Philosophy Overdose

Wittgenstein described some of his views as being the opposite of Socrates'. Socrates famously sought essential definitions for concepts such as Truth, Justice, Knowledge, Goodness, Beauty, etc. This search for the definition or essential nature of things (i.e. the necessary and sufficient conditions for a given concept) is the very paradigm of philosophical or conceptual analysis. But according to Wittgenstein, such abstract terms do not have or do not need to have an underlying essence which all the particular instances have in common. We understand the meaning of such terms enough to be able to use them, even if we cannot spell out their precise conditions. Indeed, things of the same kind need not share any underlying universal or common nature, but only a variety of overlapping similarities, which Wittgenstein famously called "family resemblances". In this way, Wittgenstein was something of a nominalist, rejecting essentialism. So too, while Socrates was always looking for deeper explanations, Wittgenstein was quite skeptical of this sort of intellectualism. For although the unexamined life is not worth living, the endlessly examined life is something that isn't even livable. This talk was given by James Klagge at the Wittgenstein Archive at Bergen, University of Bergen, Norway, March 6, 2012. It is a re-upload. #philosophy #wittgenstein #socrates #plato #historyofphilosophy #epistemology Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A lecture given on the thought of Charles Sanders Peirce by Grant Franks in 2017 at St. John's College.#philosophy #epistemology #philosophyofmind #kant #historyofphilosophy #mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When is it permissible to kill civilians in war? Jeff McMahan discusses the ethics of killing civilians in war in a talk at Ohio State University back in 2008. More on the morality of war: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/war/ #philosophy #ethics #justwar #moralphilosophy #war Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brian Leiter discusses the thought of Nietzsche at Davidson College a few years back. The truth is terrible, Nietzsche tells us. There is no God, the universe lacks any ultimate meaning or purpose, and is filled with gratuitous pointless suffering. Our only relief comes with nonexistence upon death. Even the existence of the self, free will, objective value, and absolute truth and knowledge are wholly illusory. All forms & qualities are but mere human conventions, subjective expressions of our competing drives. The unquenchable desire for objectivity is the drive to transcend our finite bodily existence and grab hold of something universal, absolute, unchanging, and God-like. But there simply is none. So it is all too easy to become disillusioned and fall into an abyss of anguish and despair, turning away from existence and the drives, as suggested by the pessimistic philosophy of Schopenhauer. But Nietzsche urges against this turning away from life. For Nietzsche, existence is justified, but only as an aesthetic phenomenon. But what does this mean exactly? Brian Leiter explains. (My Summary)More Nietzsche: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE_ySvPE8kzFUkA5aO_cdKmb#philosophy #nietzsche #ethics #historyofphilosophy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dan Robinson gives the 2nd lecture in a series of 8 on Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. The significant advances in physics in the 17th century stood in vivid contrast to the stagnation of traditional metaphysics, but why should metaphysics be conceived as a "science" in the first place?This series looks at German Philosopher Immanuel Kant's seminal philosophical work 'The Critique of Pure Reason'. The lectures aim to outline and discuss some of the key philosophical issues raised in the book and to offer students and individuals thought provoking Kantian ideas surrounding metaphysics. Each lecture looks at particular questions raised in the work such as how do we know what we know and how do we find out about the world, dissects these questions with reference to Kant's work and discusses the broader philosophical implications. Anyone with an interest in Kant and philosophy will find these lectures thought provoking but accessible.This is series of lectures was given in 2011 at Oxford. Note, the audio has been improved. All 8 lectures: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE_OdgqNgL0AJX9-gwr4tmLw#philosophy #kant #epistemology #metaphysics #skepticism #empiricism #historyofphilosophy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David Papineau discusses consciousness from a materialist perspective and why dualist intuitions won't go away in an interview with Joe Gelonesi in an episode of the Philosopher's Zone, an ABC Radio National program from 2015. For more information and additional episodes of the Philosopher's Zone, go to: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszone #philosophy #philosophyofmind #consciousness #metaphysics #materialism Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After