The Contemporary Novel: Magical Realism by Lois Zamora (U of Houston)

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source: UHouston     2009年1月9日
ENGL 3322
Title: The Contemporary Novel: Magical Realism
Professor: Lois Zamora
Description: This course will focus on recent novels that have been described by the term "magical realism." Magical realism engages the usual devises of narrative realism, but with a difference: the supernatural is an ordinary matter, an everyday occurrence, accepted and integrated into the rationality and materiality of literary realism.

Introduction to Philosophy (U of Edinburgh)

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source: Open Education Edinburgh    2014年5月23日
Introduction to Philosophy (free online course)
Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh
Videos from our free online course available on Coursera
https://www.coursera.org/learn/philosophy/

0.0. INTROPHIL - Introduction 1:40
1.1. INTROPHIL - What is Philosophy? 12:31
1.2. INTROPHIL - Philosophy: Difficult, Important and Everywhere 11:04
1.3. INTROPHIL - Philosophy: How do we do it? 17:05
2.1. INTROPHIL - The Basic Constituents of Knowledge 13:11
2.2. INTROPHIL - The Classical Account of Knowledge and the Gettier Problem 18:38
2.3. INTROPHIL - Do We Have Any Knowledge? 10:36
3.1. INTROPHIL - Descartes Substance Dualism Theory of the Mind 11:17
3.2. INTROPHIL - Physicalism Identity Theory and Functionalism 13:24
3.3. INTROPHIL - Functionalism and What Mental States Do 8:41
3.4. INTROPHIL - Functionalism and Functional Complexity 4:12
4.1. INTROPHIL - The Status of Morality 13:28
4.2. INTROPHIL - Objectivism, Relativism and Emotivism 13:25
4.3. INTROPHIL - Objections to Objectivism, Relativism and Emotivism 11:24
5.1. INTROPHIL - Introduction: Hume on Testimony and Miracles 8:49
5.2. INTROPHIL - Reids Challenge to Hume 2:14
5.3. INTROPHIL - Reid's Argument 5:40
5.4. INTROPHIL - Kant the Enlightenment and Intellectual Autonomy 4:17
6.1. INTROPHIL - The Aim of Science Saving the Phenomena vs Truth 2:31
6.2. INTROPHIL - Saving the Phenomena Ptolemeic Astronomy 5:15
6.3. INTROPHIL - Truth? Galileo and Copernican Astronomy 2:06
6.4. INTROPHIL - Scientific Realism and the No Miracles Argument 3:32
6.5. INTROPHIL - Scientific Anti Realism Constructive Empiricism 7:27
6.6. INTROPHIL - Realist Rejoinders Inference to the Best Explanation 5:51
6.7. INTROPHIL - Concluding Summary 2:07
7.1. INTROPHIL Time Travel 1: What Might Time Travel Be Anyway? 7:19
7.2. INTROPHIL Time Travel 2: Grandfather Paradoxes 9:15
7.3. INTROPHIL Time Travel 3: Two Senses of Change 7:24
7.4. INTROPHIL Time Travel 4: Causal Loops 7:45
7.5. INTROPHIL Time Travel 5: Where Next? 8:54

Realism: Aristotle, Borges, Russell, and Moore (by Daniel Bonevac)

source: Daniel Bonevac    2016年12月2日
Realism: Aristotle, Borges, Russell, and Moore, Introduction to Philosophy, Fall 2016

That Which Is Not: Plato, Kant, & Sellars (Ray Brassier)

source: Philosophical Overdose    2016年11月8日
An interesting but somewhat obscure talk by Ray Brassier on appearance versus reality. He is best known for his work in continental philosophy on speculative realism.

John Searle on Perception & Philosophy of Mind

source: Philosophical Overdose     2015年6月12日
One of America’s most prominent philosophers says his field has been tilting at windmills for nearly 400 years. Representationalism (indirect realism)---the idea that we don’t directly perceive external objects in the world, but only our own inner mental images or representations of objects---has bedeviled philosophy ever since Descartes, and now is mucking up neuroscience as well, John Searle alleges. He has long defended the “naive” alternative that our senses do actually give us direct access to external reality, and he fires his latest salvo in his new book “Seeing Things as They Are: A Theory of Perception”. John is well-known for his no nonsense approach to philosophical problems, and there was plenty of straight talk here as he discussed his theory of perception, the subjective-objective divide, the scientific study of consciousness, and his dog Tarski.
This interview was given by Robert Pollie from a podcast called the 7th Avenue Project: www.7thavenueproject.com.
For more Searle on perception, check out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf_4t...

