Engage your senses with Heston Blumenthal

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Engage your senses with Heston Blumenthal - touch 4:05
Engage your senses with Heston Blumenthal - taste 4:51
Engage your senses with Heston Blumenthal - smell 8:00

Engage your senses with Heston Blumenthal - sight & sound 4:27

The Body, the Brain, Symbolic Expression & Its Experience: An Experimental Aesthetics Perspective

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The Body, the Brain, Symbolic Expression & Its Experience: An Experimental Aesthetics Perspective 3 56:45
The Body, the Brain, Symbolic Expression & Its Experience: An Experimental Aesthetics Perspective 2 53:28
The Body, the Brain, Symbolic Expression and Its Experience: An Experimental Aesthetics Perspective 52:16

Biological Identity Conference

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Biological Identity Conference - Welcome and Alvaro Moreno 56:10
Biological Identity Conference - David S. Oderberg 48:36
Biological Identity Conference - Philippe Huneman 40:45
Biological Identity Conference - Eric T. Olson 37:42
Biological Identity Conference - Matteo Mossio 42:51
Biological Identity Conference - Ellen Clarke 39:05
Biological Identity Conference - Denis Walsh 42:55
Biological Identity Conference - Anne Sophie Meincke 45:05

Hume's Legacy

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Hume's Legacy - Hume and Civil Society 1:31:20
Hume's Legacy - Relishing Fine Strokes: From Sentiments to Standards 1:32:27
Hume's Legacy - Hume's Contribution to Psychology 1:23:57
Hume's Legacy - Misunderstanding Hume: The Case of Practical Reason 1:29:04

Bower birds, hominids and the art world

source: SchAdvStudy    2013年12月18日
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The Artful Brain Conference: Bower birds, hominids and the art world - Greg Currie (York)
Art being a much disputed notion, I take as my starting point a simpler idea but one with—I hope—interesting relations to art: the idea of an aesthetic artifact. What does the history of aesthetic artifacts look like? I suggest it is a very long history, beginning much earlier than the supposed "dawn of art" 40,000 years ago. This much more ancient habit involved shaping stones, and raise two problems I want to confront. The first is whether these early hominid activities are different, in principled ways, from the activities of such creatures as bowerbirds, for if the answer is no, there does not seem to be much gain for understanding art by looking at stone tool industries. The second is whether there really are any grounds for thinking that the "cultural big bang" of 40,000 years ago marks a shift from mere aesthetic artifact-making to the production of something deserving of the title art.

Phenomenology and the Divine: Understanding the French Theological Turn

source: Eidos84    2011年2月6日
Professor Drew Dalton on "Phenomenology and the Divine: Understanding the French Theological Turn".
The talk deals with 20th and 21st century developments in the phenomenology founded by Husserl and Heidegger that allow the discussion of the Divine within phenomenology. The Turn began with Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida, but the heart of the turn includes: Michel Henry, Jean-Louis Chretien, Jean-Yves Lacoste, and finally Jean-Luc Marion (you could also include Jean-Francois Courtine and Paul Ricoeur, but these weren't discussed in the lecture).

Cornel West: 'What is Philosophy?'

source: Eidos84    2010年12月2日
A very short clip on the esteemed Cornel West's views on the nature of philosophy. For West, philosophy can be seen as 'a critical disposition of wrestling with desire in the face of death; wrestling with dialogue in the face of dogmatism; and wrestling with democracy in the face of structures of domination'...

Gilbert Simondon - 'The Technical Object as Such'

source: Eidos84     2012年11月15日
Gilbert Simondon on 'the Technical Object as Such', an excerpt from 'Entretien sur la mécanologie' (1970).
Complete video interview (in segments) available at http://atelier-simondon.ens.fr/entret.... Text published in Revue de Synthèse 130(1) (2009), pp. 103-132.
Trans. Kris Pender

Emmanuel Levinas by Michael Barnes

source: StJohnsNottingham    2016年7月7日
This is an extract from one of our timeline projects. Please visit our timeline website for more information and to access our online editions. http://www.stjohnstimeline.co.uk/

James Baldwin’s American Scene

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source: Yale University    2016年10月28日
“James Baldwin’s American Scene” is the subject of the Fall 2016 Franke Lectures in the Humanities, hosted by the Whitney Humanities Center. The lectures are made possible by the generosity of Richard and Barbara Franke, and are intended to present important topics in the humanities to a wide and general audience.
Ed Pavlić - “The Whole Body of the Sound: Listening to Jimmy Baldwin Listen” 1:20:51
Rich Blint - “The Devil Finds Work: James Baldwin on American Cinema” 1:32:17
Magda Zaborowska - “Erasure, Overlay, Manipulation: James Baldwin’s Queer Dwellings” 1:15:13
Christopher Lebron - “Why Does James Baldwin Love You?” 1:11:12
Franke Lectures in the Humanities: “James Baldwin's American Scene” 1:02:31

Jennifer Scheper Hughes | Contagion and the Sacred in Mexico: Epidemic Disease, Indigenous Death, and the Birth of New World Christianity

source: Harvard University    2016年12月21日
As part of the 2016–2017 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Jennifer Scheper Hughes ’17 presents “Contagion and the Sacred in Mexico: Epidemic Disease, Indigenous Death, and the Birth of New World Christianity,” in which she explores the religious dimensions of the collapse of the indigenous population in Mexico in the 16th century.
Hughes is the 2016–2017 Maury Green Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute.

