The psychology behind irrational decisions - Sara Garofalo

source: TED-Ed    2016年5月12日
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-psychol...
Often people make decisions that are not “rational” from a purely economical point of view — meaning that they don’t necessarily lead to the best result. Why is that? Are we just bad at dealing with numbers and odds? Or is there a psychological mechanism behind it? Sara Garofalo explains heuristics, problem-solving approaches based on previous experience and intuition rather than analysis.
Lesson by Sara Garofalo, animation by TOGETHER.

What Can Analytic and Continental Philosophers Learn From Each Other?

source: Gregory B. Sadler    2016年4月4日
In this invited lecture and discussion at Virginia Commonwealth University, I discuss the question put to me - What can Analytic and Continental philosophers learn from each other? - and several other related topics, including the Analytic-Continental divide, the history and nature of both Analytic and Continental philosophy, and the importance of what has been left out of the picture, particularly historically-focused and -based approaches in philosophy.

A handout provided in the talk: https://www.academia.edu/24026052/The...
1:09 - Introduction to the topics covered
4:53 - Preliminary Ideas about Analytic and Continental philosophy
7:44 - My own background and take on movements in philosophy
12:34 - Two analogies for the Analytic-Continental split
14:25 - Movements or approaches in philosophy left out of the picture
16:06 - How to characterize philosophy as an activity, discipline, and literature
21:52 - initial attempts to characterize Analytic and Continental philosophy
36:15 - Focusing in on Analytic philosophy
48:25 - Focusing in on Continental philosophy
59:58 - The Analytic--Continental divide and gaps within both movements
1:11:23 - Philosophers who have reached across the divide
1:13:11- What can Analytic and Continental philosophers learn from each other?
1:21:25 - What can they both learn from Historically-focused philosophers?
1:22:55 - The biggest obstacle, namely, Time
1:27:56 - General Q&A and discussion
Gregory Sadler is the president and founder of ReasonIO, a company that puts philosophy into practice -https://reasonio.wordpress.com/
If you're interested in booking Dr. Sadler for a talk, lecture, discussion, or workshop, feel free to contact him at greg@reasonio.com

Paul Griffiths: Information in Living Systems

source: Yale University    2013年12月18日
The source of order in living systems has been the key question at the boundary of biology and philosophy since the eighteenth century. Today it is widely believed that living systems differ from non-living because they are driven by information, much of which has accumulated during evolution, and much of which is genetically transmitted. But there is at present no specifically biological measure of information that can underpin this vision. In this lecture, I attempt to fill this gap by grounding the idea of biological information in contemporary philosophical work on the nature of causation. This approach to biological information is inspired by the early theoretical insights of the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, Francis Crick, but is general enough to capture the informational contribution of environmental factors in development, epigenetic information, and the emergence of new information in self-organizing processes.

Leslie Curry (Yale U): Fundamentals of Qualitative Research Methods

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source: Yale University        上次更新日期：2015年6月23日

What is Qualitative Research (Module 1) 13:52
Developing a Qualitative Research Question (Module 2) 12:11
Interviews (Module 3) 22:17
Focus Groups (Module 4) 21:37
Data Analysis (Module 5) 17:12
Scientific Rigor (Module 6) 8:03

Hazel Markus: Clash! How to Thrive in the Multicultural World

source: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) 2016年4月27日
Date: Monday 25 April 2016
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Professor Hazel Markus
Discussants: Professor Chandran Kukathas, Dr Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington
Chair: Dr Caroline Howarth

As the world gets smaller, people with different cultural backgrounds are colliding more than ever before. Drawing on studies from across the social sciences, this approach explains not only how the independence-interdependence divide can ignite conflict and also how we can harness these culture clashes for good.
Hazel Markus is Davis-Brack Professor in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University.
Chandran Kukathas holds the Chair in Political Theory and is Head of the Department of Government at the London School of Economics.
Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington is an Assistant Professor in the Social Psychology Department at the LSE. Her research focuses on the psychology of power, socioeconomic status, and intergroup relations.
Caroline Howarth is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Psychology, LSE. Dr Howarth's research focusses on the social psychology of intercultural relations, exclusion and belonging. She has examined the ways in which social institutions (such as schools) help or hinder the development of constructive approaches to diversity. She has written extensively on these issues and is co-editor for Political Psychology.
The Department of Social Psychology (@PsychologyLSE) is a leading international centre dedicated to consolidating and expanding the contribution of social psychology to the understanding and knowledge of key social, economic, political and cultural issues.

Jason J. Campbell: The Philosophy of Hip-Hop

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source: drjasonjcampbell   2010年8月31日 /上次更新：2014年5月3日

1. Philosophy of Hip-Hop: Keeping it Real 23:18
2. Philosophy of Hip-Hop: Grinding 33:14
3. Philosophy of Hip-Hop: Gangsta 38:25
4. Philosophy of Hip-Hop: Haters 36:38
Motivation: Nerd Music 1:33
Dr. Jason J. Campbell and M.C. Big Money 3:44
Knowledge 101 10:21
5. Philosophy of Hip-Hop: Hustlin 44:55
Video Response: The Cowardly Lion and Urban Oppression 21:46
Philosophy of Hip Hop: An Urban War-Zone: Part I 46:23
Philosophy of Hip Hop: An Urban War Zone: Part II 57:52
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Math Mornings on Sunday - Nathan Kaplan: Points, Lines & Puzzles

source: Yale University    2015年11月24日
Professor Nathan Kaplan gives a talk about Points, Lines & Puzzles at Yale Math Mornings on Sunday.