Mary's Room: A philosophical thought experiment - Eleanor Nelsen

source: TED-Ed    2017年1月24日
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/mary-s-room...
Imagine a neuroscientist who has only ever seen black and white things, but she is an expert in color vision and knows everything about its physics and biology. If, one day, she sees color, does she learn anything new? Is there anything about perceiving color that wasn’t captured in her knowledge? Eleanor Nelsen explains what this thought experiment can teach us about experience.
Lesson by Eleanor Nelsen, animation by Maxime Dupuy.

Derrida: On The Private Lives of Philosophers

source: Eidos84    2010年9月10日
Asked what would he like to see in a documentary on a major philosopher, such as Hegel or Heidegger, Derrida replies he would want them to speak of their sexuality and 'the part that love plays in their life'. He criticises the dissimulation of such philosophers concerning their sex lives - 'why have they erased their private life from their work?'

Derrida on Blanchot

source: Eidos84    2012年11月13日
Jacques Derrida on Maurice Blanchot, from the French documentary 'Maurice Blanchot' (1998).
Trans. K. Pender and P. Salmon

Alain Badiou on Art: Description Without Place

source: Eidos84    2011年1月27日
Alain Badiou on art (March 7, 2006).
Badiou is a French philosopher, professor at European Graduate School, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure. Along with Giorgio Agamben and Slavoj Žižek, Badiou is a prominent figure in an anti-postmodern strand of continental philosophy. Badiou seeks to recover the concepts of being, truth and the subject in a way that, he claims, is neither postmodern nor simply a repetition of modernity. His magnum opus, "Being and Event", is considered by some to be the most important work of 20th century ontology after Heidegger's 'Being and Time". Politically, Badiou is committed to the far left, and to the Marxist tradition.

Alain Badiou: The Communist Hypothesis

source: Eidos84   2011年1月18日
Alain Badiou, ''The Communist Hypothesis''. Lecture given on October 15, 2010.

Christopher Lebron - “Why Does James Baldwin Love You?”

source: Yale University    2016年12月13日
Franke Lectures in the Humanities, "James Baldwin's American Scene"
Christopher Lebron is Assistant Professor of African American Studies and Philosophy at Yale University. He is the author of The Color of Our Shame: Race and Justice in Our Time, winner of the American Political Science Association Foundations of Political Theory First Book Award, as well as numerous academic articles and book reviews on race and political ethics. Lebron has also written for the New York Times’s The Stone column and Boston Review. He has just completed “The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea,” forthcoming in 2017. He was recently named a finalist for the Hiett Prize, awarded by the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, which recognizes promising young scholars and writers who are influencing public debates through their work.

Jacob S. Hacker | American Amnesia: Forgetting What Made Us Prosper || Radcliffe Institute

source: Harvard University    2016年12月15日
American Amnesia: Forgetting What Made Us Prosper
https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/eve...
(6:10) Jacob S. Hacker discusses the importance of an effective public sector to America’s health, wealth, and well-being and explores why so many of our economic and political leaders seem to have forgotten this perspective. He explains these concepts in the context of recent political events, the historic 2016 election, and changing ideas about government itself.
Hacker, the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science and the director of the Institute for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University, is the author, with Paul Pierson, of the recently published American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper (Simon & Schuster, 2016), an Editors’ Choice of the New York Times Sunday Book Review.
Introduction by Lizabeth Cohen, dean, Radcliffe Institute, and Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies, Department of History, Harvard University
Audience Q&A (43:02)

Anniversary Address from Sir Venki Ramakrishnan, President of the Royal Society

source: The Royal Society    2016年12月8日
To celebrate our anniversary day, Sir Venki Ramakrishnan, President of the Royal Society, looked back at his first year as president and reflected on the challenges facing the science community in the coming years http://ow.ly/iQAj306Vyga

Kepler 's Trial

source: Cambridge University    2016年12月15日
Kepler 's Trial is a cooperation between Ulinka Rublack, Professor of History at Cambridge University and Fellow of St John's College, composer Timothy Watts, who teaches at the Royal College of Music and Cambridge University, and London film- and sound-artist Aura Satz. The opera premiered at St John's College in October 2016 and follows on from Rublack's monograph The Astronomer and the Witch: Johannes Kepler's Fight for His Mother, Oxford: October 2015. The book tells the story of how the famous astronomer's aged mother was accused of witchcraft in 1615. The proceedings which eventually led into a criminal trial against Katharina would last for six years and would involve Johannes Kepler at the height of his career as key figure in the scientific revolution.
Two operas have been written about Kepler: Paul Hindemith's Harmony of the World and Philip Glass's Kepler. While the latter ignores Kepler's personal life, Hindemith presented a problematic account of Kepler's mother and his relationship to her, which make Katharina seem witch-like. This is in line with Anglo-American writing on the subject.
This project is grounded in the most complete archival work ever carried out on this subject as well as the work of an interdisciplinary group of scholars who regularly met to support the development of the music, libretto and film. The opera explores musically ideas about the relation between religion and reason, what it meant to work both as a ground-breaking scientist and Protestant., and the role of old women in society
It is the first musical response ever to the story of Kepler and his mother with a text in English: http://keplers-trial.com/keplers-tria... The project is supported by a website, which features the story of the making of the opera and its cast: http://keplers-trial.com/

