2017-05-12

Philosophical Overdose (videos of April 2017)

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29:33 Quine's Two Dogmas of Empiricism & Ontological Relativity An introduction is given of W. V. Quine's article Two Dogmas of Empiricism, as well as Quine's indeterminacy of reference, ontological relativity, and epistemology naturalized. Two Dogmas of Empiri...
30:53 Quine & Confirmation Holism An introduction to Quine and his epistemological holism. Quine famously attacked positivism by attacking the analytic-synthetic distinction and by pointing out related problems regarding the underd...
40:59 Russell's Multiple Relation Theory - The Narrow Direction Problem One of the central objections to Bertrand Russell’s multiple relation theory of judgement is that it cannot distinguish between different judgements involving non-symmetric relations. This has come...
2:29 Wittgenstein Anecdote An anecdote about Ludwig Wittgenstein told by Nigel Warburton in a lecture given at Cambridge.
41:21 Philosophy as Dialogue Philosophy has always thrived on discussion. Socratic dialogue remains at its heart. Dr Nigel Warburton explores some of the great philosophical dialogues as well as the broader significance of cri...
23:27 Graham Priest Interview An interview with Graham Priest on philosophy, its history, and where it may go from here. This is from an episode of ABC Radio National's the Philosopher's Zone from a few years back, with Alan Sa...
25:07 Boethius and Divine Foreknowledge John Marenbon discusses Boethius and his solution to the problem of divine foreknowledge with Peter Adamson. The problem of divine foreknowledge is the problem of how we can have free will if every...
54:03 Shelly Kagan Lecture Much contemporary writing on animal ethics is 'egalitarian' in the sense that otherwise similar harms (or goods) for people and non-human animals are thought to count equally. In this sense, anima...
30:41 Marx's Critique of Capitalism
3:28 Hegel Versus Empiricists A clip of Brandom discussing Hegel and the modal "oomph" of experience. One of the biggest difficulties for empiricism has always been that it cannot account for necessity.
28:04 Rousseau A section from Philosophy in an Hour by Paul Strathern, read by Jonathan Keeble, from HarperAudio, HarperCollins Publishers. Creative Commons.
28:39 Bertrand Russell A section from Philosophy in an Hour by Paul Strathern, read by Jonathan Keeble, from HarperAudio, HarperCollins Publishers. Creative Commons.
31:50 Plato's Meno & Theaetetus A discussion of Plato's dialogues the Meno and the Theaetetus, which addresses various epistemological topics, including Plato's theory of recollection, the definition of knowledge, relativism, and...
10:18 Karl Popper Versus Induction Popper and induction duke it out.
1:12 Bertrand Russell Versus God
25:55 Socrates Raphael Woolf discusses Plato's Socrates in an interview with Peter Adamson from Peter's podcast on the history of philosophy. https://historyofphilosophy.net
2:35 The Time Gödel Told A Joke...Maybe Gerald Sacks answers one of the great mysteries of the universe: Did Kurt Gödel have a sense of humor? This is from a lecture Gerald Sacks gave on Gödel as part of the Williams Lecture Series for t...
47:04 Hannah Arendt Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt in this episode of In Our Time. Hannah Arendt developed many of her ideas in response to the rise of totalitarianism in the...
51:58 Relations All The Way Down? Ontic Structural Realism According to Ontic Structural Realism (OSR), there are no such things as individuals and intrinsic natures but only relatively invariant patterns in a web of relations. It says, in a reductive slog...
1:21:54 Structural Realism Two talks are given, one by David Chalmers (NYU) and then one by Thomas Meier (MCMP/LMU). This joint session is on "Structural Realism" (generously supported by the Goethe-Institut New York) at the...
56:12 The Unreliability of Naive Introspection How well do we really know our own conscious experiences? According to Descartes, we know it better than anything else. Indeed, while we might be mistaken about things in the external world, we can...
18:28 Plato's Parmenides & Forms A brief discussion of Plato's dialogue the Parmenides and its challenges to the theory of Forms, especially the third man argument. This is an episode from Peter Adamson's podcast on the History of...
1:28:58 Being a Woman in Philosophy Catarina Dutilh Novaes (Groningen) gives a talk at a MCMP Colloquium titled "Being a woman in (mathematical) philosophy". Why are there so few women in philosophy, and in technical areas such as ma...

