Public Lectures

Israeli libertarians talk, “Prof. Michael Huemer’s approach to Libertarianism and his view on Ayn Rand”, Aug. 17, 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOF9jH_TnAw

TEDx talk, “The Progress of Liberalism”, Jul. 15, 2013, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrZ2DJzbYYo

Students For Liberty lecture, “The Duty to Disregard the Law”, Dec. 20, 2012, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_EoNJ-pEiU

TEDx talk, “The Irrationality of Politics”, Feb. 18, 2012, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JYL5VUe5NQ

Students For Liberty lecture, “The Case for Open Borders”, Mar. 29, 2013, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWlwTq0bJaM

Liberty on the Rocks lecture, “The Problem with Political Authority”, Dec. 18, 2012, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXBCD-bJ5wY

CU Boulder public lecture, “Is America Run by Special Interests?”, Jan. 17, 2012, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNIZ04J9394 (part 1), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdTRiLcf4x4 (part 2), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxv6oowaFrw (part 3)

Porcupine Freedom Festival X, “Defending Libertarianism: The Common Sense Approach”, Jul. 23, 2013, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmCn2vP-DEo

Porcupine Freedom Festival X, “The Psychology of Authority”, Jul. 31, 2013, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOWpQrSDc5w

Liberty on the Rocks lecture, “Better Constitutional Limits for Government”, July 13, 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd5aJUVZzgw (lecture), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHYorT9WPZU (Q&A)

Liberty.me lecture, “Should Lawyers Defend the Guilty?”, Jan. 15, 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsstgOvG-qE

Class Lectures

Philosophy of Science

“Quantum Mysteries”, July 22, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ktubnphla4

“Quantum Formalism”, July 29, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhSaGazHfSs

“Quantum Nonlocality”, Aug. 5, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYAeuGuqtTM

“Bohm’s Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics”, Aug. 12, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtNECf16u6Q

“More on Bohm’s Theory / Effective Collapse”, Aug. 13, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCVyma8cjwg

“Other Interpretations of QM”, Aug. 19, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL12k7vnQ6o

“Time & Entropy”, Aug. 26, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6NVewJH6F4

“Reversibility & the Past Hypothesis”, Sept. 2, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w07koHD4QEU

“The Multiverse”, Sept. 9, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wwo9xtzzxe8

“Fine Tuning”, Sept. 16, 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvYgGC47JZI

“Reincarnation”, Sept. 23, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiZ0JhlSGKc

Political Philosophy

“Socialist vs. Capitalist Anarchy”, May 17, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3ekiXDFNAg

“Security Under Anarchy”, May 20, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7Q6rPRebwY

“Justice Under Anarchy”, May 27, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04CosP8M_XE

“Defense Under Anarchy”, June 3, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zghkbkPNmc8

“Transition to Anarchy”, June 10, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPd4iCLsEbI

“Unjust Laws”, June 17, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OwxZ4t9f34

“Perils of Obedience”, June 24, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr-Iw79bvpU

“Perils of Disobedience”, July 1, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydOrLf8Jp5M

“Jury Nullification”, July 8, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt9IFjB0OxE

“Lawyer’s Ethics”, July 15, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCBFeAoG9OA

“Global Warming”, April 23, 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_PmbFFWmMA

“Paternalism”, Feb. 6, 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rllJu8SEtXk

Interviews & Discussions

Politics & Law

Unorthodox Libertarian Theology channel, “Chatting with Dr. Michael Huemer”, Dec. 20, 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG7vKfPWzxk

Interview with Keith Knight, Don’t Tread on Anyone podcast, “Do You Have an Obligation to Obey the Law?”, Sept. 26, 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guhiKm297DM

Brain in a Vat podcast, “Michael Huemer on Disobeying the Law,” Oct. 24, 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCNGejvpt3Q

Discussion with Fully Informed Jury Association, “Justice before the Law”, Sept. 12, 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qG_3tCXF_k

The Lunar Society podcast, #14, “Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress”, May 28, 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--xKsIgv7tE

Voluntaryist Haven channel, “VH Interview with Michael Huemer”, Feb. 11, 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiKtNbxBmcQ

Brain in a Vat podcast, “The Argument for Anarchism”, Jan. 17, 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNnO9jSI7Nc

Don’t Tread on Anyone channel w/ Keith Knight, “The Philosophical Problem Every Government Faces”, Sept. 14, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=driOX4uD7G4

Interview for documentary, The Monopoly On Violence (Stateless Productions), Jun. 26, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUpZefRcjsU

Interview with the Spanish Libertarian, #113, “Michael Huemer About Good Philosophy, Liberty and Rationality,” Sept. 29, 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkcaRODmlrw

The Filter podcast with Matt Asher, #41, “Michael Huemer on Social Contracts, War, and Pushing Fat People in front of Trains”, Aug. 23, 2021, https://mattasher.com/2021/08/23/ep-41-michael-huemer-on-social-contracts-war-and-pushing-fat-people-in-front-of-trains/, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78EPXSd76NU

The Tom Woods Show, #100, “Are There Any Good Arguments for the State?”, Feb. 24, 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4v1j9wZK8k

The Tom Woods Show, #243, “Arguments for the State are Weak”, Sept. 16, 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX_eI-bHNZE

