Alex OConnor
Compatibilism Debunked | Free Will and Determinism
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Is God nothing more than a "celestial dictator"? Christopher Hitchens thought so, and was relentless in exclaiming so. God is an all-knowing supervisor, who judges your thoughts and demands praise and obedience. But does this make him a tyrant?
I wanted to spend some time responding to Hitchens' famous argument, and see how it might be responded to.
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More on hell: youtu.be/mmO9kLOpUL8
Hitchens Source 1 (Hitchens vs Hitchens): youtu.be/ngjQs_QjSwc?t=2090
Hitchens Source 2 ("Hitch-slap" compilation, Agatan Foundation): youtube.com/watch?v=K5Xx9IxlrEg&ab_channel=AgatanFoundation
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0:00 The Celestial North Korea
1:08 Introduction
3:46 What's Wrong With Dictatorship?
11:45 What About Freedom?
19:50 Bishop Robert Barron
23:26 Outro
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Trolley Problem Memes episode three: the nuclear war trolley problem!
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0:00 The problem stated
0:43 The ethics of friendship
2:40 Utilitarianism's easy answer
3:05 What about human rights?
6:40 Who is violating the rights?
9:20 Let's not encourage terrorists
9:50 Uno reverse and closing thoughts
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Jordan Peterson is famously vague when asked about his views on the existence of God. He's more enthusiastic about discussing religion and scripture broadly, but still then leaves some mystery about his actual views.
In this video, I try my best to identify and unpack Peterson's religious philosophy, before offering some objections.
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Peterson's podcast with Jonathan Pageau and Douglas Murray: youtube.com/watch?v=4Modzh94MVw
Peterson on the Lex Fridman Podcast: youtube.com/watch?v=sY8aFSY2zv4
Peterson's podcast with Jonathan Pageau and Mohammed Hijab: youtube.com/watch?v=gqS1ov4lSI0
Peterson on the divinity of Christ, from "Transliminal", via "Bite-sized Philosophy": youtube.com/watch?v=UKG4_psaC9k
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0:00 Introduction
4:02 What is God?
14:15 Did the events of the Bible really happen?
23:04 "Science presupposes deism"
32:50 Peterson misuses religious language
42:49 Summary and conclusion
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The trolley problem memes are back by popular demand!
To watch the first Trolley Problem Memes video, click here: youtu.be/cj6brWVNhjo
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0:00 Intro
0:13 1: Artificial Intelligence
6:37 2: Time Travel
8:30 3: Ship of Theseus
13:07 4: Infinite Death
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As Joe Biden moves the United States towards the decriminalisation of cannabis, offering pardons for all previous federal offences of marijuana possession, UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman is considering taking an opposite approach for Britain, with the press reporting that she is "receptive" to calls to upgrade the legal category of the drug from class B to class A.
I think this is a terrible and self-defeating move, and I wanted to make a video explaining why.
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0:00 Is weed "just as harmful" as cocaine?
2:11 Is weed a "gateway" drug?
6:25 Weed is harmful to your health
11:37 Who does criminalisation benefit?
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The Queen's recent death has been cause for some to reignite the debate surrounding the continuation of hereditary monarchy in the UK. For some time now, I've felt that this institution is past its use-by date, and I thought I would take this opportunity to explain some of the reasons why.
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0:00 The Queen vs the Monarchy
2:52 "Royal Highness"
5:39 Arrest of protesters
7:39 Legal exemptions for the King
9:19 "But the King has no real power!"
10:10 Performative Grief and Royal Hysteria
13:51 Be aware of what the monarchy represents
14:56 Can we at least stop obsessing over the monarchy?
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The Trolley Problem was given its name by Judith Jarvis Thompson in 1976, and since then has become an iconic mainstay of ethical philosophy, and surprisingly embedded into popular culture.
The variants on the original problem are now tending towards infinity, and I decided to take some of the more challenging, absurd trolley problems and discuss the implications of pulling that famous lever.