Oxford BRC (videos of April 2017)

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15:28 10 years of achievement and looking forward, Professor Keith Channon. The Oxford BRC undertakes ‘translational research’, taking laboratory research into a clinical setting (from the bench to the bedside). This kind of research is about first-time studies of medical ...
13:00 Vaccines for Emerging and Endemic Diseases, Professor Adrian Hill. Vaccines have been science’s most efficient way of preventing diseases. Our theme will investigate a better vaccine for group B meningitis, and help develop new vaccines for Zika, pandemic influenz...
10:37 Musculoskeletal Diseases: A New Theme for BRC3, Professor Andrew Carr. Our vision is to build on our strengths in the identification of where to target treatment and to develop drugs tailored to each patient’s individual needs in inflammatory joint disease, degenerati...
19:33 Theme leader Cardiovascular, Professor Barbara Casadei. Emergency diagnosis and classification of patients for immediate specialist treatment are central to the management of patients presenting with acute stroke or myocardial infarction. We will use st...

New York University (videos of April 2017)

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1:21 Planting Daffodils with George Reis, Manager, NYU Sustainable Landscaping Back in November 2016, New Yorkers for Parks joined NYU and University Plaza Nursing School to plant daffodils along Bleecker Street between Mercer Street and LaGuardia Place. New Yorkers for Park...
1:31 One Question: How can we talk to kids about race? “The important thing is not to stop questioning,” Albert Einstein once said. “Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” In this series, we turn to NYU faculty—specialists in their fields—to addre...

CRASSH Cambridge (videos of April 2017)

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1:18:28 The Power Switch - Panel Three: State Power Panel Three: State Power
Discussants: Ross Anderson (Cambridge), Lawrence Quill (San Jose) & Ron Deibert (Toronto)
Ross Anderson is Professor of Security Engineering at the University of Cambridg...
1:33:23 The Power Switch - Panel Two: Media Power Panel Two: Media Power
Discussants: John Naughton (Cambridge) & Martin Moore (King's College London)
John Naughton is a Senior Research Fellow at CRASSH, co-director of the ‘Technology and Democr...
1:41:12 The Power Switch - Panel One: Corporate Power Panel One: Corporate Power
Discussants: Siva Vaidhyanathan (Virginia), Mireille Hildebrandt (Brussels) & Ellen Goodman (Rutgers)
Siva Vaidhyanathan is the Robertson Professor of Modern Media Stud...
1:23:01 The Power Switch - Panel Four: Algorithmic Power Panel Four: Algorithmic Power
Discussants: Malte Ziewitz (Cornell), Ariel Ezrachi (Oxford) & Seda Guerses (Ku Leuven)
Malte Ziewitz is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Science & Techn...
1:12:01 Adriana Erthal Abdenur - Tupi or Not Tupi Researching South-South Development Cooperation
The conference's keynote lecture, 'Tupi or Not Tupi: Anthropophagy and Emulation in the Study of South-South Cooperation', given by Professor Adrian...
1:13:05 Mary Jacobus - Twombly's Books How does literary reference affect the interpretation of largely abstract works? In her recent book, Reading Cy Twombly: Poetry in Paint (Princeton University Press, 2016), Mary Jacobus focuses on ...

(اردو / in Urdu) Digital Logic And Design (VU of Pakistan)

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source: vu     2009年1月25日
CS302 Digital Logic And Design

(اردو / in Urdu) Modern Programming Languages (VU of Pakistan)

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source: vu     2008年7月24日
CS508 Modern Programming Languages

(اردو / in Urdu) Object Oriented Programming (VU of Pakistan)

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source: vu     2008年6月29日
CS304 Object Oriented Programming

(اردو / in Urdu) Database Management System (VU of Pakistan)

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source: vu     2009年4月6日
CS403 Database Management System

Human Growth and Development by David (Dov) Liberman (U of Houston)

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source: UHouston     2009年10月6日
EPSY 6330
Title: Human Growth and Development
Professor: David (Dov) Liberman
Description: An introductory survey of current developmental theories and research with emphasis on the affective, social, and intellectual areas.

Introduction to Ethics by David Phillips (U of Houston)

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source: UHouston     2009年12月14日
PHIL 1305
Title: Introduction to Ethics
Professor: David Phillips
Description: A historical introduction to the main problems and questions of moral philosophy.

