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Philosophy & ethics Videos Recommended on Hacker News (98)
Philosophy & ethics is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 98 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2009 and 2026 — 262 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Philosophy: ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of science, Stoicism, moral philosophy, free will, meaning of life, political philosophy, philosophers, thought experiments.
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3 mo on HNHauntology, Lost Futures and 80s Nostalgia
Jonas Čeika - CCK Philosophy
3 HN recommender · 2019–2026
3 mo on HNOODA Loop & Evolutionary Epistemology of John Boyd by Chuck Spinney
52 Living Ideas
3 HN recommender · 2021–2025
3 mo on HNPeter Thiel on “The Straussian Moment”
Hoover Institution
3 HN recommender · 2019–2021
3 mo on HNJoscha: From Computation to Consciousness (31c3)
Joscha Bach
3 HN recommender · 2016–2019
2 mo on HNBrave New World vs Nineteen Eighty-Four featuring Adam Gopnik and Will Self
Intelligence Squared
2 HN recommender · 2018–2022
2 mo on HNThe War on Sensemaking, Daniel Schmachtenberger
Rebel Wisdom
2 HN recommender · 2019–2023
2 mo on HNNoam Chomsky - "The machine, the ghost, and the limits of understanding"
Andy80o
2 HN recommender · 2013–2022
2 mo on HNPeter Singer - ordinary people are evil
Jeffrey Kaplan
2 HN recommender · 2023–2026
2 mo on HNGeographical limit between Balkan and Central Europe
kunc
2 HN recommender · 2017–2025
2 mo on HNBest Speech You Will Ever Hear - Gary Yourofsky
TheAnimalHolocaust
1 HN recommend · 2012–2016
2 mo on HNDavid Deutsch: A new way to explain explanation
TED
2 HN recommender · 2022–2026
2 mo on HNDavid Deutsch on Optimism
Royal Society of Arts
2 HN recommender · 2018–2022
2 mo on HNTwo Monkeys Were Paid Unequally: Excerpt from Frans de Waal's TED Talk
TED Blog Video
2 HN recommender · 2014–2024
2 mo on HNA Conversation with Bertrand Russell (1952)
Manufacturing Intellect
2 HN recommender · 2021–2026
2 mo on HNIdentity After Authenticity: Abigail Thorn's Profile
Carefree Wandering
2 HN recommender · 2021–2022
2 mo on HNR. P. Feynman on the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
x1x2x3ct
2 HN recommender · 2010–2014
2 mo on HNWhy ChatGPT Can't Draw a Full Glass of Wine
Alex O'Connor
2 HN recommender · 2025–2025
2 mo on HNRick Roderick on Baudrillard - Fatal Strategies [full length]
The Partially Examined Life
2 HN recommender · 2020–2024
2 mo on HNSir Roger Penrose & William Lane Craig • The Universe: How did it get here & why are we part of it?
Premier Unbelievable?
2 HN recommender · 2020–2025
2 mo on HNThe Problem With Human Rights
Jonas Čeika - CCK Philosophy
2 HN recommender · 2020–2024
2 mo on HNPHILOSOPHY - Michel Foucault
The School of Life
2 HN recommender · 2018–2021
2 mo on HNSam Harris - Death and the Present Moment
Atheist Foundation of Australia Inc
2 HN recommender · 2012–2017
2 mo on HNCharlie Chaplin - Final Speech from The Great Dictator
Charlie Chaplin
2 HN recommender · 2022–2026
2 mo on HNWhy Meat is the Best Worst Thing in the World 🍔
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
2 HN recommender · 2018–2021
2 mo on HNRichard Feynman on hungry philosophers (or do we see objects or only their light)
Zero
2 HN recommender · 2012–2021
2 mo on HNDavid Foster Wallace reads "Consider the Lobster" (on the 2003 Maine Lobster Festival)
Manufacturing Intellect
2 HN recommender · 2018–2020
2 mo on HNAldous Huxley interviewed by Mike Wallace : 1958 (Full)
someoddstuff
2 HN recommender · 2019–2025
2 mo on HNThe Secret Reason We Eat Meat - Dr. Melanie Joy
Beyond Carnism
2 HN recommender · 2018–2023
2 mo on HNSwami Sarvapriyananda at IITK - "Who Am I?" according to Mandukya Upanishad-Part 1
Vivekananda Samiti, IIT Kanpur
2 HN recommender · 2020–2022
2 mo on HNIs Your Red The Same as My Red?
Vsauce
2 HN recommender · 2018–2024
2 mo on HNThe illusion of consciousness | Dan Dennett
TED
2 HN recommender · 2020–2023
2 mo on HNPHILOSOPHY - Albert Camus
The School of Life
2 HN recommender · 2018–2022
2 mo on HNHumanity was born way ahead of its time. The reason is grabby aliens.
Rational Animations
2 HN recommender · 2021–2022
2 mo on HNWhy Teleportation Would Kill You
CGP Grey
2 HN recommender · 2016–2020
2 mo on HNNick Bostrom - The Simulation Argument (Full)
Science, Technology & the Future
2 HN recommender · 2016–2019
2 mo on HNConsciousness in Artificial Intelligence | John Searle | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
2 HN recommender · 2015–2017