Intro to the Philosophy of Mathematics (Ray Monk)
A good introduction to the philosophy of mathematics by Ray Monk. He considers the issue of the nature of mathematical truth - what mathematics is actually about - and discusses the views of Plato, Ar...
27 Elo 47min
6 Reid on Personal Identity - Reid's Critique of Hume (Dan Robinson)
Professor Dan Robinson gives the sixth in a series of 8 lectures on Thomas Reid's critique of David Hume at Oxford in 2014. In the third of his Essays on The Intellectual Powers of Man, Reid devotes t...
27 Elo 1h 5min
4 The Restrained Romantics - Kant, Schiller and Fichte (Isaiah Berlin 1965)
Isaiah Berlin gives the 4th 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 ...
27 Elo 1h 17min
Killing Civilians in War (Jeff McMahan)
When is it permissible to kill civilians in war? Jeff McMahan discusses the ethics of killing civilians in war in a talk at Ohio State University back in 2008. More on the morality of war: https://pla...
27 Elo 1h
What is an Emotion?
Jesse Prinz and Jerome Neu discuss and debate the nature of emotions. This comes from an episode of Odyssey on WBEZ Chicago from quite a few years back (early 2000s) with host Gretchen Helfrich. Read ...
27 Elo 1h 5min
The Loss of Absolute Authority - Hannah Arendt (1972)
Hannah Arendt believed that the will of the totalitarian ruler occupied the place left vacant by the absolute authority over the world attributed to God during the Middle Ages. With the collapse of th...
27 Elo 4min
Prerequisites of Language Acquisition - Noam Chomsky (1964)
Noam Chomsky discusses language and the innate structures of the mind in a 1964 lecture at UC Berkeley and sponsored by the Philosophy Colloquium. 00:00 Lecture 1:10:24 Q&A Source: https://cla.berkele...
27 Elo 2h 17min
Walter Kaufmann on Oedipus and the Death of Tragedy (1974)
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 197...
27 Elo 2h 13min
