Post Series: Week 3: Philosophy and the Human Situation
- 1.1. Political Science Versus Political Philosophy
- 2.2. Why is Political Philosophy Important?
- 3.3. John Gardner on Constitutions
- 4.4. Matthew Kramer on Legal Rights
- 5.5. The Harm Principle
- 6.6. The Rule of Law
- 7.7. The Myth of the Rule of Law
- 8.8. The Philosophy of Politics & Economics
- 9.9. Michael Huemer – The Irrationality of Politics
- 10.10. Subjective v. Objective: Economist & Philosopher
- 11.11. Social Justice and its Critics
- 12.12. Robert Nozick on Distributive Justice
- 13.13. What’s Right About Social Justice?
- 14.14. As Birds Need Ornithologists
- 15.15. Two Statues: The Philosophy of Science
- 16.16. Are Numbers Real? Is Math True?
- 17.17. Scientific Realism
- 18.18. The Frontiers and Limits of Science
- 19.19. Scientific Pluralism
- 20.20. Science, Philosophy, and the Meaning of Life
- 21.21. Can Science Tell Us Right From Wrong?
- 22.22. Peter Singer on Applied Ethics
- 23.23. Roger Crisp on Utilitarianism
- 24.24. John Mikhail on Universal Moral Grammar
- 25.25. Horowitz and the Need for a Moral Operating System
- 26.26. Exercise: Personal Autonomy & Means vs. Ends
- 27.27. Is Morality Real, or Do We Make It Up?”
- 28.28. The Ethics of Extraterrestrial Ventures
- 29.29. The Ethics of Destroying the Environment
- 30.30. Global Poverty and Effective Altruism
- 31.31. Exercise: Moral Responsibility and Determinism
- 32.32. What Makes a Good Life?
- 33.33. Leon Botstein: Art Now
- 34.34. Derek Matravers on Defining Art
- 35.35. Barry Smith on Wine
- 36.36. Stephen Mulhall on Film as Philosophy
- 37.37. Aaron Ridley on Nietzsche on Art and Truth
- 38.38. Ryan Bell – Living Between Belief and Unbelief
- 39.39. Sam Harris on Spirituality Without Religion
- 40.40. What Secular Ideologies Can Learn from Religion
- 41.41. Don Cupitt on Non-Realism About God
- 42.42. Life, the Universe and Nothing
- 43.43. You Are Your Life, and Nothing Else