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It was! A member of my faculty was a huge fan of hers. I read a couple of her books in my first year (though I don’t think I understood a lot of them, to be honest - I just thought it was very clever)
YES PLEASE more logic and epistemology. You have no idea how many people are interested in these topics and your style of videos is ideal for it. As someone who cant spare the time to research these topics myself I appreciate your channel so much
@rocky0726 “is ideal” is correct, because style (singular) is the subject here and not videos. It can be shortened to say “Your style is ideal”, but if the subject of the sentence was videos, as in “Your videos are ideal”, then “are” would be correct. I hope this helps.
As a mathematician myself I would be very interested in videos on the philosophy of math. For quite some time I have had this thought, that the Zermelo-Fraenkel axioms encapsulate a sort of phenomenology of how we perceive the objective world (with possible connections to machine learning), but I know way too little about phenomenology to pursue this further.
I think math is actually a great way to philosophize, not just the axiom of choice (even sounds philosophical) but Goedel's incompleteness theorem seems to indicate a self-referential nature, rather than strict materials - indicating to me, that there is likely substance to the idea of metaphysical idealism, that consciousness might be a fundamental particle/substance/force in the universe... Plus Continuity and number theory that brought about the different infinities get really trippy and philosophical too. I'm not either mathematician or philosopher, but a scientist, and I think the universe is filled with philosophical, poetic, even spiritual patterns and emergences both discovered and unexplored 🌄❤️🔥
I had a teacher give us a final proyect that was exactly this situation and it was amazing, lots of interesting ideas came up and the debates were strangely fun.
A horse walks into a bar and says to the bartender “Hey bartender, I’ll have a double whiskey hold the ice”. The bartender says “Hey horse, you’ve been in here everyday this week….I think you’re an alcoholic”! The horse says “I don’t think, I am”! And poof…disappeared. Obviously this is a joke about Descartes saying ‘I think there for I am’. But if I said this part first I would have put Descartes before the horse. 😊
I love your idea of people arguing the opposing side! It might be the best idea that I have heard in decades. As a member of our highschool debating team, we each had to prepare both sides of an argument, and we only found out which side we were to argue as we mounted the stage. Some of the best memories of my life!
My favorite thing in math is the proof of 1+1=2 that is like 300 pages long (well it depends from where you start in assumptions, but you need to start with what is true, what is a number etc.. basically bake a pie from scratch by first making an universe.)
I’m hyper-focused on language at the moment. Etymology and how the idea of words change over time across languages and time, so my vote is for language videos. Love the channel and I appreciate the Substack!!
I'm so excited to study philosophy in university, I applied for double majors in physics and philosophy, so it will be very interesting to see you cover more philosophy of physics in the future!
i highly highly recommend the book "Redefining Reality" by The Great Courses. I think it's technically a textbook, but I read it in an audiobook format and found it really eye opening. There's lots of chapters about the philosophy of physics
found you through alex o'connors podcast and now i can't stop bingeing your content 🙏 you have such a clear and concise way of speaking it makes complex topics incredibly easy to digest and understand. i love feeling like i'm learning and being productive while listening to you whilst doing other things 😁
Another unmentioned problem with the extreme caricature of the stoic idea that you can alleviate all harm by changing your relationship to it is that it justifies victim blaming. “If the person I severely harmed can simply alleviate the harm I caused them and I enjoyed committing harm upon them, then why should I be blamed? It’s their fault for not changing their relationship to the harm.”
I suggest you should analyse Philosophical Poems. I personally love the ones on Emotion (it changes my perspective with different interpretations). Your videos have actually fixed my attention span. Keep up the good work!
My primary interest in philosophy, being both a physics student and a philosophy student, is philosophy of science. I'd love to see videos on philosophy of science, and if I may suggest one, Popper and Grünbaum's conflict on pseudoscience and psychoanalysis would be very interesting, and probably a good starting point for more phil of science content. Love your stuff!
25:32 was named the "ideological turing test" by bryancaplan, similar to steelmanning, if you can't adequately argue the other side then you don't understand the other side of the issue
Mathematical logic is why math students will sometimes be encouraged to become lawyers. It's also the tool that allows us to express what is as of yet mostly agreed upon to be the largest number imagineable, Rayo's Number, which is less a number and more a simplification of the logical description of the largest number describable with a given number of available characters, though Rayo himself defined it by saying the largest number describable with one googol available characters. I believe the formal way to write it is something like, "The smallest number which is still greater than the largest number that can be described within one googol's worth of characters of logical description."
