Audio recordings of 1000-Word Philosophy essays

Some of our essays are available as audio recordings.

About Philosophy:

• What is Philosophy? by Tom Metcalf
• Critical Thinking: What is it to be a Critical Thinker? by Carolina Flores
• Philosophy and Its Contrast with Science by Thomas Metcalf

History of Philosophy:

• Descartes’ “I think, therefore I am” by Charles Miceli
• Descartes’ Meditations 1-3 and Descartes’ Meditations 4-6 by Marc Bobro 
• Marx’s Conception of Alienation by Dan Lowe
• Aristotle’s Defense of Slavery by Dan Lowe
• Responding to Morally Flawed Historical Philosophers and Philosophies by Victor Fabian Abundez-Guerra and Nathan Nobis

Theory of Knowledge, or Epistemology; Metaphysics; Philosophy of Religion:

• Epistemology, or Theory of Knowledge by Thomas Metcalf
• Is it Wrong to Believe Without Sufficient Evidence? W.K. Clifford’s “The Ethics of Belief” by Spencer Case
• Indoctrination: What is it to Indoctrinate Someone? by Chris Ranalli
• Agnosticism about God’s Existence by Sylwia Wilczewska
• Psychological Approaches to Personal Identity: Do Memories and Consciousness Make Us Who We Are? by Kristin Seemuth Whaley
• Are We Animals? Animalism and Personal Identity by Kristin Seemuth Whaley
• Nietzsche and the Death of God by Justin Remhof

Ethics and Social and Political Philosophy:

• Virtue Ethics by David Merry
• The African Ethic of Ubuntu by Thaddeus Metz
• John Rawls’ ‘A Theory of Justice’ by Ben Davies
• Cultural Relativism: Do Cultural Norms Make Actions Right and Wrong? by Nathan Nobis
• Ethical Egoism by Nathan Nobis
• Applied Ethics by Chelsea Haramia
• The Ethics of Abortion by Nathan Nobis
• Arguments for Capitalism and Socialism by Thomas Metcalf
• Is Death Bad? Epicurus and Lucretius on the Fear of Death by Frederik Kaufman
• Theories of Moral Considerability: Who and What Matters Morally? by Jonathan Spelman
• “Can They Suffer?”: Bentham on our Obligations to Animals by Daniel Weltman
• Ethics and Absolute Poverty: Peter Singer and Effective Altruism by Brandon Boesch
• Euthanasia, or Mercy Killing by Nathan Nobis
• Happiness: What is it to be Happy? by Kiki Berk
• What Is It To Love Someone? by Felipe Pereira  
• Ethics and “Extra Credit” by Nathan Nobis
• “Hell Is Other People”: Sartre on Personal Relationships by Kiki Berk
• George Orwell’s Philosophical Views by Mark Satta

We will be creating more audio files like these; if there are any essays you would especially want to be created in this text-to-speech format, please let us know.