Part 1 of the interview film, American Philosopher. It focuses on the idea of "The American Character" and examines the early origins of philosophy in America from native influences through Franklin, Jefferson, and Emerson, prefiguring pragmatism. The score is "Points of Departure" by Robert Moran, courtesy of Robert Moran.

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Excerpt/trailer for "American Philosopher", a film by Phillip McReynolds

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Friends and other philosophers talk about American Philosopher Richard Rorty who recently died with clips from Rorty himself. From a longer film called "American Philosopher" by Phillip McReynolds.

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Part 3 of the interview film, American Philosopher. American philosophers distinguish between "American Philosophy" (which includes but is not coextensive with pragmatism) and "Philosophy in America". American Philosophy is characterized as being particularly concerned with issues of place and tradition. Differences between American Philosophy, Analytic Philosophy, and Continental Philosophy.

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Part 2 of the interview film, American Philosopher. Stories of Americans becoming philosophers including Dwayne Tunstall, John Lysaker, Erin McKenna, LT Outlaw, John Lachs, and Richard Rorty.

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American Pragmatism was, if not dead, at least on life support until revived by the debate between Hilary Putnam and Richard Rorty on truth, warrant, and reality. (At least according to some of these philosophers.) [From "American Philosopher", a film by Phillip McReynolds]

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Scholar AG Rud explains how the ideas of John Dewey—whose life spanned from the Civil War through World War II—are still very relevant to education in the 21st Century. Rud is dean of the Washington State University College of Education and co-editor of John Dewey at 150: Reflections for a new century. (Purdue University Press).

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Title sequence for American Philosophy, an interview film by Phillip McReynolds about Philosophy in America and American Philosophy. Interviews with Richard Rorty, Hilary Putnam, Joseph Margolis, Richard Bernstein, Larry Hickman, Crispin Sartwell, John Lysaker, John Stuhr, John Lachs, and many other philosophers.

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This is Part 4 of the interview Film American Philosopher that focuses upon themes in American Philosophy and the interest that American philosophers have in biography, which is literally life-writing. The drama of experience.

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Gerald (Jerry) Cohen was a Marxist political philosopher. He was Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at Oxford and subsequently Quain Professor of Jurisprudence at University College London. en.wikipedia.org This video was recorded by Erik Olin Wright at the University of Chicago, October 1991 and appears here with his permission.

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Part 7 of the interview film, American Philosopher. What makes good philosophy or a good philosopher? What does it take to be a philosopher? Why does philosophy matter? The idea of exactness in philosophy and the society for exact philosophy. Comments by Richard Rorty, Hilary Putnam, Richard Bernstein, Joseph Margolis, David Vessey, Doug Anderson, Tom Alexander, John Lysaker, and others.

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Part 6 of the interview film, American Philosopher. The idea of progress in American life and culture, in philosophy, and it's relation to the Hilary Putnam - Richard Rorty Debate. Commentary by Hilary Putnam, Richard Rorty, Joseph Margolis, and many others.

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Alvin Plantinga is an American philosopher, currently the John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is known for his work in epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion, and in particular for applying the methods of analytic philosophy to defend Christian belief. In this clip, he argues for the ontological distinctness of mind and body on the basis of modal properties and the identity of indiscernibles (ie Leibniz's law). en.wikipedia.org plato.stanford.edu en.wikipedia.org

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Patricia Churchland is a Canadian-American philosopher working at the University of California, San Diego. She is associated with a school of thought in the philosophy of mind called eliminativism (or eliminative materialism), which argues that folk-psychological concepts such as belief, free will, and consciousness will likely need to be revised as science understands more about the nature of brain function. In this clip, journalist Bill Moyers interviews philosopher Patricia Smith Churchland on how empirical research in the neurosciences could have radical implications for longstanding philosophical questions concerning the nature of knowledge, the self, and conscious experience. She also discuses the limits of our imaginative abilities, and how they have historically failed us when we attempt to speculate concerning what types of phenomena will, in principle, never be adequately explained in solely materialistic terms. Consequently, she thinks we shouldn't take a failure of imagination as an insight into ontological necessity. Next, she discusses her conversations with the Dalai Lama, his amazing openness to conceptual revision in the face of advancing empirical research, and how it is unlikely that new neurobiological facts will have a radical impact on our moral reasoning. Finally, she addresses some of the religious implications of contemporary neurobiological research, and how (just like in the case of vitalism) the religious notion of an immaterial soul has become <b>...</b>

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Kwame Anthony Appiah, a Ghanaian-British-American philosopher, explains cosmopolitanism in Astra Taylor's Examined Life.