briefly discussing Thomas Hobbes, Professor Charles Anderson discusses the thought of John Locke. This comes from a course on Political, Economic, & Social Thought given at the University of Wisconsin many years ago.00:00 Thomas Hobbes21:50 John Locke#philosophy #locke #politicalphilosophy #politicaltheory #historyofphilosophy #hobbes #philosopher Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this talk, Peter Singer discusses and defends Henry Sidgwick's consequentialist ethics. This was the Routledge lecture in philosophy given at the University of Cambridge in 2017 under the title 'The Point of View of the Universe: Defending Sidgwick's Ethics'. Professor Singer discusses various forms of utilitarianism, some of the main arguments against each, as well as some of the responses. Read more about utilitarianism and consequentialism: https://iep.utm.edu/consequentialism-utilitarianism/ Sidgwick's Methods of Ethics: http://www.laits.utexas.edu/poltheory/sidgwick/me/index.html #philosophy #ethics #utilitarianism #moralphilosophy #metaethics #petersinger Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Audio recording of Robert Nozick presenting an argument against Karl Popper's anti-inductivist view of scientific knowledge in a clip from a 2001 interview by Juliαn Sαnchez on Nozick's most recent book "Invariances: The Structure of the Objective World". #philosophy #karlpopper #epistemology #science #nozick Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Audio recording of Isaiah Berlin delivering the 1963 Alexander S. Keller lecture on romanticism, politics, and ethics at the University of Hartford. #philosophy #romanticism #isaiahberlin #ethics #intellectualhistory Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Galen Strawson delivers a lecture on the philosophy of perception at the Marc Sanders Foundation back in 2014. More on these philosophical issues regarding the nature of perception: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/perception-problem/ and https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/perception-episprob/ 00:00 Lecture 52:11 Discussion #philosophy #epistemology #perception #skepticism #philosophyofmind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of America’s most prominent philosophers says his field has been tilting at windmills for nearly 400 years. Representationalism (or indirect realism)---the idea that we don’t directly perceive external objects in the world, but only our own inner mental images or representations of objects---has bedeviled philosophy ever since Descartes, and now is mucking up neuroscience as well, John Searle alleges. He has long defended the “naive” alternative that our senses do actually give us direct access to external reality, and he fires his latest salvo in his new book “Seeing Things as They Are: A Theory of Perception”. John is well-known for his no nonsense approach to philosophical problems, and there was plenty of straight talk here as he discussed his theory of perception, the subjective-objective divide, the scientific study of consciousness, and his dog Tarski. This interview was given a few years back by Robert Pollie which I quite like from a podcast called the 7th Avenue Project: www.7thavenueproject.com.#philosophy #epistemology #philosophyofmind #perception #consciousness #skepticism #mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Audio recording of a 1954 lecture given by Professor Ernest Nagel on the philosophy of science at the Cooper Union Forum. #philosophy #philosophyofscience #epistemology #science Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A talk given by Barry Smith a few years back on the nature of self-knowledge (i.e. knowledge of one's own inner states of mind) and some of the philosophical problems that arise. He discusses some of the main metaphysical and epistemological issues, especially in relation to knowledge of other minds and other kinds of knowledge. Among other things, he touches on the symmetries vs asymmetries, the Cartesian versus behaviorist conception, and issues of authority, objectivity, and skepticism, including Davidsonian interpretation, and even a bit on Wittgenstein's famous private language argument. This talk was given at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) in Paris back in 2005.More on self-knowledge: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/self-knowledge/00:00 Start of Talk 06:18 Asymmetries 12:10 Authority 16:29 Symmetries 19:15 The Central Problem 23:22 Cartesianism vs Behaviorism 33:45 Inner Perceptual Model 35:55 Transparency 40:21 Consciousness 45:57 Publicity & Objectivity 50:53 Knowing Others: Davidson 57:24 Objectivity vs Authority 1:00:55 Insufficient Answers to Problem #philosophy #epistemology #philosophyofmind #metaphysics #skepticism #mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Audio recording of two lectures by Alasdair C. MacIntyre as part of the Bampton Lectures at Columbia University in 1966. 