Stoicism definitely can not help in all cases, and would even be morally wrong to suggest it as a solution. For example, if you are the victim in an abusive relationship.
I misunderstood the topic at first. Thought you were going to speak on people taking memes too serious. That is me, and why I misread it. I agree. Memes are the next evolution of expression, of language, of philosophy. What can be said is deeper than can be expressed. Memes are our modern haiku, a way to express the modern malaise, where words and even allusions fail...
On your selfproclaimed shortcomings on coding and graphs etc, you could always do a collaboration. Some of the nerds (meant in the most appreciative way as I love them) over at numberphile would likely want to cowork on a video. I would like that for sure, at least 😊
I would personally LOVE seeing something on the philosophy of language. I feel like it’s a topic that is so foreign to me, I wouldn’t even know where to begin, which is what makes it so enticing
Y'know what would be a sick series that'd widen your viewer base and make me happy? Exploring philosophy via/in anime. I know it's probably a bad idea/not up your alley but I'd still love to see it lol
These videos are truly so very good, great way of providing us with some “low level” extra content. Whenever I’m simply too tired to process your other content I fall back on these videos and have a blast :)
My favourite content creator is back, let’s goo , as a Christian I loved your video on cs lewis’s mere christianity and abolition of man. Would love to see you cover Ed feser argument for God. Excited to see what videos you will produce this year 🎉
Your debate idea is really interesting. It make the debate much more interesting since the debators would know all the counter arguments since that is what they believe and they would have to counter those. I’d love to see it
Epistemology is my favorite topic and unfortunately largely under appreciated. I’d love to hear more that moves beyond the very basics that are easy to find.
"and in recent years, I mean in the last two hundred years..." At 13:17 I would give my eye teef to have a spirited conversation with you around a dinner table . You are thoughtful, extremely funny, charismatic, and engaging. Alas, the talk of schopenhaur without name dropping Python is criminal. Meet in the study? I'll bring the brandy and cigars.
I absolutely love the idea of this public debate. Please make a series with it. I'm sure that with such audience you'll find lots of people to arrange it!
I would LOVE MORE videos on logic and of course, epistemology. While those are concepts I think I know, I haven't fully grasped them much, and I just think it would be a lot of fun and quite stimulating, so yess, please more videos like that!
Somehow this is my first time hearing about the euthyphro dillemma. I will definitely need to learn more, but I think you did a really good job summing it up in such a short time. So thanks! I've been talking to a few people who say atheists can't base their morality in anything, it'll be fun to put this question this to them.
Working on a paper about the concepts of education of Kant, Humboldt and Klafki at the moment. This will help me procrastinate. Thanks mate it is appreciated. Cheers from Germany.
I think the mathematical philosophy would be really great. I am interested in it, and from a personal perspective it’s great to go outside your comfort zone and I’d love to see you do it.
I'd love to see a video exploring the last idea of "God is Good" from a linguistic perspective!! I'm always inclined to critique the equivalence implied in statements like “God is Good” or “God is Love.” Not to be Saussurean, but I believe signs derive meaning through difference, not identity. Hence, synonyms do not exist- when we say something like "God is Good" we are actually saying God ISNT Good. If they were the same thing, there would be no need to equate the two. Great video btw, very entertaining.
About the podcast idea of arguing for the other side: It can do a lot more than you might think! In an English course in college we were assigned a reading and to do an argumentative essay on it. The professor told us we’d be arguing against the reading, and everyone just seemed ok with that, so I approached her after class and told her I did not agree with the reading and asked if I could write my essay arguing for the reading (it was an article on the “Tiger Mom” and I was the only student with kids so I thought I knew better of course). She said no, and not only did I become a much better reader and writer, but I learned a few things about parenting too.
You mentioned some videos on Godels proofs, sounds great! Have you read “Gödel, Escher, Bach”? It’s a personal favorite of mine and I think one could do an entire channel just exploring that book. I can’t really push it enough.
About debating against one own position. Interesting scenario would be: anyone debate their side in reasonable time and argumentation, and after that switch sides, and debate against position one arguments moment ago. Win best arguments, double win best arguments against yourself.