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Big Thinkers is a former ZDTV (later TechTV) television program. It featured a half-hour interview with a "big thinker" in science, technology, and other fields. Interviews were filmed in a 16:9 format and intercut with public domain material from the Prelinger Archives. This archival footage (mostly film clips from the 1940's and 50's) was used to create visual metaphors highlighting the speaker's points. This episode features Daniel Dennett. He is a prominent American philosopher whose research centers on philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science. He is currently the co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies, the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and a University Professor at Tufts University. Dennett is also a noted atheist and advocate of the Brights movement. (Text from Wikipedia)

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Hosted and produced by Jim Manley (www.jimmanley.com) Written and directed by David A. Beardsley www.RWE.org - Ralph Waldo Emerson Institute ---- The first video biography of "America's Founding Thinker," Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson's belief in "the infinitude of the private man" still resonates with spiritual seekers today. Most people know Emerson's essay, "Self-Reliance," but there is much more to the fascinating life of the man and his circle, which included Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, and Margaret Fuller. You will never look at Emerson--or yourself--quite the same way again. Includes interviews with Robert D. Richardson Jr., author of "Emerson: The Mind on Fire;" Richard G. Geldard, author of "God in Concord;" Barbara Solowey, teacher and lecturer; Richard Grossman, author and psychotherapist; and Sarah Ann Wider, Professor of English, Colgate University.

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From the opening session of the American Public Health Association's 138th Annual Meeting. Cornel Ronald West is an American philosopher, author, critic, actor, and civil rights activist and currently serves as the Class of 1943 University Professor at Princeton University where he teaches in the Center for African American Studies and in the department of Religion. He is known for his combination of political and moral insight and criticism, and his contribution to the post-1960s civil rights movement. The bulk of his work focuses upon the role of race, gender, and class in American society and the means by which people act and react to their "radical conditionedness." Born in Tulsa Oklahoma, West enrolled at Harvard University at age 17 and graduated magna cum laude in Near Eastern Languages and Civilization. He earned a Ph.D. in 1980 from Princeton. In his mid-twenties, he returned to Harvard as a Du Bois Fellow before becoming an assistant professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York. In 1985 he went to Yale Divinity School. While at Yale, he participated in campus protests for a clerical union and divestment from apartheid in South Africa which resulted in his being arrested and jailed. He then returned to Union and taught at Haverford College for one year before going to Princeton to become a professor of religion and director of the Program in African American Studies which he revitalized in cooperation with such scholars as novelist Toni Morrison. In 1994 <b>...</b>

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'Rorty and The End of Philosophy'. Richard McKay Rorty (October 4, 1931 -- June 8, 2007) was an American philosopher. He had a long and diverse academic career, including positions as Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton, Kenan Professor of Humanities at the University of Virginia, and Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University. His complex intellectual background gave him a comprehensive and nuanced understanding of the analytic tradition in philosophy he would later famously reject. The philosophical program he developed included a rejection of a representationalist account of knowledge, a concept he referred to as a "mirror of nature," which he saw as a holdover from Platonism and pervasive throughout the history of philosophy. In response to this tradition, which he saw embodied by analytic philosophy, Rorty developed a novel form of pragmatism in which scientific and philosophical methods are merely contingent "vocabularies" which are abandoned or adopted over time according to social conventions and usefulness. Abandoning the representationalist account of knowledge, Rorty believed, would lead to a state of mind he referred to as "ironism", in which people are completely aware of the contingency of their placement in history and of their vocabulary. For Rorty, this brand of philosophy is always tied to the notion of "social hope," that without the ideas of representation and other concepts standing in the way between the mind and the world <b>...</b>

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Very interesting debate about God, evolution, free will, consciousness and death. Daniel Clement Dennett is a prominent American philosopher whose research centers on philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science. He is currently the co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies and the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University. Dennett is also a noted atheist and advocate of the Brights movement. Robert Wright is an American journalist, scholar, and prize-winning author of best-selling books about science, evolutionary psychology, history, religion, and game theory, including Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, The Moral Animal, and Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information. He is a visiting scholar at The University of Pennsylvania and Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation.

