All our essays are now available in audio format thanks to a text-to-speech service, GSpeech. Some are also available as videos.
Below, however, are earlier audio recordings of our essays. They are generally lower quality than the newer AI-produced audio versions.
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.