Best Philosophy & ethics Videos
「Philosophy & ethics」下面有98部被不同的人、在不同月份推荐过的视频。挑的时候先看对象:入门8部,适合还没学过的人;进阶11部,适合已经懂术语的人;普通向79部,按兴趣就能看;更硬的0部,留给想看推导或细节的人。这一类数量最多的是演讲,所以它们的共同点是一位讲者把一个判断讲完,例子是为了撑住这个判断。常出现的频道包括Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell、TED、Talks at Google。目录给这个主题划的范围是:Philosophy: ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of science, Stoicism, moral philosophy, free will, meaning of life, political philosophy, philosophers, thought experiments.如果只看三部,就从《Dominion (2018) - full documentary [Official]》开始,它负责把问题讲出画面;然后看《Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 01 "THE MORAL SIDE OF MURDER"》,换一种讲法或例子;最后看《We Were Taught to Call Death a Blessing》,留给已经有基础的人。页面按每页24部切开,顺序看的是被推荐跨越了多少个月,不是播放量。每条标题下面那一句是这部片子自己的内容说明,用来区分它在讲定义、过程、演示还是观点。点进去能看到推荐原话、原文链接和适合谁看。看的时候把强烈推荐当成有人明确叫你去看,把引用当成只是拿来举例,把批评留下来对照,不要把每条评论都当成同一力度。

Bill Hicks - It's Just A Ride
A short clip from Bill Hicks' final special, Revelations, in which he describes life as just a ride.

Richard Feynman Magnets
A short clip of Richard Feynman answering an interviewer's question about how magnets work, in which he explains why a why-question has no simple answer without a shared frame of reference.

Slavoj Žižek on "They Live" (The Pervert's Guide to Ideology)
A short excerpt from The Pervert's Guide to Ideology in which Slavoj Zizek analyzes John Carpenter's They Live.

THIS IS WATER! by David Foster Wallace
A short video of David Foster Wallace's 'This Is Water' commencement speech about awareness and choosing how to think.

The Concept of Language (Noam Chomsky)
Noam Chomsky talks with the University of Washington's Upon Reflection about how languages change over time, why a national language is a modern idea, and how language is a system of communication rooted in human nature.

RSA ANIMATE: First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
An RSA Animate adaptation of a Slavoj Zizek talk on charitable giving and ethical consumerism.

Andreessen's Corollary: Ethical Dilemmas in Software Engineering - Bryan Cantrill | Craft 2019
Bryan Cantrill's Craft 2019 talk on the ethical dilemmas software engineers face as software eats the world.

The Trolley Problem in Real Life
Vsauce's Michael Stevens stages a realistic version of the trolley problem with unsuspecting subjects who believe they must decide a life-or-death outcome.

Jailbreaking the Simulation with George Hotz | SXSW 2019
George Hotz gives a SXSW 2019 talk on the idea that we live in a simulation and asks what actions would be available from inside it.

07/27/1978
An hour-long absurdist Lasagna Cat video in which John Blyth Barrymore muses philosophically on a single Garfield strip.

The psychology of evil | Philip Zimbardo
Psychologist Philip Zimbardo explains how ordinary people can be pushed into doing evil by situations and systems.

Violence | Slavoj Žižek | Talks at Google
Slavoj Zizek discusses his book Violence in an Authors@Google talk in New York.

Hauntology, Lost Futures and 80s Nostalgia
A video essay explaining hauntology, Mark Fisher's idea of lost futures, and 80s nostalgia.

OODA Loop & Evolutionary Epistemology of John Boyd by Chuck Spinney
Chuck Spinney, a long-time associate of John Boyd, presents Boyd's thinking on the OODA loop and evolutionary epistemology.

Peter Thiel on “The Straussian Moment”
Peter Robinson interviews Peter Thiel at the Hoover Institution about Thiel's essay The Straussian Moment.

Joscha: From Computation to Consciousness (31c3)
Joscha Bach's 31c3 talk argues that the mind should be understood as an information-processing system and that even the physical universe can be seen as computational.

Brave New World vs Nineteen Eighty-Four featuring Adam Gopnik and Will Self
An Intelligence Squared debate in which Will Self argues for Brave New World and Adam Gopnik for Nineteen Eighty-Four as the better dystopian warning.

The War on Sensemaking, Daniel Schmachtenberger
Daniel Schmachtenberger discusses why the information ecology is damaged and what healthy public sensemaking would take.

Noam Chomsky - "The machine, the ghost, and the limits of understanding"
Noam Chomsky's 2011 University of Oslo lecture on Newton's contributions to the study of mind.

Peter Singer - ordinary people are evil
Philosopher Jeffrey Kaplan summarizes Peter Singer's 1972 essay 'Famine, Affluence, and Morality', arguing that failing to give to save lives is morally comparable to letting a child drown.

Geographical limit between Balkan and Central Europe
A one-minute clip of Slavoj Zizek showing what he calls the official geographical limit between the Balkans and Central Europe, standing at a river in Ljubljana.

Best Speech You Will Ever Hear - Gary Yourofsky
Gary Yourofsky's 2010 lecture at Georgia Tech arguing for veganism on ethical, health and environmental grounds.

David Deutsch: A new way to explain explanation
Physicist David Deutsch's TED talk on why science took off, arguing that good explanations are those that are hard to vary.

David Deutsch on Optimism
An excerpt from an RSA event in which physicist David Deutsch makes the case for optimism as a driver of progress in the 21st century.