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Very interesting debate about God, evolution, free will, consciousness and death. Daniel Clement Dennett is a prominent American philosopher whose research centers on philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science. He is currently the co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies and the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University. Dennett is also a noted atheist and advocate of the Brights movement. Robert Wright is an American journalist, scholar, and prize-winning author of best-selling books about science, evolutionary psychology, history, religion, and game theory, including Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, The Moral Animal, and Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information. He is a visiting scholar at The University of Pennsylvania and Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation.

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Very interesting debate about God, evolution, free will, consciousness and death. Daniel Clement Dennett is a prominent American philosopher whose research centers on philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science. He is currently the co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies and the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University. Dennett is also a noted atheist and advocate of the Brights movement. Robert Wright is an American journalist, scholar, and prize-winning author of best-selling books about science, evolutionary psychology, history, religion, and game theory, including Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, The Moral Animal, and Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information. He is a visiting scholar at The University of Pennsylvania and Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation.

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The 2006 Dewey Lecture in Law and Philosophy at the University of Chicago Law School. Richard Rorty (1931-2007) developed a distinctive and controversial brand of pragmatism that expressed itself along two main axes. One is negative—a critical diagnosis of what Rorty takes to be defining projects of modern philosophy. The other is positive—an attempt to show what intellectual culture might look like, once we free ourselves from the governing metaphors of mind and knowledge in which the traditional problems of epistemology and metaphysics (and indeed, in Rorty's view, the self-conception of modern philosophy) are rooted. plato.stanford.edu en.wikipedia.org Posner is the author of nearly 40 books on jurisprudence, legal philosophy, and several other topics, including The Problems of Jurisprudence; Sex and Reason; Overcoming Law; Law, Pragmatism and Democracy; and The Problematics of Moral and Legal Theory. One journal has identified Posner as the most cited legal scholar of all time. He is considered to be one of the most respected judges in the United States. en.wikipedia.org John Dewey (October 20, 1859 June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer whose thoughts and ideas have been highly influential in the United States and around the world. Dewey, along with Charles Sanders Peirce and William James, is recognized as one of the founders of the philosophical school of pragmatism. He is also one of the founders of functional psychology <b>...</b>

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Ned Block is an American philosopher working in the field of the philosophy of mind who has made important contributions to studies of consciousness and cognitive science. He obtained his Ph.D. from Harvard University under Hilary Putnam and was a professor of philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for many years. He is now the Silver Professor of Philosophy, Psychology, and Neural Science, at New York University (NYU). en.wikipedia.org In this clip, Block discusses theories that claim that consciousness is an illusion, and why he thinks that such theories fail to capture the essence of subjective phenomenal experience.

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Complete video at: fora.tv Charles Taylor discusses the history of the first amendment and America's separation of church and state. He discusses the dichotomy between secularism and religiousness and how it has changed over the centuries. ----- Charles Taylor, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, McGill University treats the term "secular" with several different meanings which, for a variety of reasons can't be simply ironed out and reduced to one, hence the inevitability of confusions and cross-purposes. - The New School Charles Margrave Taylor, CC, GOQ, BA, MA, Ph.D, FRSC (born November 5, 1931) is a Canadian philosopher who has made significant contributions to political philosophy, philosophy of social science, and the history of philosophy. He is often classified as a communitarian, though he is uncomfortable with the label. He is a practicing Roman Catholic. Taylor was educated at the McGill University (BA in History in 1952) and at Balliol College, Oxford (BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1955, MA in 1960, D.Phil in 1961), where he studied under Isaiah Berlin and GEM Anscombe. He succeeded John Plamenatz as Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory in the University of Oxford and Fellow of All Souls College and was for many years Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, where he is now professor emeritus. Taylor is now Board of Trustees Professor of Law and Philosophy at Northwestern University.

