Philosophy Overdose

Audio recording of a 1973 lecture by Sir Alfred Ayer. He begins by examining the traditional arguments for the existence of God, tracing grounds for belief and reasons for skepticism. He then goes on to consider whether God is necessary for morality. And after exploring the relation between morality and God, he then goes on to consider some of the implications for free will and responsibility.

Uploaded 07-09-24

00:00 Introduction
06:00 Necessary Being
16:12 Design and Purpose
24:11 Morality
38:18 Free Will
50:45 Pragmatic Considerations

#philosophy #epistemology #atheism #ayer #theism #philosophyofreligion #religion



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In this lecture on General Philosophy, Professor Peter Millican discusses the problem of perception, the distinction between primary and secondary qualities, resemblance, abstraction, and idealism. This comes from a 2010 series on General Philosophy. The slides have been added.

Uploaded 08-06-21

This series of lectures was delivered by Peter Millican to first-year philosophy students at the University of Oxford. The lectures comprise of the 8-week General Philosophy course, delivered to first year undergraduates. These lectures aim to provide a thorough introduction to many philosophical topics and to get students and others interested in thinking about key areas of philosophy. Taking a chronological view of the history of philosophy, each lecture is split into 3 or 4 sections which outline a particular philosophical problem and how different philosophers have attempted to resolve the issue. Individuals interested in the 'big' questions about life such as how we perceive the world, who we are in the world and whether we are free to act will find this series informative, comprehensive and accessible.

More lectures on General Philosophy: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE_xo2wvkm6qPZrUlAiRNHXb

Source: https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/general-philosophy

00:00 Intro to Primary and Secondary Qualities
01:04 The Mechanisms of Perception
02:41 What are Objects Like?
04:20 Locke and Corpuscularianism
07:47 Pains, Colours, and Shapes
09:24 A Problematic Text
11:03 In Objects, or Just In the Mind?
14:29 Why Resemblance?
16:01 Can an Idea Resemble an Object?
18:41 Structural Resemblance?
21:44 Solidity
23:42 Hume’s Criticism
25:11 Empiricism and Understanding
26:23 The Attack on Abstraction
29:25 The Case for Idealism
30:26 “Something I Know Not What”
35:16 Locke’s Indirect Realism
36:13 An Unacceptable Interpretation
38:30 Sense Data
39:08 How To Prove the Causal Link?
40:50 Phenomenalism
43:20 Direct Realism
45:59 Is a Lockean View Defensible?
48:29 Explanatory Realism

#philosophy #epistemology #perception #skepticism #philosophyofmind #historyofphilosophy



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A lecture given on the thought of Charles Sanders Peirce by Grant Franks in 2017 at St. John's College.

Uploaded 13-06-21

#philosophy #epistemology #philosophyofmind #kant #historyofphilosophy #mind



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A short clip of Hans-Georg Gadamer discussing Augustine on time. This is re-upload. The translation is mine.

Uploaded 03-06-21

More Gadamer: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE_MbPzGOh27qfdqiCaf7Uot

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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.

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, audio has been improved.

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

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



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Probably one of the craziest things I've ever heard Quine say (4:31 onward is the crux). More Short Clips: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE8v8UVlc7JuuNHwvhkaOvzc

Uploaded 17-09-21

#Philosophy #Quine #Epistemology



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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 second of his Tanner lectures. Note, this is a re-upload.

Uploaded 22-09-25

00:00 Lecture
1:07:14 Q and A

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



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A few clips of Danielle Celermajer discussing Hannah Arendt's thought, especially regarding the political sphere, the nature of politics, totalitarianism, and the difference between her views and that of Hobbes versus Rousseau. This comes from an episode of the podcast the Philosopher's Zone, with then host Alan Saunders, from a few years back. For more information and episodes of The Philosopher's Zone, go to: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszone/

Uploaded 19-08-21

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

#philosophy #hannaharendt #politicaltheory #politicalphilosophy



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Professor Dan Robinson gives the fourth in a series of 8 lectures on Thomas Reid's critique of David Hume at Oxford in 2014. “It is evident that a power is a quality, and therefore can’t exist without a subject to which it belongs…This (Humean) suggestion— There exists some power that cannot be attributed to any thing, any subject, which has the power —is an absurdity…No principle seems to have been more universally acknowledged by mankind ever since the first dawn of reason than that every change we observe in nature must have a cause…Another argument to show that all men have a notion or idea of active power is that there are many mental operations—performed by everyone who has a mind, and necessary in the ordinary conduct of life—which presuppose that we have active power”.

Uploaded 19-06-21

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 #causation #causality #historyofphilosophy



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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.

Uploaded 04-04-26

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



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