Theories of Welfare - Ethics and Society Course
The nature of well-being is discussed in this introductory lecture from a 2023 course on Ethics and Society by Professor Samuel Zincke Elgin at UCSD, the University of California (UC San Diego). #phil...
26 Aug 1h 7min
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...
26 Aug 1h 5min
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...
25 Aug 7min
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...
25 Aug 5min
The Afterlife: How People Who Don’t Yet Exist Matter More to Us than People Who Do
Samuel Scheffler (University Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University) delivers the first of his 2012 Tanner lectures at Berkeley with commentary from Susan R. Wolf (Edna J. Koury Profes...
25 Aug 2h 5min
Perception, Abstraction and Idealism - General Philosophy (Peter Millican)
In this lecture on General Philosophy, Professor Peter Millican discusses the problem of perception, the distinction between primary and secondary qualities, resemblance, abstraction, and idealism. Th...
25 Aug 1h 9min
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 ...
25 Aug 4min
Animal Selves and the Good - Christine Korsgaard (2016)
A common defense of the various and sometimes cruel ways in which human beings use the other animals is that human beings are just more important than the other animals are: what happens to human bein...
25 Aug 1h 45min
