Philosophy Overdose

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  The Guts of the Frankfurt School: Reexamining Marx and the Marriage with Freud (Marcuse and Bryan Magee) 27.09.2026 18นาที

  The full interview can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U23Ho0m_Sv0#philosophy #bryanmagee #marx #freud #politicaltheory #politicalphilosophy #marxism #historyofphilosophy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Rawls vs Nozick (Ronald Dworkin) 27.09.2026 26นาที

  Ronald Dworkin gives a very brief, introductory overview of John Rawls' "A Theory of Justice" and Robert Nozick's "Anarchy, State, and Utopia" in an interview with Bryan Magee from 1977. Although both wrote very influential works of political philosophy, they came to quite different conclusions. Rawls famously put forward a novel argument for his position which made use of a thought experiment involving a hypothetical contract. Unlike other social contract theories though, Rawls added the further twist that the bargainers must be ignorant about certain facts about themselves which could bias them in their own favor (e.g. their race, gender, class, age, talents, etc.). In this way, ignorance is used as a device to guarantee impartiality in deciding how societies should be structured. After all, one cannot rig things to benefit oneself at the expense of others if one doesn't know what one's personal interests are or what one's position in society will be. Rawls argued that behind this so-called "veil of ignorance" people would agree to two principles, the most interesting being the difference principle, which states that economic inequalities can only be justified if they are to the benefit of the worst off in society. However, such a view was rejected by Nozick, who argued from a starting point of absolute rights of property which cannot be violated without one's consent. Despite such a strong principle, Nozick argued that there can still be a kind of minimal state, what he called a "night-watchman state", which protects property and person. One way to think of the difference in views between Rawls and Nozick (albeit this may be overly simplistic and even misleading in certain respects) is that while Nozick privileges liberty and rights over equality and fairness, Rawls instead privileges that of equality and fairness. (My Summary)This clip is of Ronald Dworkin discussing the political thought of John Rawls and Robert Nozick in a 1977 interview with Bryan Magee. It is an upload from the previous channel.The full interview can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gySLm3Z1OvA 00:00 John Rawls12:13 Robert Nozick#philosophy #politicalphilosophy #politicaltheory #rawls #bryanmagee #historyofphilosophy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  The Virtual and The Real (David Chalmers) 27.09.2026 59นาที

  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. #philosophy #epistemology #davidchalmers #metaphysics #virtualreality Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  3 Space, Time and the "Analogies of Experiences" - Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (Dan Robinson) 27.09.2026 55นาที

  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.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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Deep Blue's Victory: Dennett and Dreyfus on AI (1997) 27.09.2026 18นาที

  A news segment on Deep Blue's victory over world champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, which features commentary from both Daniel Dennett and Hubert Dreyfus on the possible significance for our understanding of artificial intelligence and ourselves as rational, conscious, intelligent beings. #philosophy #artificialintelligence #dennett #chess #consciousness #debate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Isaiah Berlin Interview on Freedom (1974) 27.09.2026 31นาที

  This is from an episode of the podcast Philosopher's Zone from a few years back. For more about the Philosopher's Zone: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszone/ #philosophy #isaiahberlin #freedom #kant #determinism #causality #freewill #historyofphilosophy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  5 David Hume on Personal Identity - Reid's Critique of Hume (Dan Robinson) 27.09.2026 48นาที

  Professor Dan Robinson gives the fifth in a series of 8 lectures on Thomas Reid's critique of David Hume at Oxford in 2014. “There are some philosophers who imagine we are every moment intimately conscious of what we call our self; that we feel its existence and its continuance in existence; and are certain, beyond the evidence of a demonstration, both of its perfect identity and simplicity…For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe any thing but the perception. When my perceptions are removed for any time, as by sound sleep, so long am I insensible of myself, and may truly be said not to exist. And were all my perceptions removed by death, and could I neither think, nor feel, nor see, nor love, nor hate, after the dissolution of my body, I should be entirely annihilated...”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 #personalidentity #empiricism #skepticism #historyofphilosophy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Creativity in Science - Ernest Nagel (1968) 27.09.2026 1ชม. 21นาที

  Audio recording of a public lecture by professor Ernest Nagel on the nature of creativity, particularly in connection with science. This talk was given at the Cooper Union Forum in 1968. #philosophy #science #philosophyofscience #historyofscience #psychology Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language 27.09.2026 5นาที

  A reupload of something that I put together awhile back. The audio is from: https://youtu.be/v_hQpvQYhOISome 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Hannah Arendt on Eichmann, Banality, Guilt and Obedience (1964) 27.09.2026 25นาที

  Clips of Hannah Arendt from a 1964 interview with Joachim Fest. This is a version of a previous upload. The translation is my own. More Arendt: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE-07vAVTFEuiDvqli1y8f0U#philosophy #hannaharendt #politicaltheory #totalitarianism Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Sidney Morgenbesser on Naturalism (1966) 27.09.2026 1ชม. 1นาที

  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. #philosophy #determinism #atheism #freewill #causality #epistemology #science Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  6 Concepts, Judgment and Deduction of the Categories - Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (Dan Robinson) 27.09.2026 47นาที

  Dan Robinson gives the 6th lecture in a series of 8 on Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Empiricists have no explanation for how we move from "mere forms of thought" to objective concepts. The conditions necessary for the knowledge of an object require a priori categories as the enabling conditions of all human understanding.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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  G. A. Cohen does Isaiah Berlin (1991) 27.09.2026 4นาที

  G. A. Cohen impersonates Sir Isaiah Berlin in this short clip from 1991. #philosophy #isaiahberlin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  The Afterlife: How People Who Don’t Yet Exist Matter More to Us than People Who Do 27.09.2026 1ชม. 40นาที

