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Hayley Levitt: Who decides what art means?

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There is a question that has been tossed around by philosophers and art critics for decades: how much should an artist's intention affect your interpretation of the work? Do the artist's plans and motivations affect its meaning? Or is it completely up to the judgment of the viewer?

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Eleanor Nelsen: Mary's Room: A philosophical thought experiment

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Imagine a neuroscientist who has only ever seen black and white things, but she is an expert in color vision and knows everything about its physics and biology. If, one day, she sees color, does she learn anything new? Is there anything about perceiving color that wasn't captured in her knowledge?

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Bethany Rickwald and Hayley Levitt: Would you opt for a life with no pain?

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Imagine if you could plug your brain into a machine that would bring you ultimate pleasure for the rest of your life. The only catch? You have to permanently leave reality behind. Hayley Levitt and Bethany Rickwald explore Robert Nozick's thought experiment that he called the Experience Machine.

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Iseult Gillespie: The meaning of life according to Simone de Beauvoir

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At the age of 21, Simone de Beauvoir became the youngest person to take the philosophy exams at France's most esteemed university. But as soon as she mastered the rules of philosophy, she wanted to break them. Her desire to explore the physical world to its fullest would shape her life, and eventually, inspire radical new philosophies.

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Pazit Cahlon and Alex Gendler: What "Machiavellian" really means

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From Shakespeare's plays to modern TV dramas, the unscrupulous schemer for whom the ends always justify the means has become a familiar character type we love to hate. For centuries, we've had a single word to describe such characters: Machiavellian. But is it possible that we've been using that word wrong this whole time?

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Every day, we move and operate within systems of power that other people have constructed. But we’re often uncomfortable talking about power. Why? Eric Liu describes the six sources of power and explains how understanding them is key to being an effective citizen.

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Noah Tavlin: What “Orwellian” really means | TED Talk

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If you’ve watched the news or followed politics, chances are you’ve heard the term Orwellian thrown around in one context or another. But have you ever stopped to think about what it really means, or why it’s used so often? Noah Tavlin dissects the term.

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Wisecrack: Plato's best (and worst) ideas

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Few individuals have influenced the world and many of today's thinkers like Plato. He created the first Western university and was teacher to Ancient Greece's greatest minds, including Aristotle. But even he wasn't perfect. Along with his great ideas, Plato had a few that haven't exactly stood the test of time.

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TED curator Chris Anderson shares his obsession with questions that no one (yet) knows the answers to. A short intro leads into two questions: Why can’t we see evidence of alien life? And how many universes are there?

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Michael S. A. Graziano: What is consciousness?

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Patient P.S. suffered a stroke that damaged the right side of her brain, leaving her unaware of everything on her left side. If someone threw a ball at her left side, she might duck. But she wouldn't have awareness of the ball or know why she ducked. Where does consciousness come from?

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James Zucker: How do you know you exist?

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How do you know you're real? Is existence all just a big dream? Has some mad scientist duped us into simply believing that we exist? James Zucker investigates all of these questions (and more) in this mind-boggling tribute to René Descartes's "Meditations on First Philosophy." [Directed by Stretch Films, Inc., narrated by Addison Anderson].

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Skye C. Cleary: Why do we love? A philosophical inquiry

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Ah, romantic love; beautiful and intoxicating, heart-breaking and soul-crushing... often all at the same time! If romantic love has a purpose, neither science nor psychology has discovered it yet - but over the course of history, some of our most respected philosophers have put forward some intriguing theories. Skye C.

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William D. Desmond: La filosofía del cinismo - William D. Desmond

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Ver la lección completa en https://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-philosophy-of-cynicism-william-d-desmond En el siglo IV a.C., el joven Diógenes de Sinope fue descubierto cuando falsificaba monedas. Por ello, fue despojado de su condición de ciudadano, de su dinero y de todas sus posesiones, y condenado al destierro.