Philosophy Overdose

In On the Genealogy of Morality, Nietzsche formulates a critique of moral values that is grounded in their psychological history. The phenomenon of ressentiment plays a central role in this critique. Yet, precisely what sort of psychological state ressentiment is, what it reveals about human psychology, and why it is well suited to affect beliefs about value, remain sources of considerable perplexity. In the lecture, Bernard Reginster sketches out some new answers to these questions.

Uploaded 14-07-21

This talk was given by Bernard Reginster (Brown University) in 2017 at Amherst College.

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In this clip, Ray Monk, Barry Smith, and Marie McGinn discuss the early Wittgenstein's thought in regards to the famous last proposition of the Tractatus: "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent." This clip comes from an episode of the podcast In Our Time a few years back. For more information and the full episode, go to: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0054945

Uploaded 15-06-21

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We suffer from genealogical anxiety when we worry that the contingent origins of our representations, once revealed, will somehow undermine or cast doubt on those representations. Is such anxiety ever rational? Many have apparently thought so, from pre-Socratic critics of Greek theology to contemporary evolutionary debunkers of morality. One strategy for vindicating critical genealogies is to see them as undermining the epistemic standing of our representations—the justification of our beliefs, the aptness of our concepts, and so on. In this talk, Amia Srinivasan argues that this strategy is not as promising as it might first seem. Instead, she su...

Another re-upload of something that I put together awhile ago about Isaiah Berlin's famous distinction between the notion of positive versus negative liberty, and the related liberal conception of freedom.

Uploaded 03-06-21

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The full interview can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U23Ho0m_Sv0

Uploaded 03-06-21

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Russ Shafer-Landau explains the Euthyphro Dilemma and why it presents a serious problem to Divine Command Theory. This comes from a talk on objective morality without God: https://youtu.be/50CQwa15R7A

Uploaded 03-04-26

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Catherine Elgin discusses fallibilism in a 2016 lecture at the University of Edinburgh. Elgin's talk "True Enough": https://youtu.be/P5pKJGXuCNE

Uploaded 24-07-25

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Robert Harrison and Adrian Daub discuss Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and his heirs a few years back in an episode of Entitled Opinions, a KZSU Stanford University program. http://french-italian.stanford.edu/op...

Uploaded 28-06-21

Hegel was one of the most important and influential 19th century German philosophers, best known for his dialectic, absolute idealism, and historicism, among various other things. The Hegelian dialectic is the process in which everything changes, based on the triad: thesis-antithesis-synthesis. Hegel's idealism rejected the Kantian notion of the thing-in-itself and instead embraced a monistic vision of the world...

In this second lecture in this series on the nature of causation, Marianne Talbot discusses the counterfactual theory of causation.

Uploaded 23-09-21

We have causal theories of reference, perception, knowledge, content and numerous other things. If it were to turn out that causation doesn’t exist, we would be in serious trouble! Causation is so important in fact that it has been said that: “With regard to our total conceptual apparatus, causation is the centre of the centre”, and it has been called ‘the cement of the universe’. In these lectures you will be introduced...

In this fifth lecture, James Conant continues to discuss and contrast Cartesian skepticism with Kantian skepticism, and does so by discussing the work of Hilary Putnam and John McDowell.

Uploaded 02-07-21

In this series of lectures on varieties of philosophical skepticism, James Conant distinguishes between two forms of philosophical skepticism: Cartesian skepticism and Kantian skepticism. He discusses their general structure and shows how they're related. This sheds light on issues in various different areas, including within the philosophy of perception, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language. Some of the philosophers discussed throughout this...

Audio recording of a public lecture by professor Ernest Nagel on the nature of creativity, particularly in connection with science. This talk was given at the Cooper Union Forum in 1968.

Uploaded 11-12-25

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Gadamer discusses Hegel in regards to Geist, art, and reason. The translation is my own, but take it with a grain of salt. In any case, this is a version of an upload from the previous channel. Details will be added at a later date.

Uploaded 18-07-21

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Dr. Walter Kaufmann gives the first talk in a 1960 series on existentialism. He begins by discussing what he takes existentialism to be and then goes on to discuss the life and thought of Søren Kierkegaard, particularly in relation to the modern crisis of religion. In the next talk, he discusses Nietzsche and the crisis in philosophy, and then Sartre and the crisis in morality. This comes from a 1960 series on existentialism which is now in the public domain. Note, the audio has been edited and improved.

Uploaded 05-08-21

Existentialists take human existence and t...

