5 tips to improve your critical thinking - Samantha Agoos

source: TED-Ed    2016年3月15日
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/5-tips-to-i...
Every day, a sea of decisions stretches before us, and it’s impossible to make a perfect choice every time. But there are many ways to improve our chances — and one particularly effective technique is critical thinking. Samantha Agoos describes a 5-step process that may help you with any number of problems.
Lesson by Samantha Agoos, animation by Nick Hilditch.

Mike MacDonald & Jilly Gagnon: "Choose Your Own Misery" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google  2016年2月3日
Mike MacDonald and Jilly Gagnon visited Google's office in Cambridge, MA to discuss their book "Choose Your Own Misery: The Office Adventure".

The book applies the choose-your-own-adventure formula to the soul-crushing daily work routine of one hungover office worker. We see that, while choosing your own adventure may be great when you're young, in the adult world, the only options available are endless varieties of misery.

Mike MacDonald spent four years as a contributing writer with America's Finest News Source, The Onion while simultaneously working as a journalist at Canada's largest newspaper chain. Jilly Gagnon has written humor, news, essays, and op-ed pieces for Newsweek, Elle, Vanity Fair, The Huffington Post, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, The Onion, The Toast, and The Dig.

The Case for a Universal Basic Income

source: The RSA   2016年2月2日
Public debate about the possibility and desirability of a basic income - a weekly payment for every citizen – is gathering pace. Is it feasible? Should we do it? With the RSA's research into the idea for the past year Anthony Painter, the RSA’s Director of Policy and Strategy, and a panel of experts present their thinking.
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Dan Savage & Esther Perel: "Love, Marriage & Monogamy" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google   2016年2月4日
Googler Logan Ury talks to author and sex advice columnist Dan Savage, as well as "Mating In Captivity" author Esther Perel, in the fifth of our Modern Romance talks. They discuss infidelity, new models for marriage, abstinence-only sex education, and monogamy.
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Alenka Zupančič. Friedrich Nietzsche and The Eternal Return. 2011

source: European Graduate School    2013年2月17日
http://www.egs.edu/ Alenka Zupancic, Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst, discusses nihilism, Friedrich Nietzsche, the eternal return, the demon in The Gay Science, Choderlos de Laclos The Dangerous Liaisons, Ray Brassier Nihil Unbound, meaning, morals, and morality. This is the tenth lecture of Zupančič's 2011 summer course at the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2011 Alenka Zupancic.

Rick Roderick on Hegel and Modern Life [full length]

source: The Partially Examined Life     2012年8月25日
This video is 5th in the 8-part lecture series Philosophy and Human Values (1990).
Thanks to rickroderick.org for making this available. I'm merely interested in redistributing to anyone who might enjoy and benefit.

I. Hegel was conservative.
A. The culmination of this long historical process is that history proper came to an end.
B. Right wing Hegelians took Hegel to be fundamentally right and therefore applied his method over and over.
C. To left wing Hegelians such as Marx Hegel's is a classic text but has an ambiguous legacy.

II. Marx criticized capitalism.
A. A criticism of capitalism is a criticism of Hegel because for Hegel, capitalism coupled with liberal democracy is the highest achievement of humanity.
B. The democratic state is in contradiction with the imperatives of the capitalist economy.
1. We are used to these contradiction in our current society. This was not true in Marx's time.
2. The secret of capitalism is the shift in identity from what you are in a society to what you own or have.
C. Marx identified several effects of capitalism.
1. It reduces human needs to those which can be bought and sold in the market place.
2. It produces from nature more technological abilities than in all of history.
3. These come into contradiction because of the imperative of the economy to make a profit and to fulfill nil these new needs.

III. Marx's ideology:
A. If you really want to know how someone thinks, look at their surroundings. This outlook, "materialism," criticized ideas by examining.
B. Moral or philosophical clilemnas must be understood in terms of being different for different classes.
C. There is a difference between a theoretical approach and an approach rooted in daily life.
D. You must not let your life be reduced to poverty or work.
E. Before moral problems arise, there are preconditions for human life that have to be fulfilled such as food, shelter, health care and freedom to pursue other goals besides work.

TPP2014 : Judith Butler, When gesture becomes event

source: Labo LAPS   ㄩ2014年10月11日
Plenary Lecture
Friday, June 27th – Amphitheater Richelieu (Sorbonne University)
Keynote: Judith Butler (University of California at Berkeley)
When gesture becomes event
Chair: Julien Alliot, Flore Garcin-Marrou, Liza Kharoubi, Anna Street (Université Paris-Sorbonne)
Respondent: Freddie Rokem (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Theater Performance Philosophy – International Conference / June 26-28, 2014
Crossings and Transfers in Contemporary Anglo-American Thought

Organized by Flore Garcin-Marrou, Anna Street, Julien Alliot and Liza Kharoubi as members of the Laboratory of the Arts and Philosophies of the Stage (http://labo-laps.com/), in partnership with the University of Paris-Sorbonne and their research laboratories PRITEPS and VALE, along with CERILAC of the University of Paris-Diderot, ICTT of the University of Avignon, CIEPFC of ENS Ulm and HARp of the University of Paris-Ouest, with the financial support of the City of Paris, the Institut des Amériques and the international network Performance Philosophy.

Democracy and Representation, a talk by Gayatri C. Spivak

Democracy and Representation, a talk by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak from Media, Culture, Communication on Vimeo.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak addresses the problem of political representation amid the forces of international democracy through a discussion of Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected leader of postcolonial Congo, who was assassinated by Belgian forces not long thereafter. Spivak proposes a new epistemology for engaging the contemporary by working through the inter-animation between postcoloniality and democracy.
Hosted by the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, with additional funding from the NYU Africana Studies Program, the Comparative Literature Department, and the Anglophone Project in the English Department.
Spivak is a literary theorist, philosopher, and University Professor at Columbia University, where she is a founding member of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. Her essay "Can the Subaltern Speak?" is considered a founding text of postcolonialism. In 2012 she was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy for being "a critical theorist and educator speaking for the humanities against intellectual colonialism in relation to the globalized world." She received the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award given by the Republic of India, in 2013.