LEE BRAVER walks through the great ethical theories of Western philosophy, from Socrates' founding questions to Mill, Kant, Aristotle, and Sartre's existential challenge.

REED WINEGAR surveys Kant's revolutionary philosophy, from the limits of human knowledge to morality, freedom, and religion.

MARYA SCHECHTMAN asks what makes you the same person throughout your life, introducing the major theories of personal identity and arguing that our identities are best understood as narratives.

KEN GEMES traces the consequential shift from moral to biological conceptions of evil, examining degeneration theory across science, literature, and philosophy from Darwin to Nietzsche and Freud.

IRAD KIMHI investigates language and technology through logic and philosophy, rethinking what it is to think, mean, and compute in light of Wittgenstein, Turing, and Heidegger.

KATALIN BALOG lays out dialectical monism weighing the deepest arguments about mind, brain, and the nature of reality.

ELI FRIEDLANDER examines Walter Benjamin’s philosophy of modernity, memory, and art, tracing how technology and history reshape perception, culture, and collective experience.

JEAN GRONDIN provides an introduction to the developmental stages in metaphysical thinking. Authors include Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Augustine, Descartes, Kant, Heidegger, and Levinas.

THOMAS SHEEHAN provides an introduction to Heidegger's entire project from Being and Time to his final period (1962-76). Aimed at those who find Heidegger difficult or even impossible to understand.

JUSTIN SMITH-RUIU examines the great eighteenth-century debate over reason, freedom, religion, and human nature through the works of Spinoza, Leibniz, Voltaire, Rousseau, Herder, and others.

AMIE L. THOMASSON reconceives metaphysics as conceptual engineering, understanding how language functions to shed new light on old problems about properties, numbers, morality, and truth.

TIMOTHY QUINN explores how Bacon and Descartes assimilate Machiavelli's political teaching into a new concept of nature destined to reorient the practice of science and reorganize the life of civil society.

JOHN DEBROTA and JACQUES PIENAAR introduce QBism, a contemporary interpretation of quantum mechanics rooted in the quantum information revolution, and explain its most distinctive and unconventional ideas.

JAY BERNSTEIN guides viewers through G. W. F. Hegel's first masterpiece The Phenomenology of Spirit exploring consciousness from sense-certainty to absolute knowledge.

DAVID LINDEMAN explores the hard problem of consciousness through conversations with leading thinkers and advocates of physicalism, dualism, panpsychism, and other major views.