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www.phil.cam.ac.uk A serious question demands a serious answer that is based on solid reasons. Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear Thomas Jefferson If there is a God heaven will be full of skeptics because they treated God with seriousness and depth than with blind fear and cultural conformity. Selected Publications 'Evidential Decision Theory and Newcomb's Problem', British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 56(2): 191-8 'Agency and Causation' in H. Price and R. Corry (eds), Causation, Physics and the Constitution of Reality. OUP 2007 Saul Kripke. Continuum 2007 'Rigidity and Essentiality: Reply to Gomez-Torrente' forthcoming in Mind 2008 'WV Quine', forthcoming in C. Misak (ed.), Oxford Handbook of American Philosophy. OUP 2008 Wittgenstein's 'Philosophical Investigations': A Critical Guide (ed., forthcomig). CUP 2009 To use a State Government metaphor: Religion is an authoritarian state based on a book of dogma. Science is a republic of reason with checks and balances that is based on a method of inquiry. Philosophy is a state of socialism based on shared ideas participation and discussion. Post modernism is a state of anarchy. Popular culture is a state of democracy based on majority norms and what is fashionable.

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Some good TED Talks: www.ted.com www.ted.com Why I don't feel like I identify with being an American. Most of the thinkers that have influenced me have been English, French, German, and ancient Greek. Note: For some reason during the video, it did not occur to me that Ayn Rand was Russian and an immigrant, so is Rothbard really the only American philosopher to strongly influence me? And even he largely said things I already thought. Other thinkers that have influenced my thought in various ways (none of which seem to be American): Max Stirner Friedrich Nietzsche Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Frederic Bastiat Gustave de Molinari Richard Dawkins (mostly via The Selfish Gene) But there are a couple Americans!: George H. Smith Roderick Long (though via Randian and Aristotelian thinking mostly) John Searle Thomas Jefferson (THE American, philosophically, despite his own moral failings)

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Gerald (Jerry) Cohen was a Marxist political philosopher. He was Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at Oxford and subsequently Quain Professor of Jurisprudence at University College London. en.wikipedia.org This video was recorded by Erik Olin Wright at the University of Chicago, October 1991 and appears here with his permission. Dramatis Personae Jurgen Habermas = German philosopher Theodor Adorno = German philosopher, among founders of the Frankfurt School John Roemer = American economist Paul Sweezy = American economic, founder of Monthly Review Leon Trotsky = Russian revolutionary, intellectual and literary critic Karl Liebknecht = German revolutionary, founder of Communist Party of Germany Antonio Gramsci = Italian intellectual and revolutionary Alexandra Kollontai = Russian revolutionary, Soviet Ambassador to Norway Rosa Luxemburg = Polish revolutionary, founder of Communist Party of Germany Georgy Plekhanov = Russian intellectual and revolutionary David Ryazanov = Russian intellectual and revolutionary Glossary Gesamtausgabe = Collected works of Marx and Engels embodied labour = labour time spent making a commodity counterfactual labour = labour time necessary to make a commodity

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www.egs.edu Carl Mitcham, Free public open philosophy and politics lecture for the students of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2007. Carl Mitcham: Hans Jonas Chair at EGS, Professor of Liberal Arts and International Studies, Colorado School of Mines. Ph.D. (Fordham). One of the leading American philosophers of technology with emphasis on ethics. Former philosophy professor and director, Science-Technology-Society Program, Pennsylvania State University; founding director, Philosophy and Technology Studies Center, Polytechnic University, New York; president, Society for Philosophy and Technology. Mitcham is the editor of Philosophy of Technology Reader; Philosophy and Technology II; Ethics and Technology. Author of Technology and Religion; Thinking Through Technology; Social and Philosophical Construction of Technology; Engineering Ethics.

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This is a debate at the Royal Institution in London between philosopher Daniel C Dennett and professor of theology Alister McGrath. The debate is on the ideas presented in Dennett's book Breaking the Spell, such as the concept of the meme and the evolution of religion. The debate is moderated by Madeleine Bunting. Daniel Clement Dennett (born March 28, 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a prominent American philosopher whose research centers on philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science. He is currently the co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies, the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and a University Professor at Tufts University. Dennett is also a noted atheist and advocate of the Brights movement. en.wikipedia.org Alister Edgar McGrath (born 23 January 1953) is a Christian theologian, who holds both a DPhil (in molecular biophysics) and an earned Doctor of Divinity degree from Oxford. He is noted for his work in historical, systematic and scientific theology. In his writing and public speaking, he promotes "scientific theology" and opposes antireligionism. McGrath was until recently Professor of Historical Theology at the University of Oxford, but has now taken up the chair of Theology, Religion and Culture at King's College London since September 2008. Until 2005, he was principal of Wycliffe Hall. en.wikipedia.org

