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Personal Identity and the Self
This is a pretty good introductory talk on personal identity and some of the philosophical issues that arise surrounding it. The lecturer is Patrick …
4 days, 18 hours ago
The Trolley Problem - Judith Jarvis Thomson (1978)
Audio recording of a few clips of Judith Jarvis Thomson discussing an early version of the famous "trolley problem" in a 1978 lecture on the right to…
4 days, 19 hours ago
Wittgenstein on the Mind - Norman Malcolm (1968)
Rare audio recording of a 1968 lecture by Norman Malcolm on Ludwig Wittgenstein's views about the nature of the mind. He explains why Wittgenstein re…
4 days, 19 hours ago
Susanne Langer on Man and Animal: The City and the Hive (1957)
Audio recording of a 1957 lecture by Susanne K. Langer at the Cooper Union Forum under the title "Man and Animal: The City and the Hive".
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4 days, 20 hours ago
What is Distinctive of Human Thought?
Descartes famously argued that animals were mere machines, without thought or consciousness. Few would now share this view. But if other animals have…
4 days, 21 hours ago
Is there Purpose in the Cosmos? (The Philosopher's Zone)
To many people, the notion that the universe has consciousness and purpose belongs back in the pre-scientific era. In this program, Philip Goff (Prof…
4 days, 22 hours ago
Ernest Nagel on Naturalism (1967)
Audio recording of a 1967 lecture by Ernest Nagel on philosophical naturalism at the Cooper Union Forum as part of a series on Forces in American Phi…
4 days, 23 hours ago
So You Think That There is a Mind-Independent Physical Reality...
A short but rather amusing clip of Dan Robinson discussing Berkeley's subjective idealism in a lecture on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and the Refu…
5 days ago
On Bullshit - Harry Frankfurt (2005)
A clip of Harry G. Frankfurt on C-SPAN discussing his 2005 book on bullshit. Among other things, he distinguishes bullshit from lying and suggests so…
5 days, 1 hour ago
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, Econom…
5 days, 2 hours ago