Judith Butler. To preserve the life of the Other. 2016

source: European Graduate School Video Lectures 2016年10月13日
http://www.egs.edu Judith Butler, Hannah Arendt Chair and Professor of Philosophy at The European Graduate School / EGS.
To preserve the life of the Other. Public open lecture for the students of the Division of Philosophy, Art & Critical Thought at the European Graduate School EGS, Saas-Fee/Switzerland and Valetta/Malta. April 6 2016.
Judith Butler holds the Hannah Arendt Chair at The European Graduate School / EGS and is the Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley. She is a philosopher and one of the most challenging thinkers of our time. She rose to prominence in 1990 with Gender Trouble, which caused an unexpected stir as it unearthed foundational assumptions both in philosophy and in feminist theory, namely the facticity of sex. Controversial debate on the subject(s) extended far beyond academia to which Butler responded, in part, in Bodies that Matter (1993). Butler’s academic rigor is pursued through innovative and critical readings of a wide range of texts in philosophy, psychoanalysis and literature, challenging the confines of disciplinary thinking. Within, and beyond that, Judith Butler is also known for her critical voice in socio-political discourse and debate. Her qualities as a thinker are reflected in her openness to what is at stake in the present and in her passionate engagement in conversations with contemporaries in and outside academia.

Sarah Stewart, "The Violent Origin of the Earth and Moon"

source: Harvard University    2016年8月31日
The physical properties of our planet are intricately tied to the sequence of giant impact events that led to the formation of the Moon. The canonical giant impact model for lunar origin has been called into question by recent geochemical measurements of lunar rocks. Professor Stuart presents a new model for the origin of the Earth and Moon that reconciles the observations and highlights the importance of stochastic early events in shaping our habitable world.

Advanced Microeconomics with Duncan Foley

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source: The New School    2016年4月29日
Advanced Microeconomics: Information and Behavior in Political Economy | Duncan Foley | Leo Model Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research (http://www.newschool.edu/nssr)

Class 01  Class 01 Preliminaries. The first lecture consists of technical topics essential to the rest of the course, including philosophy of social science, Bayesian and Information theory. 1:40:34
Class 02 1:37:47
Class 03 1:39:09
Class 04 1:32:21
Class 05 1:37:33
Class 06 1:36:55
Class 07 1:39:46
Class 08 1:41:50
Class 09 1:39:54
Class 10 1:34:21
Class 11 1:39:44
Class 12 1:42:48
Class 13 1:42:26
Class 14 1:34:28
Class 15 1:41:13

Humane Arts: the Salon and Cafe

source: Wes Cecil    2012年10月11日
This lecture presents the history and significance of the Salon and Cafe as a contributor to a humane existence. Delivered by Wesley Cecil, Ph.D. at Peninsula College, it is part of the Humane Arts Lecture series. For more information, dates of upcoming lectures, essays, and books, go to http://www.facebook.com/HumaneArts

(2016上-商專) 計算機概論: 陳大仁 / 空中進修學院 (1-18)

# 持續更新清單 (請按左上角選取影片觀看)

source: 華視教學頻道    2016年9月7日
更多計算機概論（商專）請見 http://vod.cts.com.tw/?type=education...

Has Apple Lost Steve Jobs' Vision of Simplicity? | Ken Segall

source: Big Think    2016年9月7日
Turns out simplicity is really, really complicated. Having worked with Steve Jobs for years as an advertising creative director on Apple products, Ken Segall has taken a blood oath to uphold the principles of simplicity. Segall's latest book is "Think Simple: How Smart Leaders Defeat Complexity" (http://goo.gl/dGL35i).
Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/ken-segall...