Introduction to Philosophy (Dave Ward / University of Edinburgh)

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source: Open Education Edinburgh    2014年5月23日
Dr Dave Ward: School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
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Videos from our free online course available on Coursera
https://www.coursera.org/learn/philosophy/

0.0.  Introduction 1:40
1.1.  What is Philosophy? 12:31
1.2.  Philosophy: Difficult, Important and Everywhere 11:04
1.3.  Philosophy: How do we do it? 17:05
2.1.  The Basic Constituents of Knowledge 13:11
2.2.  The Classical Account of Knowledge and the Gettier Problem 18:38
2.3. Do We Have Any Knowledge? 10:36
3.1.  Descartes Substance Dualism Theory of the Mind 11:17
3.2.  Physicalism Identity Theory and Functionalism 13:24
3.3.  Functionalism and What Mental States Do 8:41
3.4.  Functionalism and Functional Complexity 4:12
4.1.  The Status of Morality 13:28
4.2.  Objectivism, Relativism and Emotivism 13:25
4.3.  Objections to Objectivism, Relativism and Emotivism 11:24
5.1.  Introduction: Hume on Testimony and Miracles 8:49
5.2.  Reids Challenge to Hume 2:14
5.3.  Reid's Argument 5:40
5.4.  Kant the Enlightenment and Intellectual Autonomy 4:17
6.1.  The Aim of Science Saving the Phenomena vs Truth 2:31
6.2.  Saving the Phenomena Ptolemeic Astronomy 5:15
6.3.  Truth? Galileo and Copernican Astronomy 2:06
6.4.  Scientific Realism and the No Miracles Argument 3:32
6.5.  Scientific Anti Realism Constructive Empiricism 7:27
6.6.  Realist Rejoinders Inference to the Best Explanation 5:51
6.7.  Concluding Summary 2:07
7.1.  Time Travel 1: What Might Time Travel Be Anyway? 7:19
7.2. Time Travel 2: Grandfather Paradoxes 9:15
7.3.  Time Travel 3: Two Senses of Change 7:24
7.4.  Time Travel 4: Causal Loops 7:45
7.5.  Time Travel 5: Where Next?  8:54

ART WORK: An Evening with Richard Maxwell | The New School

source: The New School    2016年9月29日
Richard Maxwell is a playwright, director, and artistic director of the New York City Players. His plays have been performed in more than twenty countries in Europe, South America, and Australia, as well as in the U.S. at venues that include Performance Space 122, Soho Rep, The Kitchen, The Walker Art Center, and The Wexner Center for the Arts. He is the author of Richard Maxwell: Plays, 1996–2000 and the recent Theatre for Beginners. Maxwell is the recipient of the 2014 Spalding Gray Award. His work has been celebrated for creating a new style of theatrical realism on American stages.
Art Work is a ongoing series that hosts innovative artists who speak about the artistic process on special evenings at Lang. Students gain access to the intimate workings of some of the most influential artists practicing in the city today. In an intimate setting, the artists detail their creative process, speak about new productions, and examine their most famous works.
The series is curated by Bonnie Marranca, professor of Theater at Eugene Lang College.
Location: Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang College
Thursday, September 22, 2016 at 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Truth, Relativism, & Anti-Realism by Hilary Lawson

source: Philosophical Overdose    2015年5月17日
Is truth objective and absolute? Is there an ultimate theory of the way the world really is? Or does truth and reality in some sense depend on us and our concepts, perceptions, and theories? These are some of the oldest questions in philosophy and divide metaphysical realists on the one hand from anti-realists (e.g. idealists, relativists, constructivists, nominalists). In this talk, Hilary Lawson presents a case against philosophical realism, arguing that it is us who divide the world into objects and give them their identity. We do this by holding the world in particular ways, a process he calls "closure". The world as it is in-itself, prior to and independent of our categories and ways of holding it, is undifferentiated and without meaning. Nevertheless, the ways we hold the world can be useful, even if they aren't objectively true to anything.

