4 Reid on Causation and Active Powers - Reid's Critique of Hume (Dan Robinson)

Professor Dan Robinson gives the fourth in a series of 8 lectures on Thomas Reid's critique of David Hume at Oxford in 2014. “It is evident that a power is a quality, and therefore can’t exist without a subject to which it belongs…This (Humean) suggestion— There exists some power that cannot be attributed to any thing, any subject, which has the power —is an absurdity…No principle seems to have been more universally acknowledged by mankind ever since the first dawn of reason than that every change we observe in nature must have a cause…Another argument to show that all men have a notion or idea of active power is that there are many mental operations—performed by everyone who has a mind, and necessary in the ordinary conduct of life—which presuppose that we have active power”.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 #causation #causality #historyofphilosophy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language

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 ...

28 Elo 5min

Karl Popper on the Open Society (1974)

A short of clip of Karl Popper discussing the Open Society from a 1974 interview. The translation is mine. For more Popper: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE_VarWCx1d_Uogn_GxsVf-o#phi...

28 Elo 5min

2 Romanticism - First Attack on Enlightenment (Isaiah Berlin 1965)

Isaiah Berlin gives the 2nd lecture in a series of 6 on Romanticism and its roots.All 6 lectures: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE_9uxkmfSIt2JJK6oKbXmd-For Berlin, the Romantics set ...

28 Elo 1h 17min

The Afterlife: How People Who Don’t Yet Exist Matter More to Us than People Who Do

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 Profes...

28 Elo 2h 5min

Perception, Abstraction and Idealism - General Philosophy (Peter Millican)

In this lecture on General Philosophy, Professor Peter Millican discusses the problem of perception, the distinction between primary and secondary qualities, resemblance, abstraction, and idealism. Th...

28 Elo 1h 9min

What Is Probability? Difficulties Understanding Probability

Professor David Wallace discusses the nature of probability and some of the philosophical puzzles that arise regarding how to understand and make sense of probability. He begins by distinguishing betw...

28 Elo 36min

Free Will Pessimism

A short clip of Galen Strawson discussing his master argument against the very possibility of free will and moral responsibility; one which applies whether or not determinism is true. This comes from ...

28 Elo 4min

Foundations of Liberal Equality 2 - Ronald Dworkin (1988)

Audio recording of a lecture by Ronald M. Dworkin as part of his 1988 Tanner lectures on human values at Stanford University on the foundations of liberalism. This was the second of his Tanner lecture...

28 Elo 2h 12min