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Trolley Problem Memes: facebook.com/TrolleyProblemMemes
Princeton MRI study: https://pr.princeton.edu/news/01/q3/0914-brain.htm
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0:00 Intro
0:36 The Original Trolley Problem
1:45 Problem One
5:10 Problem Two
8:50 Problem Three
13:00 Problem Four
15:12 Problem Five
17:34 Problem Six
19:17 Outro
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In this episode of "Unbelievable?", Alex O'Connor and Lukas Ruegger (from "Deflate") discuss the problem of divine hiddenness: why, if God exists, is he apparently hidden from so many of us?
Thanks to Justin Brierly for hosting the show, and to Max Baker Hytch for helping us secure a room in Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. Max joins the others for a review of the conversation at the end of the video.
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"Deflate" on YouTube: youtube.com/c/Deflate2020
Unbelievable on YouTube: youtube.com/c/Unbelievableshow
Listen to this episode as an audio-only podcast: premierunbelievable.com/unbelievable/unbelievable-why-is-god-hidden-cosmic-skeptic-and-lukas-ruegger-at-oxford-university-with-max-baker-hytch/13642.article
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0:00 Preface
2:41 Introduction
3:41 What is divine hiddenness?
8:33 What about all the evidence for God?
22:14 Is God revealing himself to Alex?
28:28 Does God have good reason to hide himself?
31:50 Is Alex truly "non-resistant" to God's existence?
42:44 Must a person live like a Christian to start seeing God's existence?
59:23 Why does religion exist?
1:08:03 Alex's potential future conversion?
1:10:10 Post-conversation review with Max Baker-Hytch
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Ben Shapiro believes that atheism is a delusion, and I paid for a Daily Wire Plus membership to find out why. Blitzing through arguments from reason, morality, free will, change, fine-tuning, consciousness, and biology, Ben takes us on a whistle-stop tour of philosophy, which I've tried to break down and respond to in today's video.
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"The Atheist Delusion" on Daily Wire Plus: dailywire.com/show/debunked
Genetically Modified Skeptic's video: youtu.be/aZjnS1mp88E
My podcast with Joe Schmid: youtu.be/_cPfxjwAubY
My video, "Why Free Will Doesn't Exist": youtu.be/OwaXqep-bpk
Ed Feser’s book, Five Proofs of the Existence of God: amzn.to/3wnkskh
William Lane Craig on Hilbert’s hotel and actual infinites: youtube.com/watch?v=lobeX6ft6PA&ab_channel=drcraigvideos
My podcast with William Lane Craig: youtu.be/eOfVBqGPwi0
Chico the Philosurfer: youtube.com/c/ChicothePhilosurfer
Graham Oppy and Ed Feser discuss God's existence: youtube.com/watch?v=XoVDutpB4Cw&ab_channel=CapturingChristianity
My podcast on the problem of evil: youtu.be/hxUgziZ4vro
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0:00 Introduction
2:12 No such thing as a real atheist
6:23 Getting an "ought" from an "is"
8:20 A dishonest edit of Neil deGrasse Tyson
9:55 God is necessary to trust reason itself
14:21 God is necessary to ground morality
19:46 The Argument from Change
39:22 Gödel's incompleteness theorem
41:00 Evolution and God
43:00 The fine-tuning argument
46:38 Human consciousness proves God?
47:59 Outro
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The problem of evil is one of the most difficult challenges facing a theist who wishes to defend the existence of a good god. In this episode of the Cosmic Skeptic Podcast, Alex is joined by Joe Schmid, an agnostic, Cameron Bertuzzi, a protestant, and Trent Horn, a catholic, to discuss the problem in detail, and analyse various responses to it.