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This is a debate at the Royal Institution in London between philosopher Daniel C Dennett and professor of theology Alister McGrath. The debate is on the ideas presented in Dennett's book Breaking the Spell, such as the concept of the meme and the evolution of religion. The debate is moderated by Madeleine Bunting. Daniel Clement Dennett (born March 28, 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a prominent American philosopher whose research centers on philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science. He is currently the co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies, the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and a University Professor at Tufts University. Dennett is also a noted atheist and advocate of the Brights movement. en.wikipedia.org Alister Edgar McGrath (born 23 January 1953) is a Christian theologian, who holds both a DPhil (in molecular biophysics) and an earned Doctor of Divinity degree from Oxford. He is noted for his work in historical, systematic and scientific theology. In his writing and public speaking, he promotes "scientific theology" and opposes antireligionism. McGrath was until recently Professor of Historical Theology at the University of Oxford, but has now taken up the chair of Theology, Religion and Culture at King's College London since September 2008. Until 2005, he was principal of Wycliffe Hall. en.wikipedia.org

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Complete video at: fora.tv Political philosopher Michael Sandel weighs the ethics of using free market principles to solve America's immigration problem. He analyzes Gary Becker's proposal to solve the immigration debate by asking if "the US should simply set a price and sell American citizenship." ----- Harvard Professor Michael Sandel deliveres a speech titled "Markets and Morals" as part of the Chautauqua Institution 2009 Summer Lecture Series. He tackles some of economics' toughest ethical questions, such as the business of commercial surrogacy and the price of citizenship. - Chautauqua Institution Michael J. Sandel is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University, where he has taught political philosophy since 1980. He is the author of Liberalism and the Limits of Justice (Cambridge University Press, 1982, 2nd edition, 1997; translated into eight foreign languages), Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy (Harvard University Press, 1996), Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in Politics (Harvard University Press, 2005), and The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering (Harvard University Press, 2007). His writings also appear in general publications such as The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, and The New York Times.

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This is a debate at the Royal Institution in London between philosopher Daniel C Dennett and professor of theology Alister McGrath. The debate is on the ideas presented in Dennett's book Breaking the Spell, such as the concept of the meme and the evolution of religion. The debate is moderated by Madeleine Bunting. Daniel Clement Dennett (born March 28, 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a prominent American philosopher whose research centers on philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science. He is currently the co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies, the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and a University Professor at Tufts University. Dennett is also a noted atheist and advocate of the Brights movement. en.wikipedia.org Alister Edgar McGrath (born 23 January 1953) is a Christian theologian, who holds both a DPhil (in molecular biophysics) and an earned Doctor of Divinity degree from Oxford. He is noted for his work in historical, systematic and scientific theology. In his writing and public speaking, he promotes "scientific theology" and opposes antireligionism. McGrath was until recently Professor of Historical Theology at the University of Oxford, but has now taken up the chair of Theology, Religion and Culture at King's College London since September 2008. Until 2005, he was principal of Wycliffe Hall. en.wikipedia.org

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Slovenian Philosopher Slavoj Zizek on Capitalism, Healthcare, Latin American "Populism" and the "Farcical" Financial Crisis Dubbed by the National Review as the most dangerous political philosopher in the West and the New York Times as the Elvis of cultural theory, Slovenian philosopher and public intellectual Slavoj Žižek has written over fifty books on philosophy, psychoanalysis, theology, history and political theory. In his latest book, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, Žižek analyzes how the United States has moved from the tragedy of 9/11 to what he calls the farce of the financial meltdown.

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Slovenian Philosopher Slavoj Zizek on Capitalism, Healthcare, Latin American "Populism" and the "Farcical" Financial Crisis Dubbed by the National Review as the most dangerous political philosopher in the West and the New York Times as the Elvis of cultural theory, Slovenian philosopher and public intellectual Slavoj Žižek has written over fifty books on philosophy, psychoanalysis, theology, history and political theory. In his latest book, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, Žižek analyzes how the United States has moved from the tragedy of 9/11 to what he calls the farce of the financial meltdown.

