class in philosophy but who are not sure exactly what philosophy is. This is also a video for parents or other relatives or friends of college students who have decided to major in"
YouTube Link 2020-12-09T15:56Z 631K followers, 344.9K engagements
"Guide for Writing a Philosophy Paper I am writing a book If you to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Other videos you might want to watch: What is a Counterexample: https://youtu.be/jPdZ42UX41A How to Read Philosophy: https://youtu.be/XlcrKfaJBRM What is Philosophy: https://youtu.be/wwT4N_v0-WQ Arguments vs Conclusions: https://youtu.be/GAYn5v5E20s If you are taking a college-level philosophy course and you have to write a paper or an essay then this video"
YouTube Link 2020-11-17T12:59Z 631K followers, 92.5K engagements
"How to Read Philosophy I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. How to Write Philosophy: https://youtu.be/nKdl_VmKNmk What is Philosophy: https://youtu.be/wwT4N_v0-WQ This is a quick video lecture that provides six tips or pieces of advice for how to understand the papers or books or texts assigned in a college philosophy course. Some illustrations involve Rene Descartes Barbara MacKinnon Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia and Tommie"
YouTube Link 2020-11-13T15:06Z 631K followers, 226.9K engagements
"The Zombie Argument (from David Chalmers) I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Physicalism & Dualism: https://youtu.be/P3pmVf3Gs70 Nagel's 'What is it like to be a bat': https://youtu.be/aaZbCctlll4 This is a lecture video about a short article by Amy Kind wherein she explains David Chalmers' famous Zombie argument against physicalism. A "zombie" is a philosophical term for a creature that is micro-physically identical to a"
YouTube Link 2020-09-10T13:58Z 631K followers, 122K engagements
"The Hard Problem of Consciousness I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Nagel 'What is it Like to be a Bat': https://youtu.be/aaZbCctlll4 Jackson's Mary's Room & Epiphenomenalism: https://youtu.be/QhTRbXpfKw8 This is a lecture video about "The Puzzle of Conscious Experience" by David Chalmers. In this [----] article from Scientific American Chalmers distinguishes the easy problems of consciousness from what he calls the hard"
YouTube Link 2020-09-09T15:23Z 631K followers, 148.3K engagements
"Frank Jackson's famous 'Mary's Room' Thought Experiment I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Nagel's 'What is the like to be a bat': https://youtu.be/aaZbCctlll4 Princess Elisabeth's attack on Descartes: https://youtu.be/kJIZzmUpfmk This is a video lecture about Frank Jackson's Mary's Room thought experiment which is designed as an argument against physicalism. Mary is a vision scientist who spends her whole life in a"
YouTube Link 2020-09-04T17:48Z 631K followers, 295K engagements
"What is it Like to be a Bat - the hard problem of consciousness I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Dualism & Physicalism: https://youtu.be/P3pmVf3Gs70 This is a video about Thomas Nagel's famous [----] Philosophical Review paper "What is the like to be a bat" The paper introduces a novel argument against physicalism. The basic idea is that consciousness embodies (or can only be understood) from a subjective point of view. But"
YouTube Link 2020-09-04T14:20Z 631K followers, 610K engagements
"Does your RED look the same as my RED Functionalism: https://youtu.be/rd8sITBnijg This is a lecture video about the inverted experience thought experiment as well as about the scientific evidence that some percentage of men are in reality red-green color inverted. This is part of an introductory level philosophy course"
YouTube Link 2020-09-03T12:44Z 631K followers, 120K engagements
"The famous Chinese Room thought experiment - John Searle (1980) I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Dualism: https://youtu.be/P3pmVf3Gs70 Behaviorism: https://youtu.be/k715B-2t-YU Identity Theory: https://youtu.be/zO0slzSuxpI Functionalism: https://youtu.be/rd8sITBnijg This is a video lecture about "Can Computers Think" by John Searle. In this paper Searle argues again a form of functionalism which he calls "Strong AI". The"
YouTube Link 2020-09-01T12:39Z 631K followers, 506.8K engagements
"Functionalism Background lecture on Identity Theory: https://youtu.be/zO0slzSuxpI This is a video lecture about Hilary Putnam's Multiple Realizability argument against the mind-brain identity theory and his argument for the functionalist theory of mind. Functionalism is the theory that being in a mental state just is being a functional state with certain inputs and outputs or causes and effects. This is part of an introductory level philosophy course focusing on the philosophy of mind"
YouTube Link 2020-08-28T15:09Z 631K followers, 103.3K engagements
"The Mind-Brain Identity Theory I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Here is some background material. Dualism & Physicalism: https://youtu.be/P3pmVf3Gs70 Princess Elisabeth's attack on Dualism: https://youtu.be/kJIZzmUpfmk Behaviorism: https://youtu.be/k715B-2t-YU Putnam's attack on Behaviorism: https://youtu.be/lRI95Vdc5CU This is a video lecture about a the [----] paper "Is Consciousness a Brain Process" by U.T. Place. This"
YouTube Link 2020-08-21T17:44Z 631K followers, 114.6K engagements
"Hilary Putnam's Super-Spartans attack on Behaviorism Video about Behaviorism: https://youtu.be/k715B-2t-YU Video about Counterexamples: https://youtu.be/jPdZ42UX41A This is a video lecture about Hilary Putnam's seminal paper "Brains and Behavior". The Super Spartans example and the x-world (or x-worlders) example are both discussed as are how those examples are meant to present a problem for the logical behaviorist theory of mind. This is part of an introductory level philosophy course Introduction to Philosophy"
YouTube Link 2020-08-20T12:18Z 631K followers, 55K engagements
"The Behaviorist Theory of Mind I am writing a book If you want to know when it is ready (and maybe win a free copy) submit your email on my website: https://www.jeffreykaplan.org/ I wont spam you or share your email address with anyone. Link to video on counterexamples: https://youtu.be/jPdZ42UX41A This is a video lecture about the theory in the philosophy of mind known as 'Behaviorism.' The reading that this lecture is based on was written by David Armstrong who was not himself a behaviorist but he gives an excellent summary of the view. Behaviorism is the theory that being in a mental state"
YouTube Link 2020-08-18T00:26Z 631K followers, 97.9K engagements
"What is a Counterexample (and why philosophers use fictional examples) This is a short lecture video explaining one of the most common and most powerful philosophical tools: the counterexample. Counterexamples are examples that are given to disprove a general claim. This video also explains how general claims centrally involving a concept--i.e. those claims about conceptual truths--can be proven false with the use of a fictional or even impossible counterexample"
YouTube Link 2020-08-17T14:41Z 631K followers, 52.1K engagements
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