In this program, Bill Moyers interviews philosopher and educator Mortimer Adler about his book on Aristotle and his process of interpreting great Greek philosophers’ work into modern day language.

Uploaded 27-02-24

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Professor Raimond Gaita gives the first talk in a series on 'Prejudice, Reason and Understanding' at the Australian National University as part of the Freilich Foundation's Eminent Lecturer Series back in 2013.

Uploaded 27-04-25

Some years ago, Mirko Bagaric, then Professor and Dean of Law at Deakin University in Melbourne, published in the Age an opinion piece in which he argued that we should torture people in certain circumstances if doing so would save many lives. His article provoked incredulity amongst some people: what had seemed to them to be undiscussable and which they believed...

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 beings matters more. In this lecture, Christine Korsgaard begins by arguing that the trouble with this claim is not so much that it is false, as that it makes almost no sense at all. The difficulty rests in the fact that everything that is important must be important to someone. A defense of this claim requires nothing less than a theory of why there...

Audio recording of a lecture given by the English philosopher Antony Flew on voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide at the Australian National University back in 1980.

Uploaded 30-03-25

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Professor Emma Borg gives the first lecture in a series on "Reasons for Action" as part of the 2024 Frege Lectures in theoretical philosophy at the University of Tartu.

Uploaded 08-04-25

Do people generally do what they do on the basis of the reasons they have for acting? The standard philosophical answer - common-sense psychology or folk psychology - says yes. But recently the idea that humans are generally rational, reasons-responsive beings has come under considerable pressure, as a number of empirical findings (often in the fields of social, comparative, and developmental psychology) seem to...

Audio recording of a 1966 lecture by Ernest Nagel on knowledge and cognitive meaning at the Cooper Union Forum in a series on Philosophy for Modern Man. Note, the last minute or so of the lecture is missing.

Uploaded 27-05-24

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Audio recording of a 1966 lecture by Brand Blanshard on reason and ethics given at Wheaton College (Massachusetts).

Uploaded 27-06-25

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Audio recording of the first of two lectures by Ken Gemes on Nietzsche. In this first talk, Ken Gemes introduces Nietzsche as the philosopher of the death of God. Nietzsche claims that we have not yet fully understood the ramifications of the modern rejection of belief in God. Giving up the belief in God undermines all our values, though many cling to those values in the absence of God or of any other justificatory basis for those values. When we truly appreciate the meaning of the death of God, we will, says Nietzsche, lapse into nihilism; the inability to...

Anita Avramides (University of Oxford) gives a talk in 2023 as part of the Aristotelian Society. Anita Avramides is currently a Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford. Her work is in the philosophy of mind and of language. In the last few years, she has published mainly on the problem of other minds. For more information about the Aristotelian Society, go to: https://www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk

Uploaded 30-12-23

00:00 Introduction
03:52 Knowing-That and Knowing-What
10:44 From Cassam to Dretske
19:29 Epistemic Closure
25:39 Back to Cassam
32:38 Stanley Ca...

Dan Robinson gives the 4th lecture in a series of 8 on Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Kant claims that, "our sense representation is not a representation of things in themselves, but of the way in which they appear to us. Hence it follows that the propositions of geometry... cannot be referred with the assurance to actual objects; but rather that they are necessarily valid of space... [and] space is nothing else than the form of all external appearances". [Prolegomena 286-287]

Uploaded 05-06-21

This series looks at German Philosopher Immanuel Kant's seminal philosophical work...

Professor Emma Borg gives the second lecture in a series on "Reasons for Action" as part of the 2024 Frege Lectures in theoretical philosophy at the University of Tartu.

Uploaded 08-04-25

Do people generally do what they do on the basis of the reasons they have for acting? The standard philosophical answer - common-sense psychology or folk psychology - says yes. But recently the idea that humans are generally rational, reasons-responsive beings has come under considerable pressure, as a number of empirical findings (often in the fields of social, comparative, and developmental psychology) seem to...

Audio recording of a lecture given by professor Herbert Feigl on free will and science at Coffman Union in 1963 at the University of Minnesota. After introducing the traditional problem of free will, he goes on to discuss how determinism and indeterminism fit into our conception of science. He then goes on to argue that free will is not only consistent with determinism, but it seems to presuppose it. He thereby tries to dissolve the traditional issue by showing the underlying compatibility between free will and that of causal determinism.