Naïve Perception, Cartesian Skepticism, & Putnam's Model-Theoretic Arguments

source: Philosophical Overdose      2013年6月9日
Tim Button (Cambridge) gives a talk at a MCMP workshop on Putnam's Model-Theoretic Arguments (May 23, 2013) at the University of Munich. In this talk, Hilary Putnam's model-theoretic argument against metaphysical realism is discussed in connection to perception and philosophical skepticism (Cartesian versus Kantian skepticism). Putnam's model-theoretic argument tries to demonstrate that reference cannot be accounted for on the metaphysical realist's view. Metaphysical realism is the view that there's one true way the world is, and that truth involves a correspondence relation between our thoughts/language on the one hand and the external mind-independent reality on the other. The issue then is what this mirroring or correspondence relation is actually supposed to consist in. How can our thoughts and language hook onto the world at all? How can we avoid falling into the abyss of radical skepticism?
Credit to LMU Munich.

Philosophy of Photography - Realism and Transparency by Kane B

source: Kane B   2016年9月16日
This video examines Kendall Walton's transparency thesis, which claims that when we look at a photograph of an object, we do not simply see a representation of the object; rather we "see through" the photograph to the object itself. I consider (a) how transparency relates to the realism of photography, (b) Walton's arguments for transparency and (c) various criticisms of transparency, in particular focusing on the objection that Walton's view rests on a faulty account of perception.

The Myth of the Given: Nominalism, Naturalism & Materialism

source: Philosophical Overdose     2013年5月25日
Ray Brassier discusses the work of the philosopher Wilfrid Sellars regarding the myth of the Given, nominalism, naturalism, and materialism. Nominalism denies the real existence of any abstract entities or universals (e.g. properties, attributes, forms, natural kinds, numbers, essences, propositions, etc.). Traditional nominalism proceeded from an empiricist epistemology that challenges the very possibility of metaphysics, whether idealist or materialist. The critique of empiricism is taken to entail the refutation of nominalism. But nominalism contains a valuable insight for materialists: reality does not have propositional form. This is an insight that should be taken up by post-Darwinian materialists, who ought to deny that reality has a conceptual structure. For a consequent materialist, realism about abstract entities or universals is problematic because it re-iterates the theological presumption of a pre-established harmony between the conceptual order and the order of the real. The question is whether materialism can take up this nominalistic insight while still jettisoning the empiricist prejudices that tie it to skeptical relativism. For the claim that reality is devoid of propositional form need not require denying that we can use language to capture aspects of reality, or that concepts have ontological purchase. In this talk, Ray Brassier discusses these philosophical issues in connection with the work of Wilfrid Sellars, who managed to combine nominalist semantics, epistemic naturalism, and methodological materialism.
Ray Brassier is a member of the philosophy faculty at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, known for his work in philosophical realism. He was formerly Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Middlesex University, London, England. He is the author of Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction and the translator of Alain Badiou’s Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism and Theoretical Writings and Quentin Meillassoux’s After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency.
This was from a workshop titled "War Against the Sun". Credit goes to 'The Matter of Contradiction' for this. For more information, check out the following: http://lamatiere.tumblr.com/

Graham Harman on Metaphysics, Art, & Speculative Realism

source: Philosophical Overdose    2013年4月22日
In this talk, Graham Harman discusses two types of philosophical paradox pertaining to human knowledge, and the relation that art has to both. The first is one discussed by Meno and Socrates, resulting in the Socratic claim that we both have and do not have the truth. Our inability to gain direct access to reality is what justifies philosophy as philosophia (the love of wisdom rather than wisdom itself) and rules out both mathematism and scientism as defensible models of philosophy. The second paradox is the familiar dispute over whether truth is discovered or constructed. Given that no direct access to reality is possible, the observation of truth itself seems to be part of the truth, yet the observer also cannot create truth ex nihilo. These two paradoxes are not new, but if we look at them carefully, we can draw new conclusions from them. In this way, a different light is shed on the relation between philosophy and art.
Graham Harman is part of the object-oriented and speculative realist movement. For Harman, objects aren't reducible to mere bundles of properties/qualities, or their various relations to and effects on, other objects. Instead, Harman understands the nature of objects as real independent substances in their own right, over and above their manifold appearances and qualities. Otherwise, objects lose their underlying identity as something real, and end up being mere appearances, analyzable in terms of something else more fundamental. This object-oriented approach leads Harman to a pluralistic vision of the world, in contrast to the more holistic and monistic tendency which has characterized much traditional and contemporary philosophy.
Credit goes to 'The Matter of Contradiction' for this. For more information, check out the following:http://lamatiere.tumblr.com/