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Cameron Bertuzzi: youtube.com/c/CapturingChristianity
Trent Horn: youtube.com/c/TheCounselofTrent
Joe Schmid: youtube.com/c/MajestyofReason
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Cameron’s discussion with Philip Goff: youtube.com/watch?v=IZZp_Q3If7o
My debate with Trent on God's existence: youtu.be/5PF1JgXOKDQ
My video on Stephen Law's evil god challenge: youtu.be/xLnsY5io964
Trent's debate with Matt Dillahunty on the Resurrection: youtu.be/7V6UNSvHVDM
Better Never To Have Been, by David Benatar: amzn.to/3NFsPOa
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0:00 Intro
1:16 Is God's Power Limited?
16:15 Evidential vs Logical Problem of Evil
25:53 The Problem of Animal Suffering
42:23 Skeptical Theism
50:22 Does God Have to be Good?
56:23 Higher Order Goods and The Experience Machine
1:04:20 Comparing Theodicies with Antinatalism
1:10:38 Closing Thoughts
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Natural theology has been a focus of this channel and podcast for the past six years, but never have I attempted to rank arguments for God's existence until now.
To do this, I enlisted the help of Joe Schmid from the Majesty of Reason, a delightfully knowledgeable philosopher, whose channel you can find below.
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Majesty of Reason (Joe's channel): youtube.com/c/MajestyofReason
Joe's 12 hour video on 150 arguments for God: youtu.be/iP0Mh42jvV4
GM Skeptic's tier list video: youtu.be/cpC8WtufJbo
Alexander Pruss' paper on the Hume-Edwards Principle: philpapers.org/rec/PRUTHP
My podcast with William Lane Craig: youtu.be/eOfVBqGPwi0
Joe's video series with Rationality Rules on the kalam: youtu.be/ZTDbUE83JyI
My podcast with Rationality Rules discussing the ontological argument: youtu.be/gxsC2UvCR_w
Maximally Great Philosophy: youtube.com/c/MaximallyGreatPhilosophy
Me and Joe discussing symmetry breakers on Capturing Christianity: youtu.be/czPBS4FVi2Q
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0:00 Introduction
2:47 The Contingency Argument
19:12 The Kalam Cosmological Argument
35:07 The Anselmian Ontological Argument
49:17 The Modal Ontological Argument
1:07:13 The Fine Tuning Argument
1:28:39 The Moral Argument
1:40:30 The Argument From the Resurrection of Jesus
1:55:25 Outro
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Drew McCoy is the host of the Genetically Modified Skeptic YouTube channel, which is, with now over 500,000 subscribers, perhaps the largest atheist YouTube channel in the world right now.
We are often compared (and confused), and the last time we collaborated was in 2017, so we thought it would be a good idea to film a podcast together.
The video we made five years ago argued that, as well as being false, religion is also mostly harmful. In this podcast we discuss our current views on that subject, and examine how they have changed.
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Genetically Modified Skeptic: youtube.com/c/GeneticallyModifiedSkeptic
Our last collaboration (2017): youtube.com/watch?v=gcw87ynDlhI&ab_channel=CosmicSkeptic
The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt: amzn.to/3ml0WQ5
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0:00 Introduction
0:52 Cosmic vs Genetically
4:43 Atheist? Agnostic? Activist?
7:55 Drew's reasons for atheism
12:16 Is religion harmful?
16:07 Does Drew want Christianity to be true?
23:00 Does atheism entail nihilism?
33:00 Should we try to prevent people becoming religious?
39:09 Has Drew ever been pulled back to Christianity?
50:22 Does a person have to challenge their views if they're too scared to?
55:08 Where to go to start challenging your faith
1:01:10 Outro
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This debate between Dr Jonathan McLatchie and Alex O'Connor took place at Sattler College in Boston Massachusetts on the 16th of May 2022. The motion was, "Theism or Naturalism, which provides a better account of reality?" Both speakers agreed that the term naturalism and atheism were in this context being used almost synonymously, and that the video upload could be titled with atheism instead of naturalism.
