Philosophy Overdose

A few clips of Noam Chomsky discussing the limits of knowledge and thought in a 1977 interview with Bryan Magee, and sounding like a dyed-in-the-wool Kantian in the process. This is a version of an upload from the previous channel. The full interview can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxvSQnmcYLo

Uploaded 30-06-21

Chomsky-Foucault Debate on Justice and Human Nature: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpVQ3l5P0A4

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Audio recording of a 1957 lecture by Ernest Nagel on philosophical concepts of atheism at the Cooper Union Forum as part of a series on Basic Beliefs.

Uploaded 19-05-24

#philosophy #epistemology #atheism #religion #agnosticism #philosophyofreligion



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Audio recording of David Benatar discussing his anti-natalist views in a short interview with Andy Park in a 2024 episode of this ABC Radio National program called The Drawing Room. David Benatar is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. You can find more information about the program here: https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/drawingroom

Uploaded 15-11-24

You can read more about antinatalism here: https://iep.utm.edu/anti-natalism

#philosophy #ethics #pessimism #moralphilosophy



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Audio recording of a 1973 lecture by Willard Van Orman Quine on the question of whether there are any limits to knowledge. Note, this is reupload. More details will be added later.

Uploaded 04-07-21

#philosophy #epistemology #quine #philosophyofscience #historyofphilosophy



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Dan Robinson gives the final lecture in a series of 8 on Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Reason, properly disciplined, draws permissible inferences from the resulting concepts of the understanding. The outcome is knowledge. When rightly employed, the perceptual and cognitive powers match up the right way with the real world and ground the knowledge-claims of the developed sciences. However, there is a strong tendency to stretch these processes beyond the permissible boundaries and seek what Kant refers to as "transcendental ideas" that go beyond the realm of actual or possible experience.

Uploaded 05-06-21

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 improved.

All 8 lectures: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE_OdgqNgL0AJX9-gwr4tmLw

#philosophy #kant #epistemology #metaphysics #skepticism #historyofphilosophy



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In this fourth lecture, James Conant continues to discuss and contrast Cartesian skepticism with Kantian skepticism, but particularly focuses on Kantian issues of perception and knowledge, and continues to discuss such via the work of C. I. Lewis. Unfortunately the audio isn't that good in this session.

Uploaded 29-06-21

In this series of lectures on varieties of philosophical skepticism, James Conant distinguishes between two forms of philosophical skepticism: Cartesian skepticism and Kantian skepticism. He discusses their general structure and shows how they're related. This sheds light on issues in various different areas, including within the philosophy of perception, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language. Some of the philosophers discussed throughout this course include Wittgenstein, Sellars, Hilary Putnam, Kripke, C.I. Lewis, John McDowell, and Stanley Cavell.

This series of lectures was given in 2005 at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Bergen, Norway. Note, the audio has been slightly edited and improved.

“The pure concept and the content of the given are mutually independent; neither limits the other." C.I. Lewis

"If there be no datum given to the mind, then knowledge must be contentless and arbitrary; there would be nothing which it must be true to. And if there be no interpretation or construction which the mind itself imposes, then thought is rendered superfluous, the possibility of error becomes inexplicable, and the distinction of true and false is in danger of becoming meaningless." C.I. Lewis

All lectures: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE8muoMpX8qQ-14zKnYPc5VI

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A short of clip of Karl Popper discussing the Open Society from a 1974 interview. The translation is mine. For more Popper: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE_VarWCx1d_Uogn_GxsVf-o

Uploaded 16-06-21

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Alex Voorhoeve and Sarah Broadie discuss the work of the renowned philosopher Philippa Foot at the LSE back in 2013. They discuss her work on the following philosophical issues. Is morality objective? Why should one be moral? And may we kill one to save others?

Uploaded 30-03-25

00:00 Life and Philosophical Style
15:05 Moral Subjectivism
26:05 Why Be Moral?
38:40 The Trolley Problem
50:45 Discussion

#philosophy #ethics #metaethics #moralphilosophy



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An interview with Hannah Arendt about her life and work in 1964 with Günter Gaus. This is a version of a re-upload. The translation is my own, but parts also come from the published version by Joan Stambaugh. Note, this is actually the complete interview. For whatever reason, the other one with English captions on YouTube is missing almost 15 minutes, including what I took to be some of the most interesting parts, like the discussion of truth and the parts from her book the Human Condition. And that was the main reason for originally deciding to put it up to begin with. Plus, I thought my translation was a bit better and more accurate.

Uploaded 21-08-21

More Hannah Arendt: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE-07vAVTFEuiDvqli1y8f0U

#philosophy #hannaharendt #politicaltheory #politicalphilosophy #totalitarianism



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Another re-upload from the previous channel. This comes from a course on the history of philosophy by James Anderson a few of years back. I thought it provided a relatively decent overview. More details will be added later. More Short Videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE8v8UVlc7JuuNHwvhkaOvzc

Uploaded 17-09-21

You may also be interested in the following discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxL0fQcrjzQ

#Philosophy #Postmodernism #Relativism



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