Uploaded 12-01-25

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In this sixth lecture, James Conant continues to discuss the Kantian problematic, and does so by discussing the work of John McDowell. He particularly focuses on the case of perception and then of action and intentions. In the case of perception, the problem involves avoiding the myth of the Given without thereby falling into an empty kind of coherentism or idealism.

Uploaded 03-07-21

In this series of lectures on varieties of philosophical skepticism, James Conant distinguishes between two forms of philosophical skepticism: Cartesian skepticism and Kantian skepticism. He discusses their general structure and shows...

A clip of Professor James Rachels presenting a version of his "basic argument for vegetarianism" in the context of why Raymond Frey should be a vegetarian by his own principles. This comes from a 1991 lecture on Darwin and animal ethics at Georgetown University. The full video can be found here: https://youtu.be/NBjOqexaFys

Uploaded 30-09-24

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Professor J.M. Bernstein introduces Hegel and discusses his initial moves and philosophical project, including the departure from Kant and Kantianism. This is the first lecture in his 2007 course on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, known as "the Bernstein Tapes". Note, the audio has been heavily edited and improved (especially the first 45 minutes or so). The reason for this was simply to make it easier to listen to and thus to appreciate these great lectures.

Uploaded 27-08-21

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A brief introductory clip about Aristotle's ethics. It comes from the series on great ideas of philosophy.

Uploaded 07-04-24

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A clip of Iris Murdoch discussing the similarities and differences between literature and philosophy in an interview with Bryan Magee from 1977 that I quite like. This is a re-upload from the previous channel. The full interview can be found here: https://youtu.be/3tbr5Y7iLwY

Uploaded 23-07-21

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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 "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." Ronald Dworkin argues for one big thing: the unity of value.

Uploaded 13-09-25

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Professor Dan Robinson gives the third in a series of 8 lectures on Thomas Reid's critique of David Hume at Oxford in 2014. Causality arises from a habit of the mind formed by repeated experiences. “There is nothing in any objects to persuade us, that they are either always remote or always contiguous; and when from experience and observation we discover, that their relation in this particular is invariable, we, always conclude there is some secret cause, which separates or unites them…”

Uploaded 19-06-21

Under “David Hume”, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy begins with, “The most important ph...

We are all familiar with the notion that time passes, but what does this mean? In this talk, Dr Simon Prosser argues that time does not pass. He begins by outlining some philosophical theories of temporal passage (A-theories of time, including presentism and the growing block view), along with a class of theories according to which time does not objectively pass (the B-theory of time, what's called eternalism or the block universe). He then goes over traditional problems for the notion of passage, including McTaggart's argument, the issue of the rate of passage, and the argument that passage is...

Donald Davidson discusses his views on epistemology and perception with Michael Martin. Among other things, he discusses the traditional definition of knowledge as justified true belief, coherentism about truth and knowledge, John McDowell's criticism, the notion of qualia, his rejection of any epistemic intermediary between the world and our beliefs about it, how he can account for perceptual illusions and hallucinations, and his own externalist account of perceptual beliefs and how they are justified.

Uploaded 11-07-21

This is from Philosophy International 1997. It is also a re-upload.

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Professor John Searle considers the issue of whether a digital computer can think, presenting his famous Chinese Room thought experiment. This comes from John Searle's 1984 BBC Reith lectures on Minds, Brains and Science which can be found here: https://youtu.be/bij0psFO9tY

Uploaded 21-09-21

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A very short clip of Isaiah Berlin in conversation with Bryan Magee. This is from a 1977 program on philosophy. The full interview can be found here: https://youtu.be/RDgw6ydB6lU

Uploaded 03-06-21

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Audio recording of a 1962 lecture given by professor Ernest Nagel at Yale on the current issues in the philosophy of science.

Uploaded 01-01-25

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Leo Rauch gives a lecture on Existentialism and Heidegger in 1967 at the Cooper Union Forum as part of a series on Forces in American Philosophy.

Uploaded 09-07-24

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A news segment on Deep Blue's victory over world champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, which features commentary from both Daniel Dennett and Hubert Dreyfus on the possible significance for our understanding of artificial intelligence and ourselves as rational, conscious, intelligent beings.

Uploaded 24-12-24

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Audio recording of a 1994 lecture by Michael Dummett on Frege and the philosophy of mathematics at the LSE on the occasion of his Lakatos Award for an outstanding contribution to the philosophy of science.

Uploaded 03-06-21

For a good intro to the philosophy of mathematics, check out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhX1ouUjDHE and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyXWnGFKTkg

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