Philosophy Overdose

Professor Dan Robinson gives the first in a series of 8 lectures on Thomas Reid's critique of David Hume at Oxford in 2014. Hume defends the thesis according to which “ALL THE PERCEPTIONS OF THE HUMAN MIND RESOLVE THEMSELVES INTO…IMPRESSIONS AND IDEAS”. Accordingly, “We may prosecute this enquiry to what length we please; where we shall always find, that every idea which we examine is copied from a similar impression”.

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 #epistemology #perception #empiricism #skepticism #philosophyofmind #historyofphilosophy



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Another re-upload from the previous channel. This short clip comes from the 1987 interview of Peter Singer with Bryan Magee on the life and philosophical work of Hegel and Marx. I put it together quite a long time ago, but I still think it provides a relatively decent summary of some of the main similarities and differences between Hegel and Marx. I apologize for the rather cheap visuals. I originally did that only because the interview was of rather poor quality. Note, Marx did not actually say that he stood Hegel on his head, but instead that he turned him around and put him back onto his feet. I think this is actually important for the original metaphor because it implies that he is taking Hegel out of the realm of Geist and abstraction "up high" and putting him back on his feet, the right way around, on the ground of the material world. Also, I'm not sure about whether that point about a conflict-free society was originally intended to be the Hegelian or Marxist goal, or even how accurate that is as a characterization of either view. I'd be curious to hear anyone's thoughts on that though.

Uploaded 15-09-21

As a young Hegelian, Marx had very much been influenced by Hegel and even took up much of Hegel's system. But one crucial difference is that Marx substituted a kind materialism for Hegel's idealism. Among other things, this meant that rather than it being ideas which underlie everything and drive historical change, it was the material and economic conditions which determine one's ideas, culture, and historical development.

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

#philosophy #hegel #marx



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Tom Regan discusses and responds to some of the main philosophical arguments that have been given against animal rights. These clips come from a lecture he gave at a conference on the ethics of animal experimentation in 1991 at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University.

Uploaded 29-09-24

#philosophy #ethics #moralphilosophy #animalethics #animalrights



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A clip of Hannah Arendt from her 1964 interview with Günter Gaus. Among other things, she discusses the dethroning of the community spirit by the modern age and with it the prime importance of the political and the shrinkage of the public realm, which is associated with the uprooting of the masses and the resulting isolation and atomism in the modern world (something which, by the way, she thought made possible totalitarianism in the 20th century, both from the right and the left). She also touches on the labor-consumption process, the public sphere, and the increasing inability to act publicly in the modern world.

Uploaded 03-06-21

Full Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVSRJC4KAiE

#philosophy #hannaharendt #politicaltheory #politicalphilosophy



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Audio recording of a few clips of Karl Popper discussing his conception of philosophy. Note, this is reupload, and the translation is my own. More details will be added later.

Uploaded 04-07-21

You can find more Popper: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE_VarWCx1d_Uogn_GxsVf-o

#philosophy #karlpopper #historyofphilosophy



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A talk given by professor Ray Monk back in 2005.

Uploaded 14-08-21

#philosophy #bertrandrussell #historyofphilosophy #epistemology #einstein



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Isaiah Berlin gives the 2nd lecture in a series of 6 on Romanticism and its roots.

Uploaded 05-06-21

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 Program for the Lectures
01:07 Enlightenment Tradition
22:44 Montesquieu and Relativism
26:42 David Hume and Skepticism
32:07 Germans and Sour Grapes
44:32 Hamann and Counter-Enlightenment

#Philosophy #Romanticism #IsaiahBerlin



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Audio recording of a 1967 lecture given by Sidney Morgenbesser on reason and its eclipse at the Cooper Union Forum in New York. Sidney Morgenbesser was a professor of philosophy at Columbia University.

Uploaded 06-04-25

#philosophy #epistemology #science



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After a brief discussion of the nature of philosophy and the origins of analytic philosophy, Fraser MacBride discusses Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein on the nature of relations and the structure of judgment or belief, how our thought relates to external objects in the world. Among the topics discussed include metaphilosophy and the history of analytic philosophy, F. H. Bradley's infamous regress argument against the reality of relations, Russell's correspondence theory of truth and various accounts of judgment, including his famous multiple relation theory.

Uploaded 17-06-21

"The question of relations is one of the most important that arise in philosophy, as most other issues turn on it: monism and pluralism; the question of whether anything is wholly true except the whole of truth, or wholly real except the whole of reality; idealism and realism, in some of their forms; perhaps the very existence of philosophy as a subject distinct from science and possessing a method of its own.” Bertrand Russell

#Philosophy #Wittgenstein #BertrandRussell



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Isaiah Berlin gives the 6th and final 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 The Tradition
02:38 Romantic Attack
08:21 Myths and Art
15:20 Politics and Other Spheres
23:35 Music
31:23 Who Were They?
51:48 Transformation of Values
58:49 Existentialism
1:06:03 Fascism
1:07:08 Artistic Model of Life
1:08:05 What we owe to Romanticism

#Philosophy #Romanticism #IsaiahBerlin



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