Professor Gary Jason, PhD | Introduction to Philosophy Resource Center
652
page-template-default,page,page-id-652,ajax_updown_fade,page_not_loaded

Introduction to Philosophy Resource Center

Part 2: Topics covered in lectures-further discussions online:

  1. The nature of philosophy:
    1. CrashCourse lecture on philosophy…video.
    2. Graham Priest on philosophical questions…video1.
    3. Priest on philosophical questions…video2.
    4. Sadler lecture on the areas of philosophy…video.
    5. Talbot lecture on the nature of philosophy…video.
    6. Brown historical discussion of philosophy…video.
    7. Colin McGinn lecture on the nature of philosophy…video.
  2. Basic logic:
    1. Center for Innovation in Legal Research Education lecture on arguments…video.
    2. Center for Innovation in Legal Research Education lecture on inductive vs. deductive…video.
    3. Center for Innovation in Legal Research Education lecture on evaluating facts vs. evaluating logical linkage…video.
    4. Center for Innovation in Legal Research Education lecture on arguments vs. non-arguments…video.
    5. Center for Innovation in Legal Research Education lecture on problems of language in expressing arguments…video1.
    6. Center for Innovation in Legal Research Education lecture on problems of language in expressing arguments …video2.
    7. Center for Innovation in Legal Research Education lecture on identifying unstated premises and conclusions…video.
    8. Center for Innovation in Legal Research Education lecture on truth and acceptability…video.
    9. Center for Innovation in Legal Research Education lecture on relevance and sufficiency…video.
    10. Marianne Talbot on logic…video.
  3. The nature or definition of religion:
    1. Academy of Ideas lecture on what a religion is…video.
    2. McGowan on how to define and approach religion…video.
    3. Taylor on the definition of religion…video.
  4. Five major world religions:
    1. John Ballaimey on the five major world religions…video.
    2. Animated map of the spread of the five major world religions…video.
    3. Dale Tuggy on why study religion part 1a…video.
    4. Tuggy on what a religion is part 1b…video.
    5. Tuggy on seven theories of religion part 10a…video.
    6. Tuggy on seven theories of religion part 10b…video.
    7. Tuggy on seven theories of religion part 10c…video.
    8. Tuggy on seven theories of religion part 10d…video.
    9. Tuggy on seven theories of religion part 10e…video.
    10. Tuggy on seven theories of religion part 10f…video.
    11. Tuggy on Hinduism part 2a…video.
    12. Tuggy on Hinduism part 2b…video.
    13. Tuggy on Hinduism part 2c…video.
    14. Tuggy on Hinduism part 3a…video.
    15. Tuggy on Hinduism part 3b…video.
    16. Tuggy on Hinduism part 3c…video.
    17. Tuggy on Hinduism part 4a…video.
    18. Tuggy on Hinduism part 4b…video.
    19. Tuggy on Hinduism part 4c…video.
    20. Tuggy on Hinduism part 5a…video.
    21. Tuggy on Hinduism part 5b…video.
    22. Tuggy on Hinduism part 5c…video.
    23. Tuggy on Buddhism part 6a…video.
    24. Tuggy on Buddhism part 6b…video.
