John Locke's Political Philosophy
After briefly discussing Thomas Hobbes, Professor Charles Anderson discusses the thought of John Locke. This comes from a course on Political, Economic, & Social Thought given at the University of Wis...
28 Aug 2h 8min
Hume on the Argument from Design
Michael Levine discusses David Hume on the teleological argument or the argument from design with Alan Saunders in this clip from an episode of the Philosopher's Zone from back in 2011. Michael Levine...
28 Aug 5min
7 The "Self" and Synthetic Unity of Apperception - Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (Dan Robinson)
Dan Robinson gives the 7th lecture in a series of 8 on Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Kant argues that: "The synthetic unity of consciousness is... an objective condition of all knowledge. I...
28 Aug 56min
Simone de Beauvoir on Existentialism and God (1959)
A version of a video from the old channel. This comes from a 1959 interview with Wilfrid Lemoyne from Radio-Canada. The translation is my mine. More Short Clips: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=...
28 Aug 9min
Examining the Ethics of the Unthinkable: The Holocaust and Bioethics - Arthur Caplan (1989)
Audio recording of a keynote speech by Professor Arthur L. Caplan at a 1989 conference on the meaning of the Holocaust for bioethics at the University of Minnesota. 00:00 Lecture 52:17 Q&A #philosophy...
28 Aug 1h 49min
Wittgenstein's Contribution to Philosophy
Wittgenstein scholar Peter Hacker discusses the life and philosophical thought of Ludwig Wittgenstein in a lecture from a few years back at the Chαbad Society at the University of Oxford. #philosophy ...
28 Aug 1h 45min
Words and Philosophy - Hugh Mellor (1978)
Audio recording of a series of six short ratio talks by Hugh Mellor back in 1978 on the use of words in philosophy. Among other things, he dispells the myth that important issues can be settled merely...
28 Aug 41min
Political Equality
A clip of Ronald Dworkin discussing the notion of political equality which comes from a longer talk on the paradoxes of equality at Queen's University as part of the 1982 Chancellor Dunning Trust Lect...
27 Aug 12min
