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A collection of public and academic philosophy videos, mostly analytic philosophy but occasionally continental philosophy too. The channel looks for thought-provoking lectures and interviews, particularly what is rare and involves famous figures. There is occasionally an attempt at translation as well, especially that of German and French.

Nothing here is monetized, the channel is wholly non-commercial. Everything here is for the purpose of education and spreading around good philosophy content. If there's any problem, let me know, and I can take it down.

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Yesterday · 6 min
Beginning of 'The Absurd' by Thomas Nagel
A reading of the beginning of Thomas Nagel's 1971 article "The Absurd", which I've always quite liked. Uploaded 01-12-24 #philosophy #existentialism #ethics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Yesterday · 58 min
Free Will - General Philosophy (Peter Millican)
In this lecture on General Philosophy, Professor Peter Millican discusses free will and the problem of moral responsibility. This comes from a 2010 series on General Philosophy. The slides have been added. Uploaded 08-06-21 This series of lectures was delivered by Peter Millican to first-year philosophy students at the University of Oxford. The lectures comprise of the 8-week General Philosophy course, delivered to first year undergraduates. These lectures aim to provide a thorough introduction to many philosophical topics and to get students and others interested in thinking about key areas of philosophy. Taking a chronological view of the history of philosophy, each lecture is split into 3 or 4 sections which outline a particular philosophical problem and how different philosophers have attempted to resolve the issue. Individuals interested in the 'big' questions about life such as how we perceive the world, who we are in the world and whether we are free to act will find this series informative, comprehensive and accessible. More lectures on General Philosophy: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE_xo2wvkm6qPZrUlAiRNHXb Source: https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/general-philosophy #philosophy #freewill #determinism #causality #causation #mind #metaphysics #psychology Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Yesterday · 1 hr 8 min
John Searle Interview on Perception and Philosophy of Mind
One of America’s most prominent philosophers says his field has been tilting at windmills for nearly 400 years. Representationalism (or indirect realism)---the idea that we don’t directly perceive external objects in the world, but only our own inner mental images or representations of objects---has bedeviled philosophy ever since Descartes, and now is mucking up neuroscience as well, John Searle alleges. He has long defended the “naive” alternative that our senses do actually give us direct access to external reality, and he fires his latest salvo in his new book “Seeing Things as They Are: A Theory of Perception”. John is well-known for his no nonsense approach to philosophical problems, and there was plenty of straight talk here as he discussed his theory of perception, the subjective-objective divide, the scientific study of consciousness, and his dog Tarski. Uploaded 26-06-21 This interview was given a few years back by Robert Pollie which I quite like from a podcast called the 7th Avenue Project: www.7thavenueproject.com. #philosophy #epistemology #philosophyofmind #perception #consciousness #skepticism #mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Yesterday · 55 min
6 Reid on Personal Identity - Reid's Critique of Hume (Dan Robinson)
Professor Dan Robinson gives the sixth in a series of 8 lectures on Thomas Reid's critique of David Hume at Oxford in 2014. In the third of his Essays on The Intellectual Powers of Man, Reid devotes the fourth chapter to the concept of 'identity', and the sixth chapter to Locke's theory of 'personal identity'. This latter chapter is widely regarded as a definitive refutation of the thesis that personal identity is no more than memories of a certain sort, less a “bundle of perceptions”. As he says, “This conviction of one’s own identity is utterly necessary for all exercise of reason. The operations of reason—whether practical reasoning about what to do or speculative reasoning in the building up of a theory—are made up of successive parts. In any reasoning that I perform, the early parts are the foundation of the later ones, and if I didn’t have the conviction that the early parts are propositions that I have approved or written down, I would have no reason to proceed to the later parts in any theoretical or practical project whatever”. Uploaded 19-06-21 Under “David Hume”, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy begins with, “The most important philosopher ever to write in English”. His most formidable contemporary critic was the fellow Scot, Thomas Reid, the major architect of so-called Scottish Common Sense Philosophy. The most significant features of Hume’s work, as understood by Reid, are the representive theory of perception, the nature of causation and causal concepts, the nature of personal identity and the foundations of morality. Each of these topics is presented in a pair of lectures, the first summarizing Hume’s position and the second Reid’s critique of that position. All Lectures: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE9nki7CXFPi7PMOi5W2g2-q #philosophy #davidhume #personalidentity #skepticism #historyofphilosophy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Yesterday · 47 min
Political Philosophy and John Rawls
Audio recording of a lecture by Jonathan Wolff on John Rawls' political philosophy. After discussing the detrimental influence of logical positivism on ethical and political discourse, Jonathan Wolff goes on to explain John Rawls' famous contractarian conception of justice. Rawls' argument takes the form of a thought experiment involving a hypothetical contract in which people are made ignorant about certain facts about themselves which could bias them in their own favor (e.g. their race, gender, class, age, talents, etc.). In this way, ignorance is used as a way to guarantee impartiality in deciding how societies should be set up. After all, one cannot rig things up to benefit oneself if one doesn't know what one's interests are or what one's position in society will be. Rawls argued that people behind this so-called "veil of ignorance" would agree to two principles of justice: the liberty principle and the difference principle. Jonathan Wolf explains these principles and the main arguments for and against them. (My Summary) Uploaded 06-06-21 Note, this is re-upload. More details about this talk will be added at a later date. More Political Philosophy: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE_O1dkCOqsUke_0QUkX80A- #philosophy #politicalphilosophy #rawls #johnrawls #politicaltheory #historyofphilosophy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Yesterday · 4 min
The Loss of Absolute Authority - Hannah Arendt (1972)
Hannah Arendt believed that the will of the totalitarian ruler occupied the place left vacant by the absolute authority over the world attributed to God during the Middle Ages. With the collapse of the divinely ordained Kingships and the authority exercised by the Catholic church in the name of God, what would replace the authority of God in the world? How would such authority be constituted, who would act in its name, and what rules would it follow? Arendt believed that these questions missed the point. She welcomed the disappearance of absolute authority from the world in the name of the plurality of citizens whose power could now come forward. Only the power created by the collective decisions of citizens coming together to act on matters of public interest could establish a valid and just authority. Of course, this meant that there could be no return to the stability of the past. But it also meant that, as citizens, we assume responsibility ourselves for what happens in the world. Uploaded 29-04-25 These clips come from a 1972 conference on Arendt's work at York University. #philosophy #hannaharendt #politicaltheory #totalitarianism #authority Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Yesterday · 10 min
Gadamer on Hegel: Self-Consciousness
Gadamer discusses Hegel's account of self-consciousness. Among other things, he touches on Hegel's master-slave dialectic. The translation is my own. Uploaded 18-07-21 More Gadamer: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE_MbPzGOh27qfdqiCaf7Uot More Short Clips: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE8v8UVlc7JuuNHwvhkaOvzc #philosophy #gadamer #hegel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Yesterday · 4 min
Isaiah Berlin on Freedom (1962)
A short clip of Isaiah Berlin discussing freedom, touching on his famous distinction between negative and positive freedom. Uploaded 10-07-21 Isaiah Berlin interview on freedom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSBf5LJ0hnc Isaiah Berlin interview on liberalism and pluralism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxn55CXTgKo #philosophy #isaiahberlin #politicalphilosophy #freedom Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Yesterday · 56 min
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). Uploaded 28-12-25 #philosophy #ethics #moralphilosophy #utilitarianism #hedonism Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Yesterday · 5 min
Concepts vs Percepts (Ray Monk)
A short, somewhat random clip of Ray Monk discussing the distinction between concepts and percepts (or "intuitions" in the Kantian jargon), as well as some of the possible implications for modern science and beyond. More Short Clips: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE8v8UVlc7JuuNHwvhkaOvzc Uploaded 21-06-21 This is from a talk given by Ray Monk a few years back on the philosophical landscape of 1905, which can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yfwFoVlcMk #philosophy #epistemology #kant #historyofphilosophy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Yesterday · 47 min
Social Equality and the Problem of Hierarchy (Jonathan Wolff)
Audio recording of a lecture by Professor Jonathan Wolff (University of Oxford) on Equality and Hierarchy in 2018 as part of the Aristotelian Society lectures. For more information about the Aristotelian Society: www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk Uploaded 21-07-21 #philosophy #politicalphilosophy #politicaltheory #ethics #moralphilosophy #socialequality #historyofphilosophy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Yesterday · 1 hr 11 min
The Supremacy of Method - Ernest Nagel (1973)
