lectures/ideas: 03/25/16

2016-03-25

Ancient Philosophy: Epicurus and the Epicurean Tradition by Gregory B. Sadler

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source: Gregory B. Sadler 2015年6月22日/ 上次更新：2015年7月28日
This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.

This video focuses on Epicurus' works, and discusses his conception of practical reasoning, involving prudential determination of the values of pleasures and pains against each other.
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Philosophy Core Concepts: Epicurus on Practical Reasoning 14:25
Philosophy Core Concepts: Pleasure, Prudence, and Justice 11:11
Philosophy Core Concepts: Epicurus on Justice 11:58
Philosophy Core Concepts: Epicurus on Two Sources of Groundless Fears 12:53
Philosophy Core Concepts: Epicurus on Mental and Bodily Pleasures 16:23
Philosophy Core Concepts: Epicurus on Moving and Static Pleasures 10:04
Philosophy Core Concepts: Epicurus on Three Types of Desires 21:03
Philosophy Core Concepts: Epicurus on Friendship 13:44

The invisible motion of still objects - Ran Tivony

source: TED-Ed 2016年3月24日
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-invisib...
Many of the inanimate objects around you probably seem perfectly still. But look deep into the atomic structure of any of them, and you’ll see a world in constant flux — with stretching, contracting, springing, jittering, drifting atoms everywhere. Ran Tivony describes how and why molecular movement occurs and investigates if it might ever stop.
Lesson by Ran Tivony, animation by Zedem Media.

Slavoj Žižek. Markets without Substance. 2003

source: European Graduate School 2016年3月23日
http://www.egs.edu/ Slavoj Žižek, Professor of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis at The European Graduate School / EGS. describes how every product creates its counter agent within our societies. Slavoj Žižek Free public open lecture for the students of the Division of Philosophy, Art & Critical Thought at the European Graduate School EGS, Saas-Fee, Switzerland. 2003.

Slavoj Žižek (b. 1949) is a Slovenian-born philosopher and psychoanalyst. He is a professor of philosophy at The European Graduate School / EGS, a senior researcher at the Institute for Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, and founder and president of the Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis, Ljubljana. Aside from these appointments, Žižek tirelessly gives lectures around the globe and is often described as “the Elvis of cultural theory”. Although, more seriously, as British critical theorist Terry Eagleton confers, Žižek is the “most formidably brilliant” theorist to have emerged from Europe in decades. Many, in fact, now consider Žižek to be “the most dangerous philosopher in the West.”

Anthropology & Symbols by Nicholas Herriman

Leo Strauss - Hegel's Philosophy of History (1965)

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source: 2015年6月17日

Guy L. Steele Jr.: Four Solutions to a Trivial Problem

source: GoogleTechTalks 2016年1月28日
December 1, 2015
Presented by Guy L. Steele Jr.

ABSTRACT
We present a small but interesting geometrical problem and then examine four different computational approaches to solving it: a "classic sequential solution" and three different approaches that are amenable to parallel implementation, comparing them to highlight various advantages and disadvantages, including total work required and minimum time to solution. All four solutions are illustrated both pictorially and with working code. We argue that certain approaches work better than others if exploitation of parallelism is to be automated. There will also be at least one joke.
About the Speaker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_L._....

George Musser: "Spooky Action at a Distance" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google 2016年2月16日
Over the past few decades, physicists have discovered a phenomenon that operates outside the confines of space and time: nonlocality - the ability of two particles to act in harmony no matter how far apart they may be. Einstein grappled with this oddity and couldn't come to terms with it, describing it as "spooky action at a distance." More recently, the mystery has deepened as other forms of nonlocality have been uncovered. This strange occurrence, which has direct connections to black holes, particle collisions, and even the workings of gravity, holds the potential to undermine our most basic understandings of physical reality. If space isn't what we thought it was, then what is it?

In this talk "Spooky Action at a Distance: The Phenomenon That Reimagines Space and Time--and What It Means for Black Holes, the Big Bang, and Theories of Everything", George Musser sets out to answer that question, offering a provocative exploration of nonlocality and a celebration of the scientists who are trying to explain it. He traces the often contentious debates over nonlocality through major discoveries and disruptions of the twentieth century and shows how scientists faced with the same undisputed experimental evidence develop wildly different explanations for that evidence.

Alenka Zupancic. Nietzsche and Ethics. 2010

source: European Graduate School 2010年12月14日
http://www.egs.edu/ Alenka Zupancic, Slovenian philosopher and author, talking about ethics, Nietzsche, morals, and nihilism. In the lecture Alenka Zupancic discusses the concepts of biopolitics, ontology, Meillassoux, correlationism, in relationship to objectivity, knowledge, the death of God, affect, reason, discourse, focusing on politics, ideology, and culture. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2010 Alenka Zupancic.

Edward Said Memorial Conference - Gayatri Spivak: "A Borderless World?"

source: Centre for the Humanities Utrecht University 2013年10月22日
Keynote lecture by Prof. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: "A Borderless World?" at the Edward Said Memorial Conference, Utrecht, 16 April 2013.

What is this lecture about?
"What institutions of tertiary education in varieties of the metropole now have to think about is that globalization has introduced a kind of accessible contemporaneity to us, and placed us within it, which has not taken away, but rendered obsolete, the established ways of knowing the historical. Modernity/tradition methodologies, colonial/postcolonial methodologies remain appropriate in their own place, but are no longer useful to understand this new situation, which seems to lend itself more easily to a quantified, statisticalized, and, in a less rigorous way, simply arithmeticalized approach, democracy computed as supervised safe elections, epistemic claims without reality checks, going hand in hand with a collection of "global" curiosities as evidence.

Let us rather ask ourselves how we must change in response to this challenge to knowing, not how we can add more information and money to the spectacular alternative streams at the edges of disciplines. How can the mainstream of disciplines be rearranged so that we and our students learn to think differently, rather than separate rigorous history and method from the glamour of easy globality. Such challenges have come in history from time to time and intellectual historians as well as students of the history of consciousness have told us after the fact how these changes happened. To that extent, we too must give ourselves over to what we call the future anterior, what will have happened in spite of our best efforts. But at the university, we must also make these efforts — once again, to change ourselves, rather than simply to acquire more substantive knowledge."

Edward Said Memorial Conference was organised by the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University as one of the Treaty of Utrecht commemoration events on 15-17 April 2013. More information available at: http://cfhutrecht2013.com/.

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