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This is a debate at the Royal Institution in London between philosopher Daniel C Dennett and professor of theology Alister McGrath. The debate is on the ideas presented in Dennett's book Breaking the Spell, such as the concept of the meme and the evolution of religion. The debate is moderated by Madeleine Bunting. Daniel Clement Dennett (born March 28, 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a prominent American philosopher whose research centers on philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science. He is currently the co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies, the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and a University Professor at Tufts University. Dennett is also a noted atheist and advocate of the Brights movement. en.wikipedia.org Alister Edgar McGrath (born 23 January 1953) is a Christian theologian, who holds both a DPhil (in molecular biophysics) and an earned Doctor of Divinity degree from Oxford. He is noted for his work in historical, systematic and scientific theology. In his writing and public speaking, he promotes "scientific theology" and opposes antireligionism. McGrath was until recently Professor of Historical Theology at the University of Oxford, but has now taken up the chair of Theology, Religion and Culture at King's College London since September 2008. Until 2005, he was principal of Wycliffe Hall. en.wikipedia.org

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This is a debate at the Royal Institution in London between philosopher Daniel C Dennett and professor of theology Alister McGrath. The debate is on the ideas presented in Dennett's book Breaking the Spell, such as the concept of the meme and the evolution of religion. The debate is moderated by Madeleine Bunting. Daniel Clement Dennett (born March 28, 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a prominent American philosopher whose research centers on philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science. He is currently the co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies, the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and a University Professor at Tufts University. Dennett is also a noted atheist and advocate of the Brights movement. en.wikipedia.org Alister Edgar McGrath (born 23 January 1953) is a Christian theologian, who holds both a DPhil (in molecular biophysics) and an earned Doctor of Divinity degree from Oxford. He is noted for his work in historical, systematic and scientific theology. In his writing and public speaking, he promotes "scientific theology" and opposes antireligionism. McGrath was until recently Professor of Historical Theology at the University of Oxford, but has now taken up the chair of Theology, Religion and Culture at King's College London since September 2008. Until 2005, he was principal of Wycliffe Hall. en.wikipedia.org

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Cornel Ronald West is an American philosopher, author, critic, actor, and civil rights activist and currently serves as the Class of 1943 University Professor at Princeton University where he teaches in the Center for African American Studies and in the department of Religion. He is known for his combination of political and moral insight and criticism, and his contribution to the post-1960s civil rights movement. The bulk of his work focuses upon the role of race, gender, and class in American society and the means by which people act and react to their "radical conditionedness." Born in Tulsa Oklahoma, West enrolled at Harvard University at age 17 and graduated magna cum laude in Near Eastern Languages and Civilization. He earned a Ph.D. in 1980 from Princeton. In his mid-twenties, he returned to Harvard as a Du Bois Fellow before becoming an assistant professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York. In 1985 he went to Yale Divinity School. While at Yale, he participated in campus protests for a clerical union and divestment from apartheid in South Africa which resulted in his being arrested and jailed. He then returned to Union and taught at Haverford College for one year before going to Princeton to become a professor of religion and director of the Program in African American Studies which he revitalized in cooperation with such scholars as novelist Toni Morrison. In 1994 he accepted an appointment as professor of African-American studies at Harvard University <b>...</b>

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This is a debate at the Royal Institution in London between philosopher Daniel C Dennett and professor of theology Alister McGrath. The debate is on the ideas presented in Dennett's book Breaking the Spell, such as the concept of the meme and the evolution of religion. The debate is moderated by Madeleine Bunting.. Daniel Clement Dennett (born March 28, 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a prominent American philosopher whose research centers on philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science. He is currently the co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies, the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and a University Professor at Tufts University. Dennett is also a noted atheist and advocate of the Brights movement. en.wikipedia.org Alister Edgar McGrath (born 23 January 1953) is a Christian theologian, who holds both a DPhil (in molecular biophysics) and an earned Doctor of Divinity degree from Oxford. He is noted for his work in historical, systematic and scientific theology. In his writing and public speaking, he promotes "scientific theology" and opposes antireligionism. McGrath was until recently Professor of Historical Theology at the University of Oxford, but has now taken up the chair of Theology, Religion and Culture at King's College London since September 2008. Until 2005, he was principal of Wycliffe Hall. en.wikipedia.org