00:00 Lecture I: The Fate of Theism 50:37 Lecture II: Atheism & Morals #philosophy #theism #atheism #religion #historyofphilosophy #intellectualhistory Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A version of a video from the old channel. This comes from a 1959 interview with Wilfrid Lemoyne from Radio-Canada. The translation is my mine. More Short Clips: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE8v8UVlc7JuuNHwvhkaOvzcExistentialists take human existence and the human condition to be a fundamental issue. They tend to be radical individualists who privilege our lived experience and choice. They focus on themes such as: freedom, authenticity, the individual, meaning, anxiety, alienation, death, dread, the absurd, contingency, and nihilism. They often are also suspicious of any fixed, pre-determined human nature, objective/universal values, and abstract philosophical systems. Some of the most important existentialist thinkers (or at least thinkers associated with existentialism) include Jean-Paul Sartre, Martin Heidegger, Søren Kierkegaard, Simone de Beauvoir, Friedrich Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky, Albert Camus, and Karl Jaspers. (My Description)#philosophy #existentialism #sartre Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Raymond Tallis discusses the nature of the self or personal identity in a 2007 talk at the University of Cambridge as part of a series of public lectures on the notion of identity. More on personal identity: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-personal/ #philosophy #mind #metaphysics #personalidentity Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A clip of Max Charlesworth's ABC Boyer Lecture in 1989 on Life, Death, Genes & Ethics.#philosophy #ethics #moralphilosophy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This short clip comes from the beginning of a 2014 documentary on Emmanuel Levinas by Yoram Ron called "Le Dieu absent - Emmanuel Lévinas et l'humanisme de l'autre" ("Absent God - Emmanuel Levinas and the Humanism of the Other"). I thought it was interesting, so I translated it into English and added subtitles. The full documentary (with English subtitles) can be found on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbGaXEqxSvU#philosophy #levinas #phenomenology Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Peter Singer and Dr. Nigel M. de S. Cameron discuss what it means to be human in a 2002 debate moderated by Michael krasny and hosted by the Center for Bioethics and Culture. They consider various ethical issues surrounding life and death, including that of euthanasia, among various other things. 00:00 Introduction 07:20 Cameron's Opening 17:06 Singer's Opening 28:18 Back-and-Forth 1:01:57 Audience Questions 1:26:04 Singer's Closing 1:32:40 Cameron's Closing #philosophy #ethics #petersinger #medicalethics #bioethics #moralphilosophy #debate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A reading of Thomas Nagel's 1970 article on death. The voice is AI, but modeled on Bryan Magee. #philosophy #death #ethics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Audio recording of a lecture by Peter van Inwagen on the problem of divine hiddenness at Calvin College back in 2004. This was the second of his Jellema lectures. His first lecture can be found here: https://youtu.be/nNEweeN32QI #philosophy #philosophyofreligion #agnosticism #atheism #theism #epistemology Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this clip, Ray Monk, Barry Smith, and Marie McGinn discuss the early Wittgenstein's thought in regards to the famous last proposition of the Tractatus: "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent." This clip comes from an episode of the podcast In Our Time a few years back. For more information and the full episode, go to: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0054945More Short Clips: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE8v8UVlc7JuuNHwvhkaOvzc#philosophy #wittgenstein #epistemology Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dan Robinson gives the 1st lecture in a series of 8 on Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Both sense and reason are limited. Kant must identify the proper mission and domain of each, as well as the manner in which their separate functions come to be integrated in what is finally the inter-subjectively settled knowledge of science.This series looks at German Philosopher Immanuel Kant's seminal philosophical work 'The Critique of Pure Reason'. The lectures aim to outline and discuss some of the key philosophical issues raised in the book and to offer students and individuals thought provoking Kantian ideas surrounding metaphysics. Each lecture looks at particular questions raised in the work such as how do we know what we know and how do we find out about the world, dissects these questions with reference to Kant's work and discusses the broader philosophical implications. Anyone with an interest in Kant and philosophy will find these lectures thought provoking but accessible.This is series of lectures was given in 2011 at Oxford. Note, audio has been improved. All 8 lectures: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE_OdgqNgL0AJX9-gwr4tmLw#philosophy #kant #epistemology #metaphysics #empiricism #hume #skepticism #historyofphilosophy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Political liberalism has been extraordinarily successful, freeing the individual from custom, tribe, and tradition. The self-interested, self-directing individual has triumphed. But that great achievement may have come at a heavy cost. Unacceptable levels of inequality and the rise of a new global ruling class are two symptoms of a political system being lauded as the natural end point of history.This is from an episode of the podcast Philosopher's Zone from a few years back with guest Patrick Deneen. More Philosopher's Zone: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszone/#philosophy #politicalphilosophy #liberalism #politicaltheory #rawls #johnrawls #historyofphilosophy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A good introduction to the philosophy of mathematics by Ray Monk. He considers the issue of the nature of mathematical truth - what mathematics is actually about - and discusses the views of Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Frege and Russell. What is mathematics about? Is mathematics something discovered or is it something invented or constructed by us? If numbers and mathematical objects are mere mental constructs, something invented by us, then why does mathematics work so well and seem to describe the world? On the other hand, if mathematical entities are "out there" in some sense waiting to be discovered, then what is their status and how do we get knowledge of them? After all, you can't see or touch numbers and other mathematical objects. And unlike ordinary empirical truths, mathematical truths seem to have a quite different and special status: they are a priori, necessary, eternal, universal, and absolutely certain. And this is why from the time of Plato onward, people have regarded mathematical truths as an ideal. In this talk, some of the ways in which philosophers have tried to account for the special nature of mathematical truth. (My Summary)Another good introduction to the philosophy of mathematics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyXWnGFKTkgMore advanced talk on philosophy of mathematics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucPhfzCvKnE#philosophy #epistemology #mathematics #kant #historyofphilosophy #metaphysics #philosopher #wittgenstein Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Isaiah Berlin gives the 1st lecture in a series of 6 on Romanticism and its roots.All 6 lectures: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE_9uxkmfSIt2JJK6oKbXmd-For Berlin, the Romantics set in motion a vast, unparalleled revolution in humanity’s view of itself. They destroyed the traditional notions of objective truth and validity in ethics with incalculable, all-pervasive results. As he said of the Romantics elsewhere: “The world has never been the same since, and our politics and morals have been deeply transformed by them. Certainly this has been the most radical, and indeed dramatic, not to say terrifying, change in men’s outlook in modern times.”In these brilliant lectures Berlin surveys the myriad attempts to define Romanticism, distills its essence, traces its developments from its first stirrings to its apotheosis, and shows how its lasting legacy permeates our own outlook. Combining the freshness and immediacy of the spoken word with Berlin’s inimitable eloquence and wit, the lectures range over a cast of the greatest thinkers and artists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including Kant, Rousseau, Diderot, Schiller, Schlegel, Novalis, Goethe, Blake, Byron, and Beethoven. Berlin argues that the ideas and attitudes held by these and other figures helped to shape twentieth-century nationalism, existentialism, democracy, totalitarianism, and our ideas about heroic individuals, individual self-fulfillment, and the exalted place of art. This is the record of an intellectual bravura performance–of one of the century’s most influential philosophers dissecting and assessing a movement that changed the course of history. These Mellon lectures were delivered in Washington in 1965.#philosophy #romanticcism #isaiahberlin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wittgenstein scholar Peter Hacker discusses the life and philosophical thought of Ludwig Wittgenstein in a lecture from a few years back at the Chαbad Society at the University of Oxford. #philosophy #wittgenstein #language #philosophyofmind #philosophyoflanguage #historyofphilosophy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A talk given by professor Pamela Hieronymi on the problem of free will and moral responsibility a few years back at the University of Alabama."Among the grandest of philosophical puzzles is a riddle about moral responsibility. Almost all of us believe that each one of us is, has been, or will be responsible for at least some of our behavior. But how can this be so if determinism is true and all our thoughts, decisions, choices, and actions are simply droplets in a river of