The series
Videos
Ten short narrated films are planned, each under six minutes, told through the site's animations and paintings, in the style of the Philosophy of Time and Philosophy of Mind series. Each will also appear on the page it belongs to.
None of the episodes is out yet. The cards below show the plan; each links to the page where its film will appear, so you can read the material first.
- Free will worth wantingDennett's case: bugbears, the Game of Life, and why the freedom that matters needs no miracles.
- The swerve and the dogEpicurus breaks the bonds of fate; the Stoics tie a dog to a cart.
- Liberty and necessityHobbes's water in its channel and Hume's reconciling project.
- The demon and the turnspitLaplace's all-knowing intellect, and Kant's scorn for a freedom fit for clockwork.
- Willing what you willSpinoza's thinking stone and Schopenhauer's man at six in the evening.
- Half a secondLibet's clock, the readiness potential, and Mele's case that nothing was disproved.
- Could have done otherwiseFrankfurt's hidden device, Fischer's guidance control and Luther's stand.
- ResentmentP. F. Strawson's reactive attitudes, and the sceptics' case for letting them go.
- Self-made?Kane's self-forming actions, van Inwagen's consequence argument and Galen Strawson's Münchhausen.
- DeterminedSapolsky's regress, Pereboom's Professor Plum, and Dennett's last word.
The sister series are on the Philosophy of Time videos page and the Philosophy of Mind videos page.