Philosophy Overdose

A version of an upload from the previous channel. It comes from a 1974 interview with Popper. The translation is my own. For more Popper: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE_VarWCx1d_Uogn_GxsVf-o

Uploaded 27-07-21

#philosophy #karlpopper #epistemology #science #philosophyofscience



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What are concepts or general ideas? And how are they acquired? Professor James Conant begins by discussing these questions in relation to the views of John Locke and his theory of abstraction. He then goes on to discuss Kant's critique of Locke and the empiricists, as well as some issues that arise in Kant, including a famous issue in section 77 of the Critique of Judgment, as well as a problem that was later brought to light by Wittgenstein in his famous discussion of rule-following.

Uploaded 08-08-21

This is a version of an upload from the previous channel. The clips come from a lecture given by professor James Conant back in 2005 at the University of Bergen in Norway. Note, the audio has been edited and significantly improved, but the original can be found here: http://wittgensteinrepository.org/ojs/index.php/agora-wab/article/view/3148/3850

James Conant's Series on Skepticism: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE8muoMpX8qQ-14zKnYPc5VI

Conant with Richard Rorty and Hilary Putnam on Truth and Pragmatism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxL0fQcrjzQ

00:00 Locke on Concepts and Abstraction
05:16 Kant and his Critique of Empiricism
10:19 Section 77 of Kant's Third Critique
14:26 Kant and Wittgenstein on Rule-Following
19:51 Goethe and Schiller

#philosophy #epistemology #kant #locke #historyofphilosophy #empiricism



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A reupload of something that I put together awhile back. The audio is from: https://youtu.be/v_hQpvQYhOI

Uploaded 14-06-21

Some relevant quotes:

"But how can a rule show me what I have to do at this point? Whatever I do is, on some interpretation, in accord with the rule...Any interpretation still hangs in the air along with what it interprets, and cannot give it any support. Interpretations by themselves do not determine meaning." Wittgenstein

"This was our paradox: no course of action could be determined by a rule, because any course of action can be made out to accord with the rule." Wittgenstein

"To think one is obeying a rule is not to obey a rule. Hence it is not possible to obey a rule 'privately': otherwise thinking one was obeying a rule would be the same thing as obeying it." Wittgenstein

#philosophy #wittgenstein #bryanmagee #language #searle



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A short clip of Hannah Arendt discussing ideology and the role it played in the totalitarian regimes of the 20th century. This comes from the Q and A section of a lecture on power and violence given at Bard College in 1968.

Uploaded 05-07-25

#philosophy #hannaharendt #politicalphilosophy #totalitarianism #politicaltheory #ideology



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Hans-Georg Gadamer discusses aspects of the thought of Immanuel Kant. This is a version of an upload from the previous channel. As always, the translation is my own. More Gadamer: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE_MbPzGOh27qfdqiCaf7Uot

Uploaded 07-08-21

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

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Isaiah Berlin gives the 4th 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 Intro
00:53 Kant
25:42 Schiller
47:34 Fichte

#philosophy #romanticism #kant #isaiahberlin



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Audio recording of two lectures by Charles Fried on liberty at Stanford University as part of his 1981 Tanner lectures on Human Values.

Uploaded 05-10-24

00:00 Lecture I
55:42 Lecture II

#philosophy #politicalphilosophy #politicaltheory #ethics #rawls



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Audio recording of a 1962 lecture by Aldous Huxley at UC Berkeley. He discusses some of the themes of his famous work Brave New World regarding authoritarian state control and the various methods of psychological manipulation.

Uploaded 19-08-25

#philosophy #aldoushuxley #bravenewworld #authoritarianism #totalitarianism #socialtheory #psychology



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Professor A. C. Grayling discusses the thought of Ludwig Wittgenstein and the intellectual context surrounding his life and work. Note, the audio has been slightly improved. I increased the volume and tried to reduce some of the cell phone interference that occasionally shows up. In any case, the talk was given by professor A. C. Grayling in 2016 at the University of Cambridge.

Uploaded 26-07-21

More Wittgenstein: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE_B7cyaMUFmW-LMKqAxO-6x

#philosophy #wittgenstein



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Robert Kane delivers a talk on free will back in 2010 at Holy Cross as part of a conference on neuroscience, evolution and morality.

Uploaded 20-02-24

#philosophy #freewill #determinism #science #causality #causation #mind



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