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Erick Wilberding
This tool will help improve your critical thinking
5:54
Nina Medvinskaya
Is life meaningless? And other absurd questions
8:47
Michael Sandel
The tyranny of merit
5:36
Sascha Morrell
Why should you read "Moby Dick"?
1:02:20
Elizabeth Gilbert
It's OK to feel overwhelmed. Here's what to do next
4:50
Iseult Gillespie
The meaning of life according to Simone de Beauvoir
16:18
Greg Anderson
Why there's no such thing as objective reality
5:09
William D. Desmond
The philosophy of cynicism
15:49
Valorie Kondos Field
Why winning doesn't always equal success
4:09
Zohreh Davoudi
Are we living in a simulation?
12:18
Farish Ahmad-Noor
Why is colonialism (still) romanticized?
13:13
Chris Kutarna
The search for truth in the age of social media
10:50
Fang Ruan
Management lessons from Chinese business and philosophy
4:45
Soraya Field Fiorio
The murder of ancient Alexandria's greatest scholar
11:09
Shannon Lee
What Bruce Lee can teach us about living fully
21:09
Nick Bostrom
How civilization could destroy itself -- and 4 ways we could prevent it
4:56
Puqun Li
Zen kōans: unsolvable enigmas designed to break your brain
11:54
Will MacAskill
What are the most important moral problems of our time?
9:42
Raymond Tang
Be humble -- and other lessons from the philosophy of water
6:10
Maryam Alimardani
Are you a body with a mind or a mind with a body?
13:30
Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
Why Africa must become a center of knowledge again
5:30
Massimo Pigliucci
The philosophy of Stoicism
16:41
James Williams
Bringing back the 'social' in 'social media'
14:26
Michael Patrick Lynch
How to see past your own perspective and find truth
18:25
Christopher Robichaud
How I used Dungeons & Dragons to teach ethics
5:11
Stuart Vyse
Where do superstitions come from?
4:32
Eleanor Nelsen
Mary's Room: A philosophical thought experiment
5:56
Alex Gendler
How to recognize a dystopia
10:20
Grady Booch
Don't fear superintelligent AI
20:17
Jonathan Haidt
Can a divided America heal?
4:32
Tejal Gala
The Egyptian Book of the Dead: A guidebook for the underworld
5:39
Tom Mullaney
What caused the French Revolution?
4:34
Wisecrack
Plato's best (and worst) ideas
4:09
Camille Langston
How to use rhetoric to get what you want
10:10
Jorge Batlle
El último testimonio de un ex-presidente
14:58
Gaspard Koenig
Do we really own our bodies?
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