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Lesson 1: Overreliance on AI
Season 3 Episode 1
As we offload our cognitive labor to machines, are we inadvertently erasing the 'road to expertise' and deskilling the very traits that define high-l…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Lesson 1.6: The Blank Slate
Season 2 Episode 6
Locke promises a “blank slate” mind—but once you follow the logic, his empiricism starts sliding toward skepticism.
Topics discussed: Three “contende…8 months, 3 weeks ago
Lesson 1.5: Reason and the Senses
Season 2 Episode 5
If our senses can deceive us and our reasoning can outrun experience, which should we trust as the true foundation of knowledge: reason alone, or the…
9 months, 1 week ago
Lesson 1.4: The Method of Doubt
Season 2 Episode 4
Descartes responds to radical uncertainty with an audacious plan: find one belief so secure that nothing—not even deception itself—can shake it.
Topic…9 months, 2 weeks ago
Lesson 1.4: The Method of Doubt
Episode 26
Descartes responds to radical uncertainty with an audacious plan: find one belief so secure that nothing—not even deception itself—can shake it.
Topic…9 months, 2 weeks ago
Lesson 1.3: Knowledge Is Power
Season 2 Episode 3
Francis Bacon’s revolution wasn’t about solving the old puzzles of knowledge, but about changing the very rules of inquiry — turning epistemology out…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Lesson 1.2: Thinking About Knowledge
Season 2 Episode 2
When a society tears itself apart over beliefs it cannot justify, philosophy steps in to ask what it really means to know anything at all.
Topics exp…
11 months, 1 week ago
Lesson 1.1: Intro to PHIL
Season 2 Episode 1
Philosophy begins the moment you stop defending what you believe and start asking why you believe it.
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Lesson 1.1: Intro to PHIL
Season 2 Episode 1
In this lesson, we discuss the complicated history of the Western philosophical tradition as well as some core concepts for the course.
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Lesson 3.8: Into the Void
Season 1 Episode 25
Rome fell—but not before raising Christianity to the throne. In its triumph, the Church buried the pagan schools, silenced the philosophers, and turn…
1 year, 4 months ago