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Dr. Jonathan McLatchie: jonathanmclatchie.com
Alex O'Connor: cosmicskeptic.com
Previous debate between these speakers in 2019: youtu.be/woqy13ZkeqM
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0:00 Introduction and format
3:22 Jonathan Opening Statement
23:26 Alex Opening Statement
43:20 Jonathan First Rebuttal
55:45 Alex First Rebuttal
1:07:44 Jonathan Second Rebuttal
1:14:21 Alex Second Rebuttal
1:20:45 Cross examination
1:41:32 Audience Questions
2:13:12 Jonathan Closing Statement
2:18:22 Alex Closing Statement
2:23:30 Outro
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I'm sometimes asked if, during my time discussing religion as an atheist, I have ever considered reverting to Christianity. Whilst I like to think that I have, that may not mean exactly what is expected.
--------------------------------LINKS---------------------------------
Debate with Jonathan McLatchie: youtu.be/rnIQFI1pYLM
Event with Trent Horn: capturingchristianity.com/events/cc-exchange-2022
Video debunking myself on the kalam: youtu.be/MGJq5C9wuzk
More on divine hiddenness: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/divine-hiddenness/
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Ed Winters ("Earthling Ed") is a vegan educator, best-selling author, public speaker and content creator, widely known for his viral debates, speeches, and video essays.
Ed was on the Cosmic Skeptic Podcast in 2019, making him the first guest to appear for a second time. He and Alex discuss the definition and nature of veganism, the limits of "practicability", the ethics of unnecessary vegan food, and much more.
--------------------------------LINKS---------------------------------
Buy "This Is Vegan Propoganda" by Ed Winters: amzn.to/3rEJYPS
Ed's first appearance on the Cosmic Skeptic Podcast: youtu.be/r-BTN8Ajs04
Ed's video on crop deaths: youtu.be/0QTNgKpV_K4
Ed's video on hunting: youtu.be/BODIUmBTWk8
Ed's mentioned video discussing halal meat: youtu.be/UWp9qBTz1a8
Vegan Camp Out UK: vegancampout.co.uk
Vegan Camp Out Australia: https://vegancampout.com.au/
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0:00 Introduction
2:00 When is it permissible to eat animals?
10:22 Can everybody be vegan?
16:05 Is nonessential vegan food ethical?
18:38 Is it sometimes more vegan to eat an animal?
32:36 Reducing suffering vs animal *rights*
36:29 Do animals have a right to life?
45:50 Do animals feel less pain than us?
51:01 Utilitarianism and the experience of suffering
58:18 Most "moral" debate is not about morality
1:01:52 Ed's favourite conversation
1:04:41 Which vegan stereotype does Ed most dislike?
1:11:03 Ed's book and outro
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On this the first of April in the year of our Lord 2022, I am glad to make it known that I am now a Christian. That might change again by tomorrow.
--------------------------------LINKS---------------------------------
Rationality Rules: youtube.com/channel/UCqZMgLgGlYAWvSU8lZ9xiVg
William Lane Craig podcast: youtu.be/eOfVBqGPwi0
Maximally Great Philosophy: youtu.be/QokjqfqPmuM
Steve and Alex talk about nihilism in 2018: youtu.be/58lKcxs1FUg
-------------------------TIMESTAMPS---------------------------
0:00 Introduction
2:06 Conversion to Christianity
6:21 The Ontological Argument
38:06 Jesus, Hell, and Vegans
42:52 Atheists Just Want to Sin
48:22 The Problem of Evil
1:18:38 Summary and Conclusion
1:21:48 Outro
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George Orwell is one of the most celebrated writers of the twentieth century. Most loved and remembered for his fiction, he also produced an expansive array of essays, including "Politics and the English Language", which contains his advice regarding clarity in writing and speaking.
Today's political and academic landscape is often accused of being rife with rambling unclarity, and this was something Orwell also perceived and lamented in his own time, making much of his advice on how to avoid this still relevant today.
