Jeffrey Kaplan

Bertrand Russell - Theory of Descriptions

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The most important skill college students should learn

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The one true philosophical theory of names

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Advertising doesn't work the way you think it does

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Saul Kripke's Causal Theory of Names

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Naming and Necessity by Saul Kripke - Part 1

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What are Possible Worlds?

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"Proper Names" by John Searle

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Gottlob Frege - On Sense and Reference

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The Compositionality of Language explained

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John Stuart Mill - one minor mistake

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Legal Positivism - the dominant theory in jurisprudence

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The Liar Paradox - an explanation of the paradox from 400 BCE

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Euthyphro and Socrates

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Recommending Descartes’ Meditations

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The first 7 philosophy texts you should read

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Pleasure is good as an end

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Lecture on Friedrich Nietzsche’s ‘Genealogy of Morals’

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This philosopher's work explains Twitter Addiction

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Russell's Paradox - a simple explanation of a profound problem

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Semester Ethics Course condensed (Part 2 of 2)

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Semester Ethics Course condensed into 22mins (Part 1 of 2)

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Why do philosophers use *imaginary* examples and counterexamples?

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Rules for Interacting with College Professors - Office Hours, Email, Letters of Recommendation

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Lecture #11: Taking Notes Effectively - which words should you write down?

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Lecture #10: How to Memorize Anything - EFFICIENTLY

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Lecture #9: How to Read so that you *Retain* Information

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How much of the reading do you have to do in college courses?

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Lecture #7 - My Method for Defeating Procrastination

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Keeping a Calendar in College

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How to Read a College Syllabus - And Strategize for How to Best Approach the Course

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Secret to College Success #4: Actually Learn

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How to Make College Courses Easy and How *Not* to Practice "Self-Care"

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To Do Well In College: Don't Work Hard, Work Efficiently

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Student Loans are Great, But Only if Used Correctly

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The Details of Brown v Board of Ed - - US Supreme Court

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What is Philosophy? - First Lecture of the Semester

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Guide for Writing a Philosophy Paper

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How to Read Philosophy

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The Zombie Argument (from David Chalmers)

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The Hard Problem of Consciousness

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Frank Jackson's famous 'Mary's Room' Thought Experiment

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What is it Like to be a Bat? - the hard problem of consciousness

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Does your RED look the same as my RED?

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The famous Chinese Room thought experiment - John Searle (1980)

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Functionalism

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The Mind-Brain Identity Theory

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Hilary Putnam's Super-Spartans attack on Behaviorism

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The Behaviorist Theory of Mind

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What is a Counterexample? (and why philosophers use fictional examples)

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Riggs v Palmer - famous court case about a grandson murdering his grandfather

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Ronald Dworkin's attack on HLA Hart's Theory of Law

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Marbury v Madison - the most important case in US Supreme Court history

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The Rule of Recognition

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How this Lightboard Works

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A Few of the Most Interesting Parts of The US Constitution

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Hart - Concept of Law - Ch 6 (The Rule of Recognition)

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Hart - Concept of Law - Ch 5 (Primary and Secondary Rules)

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McFall v Shimp - Landmark Court Case - Should the government force someone to donate bone marrow?

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What is Legal Positivism?

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Hart - Concept of Law - Ch 4 (Attack on Austin's Theory #2)

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Korematsu v United States - the U.S. Supreme Court Case legalizing Japanese Internment

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What is Philosophy? (Find your CHANCE at UNCG - 2020)

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Gilbert Ryle attacks Descartes' Dualism as a 'Category Mistake'

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Princess Elisabeth's attack on Descartes' Dualist Theory of Mind (from 1643)

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What Philosophers Mean by "Mental" and "Physical"

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Hart - Concept of Law - Ch 3 (Attack on Austin's Theory #1)

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Plessy v Ferguson - The Logical Flaw in this Infamous Supreme Court Case

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René Descartes - Meditation #6 - Proof of the Physical World & Distinction Between Mind and Body

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René Descartes - Meditation #5 - The Ontological Proof of God's Existence

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René Descartes - Meditation #4 - The Problem of Error

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René Descartes - Meditation #3 - A Cosmological Proof of God's Existence

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René Descartes - Meditation #2 - I think, therefore, I am

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René Descartes - Meditation #1 - The Method of Doubt

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Hart - Concept of Law - Ch 2 (Summary of John Austin's Theory of Law)

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How to Write a Philosophy Paper

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Does Occam's Razor rule out Objective Morality?

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Occam's Razor - rational principles explained

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An Explanation of the Normative-Descriptive Distinction (and the varieties of normativity)

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An argument against objective morality that defeats itself

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Two possible arguments against the existence of objective morality (and possible responses)

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Is Moral Skepticism Self-Refuting? (No, but it has other problems)

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The fallacious move from different perspectives to relativism about truth

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Does Moral Error prove that there are Objective Moral Laws?

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What is Philosophy?

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An Explanation of Terminology used in Metaethics

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Moral Skepticism and Moral Objectivism

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Plato's Euthyphro - Which comes first: God or Morality?

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John Locke's argument, from 1689, for Divine Morality -- it's strengths and weaknesses

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Bernard Williams' Attack on Moral Relativism

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David Hume's Argument Against Moral Realism

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A.J. Ayer's Emotivist Theory of Moral Language

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Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics - Book I

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How Aristotle Thought about the World

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Immanuel Kant's Moral Theory - a summary with examples

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Peter Singer - ordinary people are evil

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The Famous 'Sheriff' Counterexample to Utilitarianism

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The First Known Philosophical Essay--from 1785--Arguing Against Punishing Gay Sex

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The Utilitarian Theory of Punishment

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Hedonism

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Is Pleasure the Only Good Thing? - Nozick's Experience Machine Thought Experiment

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Utilitarianism

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Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals

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Does Objective Morality Exist? - A philosophical presentation and discussion

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