Uses of Philosophy for Living: The Well Formed Mind

source: Wes Cecil    2016年9月19日
The first in a series of lectures by Wesley Cecil PhD. that explores the application of philosophical thinking to daily life. The first lectures explores WHY we need philosophy to helps us think.

Kartik Gada: "The ATOM: The New Economics of Technological Disruption" |...

source: Talks at Google    2016年12月21日
Kartik Gada joined us to talk about his e-book the ATOM ( http://atom.singularity2050.com). The book examines the new economics of technological disruption, and its impact on governments, businesses, and society. The Atom is a 14-chapter e-book that contains novel concepts, research, and policy prescriptions about the various effects of technological progress on the economy and society.
Kartik is the primary blogger at The Futurist, which has received 2M visits to date and has had many successful predictions over the last 10 years.
Gada has had a career at the intersection of technology and finance,

working at Intel in their long-term vision group, as an early employee at Netgear eventually managing their entire consumer product line, and as the founder of a hedge fund that returned 70%/year from 2009-13. He also created The Uplift Prize, an innovation prize in 3D Printing for emerging markets.
Moderated by Jordan Thibodeau.
Get the book here: http://atom.singularity2050.com/

Entropy and the Nature of Time with Edwin C. May

source: New Thinking Allowed     2016年12月21日
Edwin C. May, PhD, was involved in the military intelligence psychic spying program, popularly referred to as Stargate, for over twenty years. During the last decade, he was the director of research for that program. In this context, he produced over a hundred scientific publications. His academic training was in experimental nuclear physics. He is coauthor of ESP Wars: East and West and also Anomalous Cognition: Remote Viewing Research and Theory. He is the coeditor of a two volume anthology titled Extrasensory Perception: Support, Skepticism, and Science.
Here he points out that entropy is intimately related to our macro-world perception that the arrow of time moves in only one direction. In the sub-atomic world, and even in the molecular world, it appears as if processes can move equally in either direction of time. Some physicists now believe that entropy is a physical force that can explain gravity. He describes his own research concerning remote viewing targets in which those with a high change of entropy are more readily perceived through clairvoyance or precognition. This finding is consistent with research in conventional sensory perception.

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 is a past vice-president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology; and is the recipient of the Pathfinder Award from that Association for his contributions to the field of human consciousness exploration. 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 June 18, 2016)

The Standpoint of Idealism - Schopenhauer

source: Philosophical Overdose    2016年12月23日
A section of the supplements to the first book of Arthur Schopenhauer's "The World as Will and Idea" (The Doctrine of the Idea of Perception) from LibriVox, read by Expatriate.

Margaret Atwood on Climate Change: Anti-Science Can Only Be Surmounted by Economics

source: Big Think   2016年12月16日
Only two things will change the minds of science skeptics: appeals to their ego, or their wallets. Atwood's latest book is "Hag-Seed" (https://goo.gl/zCzbFj).
Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/margaret-a...

Transcript - If you look at the history of what happened to Darwin when he published, what would you call that? Yes he was hugely attacked at the time. And it's often a case of people do not want to give up their cherished beliefs, especially cherished beliefs that they find comforting. So it's no good for Richard Dawkins to say let us just stand on the bold bear promontory of truth and acknowledge the basically nothingness of ourselves. People don't find that cozy so they will go around the block not to do that. And that's very understandable and human. And religious thinking, you know, the idea that there's somebody bigger than you out there who might be helpful to you if certain rules are observed, that goes back so far. We probably have an epigene or something or a cluster of epigenes for that and you see it a lot in small children that there is a monster under the bed and you can't tell them there isn't. They don't find that reassuring. What you can tell them is yes there is a monster under that bed but as long as I put this cabbage right in this spot it can't come out.
So yes anti-science. When science is telling you something that you really find very inconvenient, and that is the history of global warming and the changes that we are certainly already seen around us. First of all it was denial. It could not be happening. Now there's grudging admission as things flood and droughts kick in and food supplies drop and the sea level rises and the glaciers melt big time. I have seen that; been there. You can't deny that it's happening but you then have to pretend that it's nothing to do with us. So therefore nothing so we don't have to change our behavior. That's the thinking around that. And that can get very entrenched until people see that by trying to solve the problem jobs can be created and money can be made. And that will be the real tipping point in public consciousness in this country. Read Full Transcript Here: https://goo.gl/B0oNAJ.