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Philosophy of religion
How a devout Catholic philosopher approaches the problem of evil
8 minutes
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Meaning and the good life
Why Aristotle believed that philosophy was humanity’s highest purpose
9 minutes
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Metaphysics
Are coincidences real?
I am an unequivocal rationalist and yet I still want to see something strange and wonderful in life’s weird coincidences
Paul Broks
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Logic and probability
Chew over the prisoner’s dilemma and see if you can find the rational path out
6 minutes
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Metaphysics
Bertrand Russell wanted to kill off causation. Can contemporary philosophy rescue it?
8 minutes
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Ethics
How many monkeys is it worth sacrificing to save a human life?
6 minutes
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Ethics
Moral mathematics
Subjecting the problems of ethics to the cool quantifications of logic and probability can help us to be better people
Elad Uzan
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Metaphysics
Is the question ‘Why is there something instead of nothing?’ even worth asking?
9 minutes
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Logic and probability
Is it more likely you’re a person with a past, or an ephemeral brain in a void?
6 minutes
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Mathematics
How a verbal paradox shattered the notion of total certainty in mathematics
5 minutes
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Philosophy of science
What is a law of nature?
Laws of nature are impossible to break, and nearly as difficult to define. Just what kind of necessity do they possess?
Marc Lange
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Logic and probability
The unresolved probability paradox that goes to the heart of scientific objectivity
8 minutes
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Logic and probability
This paradoxical life
When logic fails to make sense of a world noisy with inconsistency, paraconsistent logics hold out (im)possible solutions
Zach Weber
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Mathematics
Check in to the Hilbert Hotel, and learn why some infinities are bigger than others
6 minutes
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Earth science and climate
How much can science really tell us about the future of climate change?
24 minutes
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Mathematics
This puzzle is nearly impossible – but working out why is its own brain-teaser
19 minutes
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Logic and probability
Is a red apple proof that all ravens are black? A paradox of scientific logic
6 minutes
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Thinkers and theories
Peak ellipsis
Does philosophy reside in the unsayable or should it care only for precision? Carnap, Heidegger and the great divergence
Sam Dresser
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Values and beliefs
Why do you believe what you do? Run some diagnostics on it
Miriam Schoenfield
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Political philosophy
The politics of logic
Should philosophy express the national character of a people? Bertrand Russell’s ‘scientific’ philosophy was a bulwark against nationalism
Alexander Klein
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Logic and probability
How ad hominem arguments can demolish appeals to authority
Moti Mizrahi
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Logic and probability
The concept of probability is not as simple as you think
Nevin Climenhaga
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Thinkers and theories
Philosophy must be useful
For Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle, much of philosophy was mere nonsense. Then came Frank Ramsey’s pragmatic alternative
Cheryl Misak
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Stories and literature
Slaying the Snark: what nonsense verse tells us about reality
Nina Lyon