OpenXChange - United: Saturday with Senator Cory Booker

source: Stanford     2016年5月17日
Nightline anchor Juju Chang, ’87 interviews New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, ’91, MA ’92 about public service, diversity in the political arena and his new book United: Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good.

The key to build trust through meaningful work – Answers from the panelists | IECO – RCC

source: Harvard University    2016年6月2日
The panelists and the organizer of the Colloquium, they answer to the question of how important it is for work to be meaningful and to what can organizations do to encourage meaningful work.

Immanuel Kant (Transcript/Subtitles Available)

source: Philosophical Overdose     2016年7月23日
Bryan Magee and Geoffrey Warnock discuss the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, who is considered the central figure in modern philosophy. Kant synthesized early rationalism and empiricism, set the terms for much of 19th and 20th century philosophy, and continues to exercise a significant influence today in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, political philosophy, aesthetics, and other fields. Kant is perhaps most famous his distinction between appearances and things-in-themselves. This was the idea that we can only know things as they appear to us through our sensory and mental faculties, not how they are in themselves independent of us and our mental apparatus. This allowed him to account for synthetic a priori knowledge, truths which are necessary and yet still are substantial and informative. He is also famous for deontology in moral philosophy, especially the categorical imperative and that reason is the source of morality, as well as for his view that aesthetics is based on a faculty of disinterested judgment.
This interview was part of a BBC program from 1987. The quality is kind of shitty, but the audio and video should stay in sync at least. I didn't think I'd be putting so many of these Bryan Magee interviews up, especially since they're already on Youtube, but they're just so good I can't resist.

Interview with Willard Van Orman Quine

source: Philosophical Overdose     2016年5月4日
Bryan Magee interviews Quine about his work and some of his philosophical views.
Willard Van Orman Quine was an American philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition, recognized as "one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century". His main interests were in logic, set theory, philosophy of language, ontology, epistemology, philosophy of science, and mathematics.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard...
This interview was part of a BBC program from 1978.

U.S. Sanctions and National Security

source: New York University    2016年5月31日
This CNAS public conference on U.S. sanctions and national security, co-hosted with the Center on Law and Security at NYU School of Law, will feature an overview of administration policy on sanctions and a discussion among distinguished former policy leaders on the role for coercive economic measures in tackling the security challenges of the future. The event coincides with the release of a CNAS report on the effects and effectiveness of sanctions since 9/11. Some questions this conference will explore include: how can the United States measure and achieve intended effects from the use of coercive economic measures? What place should sanctions have in the U.S. national security arsenal? And as American rivals become more familiar with the tools of economic statecraft, what defensive measures are available to protect U.S. interests from retaliation for the imposition of sanctions?

Khalil Gibran Muhammad | How Numbers Lie || Radcliffe Institute

source: Harvard University    2016年3月17日
“How Numbers Lie: Intersectional Violence and the Quantification of Race”
Tracing the genealogy of statistical discourses on race, Khalil Gibran Muhammad explores the violence of racial quantification on black women and men’s lives beginning in the postbellum period.
Currently the director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library and a visiting professor at the City University of New York, Muhammad will begin his academic appointments as a professor of history, race, and public policy at Harvard Kennedy School and a Suzanne Young Murray Professor at Radcliffe on July 1, 2016.
Presented by the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
Video:
Welcome by Lizabeth Cohen, Dean of the Radcliffe Institute
Introduction by Jane Kamensky, Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library - 6:55
Lecture by Khalil Gibran Muhammad - 15:50

Ambassador Samantha Power '92, Yale College Class Day Speaker

source: Yale University      2016年5月26日
Ambassador Samantha Power '92, permanent representative of the United States to the United Nations and a member of President Obama's Cabinet, spoke at the Yale College Class Day on Sunday, May 22, 2016.