Philosophy Overdose

A few clips of Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault discussing justice, power, and the notion of human nature in their famous 1971 debate. This is a version of an upload from the previous channel. The translation is my own, although I referenced the published text (which by the way was edited by Foucault prior to publication, which is why there are various differences between the published transcript and the actual recording). The audio has also been improved.

Uploaded 20-07-21

The debate was about human nature and took place in November 1971 at the Eindhoven University of Technology, in the Nederlands, as part of the “International Philosophers Project” initiated by the Dutch Broadcasting Foundation and arranged by the Dutch philosopher Fons Elders, who was also the moderator.

Chomsky on the "limits" of knowledge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc1hsQWzUKc

#philosophy #chomsky #foucault #politicaltheory #politicalphilosophy #debate



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A few introductory clips on Hermeneutics, the art of interpretation, including the thought of Gadamer. These clips come from the 1998 Εxαminϵd Life series.

Uploaded 16-03-24

#philosophy #gadamer #language



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Karl Popper gives a talk on relativism called the Myth of the Standpoint. The translation is my own. Details will be added at a later date. More Popper: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE_VarWCx1d_Uogn_GxsVf-o

Uploaded 15-07-21

#philosophy #karlpopper #epistemology #relativism



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Sir Karl Popper and Sir John Eccles discuss various topics in a 1971 discussion with Dutch philosopher Fons Elders. Among other things, they discuss the nature of science, Popper's falsifiability criterion, the notion of truth, determinism, the conscious self, Popper's three worlds, reductionism, and a few social-political issues.

Uploaded 20-07-24

#philosophy #epistemology #karlpopper #science #eccles #philosophyofscience #debate



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A very short clip of Isaiah Berlin in conversation with Bryan Magee from a 1977 program on philosophy which can be found here: https://youtu.be/RDgw6ydB6lU

Uploaded 04-06-21

#philosophy #isaiahberlin #bryanmagee #historyofphilosophy



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In this interview, Nelson Goodman begins by discussing induction and his famous contribution to the problem of induction, then his non-realist notion of 'worldmaking' which replaces the traditional view of truth as a correspondence to an objective world. Next he discusses his understanding of symbols and some of the general consequences, especially for art and aesthetics, including the replacement of traditional notions like that of truth, certainty, and knowledge. This interview was given in Rome in 1989. Note, this is a reupload. More details will be added at a later date.

Uploaded 08-07-21

You can find Goodman's "Ways of Worldmaking" here: https://archive.org/details/GoodmanWaysOfWorldmaking/

#philosophy #epistemology #aesthetics #causality #science #causation #philosophyofscience #skepticism #historyofphilosophy



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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/

Uploaded 04-05-25

#philosophy #mind #metaphysics #personalidentity



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In this lecture on General Philosophy, Professor Peter Millican discusses God and morality. Among other things, he discusses the hypothesis of God, the fine-tuning argument from design, the Euthyphro dilemma, divine command theory, and the problem of evil. This comes from a 2018 series on General Philosophy.

Uploaded 05-07-21

This series of 8 lectures on General Philosophy was delivered to first year Oxford University undergraduates in Michaelmas term 2018. The lectures cover six main topics: Knowledge and Scepticism, Induction, Mind and Body, Personal Identity, Free Will, God and Evil. But they set these topics within a much broader context, encompassing humanity’s history of discovery about the natural world (both in physics and biology), and our place within it (linked to issues of both evolution and morality). Main themes of the lectures are: (1) Introduction and views of the cosmos from Genesis to Descartes; (2) Humanity’s place in the scientific picture of the world; (3) Scepticism and the problem of induction; (4) More on induction and facing up to scepticism; (5) The mind and personal identity; (6) Identity, self-interest, morality, and free will; (7) Free will, causality, explanation, and moral responsibility; (8) God and morality.

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

Source: https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/general-philosophy-2018

#philosophy #theism #atheism #moralphilosophy #ethics #philosophyofreligion



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Isaiah Berlin gives the 5th 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 Three Great Trends
00:50 Fichte
09:58 Schelling
16:02 Symbolism
21:44 Depth
26:33 Nostalgia
31:07 Paranoia
37:13 French Revolution

#Romanticism #IsaiahBerlin #Fichte



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This is a short excerpt from a lecture on C. S. Peirce's thought by Grant Franks. It is re-upload from the previous channel. Full lecture: https://youtu.be/6KeiPitz5QM

Uploaded 30-07-21

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

#Philosophy #Epistemology #Ontology



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