Mary's Room: A philosophical thought experiment - Eleanor Nelsen

source: TED-Ed    2017年1月24日
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Imagine a neuroscientist who has only ever seen black and white things, but she is an expert in color vision and knows everything about its physics and biology. If, one day, she sees color, does she learn anything new? Is there anything about perceiving color that wasn’t captured in her knowledge? Eleanor Nelsen explains what this thought experiment can teach us about experience.
Lesson by Eleanor Nelsen, animation by Maxime Dupuy.

Derrida: On The Private Lives of Philosophers

source: Eidos84    2010年9月10日
Asked what would he like to see in a documentary on a major philosopher, such as Hegel or Heidegger, Derrida replies he would want them to speak of their sexuality and 'the part that love plays in their life'. He criticises the dissimulation of such philosophers concerning their sex lives - 'why have they erased their private life from their work?'

Derrida on Blanchot

source: Eidos84    2012年11月13日
Jacques Derrida on Maurice Blanchot, from the French documentary 'Maurice Blanchot' (1998).
Trans. K. Pender and P. Salmon

Alain Badiou on Art: Description Without Place

source: Eidos84    2011年1月27日
Alain Badiou on art (March 7, 2006).
Badiou is a French philosopher, professor at European Graduate School, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure. Along with Giorgio Agamben and Slavoj Žižek, Badiou is a prominent figure in an anti-postmodern strand of continental philosophy. Badiou seeks to recover the concepts of being, truth and the subject in a way that, he claims, is neither postmodern nor simply a repetition of modernity. His magnum opus, "Being and Event", is considered by some to be the most important work of 20th century ontology after Heidegger's 'Being and Time". Politically, Badiou is committed to the far left, and to the Marxist tradition.

Alain Badiou: The Communist Hypothesis

source: Eidos84   2011年1月18日
Alain Badiou, ''The Communist Hypothesis''. Lecture given on October 15, 2010.

Christopher Lebron - “Why Does James Baldwin Love You?”

source: Yale University    2016年12月13日
Franke Lectures in the Humanities, "James Baldwin's American Scene"
Christopher Lebron is Assistant Professor of African American Studies and Philosophy at Yale University. He is the author of The Color of Our Shame: Race and Justice in Our Time, winner of the American Political Science Association Foundations of Political Theory First Book Award, as well as numerous academic articles and book reviews on race and political ethics. Lebron has also written for the New York Times’s The Stone column and Boston Review. He has just completed “The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea,” forthcoming in 2017. He was recently named a finalist for the Hiett Prize, awarded by the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, which recognizes promising young scholars and writers who are influencing public debates through their work.

Jacob S. Hacker | American Amnesia: Forgetting What Made Us Prosper || Radcliffe Institute

source: Harvard University    2016年12月15日
American Amnesia: Forgetting What Made Us Prosper
https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/eve...
(6:10) Jacob S. Hacker discusses the importance of an effective public sector to America’s health, wealth, and well-being and explores why so many of our economic and political leaders seem to have forgotten this perspective. He explains these concepts in the context of recent political events, the historic 2016 election, and changing ideas about government itself.
Hacker, the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science and the director of the Institute for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University, is the author, with Paul Pierson, of the recently published American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper (Simon & Schuster, 2016), an Editors’ Choice of the New York Times Sunday Book Review.
Introduction by Lizabeth Cohen, dean, Radcliffe Institute, and Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies, Department of History, Harvard University
Audience Q&A (43:02)