Surround Sound's Point of Origin

source: Stanford    2016年12月5日
From the October 24th mediaX Sensing and Tracking for 3D Narratives Conference, Chris Chafe, Director of the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University looks to the next couple of years and the potential for the growth and deployment of surround sound in media of all kinds. From car audio systems to joggers with earbuds and from youtube to concert halls.

Uses of Philosophy for Living: Friendship

source: Wes Cecil    2016年11月18日
The third lecture by Wesley Cecil PhD. in the Uses of Philosophy for Living series explores the concept of friendship and our current struggles with establishing and maintaining close friends. Delivered at Peninsula College.

Chuck Bryant & Josh Clark: "Stuff You Should Know" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google    2016年12月29日
Chuck Bryant and Josh Clark host the popular podcast Stuff You Should Know. Take a behind the scenes look at how they have become the experts in educating the public about common things and how they work.
Listen here: https://goo.gl/MmWncc
Moderated by Carrie Battan.

Kristin Neff: "The Science of Self-Compassion [...]" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google    2016年12月22日
"Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself" is part memoir, part overview of the insights coming from Kristin Neff’s past 15 years of research. Self-compassion involves treating ourselves kindly, like we would a close friend we cared about. Rather than making global evaluations of ourselves as “good” or “bad,” it involves generating kindness toward ourselves as imperfect humans, and learning to be present with the inevitable struggles of life with greater ease. It motivates us to make needed changes in our lives not because we’re worthless or inadequate, but because we care about ourselves and want to lessen our suffering. This talk will present theory and research on self compassion, and discuss research indicating that self- compassion is a more powerful and effective motivational tool than self-criticism. A brief self-compassion practice will also be taught that can be used in daily life.
Get the book here: https://goo.gl/DqCtP0

Anarchism

source: Philosophical Overdose    2016年12月24日
In this episode of In Our Time, Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Anarchism and why its political ideas became synonymous with chaos and disorder. Pierre Joseph Proudhon famously declared “property is theft”. And perhaps more surprisingly that “Anarchy is order”. Speaking in 1840, he was the first self-proclaimed anarchist. Anarchy comes from the Greek word “anarchos”, meaning “without rulers”, and the movement draws on the ideas of philosophers like William Godwin and John Locke. It is also prominent in Taoism, Buddhism and other religions. In Christianity, for example, St Paul said there is no authority except God. The anarchist rejection of a ruling class inspired communist thinkers too. Peter Kropotkin, a Russian prince and leading anarcho-communist, led this rousing cry in 1897: “Either the State for ever, crushing individual and local life... Or the destruction of States and new life starting again.. on the principles of the lively initiative of the individual and groups and that of free agreement. The choice lies with you!” In the Spanish Civil War, anarchists embarked on the largest experiment to date in organising society along anarchist principles. Although it ultimately failed, it was not without successes along the way. So why has anarchism become synonymous with chaos and disorder? What factors came together to make the 19th century and early 20th century the high point for its ideas? How has its philosophy influenced other movements from The Diggers and Ranters to communism, feminism and eco-warriors? With John Keane, Professor of Politics at Westminster University; Ruth Kinna, Senior Lecturer in Politics at Loughborough University; Peter Marshall, philosopher and historian.




This is a BBC episode of In Our Time. For more information, go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0038x9t

Tim Ferriss on Mastery: Start with End Game and Make Space for Creativity

source: Big Think     2016年12月18日
Amid all the powerhouse, brilliant minds Tim Ferriss has interviewed for his podcast and new book Tools of Titans, one idea kept springing up: creating empty space. A second concept, by contrast, came up only once, through conversations with Joshua Waitzkin, an American chess player who takes an ‘endgame’ approach to every pursuit he undertakes. Ferriss explains these two concepts in detail, why they’re so vital, and how they can be applied across many fields.
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Transcript - One of the concepts that comes up over and over again with prolific creative minds that I've interviewed for the Tim Ferriss Show or for the book Tools of Titans is creating empty space. And one of the guests Josh Waitzkin, who never does any media, can I curse on this? He always texts me with profanity laden SMSs because I'm the only one who can pull him out of his cave to do media. But he is best known perhaps as the chest prodigy, and I'll explain why I put that in air quotes, besides how funny it looks on camera, that formed the basis or who formed the basis for Searching for Bobby Fischer, both the book and the movie. He was a very well known chess player and continues to be an incredible chess player. But he has applied his learning framework to more than chess. So he was a world champion in tai chi push hands, he was the first black belt in Brazilian jujitsu under the phenom probably the best of all time Marcelo Garcia, who trains in New York City and he's a nine-time world champion something like that. And he's now tackling paddle surfing and he can apply it to just about anything. He works with some of the top financial mines in the world, hedge fund managers and beyond, the best of the best; top one percent.
So, why? What are the principles that he shares? One of them is creating empty space, cultivating empty space as a way of life, and these are all tied together so I'll mention another one. Learning the macro from the micro and then beginning with the end in mind. And these all work together. So I'll explain in fact the last two first. Josh learned to play chess or I should say more accurately was coached by his first real coach in the opposite direction when compared to most training and most chess books. He was taught in reverse. What does that mean? He began with the end game and with very few pieces. So they cleared all the pieces off the board, instead of starting with openings, meaning what do you do first the first five to ten moves, he started with the ending game with king and pawn versus king. What does this do? Well this forces you to focus on principles like opposition, creating space, zugzwang, which is a principle of forcing your opponent to do anything that will destroy their position or anything they can possibly do will worsen their position. And these types of principles that you learn when there's an empty board with a few pieces accomplish a few things. Read Full Transcript Here: https://goo.gl/1OtqjR.