Dr Kane Baker[citation needed] is an English[citation needed] YouTuber who uploads videos about philosophy.
Personal life[]
Kane uses any pronouns.[1] Kane has a Master’s in philosophy.[2] They finished their PhD, focusing on the philosophy of science, at the university of Exeter, in June 2022.[3][4]
At the age of eighteen, Kane began to suffer from anxiety and panic attacks,[5] and had to leave university after about a month.[6] Kane has worked as a university teaching assistant.[7] They are a vegetarian.[8]
Kane is a huge fan of Doctor Who,[9] and John Cage.[10] Besides philosophy, Kane is also interested in biology, astronomy, and astrobiology.[11]
Philosophical views[]
Kane is an atheist.[12] They do not believe in a priori knowledge. Kane believes that abortion is permissible at any point, that capital punishment is impermissible, and that eating animals is permissible. Kane leans towards socialism. They view race as unreal, gender as a social construct, and aesthetic value as subjective. Kane would choose immortality if offered.[13]
YouTube[]
Kane has had a plague doctor as an avatar for over a decade.[14] Kane started YouTube because they “have always had the belief that the best way to learn a topic is to figure out how to communicate it to a lot of people.”[15] Kane uploaded their first video, Truth trees for propositional logic 1, on January 19, 2013.[16] Kane’s 100th video was about neckbeards.[17]
Video view milestones[]
- 2,000,000 views: May 2, 2022[18]
References[]
- ↑ Kane B. Twitter.
- ↑ Q&A responses, part 2. Kane B – YouTube (August 17, 2020).
- ↑ @Kane B & Arjuna Discuss Epistemolgy. Theology Unleashed – YouTube (August 29, 2021).
- ↑ DOCTOR Kane Baker. Kane B - YouTube (June 1, 2022).
- ↑ Science, Empiricism, Theism - Interviewed by Digital Gnosis, part 1. Kane B – YouTube (September 19, 2020).
- ↑ A short story of my philosophical development. Kane B – YouTube (May 13, 2021).
- ↑ Q&A responses, part 2 (August 17, 2020).
- ↑ Why I became a vegetarian (an egoist case). Kane B – YouTube (July 16, 2021).
- ↑ Doctor Who missing episodes - 9 episodes found!. Kane B – YouTube (October 10, 2013).
- ↑ John Cage's 4'33". Kane B – YouTube (August 2, 2015).
- ↑ Responses to your questions, part 4. Kane B (March 29, 2018).
- ↑ Responses to your questions, part 1. Kane B – YouTube (March 28, 2018).
- ↑ Comment (Kane B). Kane B – YouTube (October 17, 2020).
- ↑ Most annoying thing about COVID: that plague doctor picture has been my avatar for a decade. But now everybody thinks it's about COVID, and not about the fact that plague doctors looked cool.. Kane B – Twitter (August 4, 2021).
- ↑ When Belief Dies #66 - 'Social Contracts' with Kane B. When Belief Dies – YouTube (September 8, 2021).
- ↑ Truth trees for propositional logic 1. Kane B – YouTube (January 19, 2013).
- ↑ Comment (Kane B). Kane B – YouTube (April 11, 2016).
- ↑ 2 million views!. Kane B - Twitter (May 2, 2022).