deterministic events that began its flow long, long before we were ever born? The specter of determinism, as it were, devours agents, for if determinism is true, then arguably we never initiate or control our actions; there is no driver in the driver's seat; we are simply one transitional link in an extended deterministic chain originating long before our time. The puzzle is tantalizingly gripping and ever so perplexing — because even if determinism is false, responsibility seems impossible: how can we be morally accountable for behavior that issues from an 'actional pathway' in which there is an indeterministic break? Such a break might free us from domination or regulation by the past, but how can it possibly help to ensure that the reins of control are now in our hands?" Ishtiyaque Haji #philosophy #freewill #determinism #materialism #metaphysics #causality #philosophyofmind #causation #psychology #mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Professor Maurice Stanley Friedman gives a lecture on existentialism at the Cooper Union Forum in 1966. #philosophy #existentialism #sartre #heidegger #kierkegaard #historyofphilosophy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peter Adamson discusses Aristotle's ethics, focusing on the Nicomachean Ethics. Among other things, he discusses Aristotle's ideas about happiness, virtue, the function argument, weakness of will, as well as the role of pleasure and friendship in the good life.This is from two episodes of Peter Adamson's podcast, the History of Philosophy without any Gaps, back in 2011. I thought it provided a good introduction to Aristotle's ethics. The podcast can be found here: https://historyofphilosophy.net00:00 Aristotle's Ethics 20:13 Pleasure & Friendship #philosophy #aristotle #ethics #moralphilosophy #historyofphilosophy #metaphysics #philosopher Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Noam Chomsky discusses language and the innate structures of the mind in a 1964 lecture at UC Berkeley and sponsored by the Philosophy Colloquium. 00:00 Lecture 1:10:24 Q&A Source: https://cla.berkeley.edu/item/?bndlid=26712#philosophy #chomsky #epistemology #language #linguistics #psychology #mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Professor Emma Borg gives the second lecture in a series on "Reasons for Action" as part of the 2024 Frege Lectures in theoretical philosophy at the University of Tartu. Do people generally do what they do on the basis of the reasons they have for acting? The standard philosophical answer - common-sense psychology or folk psychology - says yes. But recently the idea that humans are generally rational, reasons-responsive beings has come under considerable pressure, as a number of empirical findings (often in the fields of social, comparative, and developmental psychology) seem to suggest that, on the contrary, people are often blind to reasons, acting on gut feelings and intuitions, and are subject to various biases and other errors of reasoning. Although these empirical findings are now well-known (reaching beyond the ivory tower into the public consciousness), Emma Borg suggests that the precise problem for common-sense psychology remains unclear. There are (at least) three different arguments that could be made based on the empirical data. In her lectures, Emma Borg explains these three arguments and argues that the proponent of the common-sense view has responses to each of them. She concludes that the case against common-sense psychology can be rejected, and that we should hold on to the notion that action (of a typical adult) involves acting based on reasons. Emma Borg is Professor of Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy, University of London. Her main research interests are the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and business ethics. Borg is the author of Minimal Semantics (2004) and Pursuing Meaning (2012), as well as two forthcoming books: A Very Short Introduction to Meaning and Acting for Reasons: In Defence of Common-Sense Psychology (all published by Oxford University Press). The latter book is also the basis for her Frege Lectures. 00:00 Talk 1:16:47 Q&A #philosophy #epistemology #psychology #rationality Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Isaiah Berlin gives the 4th lecture in a series of 6 on Romanticism and its roots.All 6 lectures: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE_9uxkmfSIt2JJK6oKbXmd-For Berlin, the Romantics set in motion a vast, unparalleled revolution in humanity’s view of itself. They destroyed the traditional notions of objective truth and validity in ethics with incalculable, all-pervasive results. As he said of the Romantics elsewhere: “The world has never been the same since, and our politics and morals have been deeply transformed by them. Certainly this has been the most radical, and indeed dramatic, not to say terrifying, change in men’s outlook in modern times.”In these brilliant lectures Berlin surveys the myriad attempts to define Romanticism, distills its essence, traces its developments from its first stirrings to its apotheosis, and