Introduction to Ethics

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 11-07-21This is from Philosophy International 1997. It is also a re-upload. #philosophy #epistemology #perception #skepticism #philosophyofmind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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/bij0psFO9tYUploaded 21-09-21#philosophy #philosophyofmind #artificialintelligence #searle #mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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/RDgw6ydB6lUUploaded 03-06-21#philosophy #isaiahberlin #bryanmagee #historyofphilosophy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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#philosophy #science #philosophyofscience #epistemology Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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#philosophy #existentialism #heidegger #sartre #historyofphilosophy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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#philosophy #artificialintelligence #dennett #chess #consciousness #debate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 03-06-21For 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#philosophy #epistemology #mathematics #frege #kant #historyofphilosophy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Audio recording of a short clip of Thomas Kuhn talking about his famous book 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions'. This is an excerpt from: "an intellectual autobiography in the form of an interview, conducted by Aristides Baltas, Kostas Gavroglu, and Vassiliki Kindi in Athens in the fall of 1995" (Kuhn, The Road since Structure, ed. James Conant and John Haugeland, University of Chicago, 2000).Uploaded 24-06-21#philosophy #philosophyofscience #kuhn #science #historyofphilosophy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is an introductory program on ethics. It comes from the series on great ideas of philosophy a number of years back. Uploaded 03-03-24#philosophy #ethics #moralphilosophy #utilitarianism Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is from an episode of the podcast Philosopher's Zone from a few years back. For more about the Philosopher's Zone: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszone/ Uploaded 15-06-21#philosophy #isaiahberlin #freedom #kant #determinism #causality #freewill #historyofphilosophy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices