Hubert Dreyfus - How Does Philosophy Illuminate the Physical World?
We think we understand the physical world but we do not. For example, some features of the world are derived from others, which makes the latter more fundamental and the former less so. Some scientists believe that only science can tell us how things work. Philosophers do not agree. Do phi
From playlist Closer To Truth - Hubert Dreyfus Interviews
We're generally taught nowadays to think very well of ourselves - and look with horror at religions' suggestions that we conceive of ourselves as 'sinners'. Yet, paradoxically, thinking of yourself as by nature a little sinful can lie at the origins of some very fine and noble traits of ch
From playlist SELF
Arguing God from Miracles & Revelations?
In our search for God we steer clear of miracles. Believers exhort that miracles are real and evince the existence of a supernatural being. Click here for more interviews with James Tabor http://bit.ly/1SHcwBu Click here for more interviews on miracles and revelations http://bit.ly/1Kb3W
From playlist Big Questions About God - Closer To Truth - Core Topic
No one is ever quite normal or sane: however, what we can aim for is 'sane insanity', a non-defensive, self-aware state where we know how and where we are 'broken' and are able to let the world know without anger, undue secrecy or bitterness. For gifts and more from The School of Life, vis
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Lecture 10: Stereotypes || PSY 203: Social Psychology
This video series is for an online summer course in Social Psychology at Eureka College in Eureka, IL. It contains lecture material on a PowerPoint slideshow with me in the bottom right corner of the image. The episode/lecture discusses the following topics: stereotypes, ABC model, kernel
From playlist Social Psychology Lectures
The Truth is Terrible - Nietzsche's Idea of an Aesthetic Justification for Existence
Brian Leiter discusses the thought of Nietzsche at Davidson College a few years back. The truth is terrible, Nietzsche tells us. There is no God, the universe lacks any ultimate meaning or purpose, and is filled with gratuitous pointless suffering. Our only relief comes with nonexistence u
From playlist Social & Political Philosophy
Michael Tooley - Is Evil Necessary in God's World?
If we seek God, we cannot avoid the problem of evil. Can the enormity of evil ever be compatible with an all-powerful, all-knowing, all-good God? Couldn't God have created the world without such evil? Click here to watch more interviews about evil http://bit.ly/2bCgbjU Click here to watc
From playlist Big Questions About God - Closer To Truth - Core Topic
What the World Gets Wrong about Science
One of the most common misconceptions is that science is a "method" more than a body of knowledge. Yes—the scientific method generates that body of knowledge. It gives us a model of how the world works. But the result isn’t static. Things can change; indeed, things are guaranteed to change
From playlist Science
Does science reveal truths that are part of an objective reality?
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From playlist Science Unplugged: Big Ideas
Raymond Tallis - What is Truth?
Defining ‘truth’ is an ancient question that in the age of science should find resolution and agreement. But this is not so. Even today, truth remains elusive. Can truth be objective or must it always be relative? Is truth the exclusive domain of science? Or can different truths be apprehe
From playlist Exploring Metaphysics - Closer To Truth - Core Topic
Paradoxically, but also rather troublingly, there are certain lies that preserve the underlying truth about our feelings somewhat more effectively than the literal truth. An essay on the implications and background idea of the white lie. If you like our films, take a look at our shop (we s
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9. Illusions and visual prosthesis
MIT 9.04 Sensory Systems, Fall 2013 View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/9-04F13 Instructor: Peter H. Schiller This lecture demonstrates various illusions and analyzes theories for their explanation. Additionally, the instructor discusses the requirements of visual prostheses and
From playlist MIT 9.04 Sensory Systems, Fall 2013
Psych Streams w/ Dr. Swan: Profs Talking About Psychological Literacy FEATURING Dr. Randy Stein
I recently joined (Feb 22) Dr. Randy Stein, Associate Professor of Marketing at California Polytechnic University Pomona (https://www.cpp.edu/cba/international-business-marketing/faculty-and-staff/bios/randy-stein.shtml) on Zoom to discuss Psychological Literacy for an interdisciplinary co
From playlist General Psychology Lectures
R - Chapter 5: Sampling and Probability - Lecture Part 1
Lecturer: Dr. Erin M. Buchanan Missouri State University Spring 2016 This video covers theory ideas behind sampling and probability, error types, and basic hypothesis testing. The lecture covers the fifth chapter in the Nolan and Heinzen Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences. Note: Thi
From playlist PSY 200 (R) Undergraduate Statistics with Dr. B
Raymond Tallis - Events and the Nature of Time
Are events measured by time? Or is time created by sequences of events? Which is more fundamental, events or time? Worse, we may get different answers from quantum mechanics and general relativity. Free access to Closer to Truth's library of 5,000 videos: http://bit.ly/376lkKN Watch mo
From playlist What is Time? - Closer To Truth - Core Topic
What is Truth? | Episode 1405 | Closer To Truth
Everyone wants to know ‘Truth’. But what is Truth? People argue about Truth; people fight about Truth—consider politics and religion. But what is the basic meaning of Truth itself? Featuring interviews with Simon Blackburn, Raymond Tallis, John Hawthorne, John Hick, and Michael Shermer. S
From playlist Closer To Truth | Season 14
Varadaraja Raman - Did God Create Evil?
Can God and the enormity of evil both exist? Click here to hear more interviews on whether God created evil http://bit.ly/19H2s7A Click here for more interviews from Varadaraja Raman http://bit.ly/1QldvTt Click here to buy episodes and complete seasons of Closer To Truth http://bit.ly/1
From playlist Closer To Truth - V.V. Raman Interviews
Why your brain believes everything | Neuroscientist Amishi Jha
How to see through the lies that surround us. Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/c/bigthink Up Next ► How to catch a liar (assuming we want to) https://youtu.be/wq-poN6sLF8 The world today feels like it's a constant VUCA environment: Volatile, Uncertain, Comple
From playlist Great Question | Big Think
The real cruelty of unrequited love is that we don’t get to know our beloveds well enough to find out their flaws – and therefore to lose interest in them gradually. The best cure for love is in essence: get to know them better. If you like our films, take a look at our shop (we ship worl
From playlist RELATIONSHIPS
Jaron Lanier - How Can Free Will Work?
Assume that free will is real, not an illusion, and that the only reality is physical. How then could the will possibly be free? By what mechanism could human choice transcend the strong determinism of a closed physical world? One can try diminishing one side or the other: reducing free wi
From playlist Understanding Free Will - Closer To Truth - Core Topic