Free Will Pessimism

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 an episode of the In Our Time podcast a few years back on the topic of free will. For more information and full episodes, go to: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl "The _causa sui_ is the best self-contradiction that has been conceived so far; it is a sort of rape and perversion of logic. But the extravagant pride of man has managed to entangle itself profoundly and frightfully with just this nonsense. The desire for 'freedom of the will' in the superlative metaphysical sense, which still holds sway, unfortunately, in the minds of the half-educated; the desire to bear the entire and ultimate responsibility for one’s actions oneself, and to absolve God, the world, ancestors, chance, and society involves nothing less than to be precisely this _causa sui_ and, with more than Baron Munchhausen’s audacity, to pull oneself up into existence by the hair, out of the swamps of nothingness." -Nietzsche #philosophy #freewill #determinism #causality #causation #metaphysics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Nietzsche on the Value of Truth - Ken Gemes

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 Aug 1h 49min

Pragmatism and Truth - Rorty, Putnam, and Conant (2002)

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 Aug 1h 5min

The Guts of the Frankfurt School: Reexamining Marx and the Marriage with Freud (Marcuse and Bryan Magee)

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 Aug 18min

The Eclipse of Reason - Sidney Morgenbesser (1967)

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 Aug 1h 4min

The Experience Machine

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 Aug 7min

Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language

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 Aug 5min

Karl Popper on the Open Society (1974)

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 Aug 5min

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

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 Aug 1h 17min

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