Transcript - How does one define simplicity? Very good question. To me it is just a distilled thought; something that registers quickly; doesn't require a lot of explanations; seems intuitively obvious that kind of a thing. And I think a lot of businesses out of there tend to put things in terms that require more thought study or whatever and I think what made Steve Jobs such a genius was that he had this belief in the power of simplicity and he wanted to ensure that his products embodied that and the way the company communicated with people embodied that. So I think simplicity is this this thing, it's a concept really that gets applied to so many different things. It's not just oh look it's a simple product, it's the whole structure of the organization, the belief system, all that stuff is based on this idea that human beings have a built in desire for simpler things, we just don't like to labor over complex issues. And when someone has something to share with us, whether it's a product, it's service or whatever that the people who really understand that simplicity is a very powerful thing, those are the people who establish an emotional connection with their customers, which is something that Apple is very, very good at doing.
I do think that simplicity is one of the hardest things you can do. And it is deceptive in that way because it looks simple. The way I like to put it is that there is no such thing as simplicity, there is only the perception of simplicity, that every simple thing we see in this world, whether it's an iPhone, obviously years worth of research goes into making the little things that make an iPhone, but you can look at a simple website and we all know, we who create such things know that this beautifully simple site that you've built could have been a result of weeks or months of anguished debate and differences of opinion and arguments and whatever and you end up with something that's simple. Read Full Transcript Here: http://goo.gl/oGe26r.

Quine's objections to modal logic by Kane B

source: Kane B    2013年2月22日
Modal logic has had a huge influence on modern analytic philosophy, but there are those who believe that the whole enterprise of modal logic is misguided. The most prominent critic was W. V. O. Quine. In this series, I examine some of Quine's criticisms.

1 - historical background 13:11
2 - use and mention 16:33
3 - extensionality and intensionality 20:02
4 - referential opacity 12:47

Betty Soskin: "Opportunity and Discrimination in WWII Shipyards" | Talks...

source: Talks at Google    2016年9月15日
Betty Reid Soskin speaks about her experiences as a Black woman in the shipyards during World War II. Now in her 90s, Soskin is the country's oldest active park ranger, serving at the Rosie the Riveter World War II/Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, California, which she helped bring into existence.
Betty brings a unique perspective to the story of the home front effort, having lived it as a woman of color. She also touches on the immense social changes that she and her family members have witnessed, and provides her thoughts on the responsibility of living in a democracy.
The following video provides more context to her work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc490...

Lines of Thought: Telling the Story of History

source: Cambridge University   2016年9月16日
Shakespeare's 'First Folio', Dante's Divine Comedy, and fragments of Homer's Odyssey from the second century CE, are among the objects in our latest film celebrating Lines of Thought at Cambridge University Library.
A hand-coloured copy of Vesalius’ 1543 Epitome – one of the most influential works in western medicine – and the first written record of a dissection carried out in England are among the objects in our latest film celebrating Lines of Thought at Cambridge University Library.
Since March, some of the world’s most valuable books and manuscripts have been on display as Cambridge University Library celebrates its 600th birthday with a once-in-a-lifetime free exhibition of its greatest treasures.
The objects in Lines of Thought: Discoveries that Changed the World, which will close to the public on September 30, communicate 4,000 years of human thought through the Library’s unique and irreplaceable collections. More than 70 per cent of the exhibits are displayed to the public for the first time.
The exhibition investigates through six distinct themes how Cambridge University Library’s eight million books and manuscripts have transformed our understanding of life here on earth and our place among the stars.

Why Policy Fails - and How it Might Succeed | Matthew Taylor | RSA Replay

source: The RSA   2016年9月12日
Why Policy Fails - and How it Might Succeed with the RSA's Chief Executive, Matthew Taylor. Why do some policies succeed in bringing about widespread social change, but others founder?
In his annual RSA Chief Executive’s Lecture, Matthew Taylor examines the relationship between policy-making and social change. What distinguishes successful policy changes - for example, the smoking ban - from other ideas that seemed to have everything in their favour at the outset, and yet ultimately failed to deliver?
Is there a key to truly impactful policy creation and implementation? Or, to meet the scale and urgency of the challenges we’re currently facing, do we need to start thinking differently about how change happens - looking beyond policy to nothing less than a new paradigm for society and social progress?

John Rawls' Theory of Justice (Philosophy Bites) by Jonathan Wolff

source: Philosophical Overdose    2016年9月12日
Jonathan Wolff gives a very brief introductory overview of John Rawls' A Theory of Justice, one of the most influential works in political philosophy of the 20th century. This is an episode of Philosophy Bites from a few years back.

