Hannah Arendt on Ideology (1968)
A short clip of Hannah Arendt discussing ideology and the role it played in the totalitarian regimes of the 20th century. This comes from the Q&A section of a lecture on power and violence given at Ba...
27 Aug 5min
Cavell and Skepticism - Hilary Putnam (2005)
A clip of Hilary Putnam discussing philosophical skepticism and the work of Stanley Cavell which comes from a 2005 conference celebrating the work of Hilary Putnam at the ENS (École Normale Supérieure...
27 Aug 9min
Justice for Hedgehogs - Ronald Dworkin (2011)
Audio recording of a lecture by Ronald M. Dworkin on his book "Justice for Hedgehogs" at the Carnegie Council in 2011. The title is a reference to the Ancient Greek poet Archilochus who wrote that "th...
27 Aug 41min
6 Concepts, Judgment and Deduction of the Categories - Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (Dan Robinson)
Dan Robinson gives the 6th lecture in a series of 8 on Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Empiricists have no explanation for how we move from "mere forms of thought" to objective concepts. The ...
27 Aug 54min
Nationhood - Kwame Anthony Appiah (2016)
Audio recording of a 2016 lecture by the philosopher and cultural theorist Kwame Anthony Appiah as part of his Reith Lectures on Mistaken Identities. He argues against a mythical, romantic view of nat...
27 Aug 1h 13min
Identity and the Mind - Raymond Tallis (2007)
Raymond Tallis discusses the nature of the self or personal identity in a 2007 talk at the University of Cambridge as part of a series of public lectures on the notion of identity. More on personal id...
26 Aug 1h 7min
6 Romanticism - The Lasting Effects (Isaiah Berlin 1965)
Isaiah Berlin gives the 6th and final 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 Roma...
26 Aug 1h 36min
Foundations of Liberal Equality 1 - Ronald Dworkin (1988)
Audio recording of a lecture by Ronald M. Dworkin as part of his 1988 Tanner lectures on human values at Stanford University on the foundations of liberalism. This was the first of his Tanner lectures...
26 Aug 1h 51min