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Read Politics and the English Language: libcom.org/files/Politics%20and%20the%20English%20Language%20-%20George%20Orwell.pdf
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Intro 0:00
Examples of "bad modern English" 2:20
"Dying Metaphors" 7:36
"False Verbal Limbs" 10:47
"Pretentious Diction" 12:51
"Meaningless Words" 15:28
Summary 18:30
Closing thoughts 19:47
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"I think, therefore I am" is perhaps the most famous phrase in the history of Western philosophy. Most people have heard it, many know what it means, but fewer still are aware of the myriad debates surrounding its meaning, translation, and success. I certainly wasn't before encountering it at university, where I chose to specialise in early modern philosophy.
This video is an introduction to "the cogito", as it is often called, and a brief exploration of some of the debates that surround it.
(A note: I refer to a horse and a horn as a Humean "simple idea" - this is not quite right: a simple idea is one which cannot be broken down into further simple ideas (such as colours, smells, etc.). To explain this nuance would have been an irrelevant detour, and the point ought still carry. A unicorn is, to correctly invoke Hume, a complex idea made up of further complex ideas, made up of simple ideas, which originate in simple impressions.)
(Note 2: Some empiricists will claim that knowledge comes *primarily* from our sense data, allowing for some limited a priori knowledge, and still call themselves empiricists.)
---------------RECOMMENDED READING----------------
René Descartes, "Meditations on First Philosophy" (meditations one and two): amzn.to/32SiBZd
John Cottingham, "Descartes" (chapter 2): amzn.to/3t8dv5M
Georges Dicker, "Descartes: An Analytical And Historical Introduction" (chapters 1-2): amzn.to/3HAv6re
Peter Markie, "The Cogito and its Importance", reprinted in the Cambridge Companion to Descartes: amzn.to/3ePTuZH
Also relevant:
For more information on rationalism - John Cottingham, "The Rationalists": amzn.to/336jEo5
David Hume's epistemology is mentioned, which can be read about in his "A Treatise of Human Nature", Book I, Part 1 and Book I, Part III §5: amzn.to/3380K0p
Baron Reed's example of psychological certainty is taken from his SEP entry, "Certainty": https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/certainty/
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0:00 Introduction
1:05 1: Rationalism
3:58 2: The Evil Demon
6:36 3: The Cogito
10:16 4: Deduction or Intuition?
15:30 5: A Mistranslation of Descartes?
18:35 6: Certainty vs Truth
20:43 Closing
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This talk was originally delivered to the University of Dundee Free Speech Society on the 19th of March, 2021.
The talk covers the nature of scepticism, and its equivocation by many with atheism, as well as God's existence, the problem of evil, evolution, and veganism.
I had originally intended not to upload this talk, since it was delivered virtually, and the camera quality is poor, but listening back to it in order to find clips for my second channel, I realised it is perhaps my favourite talk of the many I have given this year, and so decided to upload it in full.
--------------------------------LINKS---------------------------------
Dundee University Free Speech Society: youtube.com/channel/UCeWFNz7nTRQTzoduYwfA_Qg
"Christianity's Biggest Problem": youtu.be/5KDnnp0sDkI
"Should You Sell All Your Possessions?": youtu.be/fMp0WLLrFng
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0:00 Introduction
1:36 Main Talk
34:45 QnA
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The problem of evil has historically been one of the most famous and troubling objections to the existence of a good God. But undoubtedly, the current coronavirus pandemic has brought the problem into sharp focus.
Dr. Andy Bannister of the SOLAS Centre for Public Christianity has some suggestions regarding why a good God might allow the COVID pandemic to take place, and in this video I respond to each of his rather unique hypotheses.
--------------------------------LINKS---------------------------------
Original video: youtube.com/watch?v=GhIbKcGkWVw
-------------------------TIMESTAMPS---------------------------
0:00 Where is God?
2:30 1. Science Can’t Answer Everything
6:56 2. COVID makes us reevaluate our source of meaning
10:08 3. Society is instinctively Christian
15:33 4. COVID reminds us of our mortality
18:38 Closing
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Do nonhuman animals have a right to life? It seems like an easy question for a vegan to answer, but it may not be so straightforward. If a right to life is always inviolable, what do we do about the animals we kill in crop production?
