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Marx and Morality (Minerva)
Morality is often considered to be ahistorical. In this episode of the Minerva podcast, the focus is on Marx, who, following Hegel, disagrees with th…
10 hours ago
Aristotle's Ethics - Happiness, Pleasure, and Friendship (History of Philosophy)
Peter Adamson discusses Aristotle's ethics, focusing on the Nicomachean Ethics. Among other things, he discusses Aristotle's ideas about happiness, v…
11 hours ago
Norman Malcolm on Wittgenstein (1967)
Audio recording of a 1967 lecture by Norman Malcolm at the Cooper Union Forum on the thought of Ludwig Wittgenstein as part of a series on Forces in …
12 hours ago
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 Chαba…
13 hours ago
Prerequisites of Language Acquisition - Noam Chomsky (1964)
Noam Chomsky discusses language and the innate structures of the mind in a 1964 lecture at UC Berkeley and sponsored by the Philosophy Colloquium.
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14 hours ago
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 …
15 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…
15 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…
16 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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17 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…
18 hours ago