Healing the Child Within with Charles Whitfield

source: New Thinking Allowed    2016年4月4日
Charles Whitfield, MD, is a board certified internist who transitioned into psychiatry. He is author of the best-selling book, Healing the Child Within. His numerous other books include Choosing God: A Bird’s Eye View of A Course in Miracles, Teachers of God: Further Reflections on a Course in Miracles, The Truth About Depression, The Truth About Mental Illness, Not Crazy: You May Not Be Mentally Ill, Wisdom to Know the Difference, and – co-authored with his wife, Barbara Harris Whitfield, The Power of Humility.
Here he presents his hypothesis that the child within can also be identified as the true self. When trauma occurs in childhood, this core aspect of human consciousness goes into hiding and is, typically, replaced with an egotistical false self. The recovery process is a hero’s journey involving many ups and downs. It requires a supportive and safe environment. The process may involve age regression, journaling, individual, and group therapy. We can learn from our mistakes and from our pain. Well over fifty percent of the population have had traumatic experiences in childhood.

New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in "parapsychology" ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He serves as dean of transformational psychology at the University of Philosophical Research. He teaches parapsychology for ministers in training with the Centers for Spiritual Living through the Holmes Institute. He has served as vice-president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology, and is the recipient of its Pathfinder Award for outstanding contributions to the field of human consciousness. He is also past-president of the non-profit Intuition Network, an organization dedicated to creating a world in which all people are encouraged to cultivate and apply their inner, intuitive abilities.
(Recorded on March 1, 2016)

Deepankar Choudhury: Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering (IIT Bombay)

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source: nptelhrd    2015年4月8日
Civil - Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering by Dr. Deepankar Choudhury, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Bombay. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.ac.in

01 Introduction to Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering 53:46
02 Introduction to Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering (continued) 58:32
03 Basics of Vibration Theory 56:35
04 Engineering Seismology part -I 59:54
05 Engineering Seismology (continued) part -II 51:59
06 Engineering Seismology (continued) part -III 52:07
07 Engineering Seismology (continued) part -IV 54:16
08 Engineering Seismology (continued) part -V 52:47
09 Engineering Seismology (continued) part –VI 1:02:05
10 Strong Ground Motion 48:51
11 Strong Ground Motion (continued) part –II 59:00
12 Strong Ground Motion (continued) part –III 56:01
13 Strong Ground Motion (continued) part –IV 56:18
14 Strong Ground Motion (continued) part –V 55:30
15 Strong Ground Motion (continued) part –VI 52:08
16 Strong Ground Motion (continued) part –VII 57:42
17 Wave Propagation 53:55
18 Wave Propagation (continued) part –II 57:55
19 Wave Propagation (continued) part –III 57:20
20 Wave Propagation (continued) part –IV 58:21
21 Dynamic Soil Properties 56:19
22 Dynamic Soil Properties (continued) Part -II 52:52
23 Seismic Hazard Analysis 54:38
24 Seismic Hazard Analysis (continued) Part -II 1:02:17
25 -Seismic Hazard Analysis (continued) part –III 58:46
26 Seismic Hazard Analysis (continued) part –IV 56:31
27 Seismic Hazard Analysis (continued) part –V 55:03
28 Seismic Hazard Analysis (continued) part –VI 55:06
29 Seismic Hazard Analysis (continued) part –VII 51:53
30 Seismic Hazard Analysis (continued) part –VIII 56:21
31 Site Response Analysis 56:23
32 Site Response Analysis (continued) part –II 55:40
33 Site Response Analysis (continued) part –III 55:04
34 Seismic Analysis and Design of Various Geotechnical Structures 53:10
35 Seismic Analysis and Design of Various Geotechnical Structures (continued) part –II 58:11
36 Seismic Analysis and Design of Various Geotechnical Structures (continued) part –III 53:36
37 Seismic Analysis and Design of Various Geotechnical Structures (continued) part –IV 55:20
38 Seismic Analysis and Design of Various Geotechnical Structures (continued) part –V 1:04:57
39 Seismic Analysis and Design of Various Geotechnical Structures (continued) part –VI 54:53
40 Seismic Analysis and Design of Various Geotechnical Structures (continued) part –VII 53:50
41 Seismic Analysis and Design of Various Geotechnical Structures (continued) part –VIII 58:13
42 Quiz 50:24
43 Seismic Analysis and Design of Various Geotechnical Structures (continued) part –IX 55:00