-------------------------TIMESTAMPS---------------------------
0:00 Intro
1:03 Do animals have a "right to life"?
12:53 Goofy or regular?
12:58 What books on my shelf have I not read?
14:00 Favourite bad movie
14:31 What daily changes should we make in our lives?
20:48 Outro
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The so-called Animal Sentience Bill currently being debated in the UK House of Lords seeks to establish, for the first time in history, a recognition that animals can feel pain in UK law.
Opposition has been raised to the bill, on the grounds that it may threaten certain institutions, such as angling, hunting, and food production, among other things. Critics of the bill seem not to realise how raising such objections only demonstrates how urgently we need it to be passed into law.
--------------------------------LINKS---------------------------------
Read the Bill: bills.parliament.uk/bills/2867
The Times Report: thetimes.co.uk/article/tory-rebels-fear-activists-will-hijack-animal-sentience-bill-5qb97vx3l
The Times' Opinion Piece: thetimes.co.uk/article/the-times-view-on-the-animal-sentience-bill-happy-creatures-jxfkgdb9v
(Sources for quotes can be found in the Times report)
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This is a clip of my speech from a debate hosted by the Oxford Union in February 2021 on the motion, "This house would cancel cancel culture", for which I was arguing on proposition.
The full debate can be viewed here: youtu.be/ZJpD2TbCm8w
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My current illness has made it tricky to make the content I want to be making right now, and so I thought I would check in with a QnA, which turned into an opportunity to put out an update on the fear of hell I made a video about roughly half a decade ago.
I'm glad to report that this fear no longer exists, and hope that those of you who felt similarly can find some solace too.
--------------------------------LINKS---------------------------------
My original video about fearing Hell: youtube.com/watch?v=wrfBFZggqhg
Three things atheists should stop saying (why the Christian God is perfectly just): youtu.be/fbqLXsTeTQ4
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Why Free Will Doesn't Exist: youtube.com/watch?v=OwaXqep-bpk
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Richard Dawkins on my podcast: youtu.be/tsLEf1Uwb5o
The Sophistry of Christopher Hitchens: youtube.com/watch?v=fopo9E7UAVQ
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My music channel: youtube.com/watch?v=wSVljLh1VmI
-------------------------TIMESTAMPS---------------------------
I have COVID 0:00
Thoughts on Capital Punishment 0:47
Do I Still Fear Hell? 4:09
Will I be the Fifth Horseman of New Atheism? 10:50
Maybe I'm Not an "Atheist" 12:45
My Musical Ambitions 14:32
An opinion I am not decided on 15:03
Closing 16:01
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Since so many of you have asked for it, I thought I'd take a moment to give you a tour of the books that are on the shelves in the background of my videos!
Thanks to Riley Agutter for helping to film this video - he has recently started a channel, check it out here: youtube.com/channel/UCXUxag86QDyuKIMpE5pQzbQ
--------------------------------LINKS---------------------------------
For 50 book recommendations (with links): youtube.com/watch?v=3C5z8SVzUb4
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I was recently introduced to an interesting website that has a variety of philosophy quizzes on it. I thought, after realising the questions were quite interesting, that I would make a video going through some of them, and explaining my thinking!
--------------------------------LINKS---------------------------------
The quiz in this video: philosophyexperiments.com/moralityplay/Default2.aspx
Philosophy Experiments website: philosophyexperiments.com
Watch 'Should You Sell All Your Possessions': youtu.be/fMp0WLLrFng
-------------------------TIMESTAMPS---------------------------
Intro 0:00
Question One 1:07
Question Two 8:10
Question Three 9:59
Closing Thoughts 18:16
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I have spent years criticising Christianity. In that time, I have found that one particular objection to it is more powerful than any other, and I thought i would make a video explaining why.
--------------------------------LINKS---------------------------------
Watch my TEDx talk: youtube.com/watch?v=j3-evFI1Fis
Follow me on Instagram: instagram.com/cosmicskeptic
Methods of animal predation: longtermrisk.org/the-importance-of-wild-animal-suffering
Number of wild animals: reducing-suffering.org/how-many-wild-animals-are-there
Debate between William Lane Craig and Stephen Law (quoted section begins 43:51): youtube.com/watch?v=APfd7B3CEhI
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0:33 The problem introduced
3:19 Why it is such a problem
6:45 Responding to William Lane Craig
14:55 Can animals feel pain?
19:32 Outro
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This debate was hosted by Cameron Bertuzzi on his YouTube channel Capturing Christianity. Subscribe here for more debates similar to this one: youtube.com/channel/UCux-_Fze30tFuI_5CArwSmg
Two months ago I released a video called 'Could God Be Evil?' (youtu.be/xLnsY5io964) in which I discussed a strange and unique angle to the problem of evil for religion. If we would reject the existence of an all-evil god due to the pervasiveness of good in the world, why can't we also reject the existence of an all-good god due to the pervasiveness of evil?
Dr. Max Baker-Hytch is a tutor in philosophy at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University. He co-authored a paper on the so-called 'evil god challenge', objecting to it in various ways. So, he and I had this discussion, to see if the evil god challenge as I originally presented it can hold up.
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Capturing Christianity: youtube.com/channel/UCux-_Fze30tFuI_5CArwSmg
'Could God Be Evil?' (The video that inspired this debate): youtu.be/xLnsY5io964
Dr. Baker-Hytch's paper - "Meeting the evil God challenge": https://www.academia.edu/41284402/Meeting_the_evil_god_challenge
More about Dr. Baker-Hytch: philosophy.ox.ac.uk/people/max-baker-hytch
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For a while I have been meaning to set up a 'change my mind' table on veganism. With COVID meaning I can't do this at the moment, I realised I could try the same concept on Omegle, with surprisingly good results!
For those who don't know, Omegle is a website that connects you with a random stranger from around the world via webcam.
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Why It's Time to go Vegan: youtu.be/gcVR2OVxPYw
A Meat Eater's Case for Veganism: youtu.be/C1vW9iSpLLk
For help going vegan: veganuary.com/try-vegan?d=cosmicskeptic
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I decided to upload this as a #shorts video to make use of the new feature! (YouTube is trying to integrate short, vertical videos onto the platform to mirror the success of other apps.)
I'm not sure this style of clip is a good fit for my channel; we'll see how it goes.
#vegan #veganism #animals #cosmicskeptic #bbc #news
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Thanks to Daniel for sending this video to me for a response! If you have any video suggestions for me to respond to, send them to contact@cosmicskeptic.com.
Many atheists suggest that Christianity is incompatible with modern science. Whilst I do not think this is strictly true, I think that many specific Christian claims can be undermined by the scientific enterprise, but Dr. Andy Bannister of the Solas Centre for Public Christianity thinks that, in principle, science *cannot* undermine Christianity.
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My video on Galileo: youtu.be/-vrUmQpvsQA
Galileo's letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany: https://web.stanford.edu/~jsabol/certainty/readings/Galileo-LetterDuchessChristina.pdf
Darwin's letter to John Fordyce: darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-LETT-12041.xml
Buy The Origin of Species,: amzn.to/3iSUg9s
Or read it for free online (and compare editions): gutenberg.org/files/1228/1228-h/1228-h.htm
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0:00 Introduction
2:06 The founding fathers of science were religious
5:12 Isaac Newton
6:07 Galileo Galilei
7:21 Charles Darwin
9:36 Atheists have no reason to do science
14:28 Atheists have no reason not to lie
16:02 Closing thoughts and outro
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Whilst it is generally socially condemned, consuming dog meat has a host of benefits with regards to food waste, the environment, and moral consistency. Do let me know if you think it is, in fact, unethical to kill animals for food!
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[1] (4th century depictions of dog slaughter): salon.com/1998/10/28/feature_81
[2] (Mexican hairless dog as main food animal of the Aztecs): Schwabe, 'Unmentionable Cuisine', pp. 168, 176.