    25. Tuggy on Buddhism part 6c…video.
    26. Tuggy on Buddhism part 7a…video.
    27. Tuggy on Buddhism part 7b…video.
    28. Tuggy on Buddhism part 7c…video.
    29. Tuggy on Buddhism part 7d…video.
    30. Tuggy on Buddhism part 8a…video.
    31. Tuggy on Buddhism part 8b…video.
    32. Tuggy on Buddhism part 8c…video.
    33. Tuggy on Buddhism part 8d…video.
    34. Tuggy on Buddhism part 8e…video.
    35. Tuggy on Buddhism part 9a…video.
    36. Tuggy on Buddhism part 9b…video.
    37. Tuggy on Buddhism part 9c…video.
    38. Tuggy on Buddhism part 9d…video.
    39. Tuggy on Judaism part 11a…video.
    40. Tuggy on Judaism part 11b…video.
    41. Tuggy on Judaism part 11c…video.
    42. Tuggy on Judaism part 11d…video.
    43. Tuggy on Judaism part 12a…video.
    44. Tuggy on Judaism part 12c…video.
    45. Tuggy on Judaism part 12d…video.
    46. Tuggy on Judaism part 13a…video.
    47. Tuggy on Judaism part 13b…video.
    48. Tuggy on Judaism part 13c…video.
    49. Tuggy on Judaism part 14a…video.
    50. Tuggy on Judaism part 14b…video.
    51. Tuggy on Judaism part 14c…video.
    52. Tuggy on Judaism part 14d…video.
    53. Tuggy on Christianity part 15a…video.
    54. Tuggy on Christianity part 15b…video.
    55. Tuggy on Christianity part 15c…video.
    56. Tuggy on Christianity part 15d…video.
    57. Tuggy on Christianity part 15e…video.
    58. Tuggy on Christianity part 16a…video.
    59. Tuggy on Christianity part 16b…video.
    60. Tuggy on Christianity part 16c…video.
    61. Tuggy on Christianity part 16d…video.
    62. Tuggy on Christianity part 16e…video.
    63. Tuggy on Christianity part 17a…video.
    64. Tuggy on Christianity part 17b…video.
    65. Tuggy on Christianity part 17c…video.
    66. Tuggy on Christianity part 17d…video.
    67. Tuggy on Christianity part 18a…video.
    68. Tuggy on Christianity part 18b…video.
    69. Tuggy on Christianity part 18c…video.
    70. Tuggy on Christianity part 18d…video.
    71. Tuggy on Islam part 20a…video.
    72. Tuggy on Islam part 20b…video.
    73. Tuggy on Islam part 20c…video.
    74. Tuggy on Islam part 20d…video.
    75. Tuggy on Islam part 21a…video.
    76. Tuggy on Islam part 21b…video.
    77. Tuggy on Islam part 21c…video.
    78. Tuggy on Islam part 21d…video.
    79. Tuggy on Islam part 21e…video.
    80. Tuggy on Islam part 21f…video.
    81. Tuggy on Islam part 22a…video.
    82. Tuggy on Islam part 22b…video.
    83. Tuggy on Islam part 22c…video.
    84. Tuggy on Islam part 23a…video.
    85. Tuggy on Islam part 23b…video.
    86. Tuggy on Islam part 23c…video.
    87. Tuggy on Islam part 23d…video.
  5. The monotheistic view of God:
    1. CrashCourse lecture on the “Omni-God”…video.
    2. Discovery episode “The Triumph of Monotheism”…video.
    3. Matt McCormick intro lecture to philosophy of religion…video.
  6. Main theme for the course: the dialogue between two major world views (theism vs. materialism/scientism):
    1. Intelligence Squared debate between atheists Michael Shermer and Lawrence Krauss and theists (Christians) Dinesh D’Souza and Ian Hutchinson…video.