It's be really cool/interesting to see you talk about 'zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance' and the idea of quality, I'm a really big fan of your channel and of that book it's one of the first philosophy books I've ever read/listened to
26:15 That idea is actually the premise foundation of alot of debate show. A topic is given for both team and the opposed ideas are given randomly to them regardless of their personal beliefs. Whoever debates better win. It's a classic type of debate competition
In math-land what really gets me is that Axiom of Choice seems to be "accepted", but when you dig into many of "limits of logic" "incompleteness" etc., you find that AC is often involved somehow. Which in turn makes me always very suspect of it - and I guess there's a reason why you do note whether given proof is based on the axiom of choice.
Oh, I would LOVE a video about Karl Jaspers. He was my introduction to philosophy and the internet barely talks about him. It would be cool to revisit him again after learning more about philosophy.
A pretty good video on existentialism and religion I saw is "BeltonPOE And The Tao Te Ching" by nex it basically breaks down the failure of an investment in a video game (path of exile) and how it's related to free will and the concept of wordly desire/sins (his other 2 video on belton are also good and explore free will and mathematical inevitability i.e. the risk I took was calculated but boy am I bad at maths.) Edit: probably could get him to argue for free will if he wants for the podcast, he's pretty strongly on the side of no free will.
Define definition. This is where everyone should start their thought process. If you seek the truth and consistency then there is no other way. If you want results then DEFINE everything xD. It all begins with you [me]
6:05 you might also be interested in the ILLC, the institute of logic, language, and computation, associated with the university of Amsterdam, which has a significant philosophical core to it (including a MSc programme in logic)
We need more rfc2119 in philosophy. It's one of my favorites to use, it's basically defining may, should, must, should not and must not. Basically a "look it up if you want the exact definition" it's used is probably the majority of rfc nowadays with something like "may, should, should not, must and must not are used as defined in rfc 2119" basically turns 1 page into one line. And if you're familiar with it you don't have to look it up.
I'm technically a computer scientist, although I'm much more into the mathematical side of it. There's a good chance that you covering mathematical logic would just be stuff I already know, but it is one of my favourite branches of maths, so I wouldn't mind.
Please do the stuff on maths phil I think it'd be great. Idk how the algorithm would like it but I definitely would and hopefully I'm not alone on that. Love your channel and it's gotten me into so much literature and phil - you're the reason Dostoevsky was on my xmas list. Have a great day :)
I also will recommend the book "An Introduction to Formal Philosophy" if you wanted to learn symbolic logic with applications to all varieties of topics such as economics, physics, sociology and computer science under the heading of philosophy of science. Also "Accessing Kant: A Relaxed Introduction to the Critique of Pure Reason" this book from Oxford is quite peculiar since it is very analytic and even scientific in making Critique of Pure Reason more easy to digest and visualize.
The “push someone off a bridge to stop a speeding trolley” variation never made sense to me. When pulling a lever, there is some certainty about what will happen. If I pull the lever, the trolley will move to the other track. But it is completely unintuitive that pushing a guy in front of a runaway trolley will *stop* the trolley. If I were in the pushing situation, I would never even consider that as an option. I would just watch in horror alongside the nice big man next to me. If you came up to me afterwards and said “ah I see you are a deontologist for sparing the man’s life” I’d be like WTF
Hey Joseph! I am becoming more interested in learning mathematical logic for improving my reasoning and argumentative abilities. With you being so experienced in this particular topic, could you recommend some resources, ranging from beginner (me) to more advanced? Keep up the great work, I really appreciate the way you explain complex ideias in such a clear manner.
I'm working towards a masters in Physics at the moment, I would enjoy very much some more content on the philosophy of science (and physics more specifically) to gain a better grasp on the less talked-about roots of Physics, from the point of a Physicist, that is! Thank you!
Please do More Epistemology and Philosophy of Science 😩😩 P. S: I hope you continue having subtitles in your videos. Yt cc is not exactly accurate so it was really helpful for non native speakers like me ☺
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That Hegel segment had you touching your hair and neck quite a bit 🤔❤️🙏
@@CMA418 such a niche observation lol
Could the name you forgot to pop up on the screen at 27:40 be Christine Korsgaard by any chance?
@un-sunskari298
It was distracting me 😂
It was! A member of my faculty was a huge fan of hers. I read a couple of her books in my first year (though I don’t think I understood a lot of them, to be honest - I just thought it was very clever)
YES PLEASE more logic and epistemology. You have no idea how many people are interested in these topics and your style of videos is ideal for it. As someone who cant spare the time to research these topics myself I appreciate your channel so much
"is ideal for it. " Or is it "are ideal for it? "
@rocky0726 “is ideal” is correct, because style (singular) is the subject here and not videos. It can be shortened to say “Your style is ideal”, but if the subject of the sentence was videos, as in “Your videos are ideal”, then “are” would be correct. I hope this helps.
As a mathematician myself I would be very interested in videos on the philosophy of math. For quite some time I have had this thought, that the Zermelo-Fraenkel axioms encapsulate a sort of phenomenology of how we perceive the objective world (with possible connections to machine learning), but I know way too little about phenomenology to pursue this further.
Ooh, that would be interesting
Had always assumed axioms should underpin weights. As we use them to underpin our relations to the outside world.
I think math is actually a great way to philosophize, not just the axiom of choice (even sounds philosophical) but Goedel's incompleteness theorem seems to indicate a self-referential nature, rather than strict materials - indicating to me, that there is likely substance to the idea of metaphysical idealism, that consciousness might be a fundamental particle/substance/force in the universe... Plus Continuity and number theory that brought about the different infinities get really trippy and philosophical too. I'm not either mathematician or philosopher, but a scientist, and I think the universe is filled with philosophical, poetic, even spiritual patterns and emergences both discovered and unexplored 🌄❤️🔥
I am not a mathematician but I would be too!
That would get 0 views but it would be interesting
I would absolutely be interested in your “arguing for the other side” concept. Imagine Richard Dawkins passionately defending religion.
Actually, if you study him carefully, he does exactly that. ;-)
This is revolutionary
From "imagine Sisyphus happy" to "imagine the bible correct."
Our teacher makes us do that once every few months
I had a teacher give us a final proyect that was exactly this situation and it was amazing, lots of interesting ideas came up and the debates were strangely fun.
A horse walks into a bar and says to the bartender “Hey bartender, I’ll have a double whiskey hold the ice”.
The bartender says “Hey horse, you’ve been in here everyday this week….I think you’re an alcoholic”!
The horse says “I don’t think, I am”! And poof…disappeared.
Obviously this is a joke about Descartes saying ‘I think there for I am’. But if I said this part first I would have put Descartes before the horse. 😊
Absolute classic
I love your idea of people arguing the opposing side! It might be the best idea that I have heard in decades. As a member of our highschool debating team, we each had to prepare both sides of an argument, and we only found out which side we were to argue as we mounted the stage. Some of the best memories of my life!
So rather than the Devil’s advocate there’s God’s advocate?
@marko112kg Must be able to advocate for God and the Devil
In my high school civics class, we had to do that with political issues. That was in 1972.
Back at it again - starting to quite enjoy this series
Ah I'm glad! I hope you like this one
@@unsolicitedadvice9198pls keep making these vids they’re sooo good !
Yay! I love these meme videos!! So relaxing after more complex ones. Keep up the great work
Thank you! They are good fun to make. I might do a few more casual videos this year as they do give me a bit of a break
Drink everytime he says "Uhh-shoom"
@@Lupine.great now im never gonna be able to unhear this
My favorite thing in math is the proof of 1+1=2 that is like 300 pages long (well it depends from where you start in assumptions, but you need to start with what is true, what is a number etc.. basically bake a pie from scratch by first making an universe.)
Ah yeah I have a copy of that proof on my bookshelf (if you mean the one from Principia Mathematica)
Just use set theory, duh. (I’m only half-joking)
I’m hyper-focused on language at the moment. Etymology and how the idea of words change over time across languages and time, so my vote is for language videos. Love the channel and I appreciate the Substack!!
I'm so excited to study philosophy in university, I applied for double majors in physics and philosophy, so it will be very interesting to see you cover more philosophy of physics in the future!
i highly highly recommend the book "Redefining Reality" by The Great Courses. I think it's technically a textbook, but I read it in an audiobook format and found it really eye opening. There's lots of chapters about the philosophy of physics
found you through alex o'connors podcast and now i can't stop bingeing your content 🙏 you have such a clear and concise way of speaking it makes complex topics incredibly easy to digest and understand. i love feeling like i'm learning and being productive while listening to you whilst doing other things 😁
Another unmentioned problem with the extreme caricature of the stoic idea that you can alleviate all harm by changing your relationship to it is that it justifies victim blaming. “If the person I severely harmed can simply alleviate the harm I caused them and I enjoyed committing harm upon them, then why should I be blamed? It’s their fault for not changing their relationship to the harm.”
