Crash Course
What is Philosophy?: Crash Course Philosophy
Today Hank begins to teach you about Philosophy by discussing the historical origins of philosophy in ancient Greece, and its three main divisions: metaphysics, epistemology, and value theory. He will also introduce logic, and how you’re...
Professor Dave Explains
Current Philosophy Part 3: Epistemology, Perception, and Science
Continuing through a survey of current ideas in philosophy, we reach some newer work in epistemology, perception, and the philosophy of science. Let's take a look at some ideas from John McDowell, Alvin Goldman, Ernest Sosa, Robert Audi,...
Professor Dave Explains
Current Philosophy Part 2: Logic, Language, and Knowledge
We just examined some aspects of current philosophy around the field of ethics. Now let's check out some developments in terms of our study of logic, language, and knowledge. This is will involve looking at figures like Saul Kripke,...
Professor Dave Explains
Current Philosophy Part 1: Ethics and Critical Theory
After studying the history of philosophy and logic for quite some time, we have finally made it to present day. What are some important topics in current philosophy? Let's begin to answer this question by first examining ethics, and...
The Business Professor
Bridging Epistemologies Framework
What is the Bridging Epistemologies Framework? The framework Cook and Brown helps to think of knowledge in an organizational context and understanding why and how we know things collectively. Their model strengthens the link between...
Professor Dave Explains
Epistemology Part 1: Quine, Sellars, Gettier, and Putnam
Having gotten a sense of the continental and analytic traditions in contemporary philosophy, we are ready to examine advancements in the field of epistemology that occurred around that time. Let's see how Willard Quine, Wilfrid Sellars,...
Professor Dave Explains
Analytic Philosophy Part 2: The Vienna Circle
Returning again to analytic philosophy, we arrive at the Vienna Circle and the logical positivists. There were many important members of this group, and Ludwig Wittgenstein was a frequent collaborator. Let's see what they were all about!
The Business Professor
Bridging Epistemologies Framework
What is the Bridging Epistemologies Framework? The framework Cook and Brown helps to think of knowledge in an organizational context and understanding why and how we know things collectively. Their model strengthens the link between...
Professor Dave Explains
Early Philosophical Thought (East Asia and India)
Philosophy has its roots all over the world, and although the best preserved documents are from the Western world, which is why this topic is so frequently studied from a Western perspective, there are a number of Eastern thinkers that...
Professor Dave Explains
Introduction to Philosophy and Logic
Humans are on a quest to understand the world around us. How did this quest begin? What are the tools we use to gather knowledge? How do we know what is possible to know? What do we mean when using words like ethics, ontology,...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Cognitive Biases: Alief
In this video, the psychologist Laurie Santos (Yale University) explains the philosopher Tamar Gendler's concept of alief--an automatic or habitual mental attitude. The video discusses why aliefs differ from beliefs and how aliefs can...
Crash Course
Crash Course Philosophy #1: What Is Philosophy?
Learn about philosophy by listening to a discussion about the historical origins of philosophy in ancient Greece and its three main divisions: metaphysics, epistemology, and value theory. You will also be introduced to logic and how...
Crash Course
Crash Course History of Science #14: The Scientific Methods
Historically speaking, there is no one scientific method. There's more than one way to make knowledge. In this episode, learn about three scientists and the methods they pioneered. Galileo's focus on rational comparison of theories about...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Epistemology: The Paradox of the Ravens
In this video, Marc Lange (UNC) introduces the paradox of confirmation, one that arises from instance confirmation, the equivalence condition, and common inference rules of logic. [6:29]