Philosophy YouTube is wild. Half the internet is doing reaction videos to chicken nuggets, and the other half is quietly uploading 40 hours of Heidegger like that’s a normal human hobby. Bless the ones keeping real thought alive while the algorithm begs us to binge sludge.
It’s possible that « sludge » is a philosophical phenomenon one could explore with some degree of seriousness, rendering it distinct from propositions offered in psychology or neuroscience? Perhaps sludge has ontological or epistemological significance similar to that of language or AI/LLMs for that matter? After all, it behaves as an existential threat and must have some significance, no? 🤷♀️
Johann Frick (one of the most respected moral philosophers alive) has an entire intro to ethics, which is *phenomenal* and yet virtually unwatched: https://youtu.be/b2vIN0k37JA?si=PdqvjhownndNH0lD
Wheaton College recorded and published the lectures from the late Arthur Holmes’s two-semester History of Philosophy course, and they’re excellent. They’re published as a playlist; I think it’s 81 lectures in total. I’ll add the link to
The playlist here, should you or anyone else be interested.
I listened to Daniel Robinson's Great Courses lecture "The Great Ideas of Philosophy" when I was an undergrad. Anyone who uses audible or has the Great Courses has a ton of Philosophy long-form content to consume - There's got to be around 50 or so different lecture series.
I love the History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps podcast, as well as its spin offs covering Chinese, India, and Africana philosophical traditions. It's available on YouTube as well as on standard podcasting apps. It's been an extraordinary source for me over the last decade!
A most excellent resource. I know the focus here is philosophy, but Daniel Robinson is an excellent resource in psychology as well. You might also want to update that he died in 2018 and so is no longer a fellow at Oxford.
I have a few others I think are worthy of this list, but off the top of my head the interviews with Bryan McGee (including Dreyfus!) and other philosophers are excellent, and I believe all or most are on YouTube! I will come back with a link.
A couple of others have mentioned John Russon's YT channel (https://www.youtube.com/@JohnRusson123) for far ranging lectures across the history of the western philosophical tradition from a phenomenological perspective. John is an excellent teacher who is distinguished by his concern to philosophize about things as if they actually mattered to philosophically-minded people outside the context of professional philosophy.
Philosophy YouTube is wild. Half the internet is doing reaction videos to chicken nuggets, and the other half is quietly uploading 40 hours of Heidegger like that’s a normal human hobby. Bless the ones keeping real thought alive while the algorithm begs us to binge sludge.
Its probably closer to a 90/10 split.
It’s possible that « sludge » is a philosophical phenomenon one could explore with some degree of seriousness, rendering it distinct from propositions offered in psychology or neuroscience? Perhaps sludge has ontological or epistemological significance similar to that of language or AI/LLMs for that matter? After all, it behaves as an existential threat and must have some significance, no? 🤷♀️
Great post. A few more nominations…
Heath on human sociality: https://www.youtube.com/live/0yrhgKf4XbY?si=MyUHyol5nQoevPuL
Bryan Magee’s “The Great Philosophers” (and everything else uploaded by David Balcarras): https://youtu.be/3_kdbJnCMwU?si=2AY9gO5eaCdGizMC
Krister Bykvist on population ethics: https://youtu.be/3WVKrz7hi3s?si=k9FhNmKQEdh9CYxf
Johann Frick (one of the most respected moral philosophers alive) has an entire intro to ethics, which is *phenomenal* and yet virtually unwatched: https://youtu.be/b2vIN0k37JA?si=PdqvjhownndNH0lD
Frick getting 400 views is a crime. That’s great stuff.
Gonna start listening to Frick lectures overnight—to right the injustice.
Jared and commenter Daniel, thanks for your generosity sharing these
Wheaton College recorded and published the lectures from the late Arthur Holmes’s two-semester History of Philosophy course, and they’re excellent. They’re published as a playlist; I think it’s 81 lectures in total. I’ll add the link to
The playlist here, should you or anyone else be interested.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9GwT4_YRZdBf9nIUHs0zjrnUVl-KBNSM&si=HKYy6DNaNgfGK4ZH
-Ists, -isms, and antiismists was a remarkable chapel talk :)
I listened to Daniel Robinson's Great Courses lecture "The Great Ideas of Philosophy" when I was an undergrad. Anyone who uses audible or has the Great Courses has a ton of Philosophy long-form content to consume - There's got to be around 50 or so different lecture series.
