Philosophy Overdose

Professor Dan Robinson gives the second in a series of 8 lectures on Thomas Reid's critique of David Hume at Oxford in 2014. Is it the case that every simple idea is a “copy” of a simple impression? Hume is but the latest to deny that we have direct access to the external world. The “ideal” theory, relegating ideas to a mental realm whose occupants are but “copies” of some indefinite thing, is the sure path to skepticism and is at variance with the proper methods of science.

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 #skepticism #perception #philosophyofmind #historyofphilosophy



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Audio recording of a 1998 lecture by Jonathan Glover at a conference on Darwin and ethics at the LSE. Among other things, he discusses Socrates' method, moral philosophy, utilitarianism, human nature, and the ethics of life and death.

Read more about utilitarianism: https://iep.utm.edu/consequentialism-utilitarianism/

You can find Jonathan Glover's website here: https://jonathanglover.co.uk/

#philosophy #ethics #utilitarianism #moralphilosophy #socrates #darwin #historyofphilosophy

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Audio recording of a 1966 lecture given by Sidney Morgenbesser on philosophical naturalism at the Cooper Union Forum as part of a series on Philosophy for Modern Man.

Uploaded 06-07-25

#philosophy #determinism #atheism #freewill #causality #epistemology #science



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Dan Robinson gives the 3rd lecture in a series of 8 on Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Kant's so-called "Copernican" revolution in metaphysics begins with the recognition of the observer's contribution to the observation. Thus, to the extent that Hume's empiricism restricts knowledge to experience, empiricism succeeds only by accepting the a priori grounding of experience itself.

Uploaded 04-06-21

This series looks at German Philosopher Immanuel Kant's seminal philosophical work 'The Critique of Pure Reason'. The lectures aim to outline and discuss some of the key philosophical issues raised in the book and to offer students and individuals thought provoking Kantian ideas surrounding metaphysics. Each lecture looks at particular questions raised in the work such as how do we know what we know and how do we find out about the world, dissects these questions with reference to Kant's work and discusses the broader philosophical implications. Anyone with an interest in Kant and philosophy will find these lectures thought provoking but accessible.

This is series of lectures was given in 2011 at Oxford. Note, the audio has been improved.

All 8 lectures: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE_OdgqNgL0AJX9-gwr4tmLw

#philosophy #kant #epistemology #metaphysics #empiricism #skepticism #historyofphilosophy



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What is mathematics about and how do we acquire mathematical knowledge? Mathematics seems to be about numbers, but what exactly are numbers? Are numbers and other mathematical objects something discovered or invented? Daniel Sutherland discusses some of these issues in the philosophy of mathematics, explaining some of the basic difficulties involved in trying to say what numbers are and how we come to know them. Are numbers mere mental constructs, something invented by us? If so, then why does mathematics work so well and seem to describe the world? On the other hand, if numbers are "out there" in some sense waiting to be discovered, then what is their status and how do we get knowledge of them? After all, you can't see or touch numbers and other mathematical objects. And unlike ordinary empirical truths, mathematical truths seem to have a quite different and special status: they are a priori, necessary, eternal, universal, and absolutely certain. (My Description)

Uploaded 28-08-21

This comes from an episode of Elucidations, a philosophy podcast from the University of Chicago. For more information about the podcast and more episodes, go to: https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/elucidations

Another good introduction to the philosophy of mathematics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhX1ouUjDHE

A more advanced talk on philosophy of mathematics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucPhfzCvKnE

#philosophy #epistemology #mathematics #metaphysics #historyofphilosophy



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A clip of Ronald Dworkin discussing the notion of political equality which comes from a longer talk on the paradoxes of equality at Queen's University as part of the 1982 Chancellor Dunning Trust Lecture series. Read more on this topic: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/equality/

Uploaded 22-04-25

#philosophy #politicalphilosophy #politicaltheory #ethics



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Distinguished philosopher Dr. David Chalmers discusses some of the philosophical issues that arise regarding virtual reality technology in a lecture back in 2017 at the Community Library in Idaho.

Uploaded 12-12-25

#philosophy #epistemology #davidchalmers #metaphysics #virtualreality



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Audio recording of the second lecture by Ken Gemes on Nietzsche. Nietzsche claims that with the rejection of religious underpinning of the value of truth (e.g. truth as God’s word and as something absolute), we can now raise the question of why and to what extent we should value truth. He argues that our need for meaning conflicts with our will to truth because such a will tends to destroy all mythologies including the mythology of value – our will to truth reveals that values are not objectively 'out there' in the world, but are merely our own projections onto the world. This knowledge eviscerates the world of meaning. This does not mean that Nietzsche rejects the value of truth. He instead rejects the notion, inherited from the Judeo-Christian worldview, that truth is an unconditional value. Such a notion of truth, destructive of all myth and meaning, is unliveable. The very claim that the truth is valuable, even if not unconditionally valuable, is itself one of those myths that help give life meaning.

Uploaded 07-06-21

You can find the previous talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHShypzrqGw

Note, this is a re-upload.

00:00 Talk
46:53 Q and A

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Audio recording of a 1959 lecture by Norman Malcolm at the Cooper Union Forum on the philosopher George Edward Moore and his defense of common sense and philosophical realism.

Uploaded 11-05-24

#philosophy #epistemology #skepticism #wittgenstein #historyofphilosophy



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Professor Raymond G. Frey gives a lecture on rights, responsibility, and animal experimentation at a conference on the ethics of animal experimentation in 1991 at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University.

Uploaded 01-09-24

00:00 Morally Serious People
16:19 The Value of a Life
33:35 Marginal Cases
41:29 Rights
1:00:46 Questions

#philosophy #ethics #moralphilosophy #animalethics #utilitarianism



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