Fallibilism's Payoff - Catherine Elgin
Catherine Elgin discusses fallibilism in a 2016 lecture at the University of Edinburgh. Elgin's talk "True Enough": https://youtu.be/P5pKJGXuCNE#philosophy #epistemology #skepticism #science Learn mor...
28 Aug 1h 5min
Nietzsche on Nihilism and the Death of God - Ken Gemes
Audio recording of the first of two lectures by Ken Gemes on Nietzsche. In this first talk, Ken Gemes introduces Nietzsche as the philosopher of the death of God. Nietzsche claims that we have not yet...
28 Aug 1h 21min
The Supremacy of Method - Ernest Nagel (1973)
Audio recording of a 1973 lecture by Ernest Nagel on the supremacy of method at Columbia University. #philosophy #science #epistemology #philosophyofscience #skepticism #relativism #historyofphilosoph...
28 Aug 1h 27min
Russell-Copleston Debate on God's Existence (1948)
Bertrand Russell and Frederick Copleston debate the existence of God in this famous radio debate from 1948. Copleston here presents the argument from contingency, which is a kind of cosmological argum...
28 Aug 24min
Knowledge and Scepticism - General Philosophy (Peter Millican)
In this lecture on General Philosophy, Professor Peter Millican discusses the traditional analysis of knowledge, Gettier cases, externalism, scepticism, and the ethics of belief. This comes from a 201...
28 Aug 1h 12min
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...
28 Aug 1h 1min
7 Hume’s “Sentimentalist” Theory of Morals - Reid's Critique of Hume (Dan Robinson)
Professor Dan Robinson gives the seventh in a series of 8 lectures on Thomas Reid's critique of David Hume at Oxford in 2014. In his Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals [1751], Hume states: “T...
28 Aug 1h 8min
8 The Paralogisms and Antinomies of Pure Reason - Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (Dan Robinson)
Dan Robinson gives the final lecture in a series of 8 on Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Reason, properly disciplined, draws permissible inferences from the resulting concepts of the understa...
28 Aug 50min
