Or at least that's what the career academics want you to believe so that they can justify their terrible life choices.
Three Minute Philosophy began as a animated web series that sought to both stretch the definition of "animated" about as far as anyone's willing to concede, and help beginners learn about philosophy and have fun doing it.
Since the original series back in 2007 (which remains more popular on YouTube because I swore a lot) people have actually started utilising Three Minute Philosophy as an educational resource. Well, you chose the damn elective so that's your perogative. I'll promise to try to be accurate if you promise to stop asking for Ayn Rand (you won't).
Oh and hi, look at this website where I will put up the new episodes and also write some philosophy articles for you to read and hopefully get something useful out of. I just ended a sentence with a preposition and I don't even care.
Gottlob Frege and Saul Kripke have a lot to say about names because theirs are particularly stupid ones. Namely (ha!) the question dates back to Aristotle about how names actually work. How do words relate to facts about the world? You might be surprised to know that we are still arguing about it because the Morning Star and the Evening Star are actually the same thing and it's not a star at all and apparently that just messes up everything.
But don't worry, it probably doesn't change anything. Still, the evidence that every decision you think you're making is just another collision in a game of marbles that's been going on since the Big Bang is pretty conclusive, and remember that the people saying this are the same people who don't think there's enough evidence to prove the chairs they're sitting on are actually there.