  Samuel Scheffler (University Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University) delivers the first of his 2012 Tanner lectures at Berkeley with commentary from Susan R. Wolf (Edna J. Koury Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill). Note, the introduction has been edited out. 00:00 Lecture 59:50 Susan Wolf 1:15:53 Response #philosophy #ethics #moralphilosophy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  The Hallmark of a Philosophical Question (Isaiah Berlin and Bryan Magee) 27.09.2026 9นาที

  A very short clip of Isaiah Berlin in conversation with Bryan Magee. This is from a 1977 program on philosophy. The full interview can be found here: https://youtu.be/RDgw6ydB6lU#philosophy #isaiahberlin #bryanmagee #historyofphilosophy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Animal Selves and the Good - Christine Korsgaard (2016) 27.09.2026 1ชม. 25นาที

  A common defense of the various and sometimes cruel ways in which human beings use the other animals is that human beings are just more important than the other animals are: what happens to human beings matters more. In this lecture, Christine Korsgaard begins by arguing that the trouble with this claim is not so much that it is false, as that it makes almost no sense at all. The difficulty rests in the fact that everything that is important must be important to someone. A defense of this claim requires nothing less than a theory of why there is such a thing as “the good” at all. She will sketch such a theory and then raise some objections to it, which will take us into an examination of the relation between having a self and having a good. Although it is not true that some creatures are “more important” than others, it is true that the fact that some creatures have less of a self means that things may be, in a general way, less important to them.This talk was given by Christine M. Korsgaard (Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy at Harvard) at the University of Berkeley as part of the 2016 Howison Lectures in Philosophy. 00:00 Talk 56:02 Q&A #philosophy #ethics #moralphilosophy #animalethics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Wittgenstein - The Unsayable and Limits of Thought 27.09.2026 10นาที

  In this clip, Ray Monk, Barry Smith, and Marie McGinn discuss the early Wittgenstein's thought in regards to the famous last proposition of the Tractatus: "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent." This clip comes from an episode of the podcast In Our Time a few years back. For more information and the full episode, go to: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0054945More Short Clips: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE8v8UVlc7JuuNHwvhkaOvzc#philosophy #wittgenstein #epistemology Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Reason, Tone and Judgment - Raimond Gaita (2013) 27.09.2026 1ชม. 7นาที

  Professor Raimond Gaita gives the first talk in a series on 'Prejudice, Reason and Understanding' at the Australian National University as part of the Freilich Foundation's Eminent Lecturer Series back in 2013.Some years ago, Mirko Bagaric, then Professor and Dean of Law at Deakin University in Melbourne, published in the Age an opinion piece in which he argued that we should torture people in certain circumstances if doing so would save many lives. His article provoked incredulity amongst some people: what had seemed to them to be undiscussable and which they believed had partly defined their political culture just because it was undiscussable, was again “on the agenda”. Bagaric was in his turn incredulous that people could be so lacking in respect for rational discussion as to believe that some matters were undiscussable or unthinkable, and that they could be so morally and politically irresponsible as to deem undiscussable something that could potentially save thousands of lives. In the first two lectures, Raimond Gaita tries to bring out what he takes to be most serious in the incredulity voiced by Bagaric and his critics in order to explore what it shows about political discourse that aspires to be a conversation of citizens. He will explore why the ideal that even in ethics and politics, reliable and sound cognitive achievements is best achieved in a tone-free zone, is widespread amongst philosophers, at least in the analytical tradition. He will suggest that attractive as it may be as an elaboration of how best to rise to the claims of reason, it erodes the kind of judgment and sobriety necessary to critical thought about ethics and politics and thereby impoverishes our understanding of what the distinction between legitimate illegitimate persuasion comes to in those realms. It erodes entirely, he will argue, the conditions necessary for the conversation of citizens. In these lectures, Raimond Gaita explores an ideal of a democratic politics as ‘a conversation of citizens’. Reflection germane to the topic goes back at least to the time of Socrates. In Plato’s Gorgias, whose bitter political tone has often been noted, Socrates says to an aspiring young orator that he is good at oratory but bad a conversation. He meant, in part, that oratory betrays a trust intrinsic to real 'conversation’ that one’s partner in conversation will respect ones need to be legitimately persuaded to a belief – that she will not exploit her skills and one’s vulnerability to them, for example. For that reason, Socrates did not look upon oratory as a morally neutral skill that could serve good or bad ends. He regarded it, as many now regard spin, as rotten through and through. More often than not, belief requires trust and so an inquiry into persuasion which honors that trust, will be in part an inquiry into how to discipline trust so that it becomes the expression of good judgment rather than gullibility, for example. Reason, its limits, judgment, trust, sobriety, and realism as these show themselves in ethics and politics is the topic. 00:00 Talk40:04 Q&A#philosophy #ethics #moralphilosophy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Derek Parfit on Personal Identity (1996) 27.09.2026 10นาที

  This comes from a 1996 program called Brainspotting. Read more on personal identity: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-personal/#philosophy #parfit #personalidentity #metaphysics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Walter Kaufmann on Oedipus and the Death of Tragedy (1974) 27.09.2026 1ชม. 46นาที

  Audio recording of professor Walter Kaufmann discussing Sophocles' Oedipus Rex and some of its philosophical aspects, as well as the death of tragedy, in a lecture given at Concordia University in 1974. You may also be interested in the following: https://youtu.be/IAsIccIBWJM 00:00 Lecture 59:10 Q&A #philosophy #aesthetics #literature #tragedy #greektragedy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices