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Jeffrey Kaplan @UC_hukbByJP7OZ3Xm2tszacQ@youtube.com

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I am a philosophy professor. These are my video lectures.


01:13:55
Does Objective Morality Exist? - A philosophical presentation and discussion
25:21
Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals
31:37
Utilitarianism
21:57
Is Pleasure the Only Good Thing? - Nozick's Experience Machine Thought Experiment
20:09
Hedonism
23:19
The Utilitarian Theory of Punishment
24:40
The First Known Philosophical Essay--from 1785--Arguing Against Punishing Gay Sex
15:02
The Famous 'Sheriff' Counterexample to Utilitarianism
33:51
Peter Singer - ordinary people are evil
25:04
Immanuel Kant's Moral Theory - a summary with examples
19:58
How Aristotle Thought about the World
27:43
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics - Book I
47:59
A.J. Ayer's Emotivist Theory of Moral Language
23:39
David Hume's Argument Against Moral Realism
30:35
Bernard Williams' Attack on Moral Relativism
26:33
John Locke's argument, from 1689, for Divine Morality -- it's strengths and weaknesses
28:41
Plato's Euthyphro - Which comes first: God or Morality?
12:20
Moral Skepticism and Moral Objectivism
22:27
An Explanation of Terminology used in Metaethics
51:01
What is Philosophy?
22:21
Does Moral Error prove that there are Objective Moral Laws?
11:06
The fallacious move from different perspectives to relativism about truth
28:09
Is Moral Skepticism Self-Refuting? (No, but it has other problems)
21:05
Two possible arguments against the existence of objective morality (and possible responses)
43:29
An argument against objective morality that defeats itself
13:24
An Explanation of the Normative-Descriptive Distinction (and the varieties of normativity)
11:34
Occam's Razor - rational principles explained
24:17
Does Occam's Razor rule out Objective Morality?
36:02
How to Write a Philosophy Paper
29:17
Hart - Concept of Law - Ch 2 (Summary of John Austin's Theory of Law)
40:59
René Descartes - Meditation #1 - The Method of Doubt
22:48
René Descartes - Meditation #2 - I think, therefore, I am
43:44
René Descartes - Meditation #3 - A Cosmological Proof of God's Existence
26:06
René Descartes - Meditation #4 - The Problem of Error
20:45
René Descartes - Meditation #5 - The Ontological Proof of God's Existence
28:51
René Descartes - Meditation #6 - Proof of the Physical World & Distinction Between Mind and Body
30:47
Plessy v Ferguson - The Logical Flaw in this Infamous Supreme Court Case
25:39
Hart - Concept of Law - Ch 3 (Attack on Austin's Theory #1)
03:40
What Philosophers Mean by "Mental" and "Physical"
15:40
Princess Elisabeth's attack on Descartes' Dualist Theory of Mind (from 1643)
15:57
Gilbert Ryle attacks Descartes' Dualism as a 'Category Mistake'
18:16
What is Philosophy? (Find your CHANCE at UNCG - 2020)
19:27
Korematsu v United States - the U.S. Supreme Court Case legalizing Japanese Internment
32:48
Hart - Concept of Law - Ch 4 (Attack on Austin's Theory #2)
33:44
What is Legal Positivism?
18:59
McFall v Shimp - Landmark Court Case - Should the government force someone to donate bone marrow?
29:07
Hart - Concept of Law - Ch 5 (Primary and Secondary Rules)
29:54
Hart - Concept of Law - Ch 6 (The Rule of Recognition)
18:32
A Few of the Most Interesting Parts of The US Constitution
03:30
How this Lightboard Works
20:32
The Rule of Recognition
21:42
Marbury v Madison - the most important case in US Supreme Court history
20:44
Ronald Dworkin's attack on HLA Hart's Theory of Law
27:14
Riggs v Palmer - famous court case about a grandson murdering his grandfather
10:15
What is a Counterexample? (and why philosophers use fictional examples)
17:15
The Behaviorist Theory of Mind
16:37
Hilary Putnam's Super-Spartans attack on Behaviorism
33:52
The Mind-Brain Identity Theory
29:25
Functionalism
28:30
The famous Chinese Room thought experiment - John Searle (1980)