A History of Ideas: William Paley and the Divine Watchmaker
Theologian William Paley propounded the theory that if you found a watch on a heath, you would assume that an intelligent being designed and made it.
History of Ideas: Thomas Aquinas and the First Mover Argument
If every effect has a cause, how did everything begin? Thomas Aquinas argued that there couldn’t be an infinite regression of cause and effect without any fixed starting point.
A History of Ideas: Hindu Creation Stories
For Hindus, the universe we live in is one of innumerable universes.
A History of Ideas: Astronomer Carole Mundell on the Big Bang
Did the universe have a distinct starting moment, or has it always existed?
A History of Ideas: Peter Singer On The Life You Can Save
In this action packed animation, lives are saved and expensive shoes ruined to answer the question: Is there an important difference between someone drowning in front of you and someone dying in a far off land?
A History of Ideas: Kant's Axe
Is it right to tell a lie in order to save your friend from an axe wielding, homicidal maniac? Emmanuel Kant said ‘No’.
A History of Ideas: The Trolley Problem
Is it right to intervene and sacrifice one person to save five? In this animation of a classic thought problem, we find that the answer is fraught with difficulty.
A History of Ideas: The Is/Ought Problem (AKA ‘Hume’s Guillotine’)
Are you ready for a brush with Hume’s Guillotine? This animation looks at the problem of trying to reason from facts about the way the world is to judgements about values based on those facts.