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Metaphysics: What Is It? Why Is It Important Today?

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Socratic Method: What Is It and How Can You Use It?

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Seneca On Coping with the Shortness of Life

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Mind Chat’s Philip Goff and Keith Frankish On Why We Are Conscious

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What is Philosophy, and Why is it Important Today?

Your quick guide to what philosophy involves, why exploring it could make a significant difference to your life, and next steps for learning about its essential ideas.

What is Existentialism? 3 Core Principles of Existentialist Philosophy

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George Berkeley’s Subjective Idealism: The World Is In Our Minds

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John Locke’s Empiricism: Why We Are All Tabula Rasas (Blank Slates)

10 MIN BREAK

Why You Should Care About Philosophy: Jonny Thomson Interview

7 MIN BREAK

Is the World Around Us ‘Real’?

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Why Does Anything Exist?

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Socrates and the Socratic Paradox: I Know That I Know Nothing

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I Think Therefore I Am: Descartes' Cogito Ergo Sum Explained

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Why Death is Nothing to Fear: Lucretius and Epicureanism

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Hannah Arendt On Standing Up to the Banality of Evil

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Thomas Nagel On Why Humor is the Best Response to Life's Absurdity

6 MIN BREAK

Kierkegaard On Why Busy People Are Ridiculous

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Why ‘Zombies’ Cause Problems for Brain Science and Consciousness

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What Happens When Machines Become Smarter than People?

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Bertrand Russell On Why Philosophy Matters

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What is Consciousness?

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Where Do Morals Come From?

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How the Languages We Speak Shape Our Realities

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Why You Probably Don't Have Free Will

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Albert Camus on Coping with Life's Absurdity

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Are We Living in a Computer Simulation?

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Dancing with Nietzsche's Perspectivism

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