Philosophy Overdose

In this second lecture (note, it's actually the third because the second wasn't recorded), James Conant continues to give examples of Cartesian skepticism in various other areas of philosophy and discusses some of the differences with Kantian skepticism. Note, because Kantian skepticism was introduced and discussed in the previous session, and there's no recording, it might be a bit difficult at first to understand what Kantian skepticism precisely is. However, this will definitely become clear as the lectures go on.

Uploaded 26-06-21

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.

"There are never any sure signs by means of which being awake can be distinguished from being asleep." Descartes

"The a priori conditions of a possible experience in general are at the same time conditions of the possibility of objects of experience. Now I maintain that the categories ... are nothing but the conditions of thought in a possible experience ... And without such unity no thoroughgoing, universal, and therefore necessary, unity of consciousness would be met with in the manifold of perceptions. These perceptions would not then belong to any experience, consequently would be without an object, merely a blind play of representations, less even than a dream." Immanuel Kant

00:00 Introduction
01:31 Where one is possible, so is the other
03:29 Philosophy of Law
05:27 Skepticism for any Area of Philosophy
07:37 Testimony
13:21 Personal Identity
17:01 The Past
19:51 Reference
24:00 Move to Kantian Problematic
33:55 Why these Two Labels?
45:45 Is Kantian Skepticism a Kind of Skepticism?
51:33 Features of Both

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

#philosophy #epistemology #skepticism #kant #historyofphilosophy



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Audio recording of a 1954 lecture given by Professor Ernest Nagel on the philosophy of science at the Cooper Union Forum.

Uploaded 06-09-25

#philosophy #philosophyofscience #epistemology #science



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A clip of Max Charlesworth's ABC Boyer Lecture in 1989 on Life, Death, Genes and Ethics.

Uploaded 07-01-25

#philosophy #ethics #moralphilosophy



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A clip of professor Shelly Kagan discussing the famous thought experiment of the experience machine which comes from Robert Nozick and which serves as an argument against hedonism about well-being. This comes from a lecture on death given at the Southern Methodist University back in 2013.

Uploaded 08-12-25

More on the nature of well-being: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/well-being/

#philosophy #hedonism #ethics #nozick #moralphilosophy



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Audio recording of a 1985 lecture by Hubert Dreyfus at DePauw University on artificial intelligence and its limits.

Uploaded 02-05-24

00:00 Talk
51:36 Q and A

#philosophy #artificialintelligence #science #mind



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Audio from: https://youtu.be/v_hQpvQYhOI

Uploaded 03-06-21

More Short Clips: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE8v8UVlc7JuuNHwvhkaOvzc

You may also want to check out the following on Wittgenstein vs Socrates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp8KXhYlhsg

#philosophy #wittgenstein #bryanmagee #historyofphilosophy



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Jesse Prinz and Jerome Neu discuss and debate the nature of emotions. This comes from an episode of Odyssey on WBEZ Chicago from quite a few years back (early 2000s) with host Gretchen Helfrich. Read more about emotion: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/emotion/

Uploaded 18-06-21

#philosophy #psychology #emotions #williamjames #spinoza #debate



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Audio recording of a lecture by Bas van Fraassen on the nature of empiricism at Calvin College back in 1990.

Uploaded 07-02-25

#philosophy #epistemology #empiricism #philosophyofscience #historyofphilosophy



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Audio recording of a 1978 lecture by Judith Jarvis Thomson at the Iowa State University on the right to life.

Uploaded 10-02-24

#philosophy #ethics #moralphilosophy #utilitarianism



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Clips of Göran Rosenberg interviewing Isaiah Berlin in 1997, a few months before Berlin's death. More Isaiah Berlin: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE-z227nn_-_PKw5lGfojOcg

Uploaded 03-07-21

Isaiah Berlin's lectures on Romanticism: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE_9uxkmfSIt2JJK6oKbXmd-

00:00 Value Pluralism
12:38 Liberalism
24:13 Negative vs Positive Freedom
30:10 Nationalism
34:19 Tolerance and Meaning

#Romanticism #IsaiahBerlin #Liberalism



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