If the 20 steps still feel a bit long, here’s a selection of short youtube videos related to their content.
a) Videos looking at the role of paradigm as we relate to those around us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m--LB1on6Ho Mary Midgley on mind, brain, and scientism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMomasbMkrA introduction to scientism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTEoqXbWrKg Alister McGrath on Mary Midgley and scientism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ8wCHPlar4 The story of Clever Hans, and some of its implications
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/l2IgOprdlDk responsibility seen as control & as taking ownership
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l__b5joSe-o&t=2677s responsibility in the absence of control: Gregory Cajete
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFeNIOgIbzw Gregory Cajete on Indigenous and Western science
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kTz32ho56c climate change and paradigm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZUGSBseIiU&t=30s on fungal intelligence
b) Videos looking at miscommunication between paradigms: discrimination, epistemic injustice, and other ways of talking past each other.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUm3DVsek-I Linda Tuhiwai Smith on discrimination (from about 15:20 mins)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoRt-V4FHTI Linda Tuhiwai Smith on decolonising knowledge, and on action breeding opportunity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSiWCzgycsM on Miranda Fricker’s two types of epistemic injustice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtbhH1dIr_M Galileo Galilei’s story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAauiLx3AvQ Donald Trump’s proposed misappropriation of household bleach
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls3DElOo-4g translation issues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1sjG6qj8_U racism at school: “Bioneers” teaching video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQmgLIlHA98 on maldevelopment (—> also Vandana Shiva’s earlier paper!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptmrhBvuCeI on land not being a commodity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehyOa05ecNA MMIGW: Walking With Our Sisters, Christi Belcourt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoxJ9zwCIhA Cree ways of being in the world disrespected: hydroelectric project
c) Shared ground between quantum theory, phenomenology/American Pragmatism, Spinoza, and Indigenous philosophies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06QlY9XehZo Leroy Little Bear on language
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4T9QNueBn4 Leroy Little Bear on the impossibility of responsible unilateral control
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFCvj3T11h0 Leroy Little Bear on Indigenous science
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_nxJMhSlOg Gregory Cajete on sustainability
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwn0n4CNtvM&list=PLgFXyzAUawAlIuY2kjP9T2xlJDK3MqwKf&index=2 David Peat on the Dialogues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c997um9onjU&list=PLgFXyzAUawAlIuY2kjP9T2xlJDK3MqwKf&index=3 David Peat on David Bohm’s explicate and implicate order
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylZ1ksO2De8 Linda Tuhiwai Smith on humans and non-humans (from about 8:30 mins)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYAYNGGNvfA David Abram on our participation as embodied creatures, and on language use
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0SnstJoEec Karen Barad’s “intra-action”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfQH3o6dKss wave/particle duality 101
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiVvl-p_6O8 Robin Wall Kimmerer on relationships between Western and Indigenous science
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqPSTLJGaho non-verbal communication between animals. (But: “we” may not know the half of it!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFMDurF_ur0 PRATEC on relationships between humans and “the wild” (English subtitles available)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcOLu9luHds more PRATEC: relationships on the land
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKjBZW6ameE more PRATEC (Julio Valladolid)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfy9j0h9_O8 neuroplasticity: London cabbies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3neFV38TJQ neuroplasticity: a Buddhist monk has an MRI scan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpkBaDo4N2E overview of Indigenous philosophies, in context with other philosophies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U35rgHliUYA Anton Treuer on Indigenous ways of knowing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwO3splR8rk Spinoza 101
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc4wGHvVVVE Carl Jung’s thoughts on personal and collective unconscious
d) Implications for ethics
There aren’t going to be many videos in this section: Indigenous philosophies tend to look at ethics as an integral part of what else is going on, without separating it out into a subdiscipline!
Here are a couple of contemporary Westerners speaking on contemporary Western ideas about ethics which may be helpful stepping stones towards engagement with the Indigenous ideas discussed on this website.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkXcXRTNfmw Jonathan Dancy on Moral Particularism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT_CUNgmysc Jonathan Glover on living well as creatures with potential for both good and evil
e) Videos talking about ideas for positive ways forward
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptzzLERH918 Roger Fisher’s unusual idea and its stunned reception: daring to care
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S1egXWYwXo Gift economies and market economies
https://www.fdavidpeat.com/ideas/gentle.htm David Peat on “gentle action”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFasWqszRAg Sa’ke’j Henderson on it never being futile to imagine what feels unlikely (from 3:30)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSdWT4vY7zc&list=PLD44437F1D06F00E6 PRATEC’s programme with its nuclei intact
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI9-vR-n0cw respectful dialogue (Tirso Gonzalez)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxQeb2PDz9M doughnut economics (But: conventional version, without Cordova’s pond analogy!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrJktfg2H1U two-row wampum belt
f) And finally…
… if you liked the idea of Daniel R. Wildcat’s Red Alert when it popped up, here are a couple of his videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecykE-EYpoA Tribal College: Current Reflections, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz25Velw6cE Seven Things
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vakxpjiPAYQ Kansas City public library, 2021