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Khan Academy: Theory of Knowledge: Analyze Knwl #3 Causal & Reliabilist Theories
Is knowledge a matter of being causally connected to the world in the right way? In this Wireless Philosophy video, Jennifer Nagel (University of Toronto) examines the causal theory of knowledge proposed by Alvin Goldman in 1967, and...
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Khan Academy: Religion: Pascal's Wager
In this Wireless Philosophy video, Susanna Rinard (Harvard University) explains Pascal's Wager, Blaise Pascal's famous argument for belief in God. Lifting an approach from the gambling hall, Pascal argued that, given the odds and the...
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Khan Academy: Religion: Cosmological Argument, Part 2
Part 2 of a pair. Dr. Tim Yenter moves on to the version of the Cosmological Argument for the existence of God called 'the Modal Argument.' The idea is that all the contingent facts about the world need to be explained by some necessary...
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Khan Academy: Religion: Cosmological Argument, Part 1
Part 1 of a pair. Dr. Tim Yenter lays out a classic argument for the existence of God, called 'The Cosmological Argument' -- roughly, the idea that something has to explain why the world is the way it is, and that something is God. He...
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Khan Academy: Religion: Classical Theism, Part 7 (Atheistic Arguments From Evil)
Often it can seem like the existence of evil is incompatible with a good and omnipotent God. This video present an argument for that claim put forward by J.L. Mackie, and it examines the different ways that Classical Theism and Theistic...
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Khan Academy: Religion: Classical Theism Part 6 (Evil and Goodness in the World)
If, as Classical Theists hold, we and all created things exist because God is good, what can evil be? This video presents the privation theory of evil--that evil is the absence of something that ought to exist--and shows how such evil is...
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Khan Academy: Epistemology: Rationality
Ram Neta (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) considers whether we're as rational as we often think we are. Help us caption & translate this video!
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Khan Academy: Race: Racial Ontology #2 (Naturalist Theories of Race)
In the second of a four part series, 'Racial Ontology: A Guide for the Perplexed,' David Miguel Gray (Colgate University) introduces naturalist theories of race. Naturalist theories place questions of race in the domain of biology and...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Methods of Proof: Lesson 2
In this lesson, students are introduced to different ways to prove an answer. It is 2 of 6 in the series titled "Methods of Proof."
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Sophia: Using Inductive Logic: Lesson 1
In this lesson, students see how to use inductive logic in order to solve a problem. It is 1 of 8 in the series titled "Using Inductive Logic."
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Sophia: Methods of Proof: Lesson 6
In this lesson, students are introduced to different ways to prove an answer. It is 6 of 6 in the series titled "Methods of Proof."