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Philosophy Pop-Up Sessions

This month, I started holding a new type of online event - Philosophy Pop-Up sessions - for my viewers, subscribers, supporters, and any other sorts of fans of my work.  These are a bit experimental in nature, and we're still sorting out precisely how they're going to work.

What I had in mind was to go live and interact with the participants for about 30-40 minutes or so.  I thought I'd start by discussing a thinker or topic for a few minutes, and then see what questions or comments...

Ten Videos on Heidegger's "What Is Metaphysics?"

In June, just after I created my Patreon page to crowdfund my work in public philosophy, I ran a poll, asking my viewers, subscribers, and supporters which philosophical figures they were most interested in seeing me tackle next.

Surprisingly, Martin Heidegger came out on top, with Friedrich and Immanuel Kant in the number 2 and 3 spots!  So, later on on June, after wrapping up the last of the core concept videos on Aristotle's Categories, I started preparing to shoot videos on Heidegger....

Video Series - Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

Immanuel Kant is one key thinkers I focus on in my classes.  I'm not by any means a "Kantian" - in fact I disagree with him on a number of matters - but he is someone whose works I very much appreciate, and even enjoy grappling with.  He is also someone whose thought tends to be very difficult for students approaching him for the first time - or even rereading his works! - and in my view, this difficulty stems from two main sources:  his academic terminology and style, one the...

Aristotle Didn't Say That! - On The Topic Of Criticism

The internet is full of fake quotations attributed to famous authors.  For some reason, Aristotle seems to attract more of these than most others, typically posted and then sometimes commented upon by people who know fairly little about him and his thought.  Here's a gem that has been making its way around the web - particularly in leadership, self-help, and personal development contexts:


Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing....

Just Reached 100 Videos On Stoic Philosophy!

In the last two weeks, I have released five short videos discussing key ideas of Cicero's Stoic Paradoxes.  Here's where two main focuses of my work in recent years come together.  One of these involves studying, applying, and teaching about Stoic philosophy.  The other is producing popular online videos on a wide range of thinkers, texts, and topics in philosophy.

Adding in those Stoic Paradoxes videos to the many others I have created brings the total today to exactly 100! &n...

Patreon Crowdfunding - Why I Created My Page

As some readers may already know, I recently made a Patreon page to support my work creating free high-quality philosophy content online.  The resources I've created - videos, blog posts, articles, handouts, even free courses, among others - have helped tens of thousands of people all over the world understand difficult philosophical ideas, thinkers, and texts.

That work demands considerable time, energy, and thought on my part - and I've been happy to devote all three of those over the...

The Philosophy Fans Have Spoken!

It is an astounding number, but at this point, I have created over 300 short Philosophy Core Concept videos - check out the playlist here - covering a pretty extensive range of philosophers.

Looking to expand the figures that I included in the series, I decided to get some input from my viewers, subscribers, and social media followers.  So I created a poll.  And the results were quite interesting.

The philosophy fans have spoken!  It looks like this summer - in addition to t...

Getting Typecast In Philosophy

Six years ago, I started producing videos on philosophy in YouTube. At this point I have over 1,000 in my main channel, and I produce about five new videos each week. That’s roughly 250 videos each year. There are philosophy channels whose videos garner a lot more views than mine. Those tend to have one of four things going for them. Either they are short, glib, and high production. Or they have somebody relatively famous speaking in them. Or they’re put out by a channel with a very strong (u...

Epictetus On The Dichotomy Of Control - Webinar and Online Seminars

We have started offering monthly webinars and online seminars this year, starting out with two discussing central aspects of Aristotle's virtue ethics (one on virtue and vice - watch it here - and the other on types of friendship - watch it here).

We're moving to a new thinker and topic for our online offerings in May - a key thinker and a main topic in Stoic philosophy:  Epictetus on the Dichotomy of Control - what is, and what is not, in our control!

This is a key Stoic doctrine - i...

Three Books That Most Changed My Life

Earlier this month, I participated in a great interview with Clifford Lee Sargent. He has been producing the Better than Food book reviews for several years – a great video series that I’m a big fan of – and we have been discussing what sort of collaborative work we might engage in. So when he decided to start a podcast focused around “Three Books That Changed Your Life,” and asked me if I’d come on, I thought it was a great topic, and immediately agreed.

As it turned out – for me – it was a m...