I get access through the library. Would the great ideas be a good place to start?
Maybe. Listen to the lecture by Daniel Robinson - If you like him you'll probably like the lectures. Very broad survey style.
I've heard nice endorsements for No Excuses: Existentialism and the Meaning of Life and Practical Philosophy: The Greco-Roman Moralists.
That one was so formative for me.
Philosophy undergrad here, the best intro to political philosophy I have found is Ian Shapiro's Moral Foundations of Politics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6MOA_Y3MKE&list=PL2FD48CE33DFBEA7E
25 lectures. Incredibly insightful stuff.
Some other youtube philosophy lectures hopefully worth a listen
Lecture Series:
Tim Scanlon metaethic lectures
https://youtu.be/fnhXhG_D5vE?si=tiVLdR6W8BZdlFjw
Parfit on Kant
https://youtu.be/UIuarGrMiqc?si=tZGVDSox_LO7d5Re
Donald Davidson on various topics (sadly only a collected playlist not a lecture series)
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL59ZZdDElkGdd6JeHLdxR35tLa1HE2pV0&si=3nS0TKXL0hYqPc38
Kripke looking back on Naming and Necessity (just 1 lecture)
https://youtu.be/3zazonG6zBk?si=ZclbzEFljv0cGtzP
Channels:
Simon Cushing
A philosophy professor at the University of Colerado lectures on ethics, history of analytic philosphy, epistemology and many other issues
https://youtu.be/qS-rOs8TyP4?si=dcBh6GG06k2IhwuT
Kane B
https://youtube.com/@kaneb?si=dxTYgfFSOKluTNDh
Lectures on all things philosophy
I love the History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps podcast, as well as its spin offs covering Chinese, India, and Africana philosophical traditions. It's available on YouTube as well as on standard podcasting apps. It's been an extraordinary source for me over the last decade!
Peter Adamson is phenomenal!
A most excellent resource. I know the focus here is philosophy, but Daniel Robinson is an excellent resource in psychology as well. You might also want to update that he died in 2018 and so is no longer a fellow at Oxford.
I have a few others I think are worthy of this list, but off the top of my head the interviews with Bryan McGee (including Dreyfus!) and other philosophers are excellent, and I believe all or most are on YouTube! I will come back with a link.
I recommend anyone who likes Sugrue lecture the complete course The Great Minds of the Western Tradition. Follows the link: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLez3PPtnpncT3FVrZqrLGllGpOf4HXJFh&si=qYadRJ5fPgZuETO3
This is an amazing resource, thank you!
I've found lectures from Allan Bloom on several channels across Youtube. Such as:
https://www.youtube.com/@MrAllanBloom/videos
This channel has a few lectures by Allan Bloom and a great many by Leo Strauss:
https://www.youtube.com/@IntellectualDeepWeb/featured
Including this 8.5 hour video of Bloom's lectures:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x1YMfb7ih8&
Michael Sugrue is the man. So happy to see him make your list
Thank you for this resource. Would Paul Meehl's series of lectures on Philosophical Psychology from 1989 count as philosophy of science?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPbzCTneDs
Another wonderful resource is John Russon's YouTube Channel for phenomenology and Continental philosophy - tons of stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/@JohnRusson123/featured
Such a collection, thank you!
A great resource Jared! Looking forward to what's coming...
A couple of others have mentioned John Russon's YT channel (https://www.youtube.com/@JohnRusson123) for far ranging lectures across the history of the western philosophical tradition from a phenomenological perspective. John is an excellent teacher who is distinguished by his concern to philosophize about things as if they actually mattered to philosophically-minded people outside the context of professional philosophy.
Also, the Philosophy Overdose channel is a veritable goldmine (https://www.youtube.com/@Philosophy_Overdose/featured).