PickVidsBest Philosophy & ethics Videos
The 98 Philosophy & ethics videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 8 introductory, 11 intermediate, 79 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a talk. What they share is that one speaker finishes a claim, and the examples exist to hold that claim up. Channels you will keep seeing include Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell, TED, Talks at Google.
Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person
A School of Life video arguing that everyone marries someone who is somewhat wrong for them, and that this is unavoidable.
Gregory Chaitin - Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered?
Gregory Chaitin is interviewed on Closer To Truth about whether mathematics is invented or discovered.
You Have No Idea How Wrong You Are
A talk given at the 2011 Nammour Symposium at Sacramento State arguing that past generations were wrong about nearly everything, so we should expect to be wrong too.
Why Libertarianism Is So Dangerous
A former libertarian argues against libertarianism, describing the worst-case scenario if government disappeared overnight.
Noam Chomsky - Freedom of Speech for Views You Don't Like
A ten-minute clip of Noam Chomsky on the Faurisson affair and free speech.
Jordan Peterson | ContraPoints
ContraPoints' long-form video response to Jordan Peterson, critiquing his ideas including his use of the term postmodern neo-Marxism.
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking | Daniel Dennett | Talks at Google
Philosopher Daniel Dennett visits Google to discuss his book Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking, describing thought experiments and thinking tools across psychology, biology, computer science and physics.
Does the Past Still Exist?
Sabine Hossenfelder explains how special relativity leads to the block universe, in which past, present and future all exist equally, and asks what that means for whether the past still exists.
The Last Human – A Glimpse Into The Far Future
A Kurzgesagt animation on longtermism, arguing that because the future could hold trillions of people, our actions' effect on future generations may be what matters most.
A kinder, gentler philosophy of success | Alain de Botton
Alain de Botton gives a TED talk questioning how we define success and failure.
Antifragille: Things That Gain from Disorder | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Talks at Google
Nassim Nicholas Taleb talks at Google about his book Antifragile, on systems that gain from disorder and volatility.
Slavoj Žižek | Why Be Happy When You Could Be Interesting? | Big Think
A two-minute Big Think clip of Slavoj Zizek arguing that happiness is a conformist, even unethical goal.
Data | Philosophy Tube
A Philosophy Tube video essay on data, surveillance and the algorithms built on personal information, touching on Cambridge Analytica and the 'nothing to hide' argument.
Milton Friedman justifies not recalling the ford pinto
A clip of Milton Friedman answering an audience member about Ford's decision not to recall the Pinto, in which he defends weighing safety costs against benefits.
Marxism: Zizek/Peterson: Official Video
A roughly 2.5-hour Toronto debate between Jordan Peterson and Slavoj Zizek on happiness under Marxism versus capitalism.
Richard Wolff: Marxism and Communism | Lex Fridman Podcast #295
Lex Fridman interviews economist Richard Wolff, a Marxist, about Marxism, communism, capitalism and worker cooperatives.
Zizek on toilets
Slavoj Zizek speaks at an architecture congress in Pamplona about how toilet design in France, England and Germany reflects national ideology.
Is the Universe a Simulation? | 2016 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate
The 2016 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate, moderated by Neil deGrasse Tyson, in which a panel of physicists and philosophers debates whether the universe is a simulation.
Bonhoeffer‘s Theory of Stupidity
An animated Sprouts video presenting Dietrich Bonhoeffer's argument that stupidity is more dangerous than evil, because reason cannot reach stupid people.
Isn't the purpose of work just making money?
A five-minute clip in which Erich Fromm asks whether the purpose of work is just making money.
Alan Watts - On Prickles and Goo
A short animated excerpt of Alan Watts describing 'prickles' (rigorous, scientific types) and 'goo' (soft, spiritual types).
Donald Rumsfeld Unknown Unknowns !
A one-minute clip of Donald Rumsfeld's 'known knowns, unknown unknowns' remarks at a Pentagon briefing.
RUMSFELD / KNOWNS
A CNN clip from February 2002 of Donald Rumsfeld explaining the idea of known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns at a press briefing.
Milton Friedman - Your Greed or Their Greed?
A short clip of Milton Friedman on the Donahue show answering whether greed is a vice specific to capitalism, arguing it exists in every system.