Nietzsche on the Value of Truth - Ken Gemes
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 abs...
28 Elo 1h 49min
Pragmatism and Truth - Rorty, Putnam, and Conant (2002)
Audio recording of a discussion between Richard Rorty, Hilary Putnam, and James Conant on pragmatism and truth. This comes from an episode of Odyssey on WBEZ Chicago from back in 2002 with host Gretch...
28 Elo 1h 5min
The Guts of the Frankfurt School: Reexamining Marx and the Marriage with Freud (Marcuse and Bryan Magee)
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 abo...
28 Elo 18min
The Eclipse of Reason - Sidney Morgenbesser (1967)
Audio recording of a 1967 lecture given by Sidney Morgenbesser on reason and its eclipse at the Cooper Union Forum in New York. Sidney Morgenbesser was a professor of philosophy at Columbia University...
28 Elo 1h 4min
The Experience Machine
A clip of professor Shelly Kagan discussing the famous thought experiment of the experience machine which comes from Robert Nozick and which serves as an argument against hedonism about well-being. Th...
28 Elo 7min
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
