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  1. 1Wireless PhilosophyWireless PhilosophyThe best first stop if philosophy is new to you. Wireless Philosophy, or Wi-Phi, has university philosophers write the scripts and record the audio, then turns them into short animated explainers, so you hear the argument from someone who teaches it for a living without sitting through an hour-long…0
  2. 2Jeffrey KaplanJeffrey Kaplanyoutube.comA philosophy professor at UNC Greensboro who went looking online for videos that would help people understand hard problems like Russell's paradox, then decided to make his own. By spring 2025 his roughly hundred videos had passed 25 million views, which is remarkable for material this…0
  3. 3Philosophy VibePhilosophy Vibeyoutube.comPhilosophy Vibe explains fundamental arguments, influential theories and major philosophers through animated debates. The format suits this list better than it first appears: instead of one voice delivering a verdict, you hear a position and the objection to it in turn, which is how a good seminar…0
  4. 4Gregory B. SadlerGregory B. Sadleryoutube.comThe channel to choose when you want to read a hard book alongside someone who will not skip anything. Sadler, a philosopher by training, built his Half Hour Hegel series as 25 to 35 minute videos that lead you through the whole of the Phenomenology of Spirit, passage by passage, without skipping…0
  5. 5Michael SugrueMichael SugrueMichael Sugrue's lectures were recorded for The Teaching Company's 1992 series Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, then found a vast new audience when his daughter uploaded them to YouTube during the Covid pandemic. His 42-minute lecture on Marcus Aurelius became the most popular of…0
  6. 6Philosophy OverdosePhilosophy Overdoseyoutube.comAn archive channel rather than a presenter: Philosophy Overdose gathers rare lectures, interviews and televised debates featuring famous philosophers, many of them decades old. It is the easiest place to find Bryan Magee's celebrated television conversations, where Magee draws a leading expert on…0
  7. 7The Royal Institute of PhilosophyThe Royal Institute of Philosophyyoutube.comThis channel carries the institute's London Lectures, weekly talks that bring philosophers from many fields to London, along with its archive of past events. Each season has a theme: the 2025 to 2026 centenary series, Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, included a lecture by Timothy Williamson,…0
  8. 8Closer to Truth (2000)Closer to Truth (2000) 8.7/10 on IMDbFirst aired 7 May 2000The public television series created and hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn, whose YouTube channel holds full episodes and thousands of shorter interviews. Kuhn puts the same big question, about consciousness, the cosmos or the apparent fine-tuning of the universe, to several philosophers and…0
  9. 9Majesty of ReasonMajesty of Reasonyoutube.comJoe Schmid, a doctoral candidate in philosophy at Princeton, launched this channel in April 2020 with philosophy of religion at its center and metaphysics, metaethics and epistemology alongside. For years a major strand was his careful criticism of arguments for God's existence, made from an…0
  10. 10Then & NowThen & Nowyoutube.comLewis Waller's video essays on philosophy, history and politics look for genealogies in history and first principles in philosophy. Episodes such as his complete guide to Hegel on history, or his treatment of Foucault's History of Madness, trace where an idea came from before asking whether it…0