Eric Kaplan--What's the Use of Philosophy?
Eric Kaplan, Harvard alumnus and current producer and writer for The Big Bang Theory, shares how his love of philosophy influenced his career path. After graduating from Harvard in 1989, Kaplan went on to do graduate work in philosophy at Columbia and then began a Ph.D. in philosophy at UCal Berkeley. He has been a writer for David Letterman, for Futurama, and is currently co-producer and writer for The Big Bang Theory.
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Writer/Philosopher Eric Kaplan Dumbs It Down For Jay
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Philosophy of Plato (Part 1: Idealism)
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Stoicism as a philosophy for an ordinary life | Massimo Pigliucci | TEDxAthens
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Eric Kaplan: Does Everything Happen for a Reason?
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Big Techday 26: Human nature and human progress - Prof. Dr. Steven Pinker, Harvard University
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Cornel West - The Historical Philosophy of W.E.B. Du Bois - Class
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The Plausibility of Wittgenstein's Metaphilosophy | Timothy Williamson & Paul Horwich
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What Happens After Death in Universalism? | Arnold Zuboff
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The Logical Structure of Human Civilization (John Searle)
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How philosophy can save your life | Jules Evans | TEDxBreda
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Are Miracles Possible? | John Lennox's Fantastic Lecture at Harvard
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Why You Must Acquire Power at All Costs | Harvard’s Harvey Mansfield on Machiavelli
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Why we are getting more stupid | Slavoj Žižek FULL INTERVIEW
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David Chalmers: Why Isn't There More Progress In Philosophy? (Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture)
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Isaiah Berlin interview on Why Philosophy Matters (1976)
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How to Speak
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The Nature of Reality: A Dialogue Between a Buddhist Scholar and a Theoretical Physicist
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Capitalism vs. Socialism: A Soho Forum Debate
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Harold Bloom - "Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human"
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