Branes and Field Theory (David Kutasov @ INIMS), 2007

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source: LeonhardEuler1    2012年12月22日
Who doesn't want to hear something about branes? They provide us with a delightfully interesting object in modern theoretical physics.
This is the first part of a three-part series of lectures on branes and (quantum) field theory given by University of Chicago theoretical physicist David Kutasov at the workshop on Gauge Fields and Strings held at the Isaac Newton Institute of Mathematical Sciences in September of 2007.
In order to follow this lecture, it is probably a good idea to have a solid understanding of the various elements of quantum field theories, as well as some level of understanding of string theory and M-theory. To this end, the viewer may want to check out the wonderful lectures from Leonard Susskind on these topics found here:
http://www.youtube.com/course?list=EC...
http://www.youtube.com/course?list=EC...
Also, there are lectures I have on my channel as well:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=...­OjYGp_b3wCe
I also highly recommend the following books for anyone serious about studying these topics:
http://www.nucleares.unam.mx/~alberto...
http://www.amazon.com/Mirror-Symmetry...­raphs/dp/0821829556/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1356186539&sr=8-1­&keywords=mirror+symmetry
The videos are taken from the INIMS website, wherein you can find the other talks from this delightfully engrossing workshop, as well as plenty of other material (I'm sure...). The website can be found here:
http://www.newton.ac.uk/programmes/SI...

SUSY Breaking (Nathan Seiberg @ INIMS), 2007

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source: LeonhardEuler1     2012年12月17日
This is the first part in a four-part series of lectures on SUSY Breaking given by the celebrated theoretical physicist Nathan Seiberg at the workshop on Gauge Fields and Strings held at the Isaac Newton Institute of Mathematical Sciences in September of 2007.
In order to follow this lecture, it is probably a good idea to have a solid understanding of the various elements of quantum field theories, and the role of symmetries within them, as well as some background on supersymmetric theories. This is not a terribly large audience base, I'm sure, but it is a profoundly interesting topic which is under-represented here on Youtube at the moment, so.... here we are.
The videos are taken from the INIMS website, wherein you can find the other talks from this delightfully engrossing workshop, as well as plenty of other material (I'm sure...). The website can be found here: http://www.newton.ac.uk/programmes/SI...

Homological Mirror Symmetry by Nick Sheridan@IAS (2013)

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source: LeonhardEuler1     2014年6月14日
A series of lectures by Nick Sheridan (Veblen Research Instructor at IAS, Princeton) on homological Mirror Symmetry. The first lecture was given on November 4, 2013, and the video can be found on the IAS website via the following link: https://video.ias.edu/hms/2013/1104-N...
This lecture consists of a broad overview of mirror symmetry as an equivalence of complex geometry of certain manifolds and the symplectic geometry of its mirror manifold. Sheridan maintained a website accompanying these lectures (with handwritten notes in pdf form), which can be found at: http://www.math.ias.edu/~nicks/HMS.html
In this lecture, he refers to a paper of Witten's in which the terminology "A-model" and "B-model" were introduced, which can be found here: http://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/9112056v1...
Moreover, he mentions the famous prediction regarding the number of certain rational curved of Candelas, de la Ossa, Green, and Parkes, which can be found here: http://enka.klacto.net/data/COGP.pdf
Finally, he also mentions the verification of these predictions by Givental and independently by Lian, Liu, and Yau, and below are (some of) the relevant papers:
Givental:
http://arxiv.org/abs/alg-geom/9603021
http://arxiv.org/abs/math/9807070
Lian, Liu, Yau:
http://arxiv.org/abs/alg-geom/9712011
http://arxiv.org/abs/math/9905006
http://arxiv.org/abs/math/9912038

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Geometric PDEs @ IAS (2008)

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source: LeonhardEuler1      2014年7月1日
http://www.math.ias.edu/sp/gpde
https://video.ias.edu/node/214

Fully Nonlinear Equations in Conformal Geometry, Part I (Matthew Gursky@IAS) 1:36:47
Optimal Transportation and Nonlinear Elliptic PDE, Part I (Neil Trudinger@IAS) 1:41:48
Variational techniques for the Prescribed Q-curvature equation, Part I (Andrea Malchiodi@IAS) 1:51:11
Variational techniques for the Prescribed Q-curvature equation, Part II (Andrea Malchiodi@IAS) 1:47:00
Curvature and Regularity of Optimal Transport, Part I (Cedric Villani@IAS) 2:07:29