Audio recording of a 1973 lecture by Ernest Nagel on the supremacy of method at Columbia University. Uploaded 19-03-26 #philosophy #science #epistemology #philosophyofscience #skepticism #relativism #historyofphilosophy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Yesterday · 10 min
Chomsky on the "Limits" of Knowledge (1977)
A few clips of Noam Chomsky discussing the limits of knowledge and thought in a 1977 interview with Bryan Magee, and sounding like a dyed-in-the-wool Kantian in the process. This is a version of an upload from the previous channel. The full interview can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxvSQnmcYLo Uploaded 30-06-21 Chomsky-Foucault Debate on Justice and Human Nature: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpVQ3l5P0A4 #Philosophy #Chomsky #BryanMagee Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Yesterday · 29 min
Quine on the Limits of Knowledge (1973)
Audio recording of a 1973 lecture by Willard Van Orman Quine on the question of whether there are any limits to knowledge. Note, this is reupload. More details will be added later. Uploaded 04-07-21 #philosophy #epistemology #quine #philosophyofscience #historyofphilosophy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Yesterday · 43 min
8 The Paralogisms and Antinomies of Pure Reason - Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (Dan Robinson)
Dan Robinson gives the final lecture in a series of 8 on Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Reason, properly disciplined, draws permissible inferences from the resulting concepts of the understanding. The outcome is knowledge. When rightly employed, the perceptual and cognitive powers match up the right way with the real world and ground the knowledge-claims of the developed sciences. However, there is a strong tendency to stretch these processes beyond the permissible boundaries and seek what Kant refers to as "transcendental ideas" that go beyond the realm of actual or possible experience. Uploaded 05-06-21 This series looks at German Philosopher Immanuel Kant's seminal philosophical work 'The Critique of Pure Reason'. The lectures aim to outline and discuss some of the key philosophical issues raised in the book and to offer students and individuals thought provoking Kantian ideas surrounding metaphysics. Each lecture looks at particular questions raised in the work such as how do we know what we know and how do we find out about the world, dissects these questions with reference to Kant's work and discusses the broader philosophical implications. Anyone with an interest in Kant and philosophy will find these lectures thought provoking but accessible. This is series of lectures was given in 2011 at Oxford. Note, the audio has improved. All 8 lectures: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE_OdgqNgL0AJX9-gwr4tmLw #philosophy #kant #epistemology #metaphysics #skepticism #historyofphilosophy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Yesterday · 14 min
On Anger
A clip of Martha Nussbaum discussing the nature of anger and her radical view that anger is always normatively flawed. This comes from a lecture Martha Nussbaum gave on anger back in 2013 at the University of Chicago. Uploaded 19-04-25 #philosophy #anger #psychology #emotions #ethics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Yesterday · 5 min
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 Uploaded 16-06-21 #philosophy #karlpopper #politicaltheory #politicalphilosophy #opensociety Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Yesterday · 58 min
The Evolution of "Why" as the Key to Free Will - Daniel Dennett
Professor Daniel Dennett gives a public lecture on evolution and free will at Stanford University in 2009. Uploaded 05-01-25 #philosophy #freewill #dennett #darwin #causality #materialism #philosophyofmind #causation #mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Yesterday · 50 min
2 The Broader Philosophical Context - Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (Dan Robinson)
Dan Robinson gives the 2nd lecture in a series of 8 on Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. The significant advances in physics in the 17th century stood in vivid contrast to the stagnation of traditional metaphysics, but why should metaphysics be conceived as a "science" in the first place? Uploaded 04-06-21 This series looks at German Philosopher Immanuel Kant's seminal philosophical work 'The Critique of Pure Reason'. The lectures aim to outline and discuss some of the key philosophical issues raised in the book and to offer students and individuals thought provoking Kantian ideas surrounding metaphysics. Each lecture looks at particular questions raised in the work such as how do we know what we know and how do we find out about the world, dissects these questions with reference to Kant's work and discusses the broader philosophical implications. Anyone with an interest in Kant and philosophy will find these lectures thought provoking but accessible. This is series of lectures was given in 2011 at Oxford. Note, the audio has been improved. All 8 lectures: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE_OdgqNgL0AJX9-gwr4tmLw #philosophy #kant #epistemology #metaphysics #skepticism #empiricism #historyofphilosophy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Yesterday · 33 min
What Justifies the State?
An episode from the 1998 Εxαmined Life series. Uploaded 14-11-25 #philosophy #politicalphilosophy #politicaltheory #historyofphilosophy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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