[3] (Captain Cook): Cook, 'Explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacific: As Told by Selections of His Own Journals, 1768-1779', p. 291.
[4] (Euthanised dogs and cats): aspca.org/animal-homelessness/shelter-intake-and-surrender/pet-statistics#:~:text=We%20estimate%20that%20the%20number,670%2C000%20dogs%20and%20860%2C000%20cats).
Also, Safran Foer, 'Eating Animals: Should We Stop?', paperback, p. 27.
[5] (Jonathan Safran Foer quote): Safran Foer, 'Eating Animals: Should We Stop?', paperback, p. 28.
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400,000 subscribers is a lot of people! Thank you all for sticking around. I thought I would do a QnA to mark the occasion. Timestamps can be found below!
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The Sophistry of Christopher Hitchens: youtu.be/fopo9E7UAVQ
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Notes From The Underground by Dostoyevsky: amzn.to/3ibS50h
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0:00 Intro
0:32 What was your Oxford interview like?
6:04 What brings you a sense of wonder?
7:31 What if being vegan is too expensive?
10:39 Who is your favourite poet?
10:42 What’s your view on politics?
10:46 Unexpected places to find animal products
12:16 What do you wish you realised earlier in life?
12:29 Has veganism affected your friendships?
14:00 Favourite atheists/theists online?
18:09 Favourite non-philosophy YouTubers?
19:14 Who is the greatest guitar god?
19:18 Favourite Dostoyevsky novel?
19:45 Is Oxford University worth it?
23:03 Outro
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Having spent the better part of five years talking about religion and atheism on YouTube, the same talking points tend to regularly arise over and over again. I wanted to talk through some of those which I believe to be the least useful, and explain why.
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My video, 'Could God Be Evil?': youtu.be/xLnsY5io964
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5:15 “If God existed, I wouldn’t worship him.”
8:28 “Religion is irrational.”
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COVID-19 has devastated the world, but have we failed to learn one of its most important lessons? It should be obvious now that prevention is better than cure, but we are failing to eliminate one of our greatest contributions to global health risk.
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Try veganism this January: http://www.veganuary.com/try-vegan?d=cosmicskeptic
All factory farm footage in this video is from Dominion (2018), a film you can watch for free here: youtube.com/watch?v=LQRAfJyEsko
Footage from Dominion is free to use and share, so long as credit is provided. dominionmovement.com/faq
Sources:
210 million land animals killed per day: sentientmedia.org/how-many-animals-are-killed-for-food-every-day
Josh Balk on factory farms and pandemics: youtube.com/watch?v=_nivxAjJJWM
More information about antibiotic resistance: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/antibiotic-resistance
Jane Goodall quote: https://www.ciwf.eu/news/2020/06/jane-goodall-tells-eu-if-we-dont-do-things-differently-were-finished
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In 1971 Peter Singer proposed a now famous challenge to the idea that giving to charity is, whilst a good thing to do, not a moral obligation. He suggested (and still suggests) that since the nonessential purchases most people regularly make are nowhere near as important as the lives of those who are starving, dying, and otherwise suffering around the world, we should refuse to buy these things in order to give the money we save to charitable causes.
There is some plausibility in this view, but should it lead us to sell all our possessions and give the money to charity?
A special thanks to Mattie McDonagh for his help in producing this video.
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Get started with charitable giving: thelifeyoucansave.org
Read Peter Singer's 'Famine Affluence and Morality' online: personal.lse.ac.uk/robert49/teaching/mm/articles/Singer_1972Famine.pdf
Buy Peter Singer's 'The Life You Can Save': amzn.to/3oUnsPd
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Timmerman, 'Sometimes there is nothing wrong with letting a child drown': philpapers.org/rec/TIMSTI
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0:00 Intro
0:52 The Drowning Child
3:36 The Distance Objection
5:23 The Demandingness Objection
8:48 Sometimes We Can Let a Child Drown
14:52 Closing Thoughts
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