Philosophy Overdose

Audio recording of a lecture by Peter van Inwagen on the problem of divine hiddenness at Calvin College back in 2004. This was the second of his Jellema lectures. His first lecture can be found here: https://youtu.be/nNEweeN32QI

Uploaded 18-02-26

#philosophy #philosophyofreligion #agnosticism #atheism #theism #epistemology



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Audio recording of a 1969 lecture by Isaiah Berlin on the romantic revolution in politics and morals at Washington University in St Louis as part of the Assembly lecture series.

Uploaded 07-11-25

#philosophy #romanticism #isaiahberlin #intellectualhistory #history



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Audio recording of a keynote speech by Professor Arthur L. Caplan at a 1989 conference on the meaning of the Holocaust for bioethics at the University of Minnesota.

Uploaded 07-09-25

00:00 Lecture
52:17 Q and A

#philosophy #ethics #bioethics #history #moralphilosophy #utilitarianism #medicalethics #totalitarianism #authoritarianism



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Audio recording of a lecture by Peter van Inwagen on whether God is an unnecessary hypothesis at Calvin College back in 2004. This was the first of his Jellema lectures. His second lecture can be found here: https://youtu.be/izD-w3CCN98

Uploaded 27-07-25

#philosophy #philosophyofreligion #agnosticism #atheism #theism #epistemology



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Audio recording of a 1968 lecture by Arthur C. Danto at the Cooper Union Forum on William James and the notion of belief.

Uploaded 09-05-24

#philosophy #williamjames #epistemology #pragmatism #historyofphilosophy



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Audio recording of a series of six short ratio talks by Hugh Mellor back in 1978 on the use of words in philosophy. Among other things, he dispells the myth that important issues can be settled merely by definitions. He goes on to consider the abuse of words, as well as logical argument, jargon, and the liar paradox.

Uploaded 22-08-25

These talks were given by D. H. Mellor (David Hugh Mellor) and originally broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 1978.

00:00 It All Depends What You Mean
05:15 Define Your Terms
10:18 Fictional Documentaries
15:19 What's Wrong With Jargon
20:08 On Being Illogical
25:07 The Liar Paradox

#philosophy #language #epistemology #philosophyoflanguage #rationality



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Terry Pinkard (Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University) gives a lecture on justice in the context of the issue of healthcare as part of a course on bioethics or medical ethics at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics in 1989 at Georgetown University.

Uploaded 27-03-24

#philosophy #politicalphilosophy #ethics #moralphilosophy #bioethics



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A short clip of Hilary Putnam discussing science and the demarcation project in a 1977 interview with Bryan Magee on the philosophy of science. This is version of an upload from the other channel. The full interview can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJB2q8ufAgk

Uploaded 25-06-21

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Isaiah Berlin gives the 1st 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.

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Peter Adamson and Raphael Woolf discuss the figure of Socrates in an episode of Peter Adamson's podcast on the History of Philosophy from a few years back. They discuss Socrates as he was presented by Plato, that is, as the gadfly of Athens. They also consider whether Socrates was an ascetic, whether it could really be true that virtue is knowledge, and whether weakness of will is really impossible.

Uploaded 04-07-21

For more information about the podcast and for additional episodes, go to: https://www.historyofphilosophy.net

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