Metaethics by Kane B

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source: Kane B    2014年11月20日

Metaethics 1 - Introduction In this video, I briefly explain the main positions in metaethics. I then outline two important metaethical problems: the is-ought gap and the fact-value distinction. 21:49
Metaethics 2 - Emotivism 40:40
Metaethics 3 - Error Theory 50:59
Metaethics 4 - Subjectivism 1 50:26
Metaethics 5 - Subjectivism 2 44:27
Metaethics 6 - Moral Realism: Non-Naturalism 1 35:46
Metaethics 7 - Moral Realism: Non-Naturalism 2 45:17

Scientific Realism by Kane B

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source: Kane B    2016年6月23日
This series explores scientific realism, the view that our best scientific theories accurately describe the world and that we should believe in the entities and properties postulated by them. In the video, I first define scientific realism more precisely; then I outline various alternatives to realism; and I finally I briefly discuss two popular variations on realism, entity realism and structural realism.

1 - Introduction 28:42
2 - The No-Miracles Argument 43:14
3 - Pessimistic Induction 45:06
4 - Underdetermination 53:36
5 - Unconceived Alternatives 29:04
6 - Observation 48:59
7 - Entity Realism 46:55
8 - Structural Realism 50:08
9 - The Natural Ontological Attitude 45:22
10 38:19 Perspectivism
11 43:05 Models and Fictions

Thomas Baldwin: G.E. Moore & Cambridge Philosophy

source: Philosophical Overdose   2015年5月13日
Thomas Baldwin discusses G.E. Moore and his philosophical development from British absolute idealism (which was the dominant view at the time) to common sense realism. He discusses the historical context, the development of particular ideas, important thinkers like John McTaggart and Bertrand Russell, and how analytic philosophy itself was born.

Bertrand Russell & Wittgenstein on Belief & Relations (by Fraser MacBride)

source: Philosophical Overdose    2015年5月16日
After a brief discussion of the nature of philosophy and the origins of analytic philosophy, Fraser MacBride discusses Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein on the nature of relations and the structure of judgment or belief, how our thought relates to external objects in the world. Among the topics discussed include metaphilosophy and the history of analytic philosophy, F. H. Bradley's infamous regress argument against the reality of relations, Russell's correspondence theory of truth and different accounts of judgment including his famous multiple relation theory.
"The question of relations is one of the most important that arise in philosophy, as most other issues turn on it: monism and pluralism; the question of whether anything is wholly true except the whole of truth, or wholly real except the whole of reality; idealism and realism, in some of their forms; perhaps the very existence of philosophy as a subject distinct from science and possessing a method of its own.” Bertrand Russell

The Cognitive Status of Theories (Ernest Nagel in 1960)

source: Philosophical Overdose     2016年7月31日
Ernest Nagel's Howison lecture at UC Berkeley, where he discusses the cognitive status of scientific theories and related issues regarding scientific realism and instrumentalism. Ernest Nagel was a prominent philosopher of science of the 20th century. Along with Rudolf Carnap, Hans Reichenbach, and Carl Hempel, he is sometimes seen as one of the major figures of logical positivism. His most famous work was The Structure of Science: Problems in the Logic of Scientific Explanation.
This talk was given at the University of California Berkeley in 1960, as part of the Howison lecture series.