I suggest you should analyse Philosophical Poems. I personally love the ones on Emotion (it changes my perspective with different interpretations). Your videos have actually fixed my attention span. Keep up the good work!
lol
You've done a great job combining memes and PHILOSOPHY
My primary interest in philosophy, being both a physics student and a philosophy student, is philosophy of science. I'd love to see videos on philosophy of science, and if I may suggest one, Popper and Grünbaum's conflict on pseudoscience and psychoanalysis would be very interesting, and probably a good starting point for more phil of science content. Love your stuff!
he kinda cute but also kind of british
you're saying it like being British is the opposite of cute hahah
Lol
Wait for him to hit 30 and transform into a troll
He doesn't look moddle east enough to be called british.
@adventurer3288 nooo,Jesus!😂😂
25:32 was named the "ideological turing test" by bryancaplan, similar to steelmanning, if you can't adequately argue the other side then you don't understand the other side of the issue
2:10 I wanna hear that singing voice
He should sing the comments or quotes of philosophers haha
Same
upvote for maths and epistimology vids in the coming future
edit: language philosphy sounds worth a dive as well.
always a good day when joe uploads
I LOVE the laid back cadence of this video. Just much more personal and endearing. Keep it up!
17:03 Wow, my meme made it into your video! By the way, happy new year to everyone!🎉🎉
Ah thank you for making it! Happy new year!
19:27 , love your words on this topic. Really validating!
Mathematical logic is why math students will sometimes be encouraged to become lawyers.
It's also the tool that allows us to express what is as of yet mostly agreed upon to be the largest number imagineable, Rayo's Number, which is less a number and more a simplification of the logical description of the largest number describable with a given number of available characters, though Rayo himself defined it by saying the largest number describable with one googol available characters.
I believe the formal way to write it is something like, "The smallest number which is still greater than the largest number that can be described within one googol's worth of characters of logical description."
Stoicism definitely can not help in all cases, and would even be morally wrong to suggest it as a solution. For example, if you are the victim in an abusive relationship.
Epistemology has always been my favorite topic in philosophy so I'd love to see you do more videos on that.
A video on the Goedel Incompleteness proofs would be amazing, there surprisingly isn't much on the topic on UA-cam
Exactly I wanted to know more about it
I misunderstood the topic at first. Thought you were going to speak on people taking memes too serious. That is me, and why I misread it.
I agree. Memes are the next evolution of expression, of language, of philosophy. What can be said is deeper than can be expressed. Memes are our modern haiku, a way to express the modern malaise, where words and even allusions fail...
On your selfproclaimed shortcomings on coding and graphs etc, you could always do a collaboration. Some of the nerds (meant in the most appreciative way as I love them) over at numberphile would likely want to cowork on a video. I would like that for sure, at least 😊
I would personally LOVE seeing something on the philosophy of language. I feel like it’s a topic that is so foreign to me, I wouldn’t even know where to begin, which is what makes it so enticing
this becoming a regular series is my favourite thing
Y'know what would be a sick series that'd widen your viewer base and make me happy?
Exploring philosophy via/in anime.
I know it's probably a bad idea/not up your alley but I'd still love to see it lol
These videos are truly so very good, great way of providing us with some “low level” extra content. Whenever I’m simply too tired to process your other content I fall back on these videos and have a blast :)
love your contents man
Thank you! That is very kind of you to say
My favourite content creator is back, let’s goo , as a Christian I loved your video on cs lewis’s mere christianity and abolition of man. Would love to see you cover Ed feser argument for God. Excited to see what videos you will produce this year 🎉
Your debate idea is really interesting. It make the debate much more interesting since the debators would know all the counter arguments since that is what they believe and they would have to counter those. I’d love to see it
Epistemology is my favorite topic and unfortunately largely under appreciated. I’d love to hear more that moves beyond the very basics that are easy to find.
"and in recent years, I mean in the last two hundred years..." At 13:17
I would give my eye teef to have a spirited conversation with you around a dinner table . You are thoughtful, extremely funny, charismatic, and engaging.
Alas, the talk of schopenhaur without name dropping Python is criminal.