Arindama Singh: Mathematical Logic (IIT Madras)

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source: nptelhrd     2012年7月23日
Mathematics - Mathematical Logic by Prof. Arindama Singh, Department of Mathematics, IIT Madras. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

01 Sets and Strings 44:21
02-Syntax of Propositional Logic 45:55
03-Unique Parsing 52:14
04-Semantics of PL 47:05
05-Consequences and Equivalences 44:12
06 Five results about PL 40:51
07-Calculations and Informal Proofs 46:24
08-More Informal Proofs 48:25
09-Normal forms 50:42
10-SAT and 3SAT 45:32
11-Horn-SAT and Resolution 55:05
12-Resolution 47:21
13-Adequacy of Resolution 53:27
14-Adequacy and Resolution Strategies 48:34
15-Propositional Calculus (PC) 49:50
16-Some Results about PC 48:54
17-Arguing with Proofs 47:03
18-Adequacy of PC 51:06
19-Compactness & Analytic Tableau 49:44
20-Examples of Tableau Proofs 45:10
21-Adequacy of Tableaux 45:44
22-Syntax of First order Logic (FL) 47:11
23-Symbolization & Scope of Quantifiers 48:28
24-Hurdles in giving Meaning 45:34
25-Semantics of FL 50:16
26-Relevance Lemma 48:02
27-Validity, Satisfiability & Equivalence 49:12
28-Six Results about FL 48:10
29-Laws, Calculation & Informal Proof 47:23
30-Quantifier Laws and Consequences 49:30
31-More Proofs and Prenex Form 51:19
32-Prenex Form Conversion 46:39
33-Skolem Form 53:11
34-Syntatic Interpretation 50:34
35-Herbrand's Theorem 45:12
36-Most General Unifiers 50:45
37-Resolution Rules 46:19
38-Resolution Examples 49:21
39-Ariomatic System FC 46:35
40-FC and Semidecidability of FL 48:44
41-Analytic Tableau for FL 47:30
42-Godels Incompleteness Theorems 48:17

Joydeep Dutta: Convex Optimization (IIT Kanpur)

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source: nptelhrd     2013年3月19日
Mathematics - Convex Optimization by Prof. Joydeep Dutta, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, IIT Kanpur. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

01 51:44
02 52:56
03 50:50
04 49:39
05 50:54
06 52:05
07 47:27
08 50:19
09 52:28
10 32:33
11 41:25
12 44:23
13 46:42
14 44:40
15 52:46
16 42:42
17 44:52
18 42:51
19 42:28
20 35:54
21 43:34
22 37:26
23 39:30
24 47:03
25 42:25
26 49:58
27 43:23
28 45:18
29 40:56
30 42:39
31 39:55
32 36:37
33 45:01
34 36:22
35 39:22
36 46:14
37 41:46
38 50:10
39 38:05
40 39:01
41 1:00:43
42 54:14

The Humanities and the Future of the University | Mahindra Humanities Center

source: Harvard University    2013年5月17日
Participants:
Lawrence S. Bacow
President Emeritus, Tufts University
Homi K. Bhabha
Director of the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Stefan Collini
Professor of English Literature and Intellectual History, University of Cambridge
Drew G. Faust
President, Harvard University
Lynn A. Hunt
Distinguished Professor of History & Eugen Weber Endowed Chair in Modern European History, University of California, Los Angeles
Sheldon I. Pollock
Arvind Raghunathan Professor of South Asian Studies at the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University
Diana Sorensen
Dean of Arts and Humanities, Harvard University
Organized by the Mahindra Humanities Center with support from the Office of the President.