shows how its lasting legacy permeates our own outlook. Combining the freshness and immediacy of the spoken word with Berlin’s inimitable eloquence and wit, the lectures range over a cast of the greatest thinkers and artists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including Kant, Rousseau, Diderot, Schiller, Schlegel, Novalis, Goethe, Blake, Byron, and Beethoven. Berlin argues that the ideas and attitudes held by these and other figures helped to shape twentieth-century nationalism, existentialism, democracy, totalitarianism, and our ideas about heroic individuals, individual self-fulfillment, and the exalted place of art. This is the record of an intellectual bravura performance–of one of the century’s most influential philosophers dissecting and assessing a movement that changed the course of history. These Mellon lectures were delivered in Washington in 1965.00:00 Intro00:53 Kant25:42 Schiller47:34 Fichte#philosophy #romanticism #kant #isaiahberlin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A very short clip of Gadamer discussing Schopenhauer. More details will be added at a later date. More Short Clips: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE8v8UVlc7JuuNHwvhkaOvzcMore Gadamer: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE_MbPzGOh27qfdqiCaf7Uot#Philosophy #Gadamer #Schopenhauer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

G. A. Cohen impersonates Sir Isaiah Berlin in this short clip from 1991. #philosophy #isaiahberlin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Audio recording of a series of six short ratio talks by Hugh Mellor back in 1978 on the use of words in philosophy. Among other things, he dispells the myth that important issues can be settled merely by definitions. He goes on to consider the abuse of words, as well as logical argument, jargon, and the liar paradox. These talks were given by D. H. Mellor (David Hugh Mellor) and originally broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 1978. 00:00 It All Depends What You Mean 05:15 Define Your Terms 10:18 Fictional Documentaries 15:19 What's Wrong With Jargon 20:08 On Being Illogical 25:07 The Liar Paradox #philosophy #language #epistemology #philosophyoflanguage #rationality Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Audio recording of a 1967 lecture given by Sidney Morgenbesser on reason and its eclipse at the Cooper Union Forum in New York. Sidney Morgenbesser was a professor of philosophy at Columbia University. #philosophy #epistemology #science Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Audio recording of a lecture by Ronald M. Dworkin on his book "Justice for Hedgehogs" at the Carnegie Council in 2011. The title is a reference to the Ancient Greek poet Archilochus who wrote that "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." Ronald Dworkin argues for one big thing: the unity of value. #philosophy #politicalphilosophy #ethics #moralphilosophy #jurisprudence Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Isaiah Berlin gives the 5th lecture in a series of 6 on Romanticism and its roots.All 6 lectures: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE_9uxkmfSIt2JJK6oKbXmd-For Berlin, the Romantics set in motion a vast, unparalleled revolution in humanity’s view of itself. They destroyed the traditional notions of objective truth and validity in ethics with incalculable, all-pervasive results. As he said of the Romantics elsewhere: “The world has never been the same since, and our politics and morals have been deeply transformed by them. Certainly this has been the most radical, and indeed dramatic, not to say terrifying, change in men’s outlook in modern times.”In these brilliant lectures Berlin surveys the myriad attempts to define Romanticism, distills its essence, traces its developments from its first stirrings to its apotheosis, and shows how its lasting legacy permeates our own outlook. Combining the freshness and immediacy of the spoken word with Berlin’s inimitable eloquence and wit, the lectures range over a cast of the greatest thinkers and artists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including Kant, Rousseau, Diderot, Schiller, Schlegel, Novalis, Goethe, Blake, Byron, and Beethoven. Berlin argues that the ideas and attitudes held by these and other figures helped to shape twentieth-century nationalism, existentialism, democracy, totalitarianism, and our ideas about heroic individuals, individual self-fulfillment, and the exalted place of art. This is the record of an intellectual bravura performance–of one of the century’s most influential philosophers dissecting and assessing a movement that changed the course of history. These Mellon lectures were delivered in Washington in 1965.00:00 Three Great Trends00:50 Fichte09:58 Schelling16:02 Symbolism21:44 Depth26:33 Nostalgia31:07 Paranoia37:13 French Revolution#Romanticism #IsaiahBerlin #Fichte Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is a pretty good introductory talk on personal identity and some of the philosophical issues that arise surrounding it. The lecturer is Patrick Stokes of