Meet in the study? I'll bring the brandy and cigars.
The moral realism discourse is the best idea in the video (that’s saying a lot because the video is really great)
Thanks man
I absolutely love the idea of this public debate. Please make a series with it. I'm sure that with such audience you'll find lots of people to arrange it!
I would LOVE MORE videos on logic and of course, epistemology. While those are concepts I think I know, I haven't fully grasped them much, and I just think it would be a lot of fun and quite stimulating, so yess, please more videos like that!
Absolutely love this type of philosophy content
I would absolutely love videos on logic, philosophy of mathematics and related fields!
These sillier videos are a blast.
The philosophy of philosophy doesn't even get a mention...
Your videos are always great to watch when I'm at work. Thanks for the upload man
You should definetely do a video on formal/math logic. I will be excited to watch it!!!
Somehow this is my first time hearing about the euthyphro dillemma. I will definitely need to learn more, but I think you did a really good job summing it up in such a short time. So thanks! I've been talking to a few people who say atheists can't base their morality in anything, it'll be fun to put this question this to them.
Working on a paper about the concepts of education of Kant, Humboldt and Klafki at the moment.
This will help me procrastinate.
Thanks mate it is appreciated.
Cheers from Germany.
I think the mathematical philosophy would be really great. I am interested in it, and from a personal perspective it’s great to go outside your comfort zone and I’d love to see you do it.
I'd love to see a video exploring the last idea of "God is Good" from a linguistic perspective!! I'm always inclined to critique the equivalence implied in statements like “God is Good” or “God is Love.” Not to be Saussurean, but I believe signs derive meaning through difference, not identity. Hence, synonyms do not exist- when we say something like "God is Good" we are actually saying God ISNT Good. If they were the same thing, there would be no need to equate the two.
Great video btw, very entertaining.
You should make a bookshelf tour video. Show us your collection.
About the podcast idea of arguing for the other side:
It can do a lot more than you might think! In an English course in college we were assigned a reading and to do an argumentative essay on it. The professor told us we’d be arguing against the reading, and everyone just seemed ok with that, so I approached her after class and told her I did not agree with the reading and asked if I could write my essay arguing for the reading (it was an article on the “Tiger Mom” and I was the only student with kids so I thought I knew better of course). She said no, and not only did I become a much better reader and writer, but I learned a few things about parenting too.
How do I tell my friends my favorite youtuber is the british philosophy dude
You mentioned some videos on Godels proofs, sounds great!
Have you read “Gödel, Escher, Bach”? It’s a personal favorite of mine and I think one could do an entire channel just exploring that book.
I can’t really push it enough.
i love this video. it covers lots of different ideas, which i find very thought provoking. down the rabbit hole i will go, see ya
About debating against one own position. Interesting scenario would be: anyone debate their side in reasonable time and argumentation, and after that switch sides, and debate against position one arguments moment ago. Win best arguments, double win best arguments against yourself.
every time this channel uploads i giggle and put it on with my little journal to take notes
It's be really cool/interesting to see you talk about 'zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance' and the idea of quality, I'm a really big fan of your channel and of that book it's one of the first philosophy books I've ever read/listened to
Great Stuff, as always!
26:15 That idea is actually the premise foundation of alot of debate show. A topic is given for both team and the opposed ideas are given randomly to them regardless of their personal beliefs. Whoever debates better win. It's a classic type of debate competition
Donald trump with schopenhauers hair is the best meme I've seen in a while 😂😂😂😂
14:34 Mersault?!? *PROJECT MOON SLEEPER AGENT ACTIVATED*
I'd LOVE it if you made a video on Gödels incompleteness theorem it's very interesting
In math-land what really gets me is that Axiom of Choice seems to be "accepted", but when you dig into many of "limits of logic" "incompleteness" etc., you find that AC is often involved somehow. Which in turn makes me always very suspect of it - and I guess there's a reason why you do note whether given proof is based on the axiom of choice.
epistemology might be my favourite area of philosophy, please make some videos on it!
Man now i need to hear you sing like right now
I'm really curious about mathematical philosophy, I'd love to watch a video on it! A livestream also sounds like great fun :)
I'd love these on spotify
as a math student I would love a video on Godel incompletness theorems !!
Oh, I would LOVE a video about Karl Jaspers. He was my introduction to philosophy and the internet barely talks about him. It would be cool to revisit him again after learning more about philosophy.
