Philosophy Overdose

In this talk, Professor Christine Korsgaard discusses the nature of rights, especially from a Kantian perspective and within the context of non-human animals. This was the Guelph Lecture in Philosophy given by Professor Christine M. Korsgaard at the University of Guelph back in 2014.

Uploaded 25-04-25

00:00 Talk
59:37 Q and A

#philosophy #ethics #moralphilosophy #animalethics #kant #animalrights



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A clip of Martha Nussbaum discussing the nature of anger and her radical view that anger is always normatively flawed. This comes from a lecture Martha Nussbaum gave on anger back in 2013 at the University of Chicago.

Uploaded 19-04-25

#philosophy #anger #psychology #emotions #ethics



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Professor Peter Singer delivers a public lecture at the University of Sydney in 2011 on whether understanding evolution helps us to understand ethics and morality. This was part of the Sydney Ideas series and ABC's Big Ideas series. It was co-presented with Think Global School.

Uploaded 30-01-25

00:00 Lecture
48:38 Q and A

#philosophy #ethics #moralphilosophy #evolution #petersinger #utilitarianism



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Professor Daniel Dennett gives a public lecture on evolution and free will at Stanford University in 2009.

Uploaded 05-01-25

#philosophy #freewill #dennett #darwin #causality #materialism #philosophyofmind #causation #mind



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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?

Uploaded 04-06-21

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 been improved.

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

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



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Audio recording of a lecture by Ronald M. Dworkin as part of his 1988 Tanner lectures on human values at Stanford University on the foundations of liberalism. This was the first of his Tanner lectures. Note, this is a re-upload.

Uploaded 22-09-25

00:00 Lecture
1:04:07 Q and A

#philosophy #politicalphilosophy #ethics #politicaltheory #liberalism #moralphilosophy



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Isaiah Berlin gives the 3rd lecture in a series of 6 on Romanticism and its roots.

Uploaded 06-06-21

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 Hamann and Others
29:10 Herder

#Philosophy #Romanticism #IsaiahBerlin



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An episode from the 1998 Εxαmined Life series.

Uploaded 14-11-25

#philosophy #politicalphilosophy #politicaltheory #historyofphilosophy



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Isaiah Berlin at his very best. This comes from his brilliant series on Romanticism, which you should definitely check out: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE_9uxkmfSIt2JJK6oKbXmd-

Uploaded 01-08-21

Isaiah Berlin Overdose: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE-z227nn_-_PKw5lGfojOcg

#philosophy #isaiahberlin #romanticism



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A short clip of Galen Strawson discussing his master argument against the very possibility of free will and moral responsibility; one which applies whether or not determinism is true. This comes from an episode of the In Our Time podcast a few years back on the topic of free will. For more information and full episodes, go to: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl

Uploaded 09-02-26

"The _causa sui_ is the best self-contradiction that has been conceived so far; it is a sort of rape and perversion of logic. But the extravagant pride of man has managed to entangle itself profoundly and frightfully with just this nonsense. The desire for 'freedom of the will' in the superlative metaphysical sense, which still holds sway, unfortunately, in the minds of the half-educated; the desire to bear the entire and ultimate responsibility for one’s actions oneself, and to absolve God, the world, ancestors, chance, and society involves nothing less than to be precisely this _causa sui_ and, with more than Baron Munchhausen’s audacity, to pull oneself up into existence by the hair, out of the swamps of nothingness." -Nietzsche

#philosophy #freewill #determinism #causality #causation #metaphysics



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