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Big Questions of Philosophy — Storyline

We have all pondered seemingly unanswerably but significant questions about our existence—the biggest of all being, “Why are we here?” Philosophy has developed over millennia to help us grapple with these essential intangibles. There is no better way to study the big questions in philosophy than to compare how the world’s greatest minds have analyzed these questions, defined the terms, and then reasoned out potential solutions. Once you’ve compared the arguments, the final step is always deciding for yourself whether you find an explanation convincing.

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Big Questions of Philosophy — Series Details

Big Questions of Philosophy — Episode Guide

Season 1

• E1: How Do We Do Philosophy? (2018-07-02) — The first four lectures of the course pose the big question: What is philosophy? Start by exploring the kinds of problems that philosophy addresses, the way philosophy works, and t
• E2: Why Should We Trust Reason? (2018-07-09) — Hone your philosophical thinking by identifying the categories of fallacious reasoning that ensnare us all. Investigate examples of gut-thinking, confirmation bias, appealing to ig
• E3: How Do We Reason Carefully? (2018-07-16) — Avoiding fallacious reasoning is just the beginning of philosophical thinking. Go deeper by studying the rules of deduction and induction. In the process, learn Aristotle's three a
• E4: How Do We Find the Best Explanation? (2018-07-23) — Explore the power of abduction, a form of induction also known as inference to the best explanation, that is used not only by philosophers, but also by doctors to make medical diag
• E5: What Is Truth? (2018-07-30) — Now begin a section of the course devoted to the big question: What is knowledge? Start with the problem of defining truth. Investigate three philosophical theories that attempt to
• E6: Is Knowledge Possible? (2018-08-06) — Having covered ways of gaining evidence and justifying belief in pursuit of knowledge, now ask: Is knowledge really possible? See what Plato had to say. Then delve into Rene Descar
• E7: What Is the Best Way to Gain Knowledge? (2018-08-13) — Put empiricism to the test as the best way to acquire knowledge. Study the ideas of John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume, together with the response of Immanuel Kant, before
• E8: Do We Know What Knowledge Is? (2018-08-20) — Address a famous problem concerning the nature of knowledge, posed by contemporary philosopher Edmund Gettier. Use different thought experiments to test the traditional definition
• E9: When Can We Trust Testimony? (2018-08-27) — In this section, put what you've learned to work by asking the big question: Can religious belief be justified? Start with Hume's argument that testimony can never justify a belief
• E10: Can Mystical Experience Justify Belief? (2018-09-03) — Look at the phenomenon of religious experiences, pondering whether such events justify belief. Find that practically all religions have religious experiences, but the beliefs they
• E11: Is Faith Ever Rational? (2018-09-10) — Given that faith by its nature makes no claim to being logical, can it ever be considered rational? Learn that all of us unconsciously behave as if it is. What are our grounds for
• E12: Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? (2018-09-17) — Begin a series of lectures addressing the next big question: Does God exist? The most popular proofs appeal to God's existence as the best explanation for the universe's existence
• E13: What Is God Like? (2018-09-24) — Traditionally, if God exists, God is perfect – God is omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent. See how these three attributes are likely inconsistent with each another. Focus in
• E14: How Could God Allow Moral Evil? (2018-10-01) — Now consider arguments against God's existence, the most common being the problem of evil. Explore various theological solutions that account for why God allows certain evils, like
• E15: Why Would God Cause Natural Evil? (2018-10-08) — It is one thing for God to grant humans the freedom to do evil, but it's harder to understand the existence of natural evils such as earthquakes and plagues. Evaluate different app
• E16: Are Freedom and Foreknowledge Compatible? (2018-10-15) — Do we have free will? This is your next big question. Begin with a close study of omnitemporalism – the idea that the future already exists and that God necessarily has foreknowled
• E17: Do Our Souls Make Us Free? (2018-10-22) — Look at the problem of free will from the point of view of the soul, the conjectured seat of mentality that exists apart from the body. Discover that neuroscience suggests that the
• E18: What Does It Mean to Be Free? (2018-10-29) — Some philosophers, called compatibilists, argue that if we understand free will correctly, the idea that humans are free becomes defensible, leaving room for moral responsibility.
• E19: What Preserves Personal Identity? (2018-11-05) — Spend the next four lectures on the big question: Could there be an afterlife? First, ask what defines a person and how personal identity is preserved over time. Discover that many
• E20: Are Persons Mere Minds? (2018-11-12) — Explore the possibility that personal identity is preserved by memory, as Locke contended, or by psychological continuity. Test these ideas in thought experiments involving the tra
• E21: Are Persons Just Bodies? (2018-11-19) — Could it be that you are the same person over time because you have the same body over time? Explore the implications of this view, which traces to the Judeo-Christian concept of t
• E22: Are You Really You? (2018-11-26) — Close your inquiry into the afterlife by looking at new ways of defining personhood. According to perdurantism, a person is the sum total of an individual's life experiences and ca
• E23: How Does the Brain Produce the Mind? (2018-12-03) — The next three lectures address the big question: What is the nature of the mind? Start with the celebrated "hard problem" of consciousness: How does the brain produce the mind? In
• E24: What Do Minds Do, If Anything? (2018-12-10) — Examine three more theories of the mind – property dualism, epiphenomenalism, and eliminative materialism – discovering that each has shortcomings. All of us feel that we have mind
• E25: Could Machines Think? (2018-12-17) — Push your exploration of the mind even further by looking at functionalism, which suggests that anything that functions like our brain has mentality. The implication is that, in pr
• E26: Does God Define the Good? (2018-12-24) — Turn to the next big question: What is morally right and wrong? Your first step is to inquire what establishes the truth of ethical statements. Look briefly at emotivism, which hol
• E27: Does Happiness Define the Good? (2018-12-31) — Could the happiness or absence of pain that results from an action define whether it is good? The Greek philosopher Epicurus held this view, which was fine-tuned by utilitarian phi
• E28: Does Reason Define the Good? (2019-01-07) — Kant suggested that reason determines what is moral or immoral. Analyze his famous categorical imperative, which is a set of obligatory moral rules guided by reason. See how Kant's
• E29: How Ought We to Live? (2019-01-14) — Take up virtue ethics, which suggests that we should concentrate less on resolving which actions are moral or immoral, and instead focus on cultivating virtue. Explore the complexi
• E30: Why Bother Being Good? (2019-01-21) — Wickedness has its rewards, which raises the question: Why bother being good? Explore this issue with Plato, whose dialogue The Republic is a detailed description of a highly regul
• E31: Should Government Exist? (2019-01-28) — This section of the course considers the big question: How should society be organized? Here, perform a thought experiment that casts into doubt the moral justification of governme
• E32: What Justifies a Government? (2019-02-04) — Does government arise naturally from a state of anarchy? Does this fact morally justify it? Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean Jacques Rousseau thought so. However, each of these
• E33: How Big Should Government Be? (2019-02-11) — Explore three theories on the proper size of government, focusing on economic regulation and delivery of services. Adam Smith saw a minimal role, Karl Marx envisioned total control
• E34: What Are the Limits of Liberty? (2019-02-18) — Deepen your study of the role of government by examining Mill's arguments in his famous 1859 treatise, On Liberty. Apply his reasoning to three of today's hot-button issues: To wha
• E35: What Makes a Society Fair or Just? (2019-02-25) — Enter the fray with philosophers John Rawls and Robert Nozick, who reached different conclusions about what would constitute a just society. Begin with a thought experiment based o
• E36: What Is the Meaning of Life? (2019-03-04) — Professor Johnson poses the last big question of the course: Can we answer the ultimate question? Draw on the many insights you've gained from these lectures, together with your ex

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How many seasons does Big Questions of Philosophy have? 1 season(s) with 36 episodes.

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