Metaphysics (about reality)
Link: What is metaphysics? (11:29)
Link: What is nihilism? (4:58)
Link: What is physicalism? (5:48)
Link: What is the Ship of Theseus problem? (8:55)
Link: What is Hard Determinism? (4:10)
Link: What is Normativity? (6:08)
Link: What is the mind-body problem? (11:36)
Link: What is noumena (vs phenomena)? (4:06)
Link: What is axiology? (7:36)
Link: What is Zeno’s Paradox of Motion? (6:26)
Link: What is the Liar Paradox? (3:26)


Epistemology (about knowledge)
Link What is Epistemology (7:03)
Link What is tabula rasa? (4:18)
Link What is Skepticism? (5:23)
Link What are Descartes’ Meditations? (15:20)
Link What is Zhuang Zhou’s Butterfly Dream? (9:46)
Link What is Rationalism? (7:49)
Link What is Empiricism? (8:10)
Link What are Gettier cases (5:55)

Religious Words:
Link What is Theism? (3:41)
Link What is Monotheism? (6:46) 
Link What is Atheism? (8:45)
Link What is the difference: Theism and Deism (6:39)  
Link What is Agnosticism? (2:43)
Link What is Deism? (4:29)
Link What is a Miracle? (6:33)
Link What is holy war? (14:10)
Link What is jihad? (4:13)
Link What is a prophet? (10:15)
Link Does (the Abrahamic) God exist? (5:44)
Link What is Ahimsa (5:28)
Link What is animism? (6:48)
Link What are the five pillars (Islam) (5:36)
Link What is asha (Zoroastrianism) (7:49)


People in Religion:
Link Who is God? (10:52)
Link Who is Abraham (Abram)? (6:11)
Link Who is Jesus Christ? (10:15)
Link Who is Mohammad? (5:29)
Link: Abraham links Judaism, Christianity, and Islam? (1:57)

Pro-Religion
Link What are reasons to believe in God? (7:39)
Link What is the argument from desire? (4:07)
Link What is the Cosmological Argument? (5:29)
Link What is the Teleological Argument? (5:04)
Link What is the Ontological Argument? (5:27)
Link What is Pascal’s wager? (4:28)

Anti-Religion
Link What is the Problem of Evil? (7:28)
Link What is the Problem of God’s Omniscience? (7:53)
Link What is the Omnipotence Paradox? (3:16)
Link What is the Problem of Divine Hiddenness? (3:23)

Kinds of Religions:
​Link What are kinds of Religions? (5:59) 
Link What are Eastern Religions? (6:36) 
Link What are the Abrahamic religions? (7:09)
Link What are indigenous religions? (10:47)


Religions: 
Link What is Paganism? (5:59)
Link What is Zoroastrianism? (13:24)
Link What is Judaism? (12:08)
Link What are Jewish denominations? (8:11)
Link What are Christian denominations? (5:32)
Link What is Islam? (11:06)
Link What are Islamic denominations? (4:16)
Link What is Hinduism? (7:01)
Link What is Confucianism? (10:19) 
Link What is Taoism? (7:36)
Link What is Buddhism? (10:14)
Link What is Jainism? (6:37)
Link What is Scientology (7:40)
Link What is Shintoism (4:35)
Link What are Native American Religions? (10:13)
Link What are Native African Religions? (9:39)
Link What is Sikhism? (9:13) 
Link What is Omnism? (8:06)


Religious Holidays:
Link What is Nowruz? (8:08)
Link What is Yom Kippur (4:06) 
Link What is Easter? (5:23)
Link What is the Ghost Festival? (5:33)
Link What is Eid al-Fitr? (5:38)

Philosophy of Technology:
Link What is ChatGPT? (5:30)
Link What is machine learning? (10:08) 
Link What are Large Language Models (9:26)
Link What are Ethical Concerns in AI? (15:54)
Link What’s the difference between data and information? (6:32)


Ethical Words:
Link What is ethics? (10:07)
Link What is metaethics? (7:27) 
Link What is normative ethics? (3:55)
Link What is a moral community? (4:24)
Link What is anthropocentrism? (7:42)
Link What is Moral Relativism (moral subjectivism)? (6:47) 
Link What is anthropocentrism? (7:42)
Link What is Speciesism? (5:44)

Normative Ethics (theories)
Link The difference: deontology and utilitarianism (7:39) 
Link What is Bentham’s principle of utility? (10:19)
Link What is utilitarianism? (5:22)
Link What are the implications of utilitarianism? (8:08)
Link What is Kantian deontology? (3:27)
Link What is Kant’s Deontology (21:02) 
Link What is Kantian freedom? (5:31)  
Link What is Kant’s Categorical Imperative? (9:11)
Link What is a Hypothetical Imperative? (4:32) 
Link What is divine command theory? (3:55)
Link What is Euthyphro’s dilemma? (5:06)
Link What is hedonism? (5:59)
Link What is virtue? (9:26)
Link What is virtue ethics? (6:28)

Political Philosophy
Link What is Distributive Justice? (6:20)
Link What is Retributive Justice? (9:03)
Link What is Plato’s Ring of Gyges excerpt? (8:40) 
Link What is egalitarianism? (3:10)
Link What is Rawls’ Theory of Justice? (9:15)
Link What is the Tragedy of the Commons? (5:23)

Topics in Ethics
Link What is euthanasia? (6:26)
Link What are moral human relations with animals? (6:21)
Link: How do ethical theories apply to coronavirus? (18:49)
Link: What about Cloning is ethical? (14:01)
Link: Can Libertarians be PRO gov.-mandated vaccines? (12:13)
Link: What is the Trolley Problem? (11:34) 

Aesthetics
Link: What is Aesthetics? (12:11) 
Link: What is the Paradox of Fiction? (6:01)
Link: What is the Problem of Tragedy? (5:30)

Reasoning
Link What is an inference? (6:06)
Link What is a priori? (4:36) 
Link What is a posteriori? (2:36)
Link Are possibility and plausibility synonymous? (4:06)
Link What are bad reasons? (9:04)
Link What is bad reasoning? (8:07)
Link What are ethos, pathos, and logos? (2:54)
Link What does “if” mean? (5:01)
Link What does “or” mean? (4:30)
Link What is Occam’s Razor? (3:12)

Argumentation
Link What is the purpose of an argument? (2:20)
Link What is an argument? (3:29)
Link What are argument indicators? (3:22) 
Link How do I identify arguments? (10:43)
Link What is an implicit premise? (4:06)
Link What is an argument by analogy? (2:12)
Link What are necessary conditions? (2:07)
Link What are sufficient conditions? (3:31)
Link How can a condition be sufficient but not necessary? (6:29)
Link How can a condition be necessary but not sufficient? (2:13)
Link What are non-deductive arguments? (8:00)
Link What are deductive arguments? (8:13)
Link What are valid argument forms? (9:33)
Link What is modus ponens? (3:50)
Link What is a disjunctive syllogism? (6:06)
Link What is modus tollens? (6:39)
Link How is Modus Ponens different from Modus Tollens? (8:58)

Logic Terms
Link What is logic? (4:44)
Link What is a proposition? (6:41)
Link What is a truth value? (6:42)
Link What is a truth functional proposition? (9:00)
Link What is propositional logic? (9:29)
Link What is a double negation? (6:45)
Link What are truth tables? (7:43)

Logical Fallacies
Link What is a logical fallacy? (8:10)
Link What is wishful thinking? (2:08)

Recent Public Lectures by Dr. Joakim:
Link: Injustice in Iran and Globally (44:21)
Link: Lessons from COVID (22:28)
Link: The Meaning, Value & Practice of Critical Thinking (36:45)
Link: Philosophical Perspectives on Iranian History (58:00)
Link: Diversities in the "Middle East" (21:53)
Link: Broadening the Limits of Knowledge (44:50)



​Interviews with Experts
To make philosophy genuinely accessible to the public, I’m interviewing experts on their views and asking them to explain each piece of the puzzle. Jargon clarified and theories analyzed into more simple ideas!

Published with consent:
Link Dr. Vitali on hunting and eating animals (39:00)
Link Dr. Cameron on abortion (56:28)
Link Dr. Ruetenik on demons and William James (31:59)
Link Dr. Nebel on union in love (23:07)
Link Dr. Byrd on public health and personal liberty (33:30)
Link Dr. Eckstrand on conceptualizing revolutions (40:54)
Link Dr. Stonestreet on human nature and personhood (42:44)
Link Moran on Artists as investigators not creators (48:53) 
Link Dr. Beck on feminism (1:12:52) 
Link Dr. Duffy on transcending through yoga (28:04)
Link Dr. Fatima on #MeToo for Muslim Americans (37:04)
Link Dr. Schwitzgebel on consciousness (41:45)
Link Dr. Bett on Sextus Empiricus’s Skepticism (29:53)
Link Dr. Champene on the epistemology of testimony (31:55)
Link Dr. Purcell on Aztec philosophy (48:09)
Link Prof. Williamson on Epistemic Ambivalence (38:12)
Link Dr. Andrews on Scholasticism (42:51)
Link Dr. Becko Copenhaver on Perception (39:34)
Link Prof. John Cottingham on the Soul (31:13)
Link Dr. Hereth on Pronouns (33:29)​
Link Dr. Kind on Imagination (44:05)​
Link Dr. Nanay on Mental Imagery and Implicit Bias (37:30)​
Link Dr. Giles on Prejudice (29:33)​
Link Dr. Jackson on credence (24:17)​
Link Dr. Lackey on the Epistemology of Groups (29:22)
Link Dr. Smith on Animism (28:26)
Link Dr. Haybron on Wellbeing (20:13)​
Link Dr. Goodman on False and Inconsistent Beliefs (29:36) 
Link Dr. Grzankowski on Mental Attitudes (34:24)
Link Dr. Hieronymi on Forgiveness (20:05)
​Link Dr. Antonini on Political Experience (18:27)
Link Dr. McKenna on non-Human Animal Welfare (20:48)
Link Dr. Sager on Open Borders (34:47) 
Link Dr. Ferrer on Love and Freedom (15:01)
Link Dr. Busk on Democracy (24:10)
Link Dr. Alavi on Oppression of Iranians in America (21:47)
Link Dr. Bastani on Kidney Transplantation and Ethics (35:08)
​Link: Dr. Epting on the Philosophy of the City (4:45)
Link Dr. Green on Space Ethics (24:31)
Link Dr. Piccinini on Neurocog. Mech. & Bio-Cognition (26:43)
Link Dr. Gardiner on Accusations of Misconduct (30:07)
Link Dr. Burge on Perception (30:47)
Link Dr. Greco on Religious Belief (17:33) 
Link Dr. Stevens on First Spiritual Awareness (15:52)
Link Dr. Smith on Constructivism (19:37) ​
​Link Dr. Chen on Bioethics (26:39)
Link Dr. Ketcherside on activists from the U.S. Military (24:18)
Link Dr. Azadpur on Islamic Philosophy (32:28)
​Link Dr. Sadri on Iranian Sociology (33:06)
Link Dr. Gardner on Annihilating Enemies (19:34)
Link Dr. Berman on the Objects of Science (22:59)
Link: Rick Spring on Art, Artists, and Artwork (21:20)
Link Dr. Chris Blake-Turner on Problems with Fake News (24:21)
Link Dr. Jill Delston on The Ethics of Precision Health (24:58)




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