Christof Koch: Why Philosophy of Science?
[6:44] Science is humankind’s magnificent achievement, the way of thinking to discern facts and truths and to r…
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Alison Gopnik: Why Philosophy of Science?
[10:10] Science is humankind’s magnificent achievement, the way of thinking to discern facts and truths and to …
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Alva Noë: Why a Mind-Body Problem?
[10:08] How does the brain produce the mind? This is one of the most difficult problems in science, because how can physi…
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Peter Singer & Richard Dawkins: A conversation on living ethically
[43:16] A detailed conversation on the tricky topic of how to approach life ethically. [Video and text source: Know Not…
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My Society My Self?
[1:32:10] How do we develop a sense of who we truly are? Do we perceive ourselves as science defines us? While some scient…
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Thomas Metzinger: The Ego Tunnel
[17:46] Brain, bodily awareness, and the emergence of a conscious self: these entities and their relations are explor…
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Sam Harris: Meaning
[3:08] Sam Harris answers a question about the meaning of life. [Video and text source: Morphing Reality YouTube chann…
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Philosophie + Pornographie: Kant
[3:37] Immanuel Kant was one of the foremost philosophers to reflect on aesthetics; he was particularly interested in …
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Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness
[2:06:35] The science of consciousness has made great strides by focusing on the behavioral and neuronal correlates o…
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Max Tegmark: Consciousness is a mathematical pattern
[16:36] As a physicist, Max Tegmark sees people as “food, rearranged.” That makes his answer to complica…
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