This page is a handy list of some useful philosophy resources, lectures, interviews, etc. These are designed for current philosophy students or for secondary school students who would like to know what philosophy is.
Popular Philosophy
- (opens in a new window)The School of Life: “What is Philosophy For?” plus a number of other short videos
- (opens in a new window)A series of videos on epistemology by Jennifer Nagel
- (opens in a new window)The Royal Institute of Philosophy has produced a series of accessible articles under the title ‘Think’
- (opens in a new window)Michael Sandel (Harvard) has a series of video lectures entitled ‘Justice’
- (opens in a new window)TED Talks on philosophy
- (opens in a new window)Philosophy Bites podcasts
- (opens in a new window)PLATO: Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organisation
- (opens in a new window)Philosophy experiments
- (opens in a new window)Practical Ethics: Ethics in the News (Oxford)
- (opens in a new window)Understanding Science article: the philosophy of science
- (opens in a new window)In Our Time: Melvyn Bragg interviews philosophers about either a philosophical problem or a particular thinker
- (opens in a new window)The Partially Examined Life: blog and podcast by former philosophy grad students including interviews with contemporary thinkers
More Academic Resources
UCD School of Philosophy
Room D501 (5th Floor), John Henry Newman Building, UCD Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland T: +353 1 716 8186 | E: philosophy@ucd.ie | Location Map(opens in a new window)UCD Philosophy is ranked among the Top 100 Departments of Philosophy worldwide (QS World University Rankings 2017, 2018, 2021, 2023–2025)