Justice
Michael Sandel's landmark moral and political philosophy course examining Bentham, Mill, Nozick, Locke, Kant, Rawls, and Aristotle through live Socratic courtroom and policy dilemmas.
Philosophy & Ethics
Moral and political philosophy, epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, logic, and philosophy of science.
Essential Philosophy courses
Complete university lecture courses in philosophy & ethics.
Death
Rigorous analytic metaphysics and moral philosophy examining personal identity, mind-body dualism vs. physicalism, Plato's Phaedo, immortality, and whether being dead can harm a person.
Philosophy and the Science of Human Nature
Pairs Plato, Aristotle, Epictetus, Hobbes, Kant, and Mill with contemporary cognitive science, behavioral economics, and moral psychology on flourishing, habit, and justice.
The Self Under Siege: Philosophy in the Twentieth Century
Celebrated lecture series examining Nietzsche, Freud, Marx, Heidegger, Sartre, Wittgenstein, Habermas, Foucault, Derrida, and Baudrillard on modernity and human agency.
Introduction to Political Philosophy
Close philosophical reading of foundational political texts on regime, sovereignty, liberty, and citizenship: Plato's Republic, Aristotle's Politics, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Tocqueville.
Introduction to Linguistics
Morphology, phonetics, phonology, generative syntax, compositional semantics, pragmatics, historical language change, and universal structural constraints across human languages.
Philosophy Double Feature
Two complementary philosophy talks paired around a central intellectual tension.
Double Feature2 talks · 124m total
Innate Structure & The Predictive Mind
How universal syntactic rules and active free-energy minimization offer two distinct mathematical lenses on human cognition.
Part I · Generative grammar1:39:32
Language, Generative Grammar, and the Cognitive Revolution (Killian Lecture)
Part II · Free-energy principle24:17
Active Inference and the Free Energy Principle of Brain Function
Standalone Philosophy talks
85Self-contained lectures, Nobel addresses, and research colloquia you can watch in one sitting.
Theory, Prediction, Observation
Richard Feynman's final Messenger Lecture, reflecting on the scientific process itself—the interplay between theoretical models, empirical predictions, and the role of observation in validating knowledge.
Democracy, Ancient and Modern
The fourteenth installment of the 'Purposes of College Education' series, exploring the evolution and concepts of democracy from ancient origins to modern interpretations.
How to Speak
An MIT institution for four decades: concrete heuristics on blackboard pacing, cycling ideas, verbal punctuation, and why you should never open a technical talk with a joke.
Constituting Democracy in the Era of AI (MIT Compton Lecture)
Professor Minow explores the evolving challenges to democratic governance and constitutional frameworks posed by the pervasive influence of artificial intelligence. The lecture analyzes how AI systems necessitate re-evaluation of established legal principles and societal structures for maintaining democratic integrity.
Why Be Just?: Purposes of College Education, Lecture 4
A philosophical inquiry into the concept of justice, drawn from Lecture 4 of a Yale course examining the foundational purposes of college education through classical texts.
Yale and the American Revolution: Purposes of College Education, Lecture 6
An academic exploration of Yale's role during the American Revolution, positioned as Lecture 6 in a course on the broader purposes of college education.
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