The series
Videos
Ten short narrated films are planned, each under five minutes, told through the site's animations and paintings, in the style of the Philosophy of Time, Mind and Free Will series. Each appears on the page it belongs to.
The first five episodes are out. Each card links to the page where its film appears, with the material it draws on around it. The rest will follow, from Kant to constructor theory.
Guesses that surviveDeutsch's case: Hume's hole, Popper's black swan, the 1919 eclipse, and why a good explanation is hard to vary.
The gods of the ThraciansXenophanes says nothing was revealed and that searching finds better; Socrates supplies the method, and a slave boy doubles a square.
The ladder and the regressAristotle climbs from perception to first principles; Sextus asks what holds the ladder up. Deutsch's answer: nothing, and it does not matter.
Idols and demonsBacon clears the mind of idols and hangs it with weights; Descartes doubts everything and looks for one certainty. Both want a guaranteed start.
The white paper and the chickenLocke says the mind is white paper, filled by experience. Hume asks why the future should be like the past, and a chicken finds out.
The narration is an AI voice (ElevenLabs), and every episode has English captions. The sister series are on the Philosophy of Time videos page, the Philosophy of Mind videos page and the Philosophy of Free Will videos page.