Philosophical Overdose (videos of June 2017)

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55:05 A. J. Ayer & Bernard Williams Discussion An interesting discussion between A. J. Ayer and Bernard Williams on various philosophical topics, including the nature of philosophy, positivism, truth, scientific realism, phenomenalism, percepti...
41:08 American Pragmatism Sidney Morgenbesser discusses the American Pragmatists with Bryan Magee in this 1987 program.
14:16 Action at a Distance & Explanation Brandon Fogel discusses the puzzling concept of action at a distance in science. This is from an episode of Elucidations on mechanism and causation. Elucidations is a philosophy podcast from the Un...
8:25 Instrumentalism & Berkeley's Idealism Dr Peter Slezak and Alan Saunders discuss instrumentalism in the philosophy of science and its parallels with Berkeley's view about perception. This is from the Philosopher's Zone a few years back:...
13:59 Chomsky & Foucault Discussion A few clips from this classic 1971 debate between Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault. Foucault argues against the possibility of any fixed human nature, as posited by Chomsky’s concept of innate huma...
43:32 Plato - Myles Burnyeat Myles Burnyeat and Bryan Magee discuss the work of Plato in this 1987 interview.
51:21 Frege's Legacy - Graham Priest Graham Priest gives a lecture on the work of Gottlob Frege and his legacy in logic and philosophy.
7:28 Plato's Theory of Forms
18:47 Science & Pseudoscience (Lakatos in 1973) Imre Lakatos gives a BBC Radio talk in 1973 on "Science and Pseudoscience". Lakatos was a Hungarian philosopher of science and mathematics, best known for his thesis of the fallibility of mathemati...
47:28 Parmenides Professor Angie Hobbs discusses the pre-Socratic philosopher Parmenides. This is from the University of Sheffield.
28:34 Heraclitus Professor Angie Hobbs discusses the obscure pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus. This is from the University of Sheffield.
45:51 Husserl, Heidegger & Existentialism An introductory discussion of Husserl, Phenomenology, Heidegger, and Existentialism with Hubert Dreyfus and Bryan Magee.
Edmund Husserl was a 20th-century German philosopher, best known for foundi...
41:47 Ordinary Language Philosophy Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Ordinary Language Philosophy, a school of thought which emerged in Oxford in the years following World War II. With its roots in the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Ord...
30:50 20th Century Philosophy of Science & Reductionism Some random lecture on Karl Popper, Reductionism, and Thomas Kuhn.
51:20 The Unity of Unconsciousness Professor Tim Crane (Cambridge) gives the Aristotelian Society's Presidential Address for 2016/17. He discusses the notion of belief and the unconscious. Tim Crane is Knightbridge Professor of Phil...