What did Charles Darwin, middling schoolboy and underachieving second son, do to become one of the earliest and greatest naturalists the world has known? What were the…
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The Futurica Trilogy is a work of philosophy, sociology and futurology in three closely related movements. The first volume, The Netocrats, deals with human history from the…
During the lecture and Q&A, Zizek reinforced his blatant disregard for distinctions between high and low culture, relating contemporary theory and philosophy to films as surprising as…
For a Christian, it is faith that gives their life purpose. But as a non-believer, your purpose resides in yourself; it is yours alone to discover and…
Does the fallibility of sensory evidence – for example, the fact we can make mistakes about what we’re seeing, hearing, tasting, touching and smelling – mean they’re…
Tamar Gendler gives an introduction to the Philosophy of Politics and Economics. Who gets what and who says so? These two questions underlie and inform every social…
Knowledge, information, and wisdom, how do they relate? Of course with the technological revolution, information revolution, digital revolution, whatever you call it there’s an enormous amount of…
Before watching this talk you need to watch the movie Inception. Kyle explores the movie’s key questions and themes, including how we can tell if we’re dreaming…
Philosophy and the Science of Human Nature pairs central texts from Western philosophical tradition (including works by Plato, Aristotle, Epictetus, Hobbes, Kant, Mill, Rawls, and Nozick) with…
There is one thing I can be sure of: I am going to die. But what am I to make of that fact? This course will examine…
In this talk His Holiness turns to one of his favorite themes: the importance of compassion. Far from being a uniquely Buddhist concern, the Dalai Lama explains…