A pretty good video on existentialism and religion I saw is "BeltonPOE And The Tao Te Ching" by nex it basically breaks down the failure of an investment in a video game (path of exile) and how it's related to free will and the concept of wordly desire/sins (his other 2 video on belton are also good and explore free will and mathematical inevitability i.e. the risk I took was calculated but boy am I bad at maths.)
Edit: probably could get him to argue for free will if he wants for the podcast, he's pretty strongly on the side of no free will.
Define definition.
This is where everyone should start their thought process. If you seek the truth and consistency then there is no other way.
If you want results then DEFINE everything xD. It all begins with you [me]
Would you please discuss the first season of True Detective?
A topic to explore: Applying logic to ethics, and some thought experiments and exercises, and how you struggle with it!
Using these videos while writing scripts is a great idea, i love these videos too
26:19 this is the rebirth of sophistry lol
6:05 you might also be interested in the ILLC, the institute of logic, language, and computation, associated with the university of Amsterdam, which has a significant philosophical core to it (including a MSc programme in logic)
We need more rfc2119 in philosophy.
It's one of my favorites to use, it's basically defining may, should, must, should not and must not.
Basically a "look it up if you want the exact definition" it's used is probably the majority of rfc nowadays with something like "may, should, should not, must and must not are used as defined in rfc 2119" basically turns 1 page into one line. And if you're familiar with it you don't have to look it up.
I really enjoy as a concept when host of something asks a guest to strongarm an opposite position, so if that could be a whole show I would love it
I absolutely love philosophy memes❤❤ excellent video!!
I'm technically a computer scientist, although I'm much more into the mathematical side of it. There's a good chance that you covering mathematical logic would just be stuff I already know, but it is one of my favourite branches of maths, so I wouldn't mind.
Please do the stuff on maths phil I think it'd be great. Idk how the algorithm would like it but I definitely would and hopefully I'm not alone on that. Love your channel and it's gotten me into so much literature and phil - you're the reason Dostoevsky was on my xmas list. Have a great day :)
Looking forward for your analysis of ayn rand and atlas shrugged!
Love this channel made me love philosophy ❤
I also will recommend the book "An Introduction to Formal Philosophy" if you wanted to learn symbolic logic with applications to all varieties of topics such as economics, physics, sociology and computer science under the heading of philosophy of science. Also "Accessing Kant: A Relaxed Introduction to the Critique of Pure Reason" this book from Oxford is quite peculiar since it is very analytic and even scientific in making Critique of Pure Reason more easy to digest and visualize.
A nice little fun break after quite complex topics ☕️
How are you not harmed?
Stoic: "i refuse to be harmed."🗿
i'd aboslutely love maths and logic from you
The “push someone off a bridge to stop a speeding trolley” variation never made sense to me. When pulling a lever, there is some certainty about what will happen. If I pull the lever, the trolley will move to the other track. But it is completely unintuitive that pushing a guy in front of a runaway trolley will *stop* the trolley. If I were in the pushing situation, I would never even consider that as an option. I would just watch in horror alongside the nice big man next to me. If you came up to me afterwards and said “ah I see you are a deontologist for sparing the man’s life” I’d be like WTF
3:33 similar, learning how to learn for ones self. Engaging with materials.
Arguing in a court to plead for certain rights?
Begging/Befooling/Cheating or Decieving
That debate idea sounds awesome!
Hey Joseph! I am becoming more interested in learning mathematical logic for improving my reasoning and argumentative abilities. With you being so experienced in this particular topic, could you recommend some resources, ranging from beginner (me) to more advanced?
Keep up the great work, I really appreciate the way you explain complex ideias in such a clear manner.
That "opposite" debate is a great idea. It basically forces all the participants to act in goos faith. Please please please make it happen
I'm working towards a masters in Physics at the moment, I would enjoy very much some more content on the philosophy of science (and physics more specifically) to gain a better grasp on the less talked-about roots of Physics, from the point of a Physicist, that is! Thank you!
please do the scapegoat theory of Girard.
Please do More Epistemology and Philosophy of Science 😩😩
P. S: I hope you continue having subtitles in your videos. Yt cc is not exactly accurate so it was really helpful for non native speakers like me ☺
I think Alex O’Connor would be a wonderful inclusion for the Hegelian flip flop you proposed, would love to see this