Philosophy for Beginners

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Check out Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/JaredHenderson/ The first 200 people to use my link get 30 days free! This is a brief introduction to philosophy, designed to be beginner-friendly. I talk about logic, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and political philosophy. There are many details I was unable to discuss, but this video should help a beginner get their bearings as they explore philosophy. Philosophers discussed include: Plato, Aristotle, Frege, Anscombe, Nietzsche, MacIntyre, Rawls, Nozick, Descartes, Hume, Confucius. Thanks to Jimmy Nutts for comments on the script. → Books Logic, Or the Art of Thinking: https://amzn.to/3Su09NE Frege’s Foundations of Arithmetic: https://amzn.to/3S84EMv Paradoxes: https://amzn.to/3HvjQhK Plato’s Complete Works: https://amzn.to/4b5b5IR Beyond Good and Evil: https://amzn.to/3StsBPP → Citations Davidson M. Vaccination as a cause of autism-myths and controversies. Dialogues Clin Neurosci. 2017 Dec;19(4):403-407. doi: 10.31887/DCNS.2017.19.4/mdavidson. PMID: 29398935; PMCID: PMC5789217. Schimmack U. Invalid Claims About the Validity of Implicit Association Tests by Prisoners of the Implicit Social-Cognition Paradigm. Perspect Psychol Sci. 2021 Mar;16(2):435-442. doi: 10.1177/1745691621991860. PMID: 33709849; PMCID: PMC8167921. FitzGerald, C., Martin, A., Berner, D. et al. Interventions designed to reduce implicit prejudices and implicit stereotypes in real world contexts: a systematic review. BMC Psychol 7, 29 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-019-0299-7 https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/3/7/14637626/implicit-association-test-racism https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/knowledge-analysis/#GettProb Anscombe, G.E.M. “Modern Moral Philosophy”: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3749051 Spade, Paul Vincent and Claude Panaccio, "William of Ockham", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2019 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2019/entries/ockham. Ichikawa, Jonathan Jenkins and Matthias Steup, "The Analysis of Knowledge", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2018 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2018/entries/knowledge-analysis. → Other Videos 7 Philosophy Books for Beginners: https://youtu.be/5RwlFfTF3T0 The First 5 Philosophy Books You Should Read: https://youtu.be/ut6Hhj2jy-M How to Read (And Understand) Hard Books: https://youtu.be/laXcJyx9xCc → Video Gear Mic: https://amzn.to/3Uw7ZVw Recorder: https://amzn.to/3Tz1uQp Camera: https://amzn.to/3Ust3MT Camera (upgrade): https://amzn.to/3EFGW4e Lens: https://amzn.to/3WXbAhd Lens (upgrade): https://amzn.to/3SA49KM These are affiliate links with Amazon. The channel earns a commission from each purchase — but it doesn't cost you anything. 00:00 - How I Started with Philosophy 01:02 - Brilliant 02:02 - Logic and the Art of Thinking 05:37 - Formal Logic 07:37 - Paradoxes 09:11 - Metaphysics 09:36 - Theories of Truth 13:18 - Universals (and Cats) 15:23 - Nominalism 16:57 - Epistemology 18:39 - Philosophical Skepticism 20:03 - Cartesian & Humean Skepticism 22:28 - Ethical Theories 25:32 - Nihilism & Metaethics 28:08 - Political Philosophy & The Problem of Justice 30:41 - Philosophers Against Democracy