Learn philosophy from James Franco

David Pescovitz 10:25 am Thu Jul 27, 2017

Phil101--Liz Camp on Metaphor

Phil101--Liz Camp on Metaphor Watch this video on YouTube. Actor James Franco has a new YouTube channel in which he raps about philosophy with Eliot Michaelson, a philosophy lecturer at…

Actor James Franco has a new YouTube channel in which he raps about philosophy with Eliot Michaelson, a philosophy lecturer at King's College London, and other experts on such heady matters as imagination (above), and metaphor (below). The special guest on these two episodes is Rutgers University philosophy professor Elisabeth Camp. Also below is an episode on the ethics of abortion with Princeton University philosophy professor Elizabeth Harman.

Phil101--Liz Camp on Metaphor

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Phil 103--Liz Harman on abortion

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