The Backwards Brain Bicycle
[7:57] It took me 8 months to learn how to do this, but I was only picking up the bike and running to the end of the driveway an…
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Michael Tomasello – What Makes Us Human?
[3:11] “What makes us really different is our ability to put our heads together and to do things that neither one o…
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Jesse Prinz: Beyond Reference – How Minds Make Categories
[1:05:26] Lecture given during The Shalem Center’s Psycho-ontology Conference, December, 2011. Philosophe…
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The Speed of Life
[7:40] Why does time appear to speed up as we get older? Can we slow it down? Thanks to the National Geographic Channel for …
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The notorious findings from the ‘doll test’
[9:12] In 2005 filmmaker Kirk Davis recreated a doll study and documented it in a film entitled ‘A Girl Like Me&…
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Daniel Kahneman: The Trouble with Confidence
[2:56] The trouble, says Nobel Laureate psychologist Daniel Kahneman, is that we’re often confident in our int…
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Lessons about the Ego
[4:56] North Africa & Middle East – 95% Muslim / no pork South America – 95% Catholic / Heaven/Hell / No …
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Why do we love? A philosophical inquiry
[5:44] Ah, romantic love; beautiful and intoxicating, heart-breaking and soul-crushing… often all at the sam…
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Epistemology: The Problem of Skepticism
[9:45] Is knowledge humanly possible? In this video, Jennifer Nagel (University of Toronto) looks at skeptical argum…
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