dr. Rick repetti

Live, Facebook, 4/11/20, noon The Brooklyn Public Philosophers hosted this, the third episode in their cyber version of the previously o...

This story was related by one of my favorite meditation teachers, Ram Dass, although, as a fable, it has been widely shared. I’m not sure...

Imagine the wealthiest, global-democracy-promoting and relief-oriented NGO (non-governmental organization) on earth, so rich that it coul...

“Episode 315: Rick Repetti: Buddhism, Meditation, and Free Will: A Theory of Mental Freedom”, Podcast interview about my latest book. The...

“ A Look at Objectivist Epistemology: A Chat with Rick Repetti.” APEX Level To Power Podcast # LTP 037, https://leveltopower.com/index.ph...

“How to Win an Online Argument Using Reason: The Case of the Tattoo.” APEX Level To Power Podcast # LTP 035, https://leveltopower.com/ind...

My video lecture on the problem of evil, as understood by John Hick. Click here: https://youtu.be/L8pWh5FX6v0

Jordan Peterson and Slavoj Zizek recently engaged in a public debate about capitalism, socialism, and happiness. I thought it was excelle...

My video lecture on Richard LaCroix's "The Paradox of Eden". Click here: https://youtu.be/7WWeUrqhWSo

My philosophy video lecture on John Hospers' critique of skepticism. Click here to view it: https://youtu.be/uDP0Huwbs9M

My philosophy video lecture on Descartes's 1st Meditation. Click here: https://youtu.be/sCt7tKWMocw

My video lecture on Thomas Nagel's "How Do We Know Anything At All?". Click here: https://youtu.be/X5l1XvEumTs

My philosophy video lecture on Pollock's brain in a vat thought experiment: https://youtu.be/AO2uUVgcv2I

Sarvapelli Radhakrishnan, scholar of Indian religions, argues in "The Personal Experience of God" that the mystical experience is univers...

“Philosophy: Who Needs It Series, Part 2. How To build A Stronger Foundation - A Chat with Rick Repetti.” APEX LTP Podcast #33, https://l...

Five informal logical fallacies I’ve recently coined: 1. Non-circular question-begging 2. Esoteric question-begging 3. Ad mysticum 4. ...

Here's another Philosophical Counseling query submitted to me by Matteo Liberatore (with follow-up thoughts below the exchange): Hey Rick...

Sentience is, on my analysis, the central criterion for an entity's having moral standing or moral status (meaning its well-being must be...

Here is a slightly edited exchange between me and a philosophically engaged practitioner of Buddhist meditation who contacted me for what...

Morell Maison started reading my book, The Counterfactaul Theory of Free will: A Genuinely Deterministic Form of Soft Determinism (Saarbr...