Hilary Putnam -- "Naive Realism and Qualia"

source: MrDanyvgy    2012年5月22日
The 20th Anniversary of the Center for the Study of Rationality
Hilary Putnam -- "Naive Realism and Qualia"

Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan: Introduction to Film Studies (IIT Madras)

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source: nptelhrd 2013年5月9日
Humanities - Introduction to Film Studies by Dr. Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

Lec-01 Course Overview 49:01
Lec-02 Cinema & Semiotics 48:57
Lec-03 Cinema & Semiotics(contd) 48:09
Lec-04 Plot in Cinema 48:37
Lec-05 Plot in Cinema (contd...) 47:40
Lec-06 Character as a plot element 51:16
Lec-07 Editing in Cinema 50:09
Lec-08 Realism in Cinema 49:09
Lec-09 Colour : Theory & Practice 51:17
Lec-10 Intertextuality 45:04
Lec-11 Intertextuality (contd.) 47:35
Lec-12 Intertextuality (contd...) 45:50
Lec-13 Cinema & Modernism 48:38
Lec-14 Cinema and Modernism (contd...) 1:17:35
Lec-15 The French Masters 48:33
Lec-16 The French Masters (contd..) 47:00
Lec-17 The French Masters (contd...) 48:51
Lec-18 Canonical Text 47:01
Lec-19 Canonical Text(contd..) 47:56
Lec-20 Canonical Text(contd...) 49:33
Lec-21 The Academy Awards 47:53
Lec-22 Classic Hollywood 51:07
Lec-23 Classic Hollywood(contd.) 47:34
Lec-24 Classic Hollywood (contd...) 44:54
Lec-25 Case study 54:26
Lec-26 Stars as Icons 46:56
Lec-27 Cinema and the Counterculture Movement 54:05
Lec-28 Italian cinema 50:32
Lec-29 Japanese Cinema 50:53
Lec-30 Auteur Theory in the USA 44:30
Lec-31 Auteur Theory in the USA (contd...) 48:04
Lec-32 New Hollywood 50:31
Lec-33 New Hollywood (contd...) 48:54
Lec-34 New Hollywood (contd....) 49:12
Lec-35 New Hollywood (contd....) 48:17
Lec-36 Cinema and Genres 51:29
Lec-37 Cinema and Genres (contd...) 57:57
Lec-38 Postmodernism and Cinema 50:29
Lec-39 Postmodernism & Cinema (contd...) 53:19
Lec-40 The Western 50:24

The Film Experience (Fall 2013) by David Thorburn at MIT

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source: MIT OpenCourseWare      2016年3月16日
MIT 21L.011 The Film Experience, Fall 2013
View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/21L-011F13
This complete set of lecture videos provides a close analysis and criticism of a wide range of films, from the early silent period, classic Hollywood genres including musicals, thrillers and westerns, and European and Japanese art cinema.
More information at http://ocw.mit.edu/terms
More courses at http://ocw.mit.edu

1. Introduction (2007) 51:20
2. Keaton (2007) 57:28
3. Chaplin, Part I (2007) 52:10
4. Chaplin, Part II (2007) 1:02:20
5. Film as Global & Cultural Form; Montage, Mise en Scène 48:02
6. German Film, Murnau 48:34
7. The Studio Era 55:37
8. The Work of Movies; Capra & Hawks 56:17
9. Alfred Hitchcock 49:14
10. Shadow of a Doubt, Rear Window 54:14
11. The Musical 45:36
12. The Musical (continued) 58:42
13. The Western 44:04
14. The Western (continued) 59:38
15. American Film in the 1970s, Part I (2007) 52:22
16. American Film in the 1970s, Part II (2007) 55:34
17. Jean Renoir and Poetic Realism 47:01
18. Renoir's Grand Illusion (1937) 53:52
19. Italian Neorealism, Part I (2007) 54:09
20. Italian Neorealism, Part II (2007) 50:50
21. Truffaut, the Nouvelle Vague, The 400 Blows 56:25
22. Kurosawa and Rashomon 58:46
23. Summary Perspectives - Film as Art and Artifact 42:56
Meet the Educator 9:03
Why Study Film? 3:42
Approach to Lecturing 12:40
The Film Experience: A Course in Transition 9:45
The Video Lecture Conundrum 5:52
Beyond Film: Television & Literature 4:35
Thematic Spines of the Course 11:36