Deakin University and was given at the Ethics Centre. This comes from an episode of the podcast The Philosopher's Zone from a few years back titled "Personal identity: a primer".The lecturer Patrick Stokes: http://www.patrickstokes.comThe Philosopher's Zone: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszoneThe Ethics Centre: http://www.ethics.org.au/home#philosophy #personalidentity #philosophyofmind #metaphysics #mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Professor Christopher Janaway discusses some of the ideas of Arthur Schopenhauer. This comes from an episode on Schopenhauer and Wagner. More Short Clips: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE8v8UVlc7JuuNHwvhkaOvzc#philosophy #schopenhauer ##pessimism Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Audio recording of professor Walter Kaufmann discussing Sophocles' Oedipus Rex and some of its philosophical aspects, as well as the death of tragedy, in a lecture given at Concordia University in 1974. You may also be interested in the following: https://youtu.be/IAsIccIBWJM 00:00 Lecture 59:10 Q&A #philosophy #aesthetics #literature #tragedy #greektragedy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A reading of the beginning of Thomas Nagel's 1971 article "The Absurd", which I've always quite liked.#philosophy #existentialism #ethics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Professor Dan Robinson gives the final lecture in a series of 8 lectures on Thomas Reid's critique of David Hume at Oxford in 2014. “Like all other sciences, morals must have first principles, and all moral reasoning is based on them... In all rational belief, the thing believed is either a first principle or something inferred by valid reasoning from first principles”. As for utility, “Suppose that mice rescue the distressed person by chewing through the cords that bound him. Is there moral goodness in this act of the mice?” Beyond the armchair and other precincts of untrammeled speculation, one finds that, there is little purchase on a morality of pleasure and utility. Indded, “If what we call ‘moral judgment’ isn’t really a judgment but merely a feeling, it follows that the moral principles that we have been taught to consider as an immutable law to all intelligent beings have no basis except an arbitrary structure and fabric in the constitution of the human mind…Thus, by a change in our structure immoral things could become moral…There are beings who can’t perceive mathematical truths; but no defect, no error of understanding, can make what is true to be false”.Under “David Hume”, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy begins with, “The most important philosopher ever to write in English”. His most formidable contemporary critic was the fellow Scot, Thomas Reid, the major architect of so-called Scottish Common Sense Philosophy. The most significant features of Hume’s work, as understood by Reid, are the representive theory of perception, the nature of causation and causal concepts, the nature of personal identity and the foundations of morality. Each of these topics is presented in a pair of lectures, the first summarizing Hume’s position and the second Reid’s critique of that position.All Lectures: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE9nki7CXFPi7PMOi5W2g2-q#philosophy #davidhume #ethics #moralphilosophy #historyofphilosophy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Audio recording of a short program in which Antony Flew discusses the life and thought of the great 17th-century British empiricist philosopher, John Locke. This comes from a 1977 series of programs on western philosophy. #philosophy #epistemology #locke #historyofphilosophy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A short clip of Hannah Arendt discussing ideology and the role it played in the totalitarian regimes of the 20th century. This comes from the Q&A section of a lecture on power and violence given at Bard College in 1968. #philosophy #hannaharendt #politicalphilosophy #totalitarianism #politicaltheory #ideology Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The full interview can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U23Ho0m_Sv0#philosophy #bryanmagee #marx #freud #politicaltheory #politicalphilosophy #marxism #historyofphilosophy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Audio recording of a discussion between Richard Rorty, Hilary Putnam, and James Conant on pragmatism and truth. This comes from an episode of Odyssey on WBEZ Chicago from back in 2002 with host Gretchen Helfrich. Note, this is a reupload. #philosophy #epistemology #rorty #pragmatism #historyofphilosophy #debate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Audio recording of part of 1968 lecture by Hannah Arendt at Bard College on power and violence. Note, the beginning of the lecture is missing. 00:00 Talk 18:46 Q&A You can find more Arendt here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE-07vAVTFEuiDvqli1y8f0U#philosophy #hannaharendt #politicaltheory #politicalphilosophy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices