Introduction to Philosophy and Logic 

I first saw Dave debunking conspiracy theories and pseudoscience and then his psychology series. Now a series about my favorite field of study, what a treat!

Wow, you really intend on covering everything don't you? Eventually people will be able to come to your channel and learn about almost anything. You've got an impressive ambition for this channel.

I have a philosophy masters degree, and this was a really elegant summary 👌 It's not often that scientists are so fair to philosophy as a subject, I've heard many brilliant scientists talk about philosophy being redundant, e.g. now that we have model dependent realism and advanced neuroscience etc. When anyone claims that philosophy is dead, that's the most important time to talk about it.

Philosophy is one of my favorite subjects. Great to see you covering it!

I really do appreciate your articulation. No convoluted explanations. Just pure concise and basic. 🙏

As an philosophy student myself (third semester) I find it very cool that you're making a video about philosophy. An as far as the connection of logic and philosophy goes, you''re right, logic is one of the basic and mandatory courses, that one should do in the first semesters, the first ideally, in my university at least. I'm from germany. So it may be different in other countries and universities but yeah. It's an important thing in all of philosophy. Great video as always. Greetings from germany!

I'm currently taking a mathematical logic course and I'm so happy to see that you're doing a series on logic and philosophy! Thank you for providing educational content of such a wide breadth!

The Hindi audio is almost perfectly translated,but i think some other people may find the vocabulary a little bit difficult. We can compare this to the vocabulary of an elite class british person. I think the problem is not the translator but the problem is the subject (philosophy). People find the Hindi vocabulary hard because they use many english words in their day to day conversation so they actually don't know the Hindi words. You should continue like this. I'm pretty sure that all other Indian viewers will also like it. Have a good day.

Can't wait for your explanation on nihilism, existentialism, and absurdism

I just have to say, I was student of Chemistry 5 years ago and in that time when I found this channel I was extremelly happy to learn Italian and Chemistry with prof. Dave, now I am studying my 2nd college - Philosophy and DAVE STARTS PHILOSOPHY COURSE? This is just amazing!!!

i was really into philosophy about a year ago but still looking forward to this series.

gotta say Dave your channel is one of my favorites! keep doing what youre doing man

3:54 So how to think? I think I found Prof Burton's favorite one! To explain: He was a professor at Purdue who taught tech students something far more useful than computer-based skills: he taught us how to think critically about our knowledge. Aka: How do you know that you know that? "What is your source? How does it prove that?" Words we heard so often that we wanted to beat our heads on our desks. But it was good times & good for us. Probably the most widely applicable thing I learned while getting my degree.

Hey Dave! I am so excited about this series. I've been teaching critical thinking and argumentation as key parts of an academic writing course for several years, and I can't wait to see your presentation of these themes. Hopefully soon, if any of my students are having trouble with something in class, I can just direct them to one of your videos for help. Keep up the great work!

i clicked on this video so damn fast, i've been giving myself a little crash course in philosophy over my summer break so this is perfect timing, thanks Dave!

I'm blown away by the quality of your video. It outdoes my videos for sure.

Thanks for all kinds of stuff, Dave!

Man I’m excited for this. Always loved philosophy. Thanks!

Looking forward to the rest of the series.

Very excited for this series. Just got into university this year, seeing Ethics and Politics and other philosophical topics.

FINALLY! I've been waiting for this series for so long 😁 please release the episodes as fast as possible! Loll

Very excited, this may be the most useful series to me personally, thanks Dave!

Really looking forward to this series... Cheers 💖!

Thanks Professor! I very much enjoyed my Philosophy courses in undergrad, so I very much look forward to this series.

Yes Save Yes! I love how you explain things, so you going to teach us philosophy is such a privilege. Thank you 😊♥️

Super excited for this series

Dave, You are wonderful!

I'm so excited about this series! I'm particularly eager to see how you approach Ontology...since I've never found an Ontological Argument that wasn't built around a faulty premise.

Thank you for delving into this area of study and spreading the good word about reason and logic. formal logic is far too absent from much of modern education. if anyone wants a fantastic and easily digestable source to get ahead of the professor here. i highly recommend the podcast Philosophize This. The host follows on a journey through the history and progression of philosophical thinkers throughout the ages, and communicates the general ideas in a pretty entertaining format.

Bro! Excited for the new series! Keep up the great work 👍

Hopefully this series will help me be a better arguer, and not get clammed up when I get flustered/frustrated, and stumble over my words Will you also cover fallacies and how to counter them?

Thank you sir for your videos , this channel is one of the greatest things I've ever stumbled upon , I am thankful for every single video you have made.

Great stuff Dave. I majored in philosohpy in 2014, so this series will most likely be an excellent refreshner. Thanks!

My fav youtuber in the world -deeply love form my heart to u brother . U are really a diamond बहुत प्यार आपको भारत वासी की तरफ से

Love your content, Dave. Your snark is legit and on point to the science deniers.

For those who are weak in English, but can understand Hindi well, the Hindi dubbing is really good. Some words are still heavy/hard even for native speakers, however that's probably just me as my hindi vocabulary is weak. You've done a amazing job, Dave. It will definitely help you reach new audience.

Yes another series that i can follow now

Thanks! Yes, please help me with philosophy.

Excellently explained by professor Dave. Following.

Great. Im looking forward to this one

Thank you so much for making such a complex topic simple and easy to grasp.Soon i will be doing an Introductory course on philosophy this coming term so this video is really helpful for me to get a heads-up. Really excited 😍💕

It's something of a natural progression, where you almost can't explore science without also getting into the philosophy of science. So.e might wonder the relevance, but that becomes clear when it's time to distinguish between what is and isn't science, or the difference between good and bad science, and how the philosophies in science have greater or lesser impact depending on how deeply one goes to distill down to the most applicable values.

I am gonna Love this series

1. Philosophy; logic 2. Science; knowledge 3. Applications of philosophy 4. Areas of philosophy; ethics / moral philosophy, epistemology, ontology, metaphysics, aesthetics, political philosophy, philosophy of science, philosophy of religion (different from theology), philosophy of mind, philosophy of language 5. Argumentation; argument; premise => conclusion; logic 6. Philosophy timeline

I'm gonna hop on later and watch this, thanks Dave 😊

Can't wait to see more

This is going to be excellent!🔥🔥

Awesome! Looking for more videos!

thanks Dave!

Time to add this to the "beard stroking" playlist

Professor Dave…. Please… do the Platonic dialogues, especially the 1st tetralogy. I’m sure this is a given but it would be cool for you to specifically get into Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo.

Thank you!!! Thank you!!!

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It is here!

I've lobbed praise at your channel a few times now but its worth repeating -- your channel is such a positive contribution to the collective intellect of the world. You're a powerhouse of knowledge and it truly feels like you were meant to do exactly what this channel does and you do it with an obvious respect for succinct craftsmanship while remaining uncompromising in citing research to support what you present. It really is top notch. Your editors and producers do great work too. Yo, Universe! Protect this man at all costs.

This is exactly what I’ve been waiting for

Oh I was thinking of buying Philosophy for Dummies, but this will do! Thanks Dave, the amount and quality of content that you put out is truly humbling.

Hey, you're cracking into my favorite subject! I love philosophy.

Considering the amount of people that actively reject truth and attach to conspiracy theories, everyone should learn to love philosophy!

Yes, I've been waiting ffor this

I wish I could watch the whole series already!

Perfect timing. 🕺

You did an excellent job on this one. I love philosophy, and in today's society, people need philosophy. You should cover Plato's concepts, like the Philosopher-kings and the allegory of the cave.

I love your videos!!!!

oooh, i can't wait

Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

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He's doing it... he's DOING IT...

Semantics: what is "is" Ontology: what "is" Me: "what"

Is this the series where you will go into the master list of fallacies, maybe covering the fallacies listed by IEP's (Tennessee) fallacy list?

I'm always a little saddened when people dismiss philosophy as something that isn't or cannot be very rigorous. Several science educators have contributed to this notion, with some openly invalidating the usefulness of philosophy. Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye are two such educators, whose views on philosophy I find... puzzling to say the least. I'm glad to see this introduction mentions there's so much more to philosophy than just asking if you can clap with one hand.

“Philosophy is the womb of science.”

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Great video, thank you very much , note to self(nts) watched all in it 7:52

This was a well thought out introduction. The big bang model, evolution, abiogenesis. These theories attempt to describe how life emerges from a chaotic system of particle interactions driven by fundamental forces. I ask you at what point did the chaotic system determine anything to be useful? Life evolved out of chaos right? So what I am asking is at what point did this chaotic system determine anything to be useful? The moment you acknowledge that it has deemed something useful you already left the notion of chaos behind entirely because what appeared chaotic truly had a purpose and intention behind it. You know how people create simulations on computers which simulate evolution in a simplistic form? The "simplistic" is an illogical position because the system which is producing that simple simulation is quite sophisticated in terms of the programming and software/hardware that goes into driving that simplistic evolution. So what appears random and chaotic isn't actually random and chaotic. What seems simplistic is actually quite sophisticated and hands on because we programmed and constructed the physical hardware and software for that simulation to be taking place, none of which are simplistic and that is without touching on the power supplied to operate the system. So although it's simple to create such a simulation in reality it's not as simplistic as one would lead you to conclude.

I would give you my soul if you did a video on Hegelian Dialectics.

i'm really excited for this series, fuck yes!

Informative & extremely essential... Our problem with science has been proselytizing Physics & molecular biology tell us our origins while religion is absent of a methodology from proteins & 20 amino acids, too DNA helix, to single cell organisms..sorry Dr, your the teacher, I will sit down But before I sit, the sciences weren't born in Greece, so can we get into what Leslie Orgel named "the origins of life..." next? Thanks Doc!

This is going to be my favorite series!!

Thankyou dave for hindi dubbed ❤❤

Prof Dave what's your philosophy about god or religion in general.

Love the video and excited for the new series! I thought our shared interests stopped at STEM and a strong distaste for religious babble, but apparently we both love philosophy too! One question though, why did you decide to define philosophy as "love of knowledge" instead of "love of wisdom?" it's not philgnosiphy after all.

I’ve learned philosophy already, but I was wondering when You’d start uploading philosophy lol. There’s gonna be a playlist with 300 + videos most likely. There’s a lot in philosophy

After studying philosophy and logic for 6 years I think that the safest and best definition for beginning is that philosophy is the study of ideas. Philosophy is not science, because every science has to have axiomatic foundations, for instance, math...Point is not defined in math, if one tries to define it with an analytical definition that person will need "genus proximum" and "differentia specifica" and that genus proximum will have to be defined and that will go to infinity. Philosophy always starts from scratch, there are no fixed axiomatic preferential points, and that is why for example Eugen Fink in his "Introduction in Philosophy" claims that philosophy is not a science. Of course, logic is part of philosophy, at least my professors were teaching me that it is a philosophical discipline, so logic and math are considered as "organon", tools that sciences are using.

Deym Im excited

Here comes the good stuff

I cannot find your videos on this subject can you put in an order for me

Sorry if it was said in the video and I missed it but will you be including eastern philosophy and philosophers like Chinese and Japanese? I feel they are often left out or only briefly mentioned when discussing philosophy and most people just teach as if western philosophy is all of philosophy.

Please hit up Stephen West from Philosophize this and do a Davecast with him.

Re the chart at 03:18, I would suggest that political philosophy is merely a branch of ethics (or moral philosophy). Otherwise, this is a very important chart and many confusions in philosophy (such as free will v. determinism) are a result of blurring these categories.

Hey Dave just watched your debate with JLP , you turned of comments so ...awsome I'd say debate but yeah...good stuff Dave

Nice

Dave I think this series is going to be great, when showing how to detect valid arguments might help people (maybe new, or not to the channel) with understanding how when you expose charlatans why what they are saying basically means nothing (assuming that the majority of new viewers come from those videos) anyway, keep it up, cant wait

Philosophy: a never-ending process of not agreeing on anything but also agreeing that nobody proved anything

What I find interesting is the history of mechanical philosophy and I guess how it sort of mixed with spiritualism. The rather strange idea that our minds is a machine, but not the world. I remember watching a lecture maybe about Galileo, it came up that Isaac Newton might not purely have been a materialist. I read in wiki articles today that he might have thought the universe was not purely mechanistic, but somehow also "populated by mysterious forces and spirits and constantly sustained by God and angels." I heard he could have gotten killed for not being able to define matter, mixing the material and spiritual world. I have a limited comprehension of matter and even how much of that (if any) is true, but perhaps Professor Dave knows?

Thanks, Dave, for your wonderful work. Can I make a recommendation? Are you aware of Mario Bunge's work? If not, please, I urge you to read Chasing Reality. This book contains an excelñent summary of most of the views of this scientific philosopher. As formerly dedicated to physics (he's a physicist), he spent most of his life to build a system of philosophy informed, founded and restricted by scientific knowledge; a system consisting of semantics, ontology, epistemology, methodology, axiology, ethics and praxiology. He sees philosophy not as opposing nor as an alternative to science; instead, philosophy is a conceptual and theoretical activity that studies (analyses, criticizes, propose, etc.) the most general concepts (such as those of thing, property, system, theory, mind, life, society, good, and so on) and hypothesis (such as the existence of an external world or the idea that nothing come from nothing). The products of philosophy are build by studing scientific knowledge and the actual practice of science: philosphical concepts, hypothesis, arguments and theories should be consistent with scientific knowledge, and to do so, the philosopher has to be informed on the state-of-the-art of the scientific disciplines relevant to his own philosophical research. At the samd time, science should be informed about philosophy (specially about science-informed philosophy) in order to be aware of the philosophical assumptions underlying scientific theories and practice. When the scientist is not aware of the philosphical elements of science, it become likely that his theories will be founded on some questionable or unreasonable assumption (for instance, that the state of a quantum object depends on a conscious observer). I hope you could take a look at his work and views. Kind regards!

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Bro tomorrow is my first philosophy class, how can u know 🗿

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