    2. William Lane Craig (Christian theologian) vs. Christopher Hitchens (“new atheist” writer)…video.
    3. William Lane Craig vs. Antony Flew (philosopher) debate…video.
    4. William Lane Craig vs. Lawrence Krauss (physicist)…video.
    5. Lawrence Krauss vs Hamza Tzortzis (Islamic theologian)…video.
  7. The argument from religious experience:
    1. T. J. Mawson on religious experience and miracles…video.
    2. Logical Faith Production lecture on religious experience as evidence…video.
    3. Allen Stairs on Swinburne’s argument form experience…video.
    4. David Noelle on religious experience and cognitive science…video.
  8. The argument from miracles:
    1. Swinburne on miracles…video.
    2. McCormick on Hume’s objections to the argument from miracles…video.
  9. The teleological argument (i.e., the argument from design):
    1. Matt McCormick on Paley’s design argument…video.
    2. Carneades.org on teleological arguments…video.
    3. Carneades.org on analogical teleological arguments…video.
    4. Carneades.org on Hume’s objections to the analogical teleological argument…video.
    5. Carneades.org on additional objections to the analogical teleological argument…video.
    6. Carneades.org on the watch argument (Paley’s argument) teleological argument…video.
    7. Carneades.org on objections to the watch argument…video.
    8. Carneades.org on abductive teleological arguments…video.
    9. Carneades.org on objections to abductive teleological arguments…video.
  10. The cosmological argument (and another type of teleological argument):
    1. Alan Guth on the Big Bang Theory and multiverses…video.
    2. Anthony Aguirre on multiverses…video.
    3. McCormick on Swinburne’s teleological (”˜fine-tuning’) argument…video.
    4. Carneades.org introducing the fine tuning argument…video.
    5. Carneades.org on the fine tuning argument…video.
    6. Carneades.org on the multiverse reply …video.
    7. Carneades.org on the Poker game reply to the multiverse objection…video.
    8. Carneades.org reply to the Poker game defense…video.
    9. Carneades.org on the Monty Hall fallacy reply…video.
    10. Carneades.org on the life as we know it objection…video.
    11. Carneades.org on the confirmation fine tuning argument…video.
    12. Carneades.org and the problem of the priors…video.
    13. Carneades.org on Ed’s perfect design…video.
    14. Carneades.org on why cosmology is not a science…video.
    15. McCormick on the Kalam cosmological argument…video.
    16. McCormick on objections to the Kalam argument…video.
    17. George Ellis lecture on the state of cosmology today as to whether it disproves God…video.
  11. The ontological argument:
    1. Total Philosophy short discussion of the ontological argument…video.
    2. McMillan lecture on the ontological argument…part 1 video.
    3. McMillan lecture on the ontological argument…part 2 video.
  12. The problem of evil:
    1. CrashCourse lecture on the problem of evil…video.
    2. Wireless Philosophy on the problem of evil part 1…video.
    3. Wireless Philosophy on the problem of evil part 2…video.
    4. Wireless Philosophy on the problem of evil part 3…video.
    5. McCormick on the problem of evil…video.
    6. McCormick on Leibniz’s theodicy…video.
    7. McCormick on Hick’s soul-making theodicy…video.
    8. McCormick on Rowe’s inductive arguments from evil…video.
  13. Non-evidential theism:
    1. John Bishop defense of fideism…video.
    2. Tuggy on Eliade and Smart on religion part 19c…video.
    3. Tuggy on Tillich and Smith on religion part 19d…video.
    4. McCormick on Pascal’s wager…video.
    5. Wireless Philosophy on the ethics of belief…video.
    6. Christopher Haugen on the ethics of belief…video.
    7. McCormick on James’ pragmatic argument…video.
  14. Non-evidential atheism:
    1. Tuggy on Marxian analysis of religion…video.
    2. Tuggy on Freudian analysis of religion…video.
  15. Marks of the mental:
    1. Richard Brown on intentionality…video.
    2. Brown on sensation and perception…video.
    3. Brown on consciousness…video.
  16. Monism vs. dualism
    1. John Searle on the mind/body problem…video.
    2. Brown on the mind/body problem…video.
  17. Varieties of and problems with dualism:
    1. Millican on Cartesian dualism…video.
    2. Kane B on substance dualism…video.
    3. Brown on epiphenomenalism…video.
  18. Monism 1: idealism:
    1. Kane B on Berkeley’s idealism…video.
    2. Keith Ward on idealism…video.
  19. Monism 2: behaviorism:
    1. Macat video on Gilbert Ryle’s The Concept of Mind…video.
    2. Kane B on logical behaviorism…video.
    3. Christopher Gade on psychological behaviorism part 1…video.
    4. Christopher Gade on psychological behaviorism part 2…video.
  20. Monism 3: identity theory and eliminative materialism:
    1. Kane B on identity theory…video.
    2. Brown on identity theory…video.
    3. Kane B on eliminative materialism…video.
    4. Kane B objections to eliminative materialism…video.
  21. Monism 4: functionalism:
    1. Kane B on functionalism…video.
    2. Kane B objections to functionalism…video.
    3. Brown on functionalism …video.
  22. Neutral monism:
    1. Oppositum on Spinoza’s neutral monism…video.
    2. Galen Strawson on panpsychism…video.
  23. The problem of free will:
    1. Sean Castleberry on the problem of free will…video.
    2. Philosophy Vibe on the problem of free will…video.
    3. Peter Millican on the problem of free will…video.
    4. Daniel Dennett on free will…video.
  24. Prediction, foreknowledge, and free will:
    1. SisyphusRedeemed lecture on Rowe’s argument showing free will is incompatible with divine foreknowledge…video.
  25. The soul and afterlife:
    1. Rachana Kamtekar on Plato versus Epicurus on immortality…video.
    2. Audiopedia on metempsychosis…video.
  26. The problems the two worldviews face:
    1. Academy of Ideas critique of scientism…video.

Part 1 | Part 2