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The 2006 Dewey Lecture in Law and Philosophy at the University of Chicago Law School. Richard Rorty (1931-2007) developed a distinctive and controversial brand of pragmatism that expressed itself along two main axes. One is negative—a critical diagnosis of what Rorty takes to be defining projects of modern philosophy. The other is positive—an attempt to show what intellectual culture might look like, once we free ourselves from the governing metaphors of mind and knowledge in which the traditional problems of epistemology and metaphysics (and indeed, in Rorty's view, the self-conception of modern philosophy) are rooted. plato.stanford.edu en.wikipedia.org Posner is the author of nearly 40 books on jurisprudence, legal philosophy, and several other topics, including The Problems of Jurisprudence; Sex and Reason; Overcoming Law; Law, Pragmatism and Democracy; and The Problematics of Moral and Legal Theory. One journal has identified Posner as the most cited legal scholar of all time. He is considered to be one of the most respected judges in the United States. en.wikipedia.org John Dewey (October 20, 1859 June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer whose thoughts and ideas have been highly influential in the United States and around the world. Dewey, along with Charles Sanders Peirce and William James, is recognized as one of the founders of the philosophical school of pragmatism. He is also one of the founders of functional psychology <b>...</b>

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Patricia Churchland is a Canadian-American philosopher working at the University of California, San Diego. en.wikipedia.org In this video, she introduces her work and discusses her current projects which explore the potential impact of neuroscientific research on our understanding of human nature and morality. Her recent research has focused on the neurotransmitter oxytocin, and its relationship to social recognition, pair bonding, anxiety, trust, love, and maternal behavior. en.wikipedia.org Patricia Churchland's complete "Exchanges at the Frontier" radio broadcast with philosopher AC Grayling can be found here: www.bbc.co.uk

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Cornel Ronald West is an American philosopher, author, critic, actor, and civil rights activist and currently serves as the Class of 1943 University Professor at Princeton University where he teaches in the Center for African American Studies and in the department of Religion. He is known for his combination of political and moral insight and criticism, and his contribution to the post-1960s civil rights movement. The bulk of his work focuses upon the role of race, gender, and class in American society and the means by which people act and react to their "radical conditionedness." Born in Tulsa Oklahoma, West enrolled at Harvard University at age 17 and graduated magna cum laude in Near Eastern Languages and Civilization. He earned a Ph.D. in 1980 from Princeton. In his mid-twenties, he returned to Harvard as a Du Bois Fellow before becoming an assistant professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York. In 1985 he went to Yale Divinity School. While at Yale, he participated in campus protests for a clerical union and divestment from apartheid in South Africa which resulted in his being arrested and jailed. He then returned to Union and taught at Haverford College for one year before going to Princeton to become a professor of religion and director of the Program in African American Studies which he revitalized in cooperation with such scholars as novelist Toni Morrison. In 1994 he accepted an appointment as professor of African-American studies at Harvard University <b>...</b>

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Complete video at: fora.tv Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen responds to several questions on justice and society. Sen offers his opinion on topics including cultural relativism, justice and democracy, and the ethics of a "survival of the fittest" approach to social justice. ----- Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen has been called the "Mother Teresa of economics" for his work on famine, human development theory and welfare economics. He argues that social justice is more than a matter of intellectual discourse, and that the idea of justice influences how - and how well -- people live. Sen offers a powerful critique of the mainstream theories of justice that, despite their many specific achievements, he argues, have taken us in the wrong direction. - Commonwealth Club of California Amartya Sen is Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, at Harvard University and was until recently the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. He was formerly Honorary President of OXFAM and is now its Honorary Advisor. Amartya Sen's books have been translated into more than thirty languages. His research has ranged over a number of fields in economics, philosophy, and decision theory, including social choice theory, welfare economics, theory of measurement, development economics, public health, gender studies, moral and political philosophy, and the economics of peace and war. Amartya Sen has received honorary doctorates from major universities in North America <b>...</b>

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Saul Aaron Kripke (born November 13, 1940) is an American philosopher and logician. He is a professor emeritus at Princeton and teaches as a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center. Since the 1960s Kripke has been a central figure in a number of fields related to mathematical logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, metaphysics, epistemology, and set theory. Much of his work remains unpublished or exists only as tape-recordings and privately circulated manuscripts. Kripke was the recipient of the 2001 Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy. A recent poll conducted among philosophers ranked Kripke among the top ten most important philosophers of the past 200 years. (Wikipedia)

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The US-led forces have admitted that a number of Afghan civilians were killed in airstrikes conducted last week in southern and northwestern Afghanistan. Interview with James Fetzer, American philosopher

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