Bad Quaker podcast, #285, “Interview With Michael Huemer”, Mar. 20, 2013, https://badquaker.com/archives/2371

Free Thoughts podcast, #47, “The Problem of Political Authority”, Sept. 14, 2014, https://www.libertarianism.org/media/free-thoughts/problem-political-authority, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSuTt_WzbPg

Likeville podcast, #65, “Defending Injustice”, August 14, 2019, https://www.likevillepodcast.com/episodes/defendinginjustice

The Pete Quinones Show, #317, “Dismantling Political Authority and the ‘Social Contract’”, Sept. 27, 2019, https://freemanbeyondthewall.libsyn.com/episode-317

Youse Guys and that Podcast, #61, “Episode 61 with Michael Huemer”, March 8, 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMupPETWMx4

Ethics

The Dissenter podcast, #534, “Michael Huemer: Moral Realism, Ethical Intuitionism, and Veganism”, Oct. 14, 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5WDlSv6jq0

Deliberation Under Ideal Conditions channel, “Discussion About Ethics and Meta-Ethics with Michael Huemer”, May 29, 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ6v01VrDh0

Self in Society podcast, #3, “Michael Huemer on Animal Welfare”, June 26, 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh0r_kJXQZI, https://selfinsociety.substack.com/p/michael-huemer-on-animal-welfare-373

Crusade Against Ignorance channel, “Ethical Vegetarianism,” Apr. 29, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ01bN-WC0I

Digital Gnosis live chat, “Ethical Intuitionism,” Jun. 20, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH8k_1U2G30

Knowing Animals podcast, #177, “Our Treatment of Animals Is the Worst Thing in the World”, Oct. 18, 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiHgN-8TLOk / https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/20404481/tdest_id/279431

Utilitarian podcast, “Building a Worldview”, Mar 27, 2021, https://anchor.fm/utilitarian/episodes/Building-a-Worldview---Michael-Huemer-etkfnf

Reason Through podcast, “Ethical Intuitions”, Mar. 3, 2021, https://open.spotify.com/episode/69o8awCLtxLfJT7P6TPUNJ

The Tom Woods Show, #1251, “Are There Objective Moral Truths?”, Oct. 1, 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM9k7yfczg0

Patterson in Pursuit, #81, “The Ethics of Eating Meat”, March 4, 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqjszKLD64I

Who Shaves the Barber?, #32, “Ethical Intuitionism”, March 20, 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQkjxZr-0gY

Other Topics

Parker’s Penseés, #153, “Leading Secular Philosopher Says We’re Reincarnated Eternal Souls”, Feb. 8, 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03Pq0ylCXvI

Ask Me Anything, Individualism Discord Server, Jan. 16, 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omQxys6LtB0

Interview with Anwesh Satpathy, “Phenomenal Conservatism, Veganism and Anarchism w/ Prof. Michael Huemer”, Jan. 13, 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keNo85_ro2M

Sentientism podcast, #85, “If you have experienced suffering you’re aware of its badness”, Nov. 22, 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6lNEdVcohY

Divinityy Youtube channel, “Korero Institute Interviews Michael Huemer”, July 11, 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfpe2ooH-wo

Parker’s Penseés, #112, “We Are Probably Not Living In A Computer Simulation”, Jun 21, 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8J_ZzEwqqM

Parker’s Pensées, #101, “On All Things Philosophical”, May 13, 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUH4tdt6yhk

Self in Society podcast, #24, “Michael Huemer on Rationality and Objectivity”, April 18, 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnH94SgKhLs, https://selfinsociety.substack.com/p/michael-huemer-on-rationality-and-554

Let’s Chat! Interview by Nicholas Dwork, “Philosopher Dr. Michael Huemer”, June 21, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PNUotW7EFw

Free Thoughts podcast, #408, “Thinking Philosophically (with Michael Huemer)”, Aug. 20, 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj4LMHNo5d8, https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/free-thoughts/thinking-philosophically

Patterson in Pursuit, #59, “Can You Approach Infinity?”, May 27, 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00LlrOyu1XE

Who Shaves the Barber?, #31, “Skepticism and Direct Realism”, March 13, 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZUqQ0uEia4

Debates

Modern-Day Debate, with Ben Burgis, “Is Taxation Theft?”, May 19, 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYp5HrDinUg

USD Center for Ethics, Economics, and Public Policy, “Does America Need Stricter Gun Control Laws?”, with Michael Shermer, Oct 16, 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT6PWZnktAs (whole debate), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0QunTqyrq0 (opening speech).

NYC Junto debate on anarcho-capitalism, Epstein and Huemer, Oct. 1, 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfukHPuUUqs

St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Center, 9th Annual Great Debate, “Is Religion Good or Bad for Society?”, with James Gaston, Feb. 3, 2016, https://vimeo.com/154919417 (part 1), https://vimeo.com/157189943 (part 2)

Janus Forum Debate, University of Vermont, “Gun Control Policy”, with Cassandra Crifasi and Sanford Levinson, Sept. 14, 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCPhRamclLQ

Book Excerpts

Keith Knight reading excerpt from Knowledge, Reality, and Value, “14 Propaganda Tactics Employed by the Corporate Press”, Jul. 5, 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxm8tQemuOc