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

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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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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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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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From: Press TV US media trying to 'tarnish Paul's image' Mon Dec 26, 2011 6:3PM GMT James H. Fetzer, American philosopher and former Marine Corps officer says the mainstream media is worried about possible success of Ron Paul in GOP presidential primaries and is trying to tarnish his image. "It's very clear that the GOP and the national media represent the military- industrial-Israeli complex and they are very worried that gravy train provided by the ongoing wars, these completely unjustifiable wars in violation of international law and the UN charter and even the US Constitution, might come to a halt not to mention that Ron Paul was to abolish or get rid of the Fed which has been just using our printing press to put out anywhere from 17 to 70 trillion dollars to benefit banks," Fetzer told Press TV's US Desk in an interview on Monday. "It doesn't do the people any good, it doesn't to the American citizens and taxpayers any good," he added. Fetzer said inflammatory newsletters dating back to the 1980s under Ron Paul's name brought up by the New York Times to tarnish Paul's image will backfire. "Now the latest absurdity is the New York Times launching an elaborate attack on Ron Paul because of these old newsletters ... it's going to permanently tarnish not Ron Paul but the New York Times," he said. www.presstv.ir ................................................................ Mainstream media starts smear campaign against Ron Paul Published: 23 December, 2011, 02:12 As <b>...</b>

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

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www.egs.edu Samuel Weber American Philosopher and Professor talking about crisis of religious monotheism as a frame for understanding today's modern secular world of globalized capitalism. In this lecture, Professor Weber navigates through various economic theories and speculations, critiquing the narrow parameters of political, social and economic discourse, given the dire context of today's global economic crisis. Samuel Weber discusses the collapse of the US Market, in part, as a reflection of a larger failed system, its events, policies and theories. The failure of the globalized system includes the banishment or taboo of any discourse resembling a Socialist or Marxian systemic critique of the political economy. Samuel Weber analogizes this taboo to the 1517 reformation attack against the religious practice of selling or granting indulgences, a practice re-emerging amidst today's crises which is a literal and symbolic problem of a larger "sin" circumventing the established secular global institutions of today. Concluding with some quotes from Walter Benjamin, Samuel Weber implores that we observe some of the practices of Western Religion, such as salvation and despair, debt and guilt, as similar to the cult of capitalism, or, capitalism as a religion.Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2010. Samuel Weber, Ph.D., is an American philosopher <b>...</b>

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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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American Philosopher Dr. Tom Regan speaks about the need for ethical treatment of Animals. Royal Institute of Great Britain, 1989

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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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From: Press TV 'Ron Paul a threat to US corporate interests' Sun Nov 27, 2011 4:5PM GMT American Philosopher James H. Fetzer says presidential candidate Ron Paul of Texas is "too great a threat to the corporate interests that dominate the United States media to give him a fair shake." "He has won one straw poll after another, one caucus after another, he's doing extremely well in Iowa," Fetzer said adding that if Ron Paul wins in Iowa, "the shameless performance of the American media will be exposed because they will no longer be able to ignore and suppress the information about him." Fetzer said that Congressman Paul "is the only discerning intellect in either side of the aisle who has a foreign policy that makes any sense" as he wants to end the US wars of aggression and close US military bases abroad. www.presstv.ir ........................................................................... Ron Paul defeats Romney, Cain in Iowa poll, grabs 2nd place The State Column | Staff | Tuesday, November 29, 2011 Texas Congressman Ron Paul, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, defeated former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and Georgia businessman Herman Cain in the latest poll of likely Iowa Republican caucusgoers with 13 percent of the votes for a 2nd place finish. According to the Insider Advantage poll, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich pulled in 28 percent of the votes to beat Paul by 15 percentage points. Romney garnered 12 percent of the votes to <b>...</b>

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Daniel Dennett American philosopher Dennett explains why he called one of his books Darwin's Dangerous Idea, and why many of Darwin's contemporaries, in particular, considered Darwin's theory of evolution to be dangerous. He goes on to deal with the question of consciousness (ie, is the consciousness/soul distinct from the body), talking about Darwin's rejection of the soul and the possible origins and psychological purposes of a belief in an immaterial soul. Next, he talks about his Christian upbringing and how he became an atheist. He goes on to ask why it is thought rude to criticise religious belief, and suggests that it is due to the influential status of the religions in question. He finishes by wondering whether we could live effectively in a post-theistic world.

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Hilary Whitehall Putnam (born July 31, 1926) is an American philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist, who has been a central figure in analytic philosophy since the 1960s, especially in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of science.He is known for his willingness to apply an equal degree of scrutiny to his own philosophical positions as to those of others, subjecting each position to rigorous analysis until he exposes its flaws. As a result, he has acquired a reputation for frequently changing his own position. Putnam is currently Cogan University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University. (wikipedia) 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) Tyler Burge (born 1946, Ph.D., Princeton University, 1971) is a Professor of Philosophy at UCLA. He <b>...</b>

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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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Once again the legend Prof Jim Fetzer makes mince meat of the fox news gatekeepers ! Learn more at secretwarsinter.com

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Final part of the interview film, American Philosopher, which is mostly about philosophers examining the role of philosophy in America, the idea of philosophy, the idea of American philosophy, and the history of pragmatism.

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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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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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'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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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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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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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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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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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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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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This is an audio clip from a great book entitled "The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Great Philosophers of the Western World" by Will Durant, narrated by Grover Gardner. Since there's been a very interesting discussion going on recently on meaning in life started by Veritas48's video 'Why I Am Not An Atheist', I thought many would find this relevant. It presents the views of American philosopher and atheist George Santayana, with regards to meaning in life. Bertrand Russell was influenced by him, and I think you can recognize the roots of Russell's views on this subject, which ProfMTH discussed in his recent video response to Veritas48, 'Unyielding despair, you say?' Photos from Life: www.life.com I highly recommend this book, you can get it here: www.amazon.com Info on George Santayana: en.wikipedia.org plato.stanford.edu Info on Will Durant: www.willdurant.com en.wikipedia.org Veritas48's initial video: www.youtube.com ProfMTH's response: www.youtube.com

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Students, get a full week of this at a summer seminar: lrnlbty.co From the IHS Vault: professor Chris Freiman gives a lecture on the political philosophy of 20th century American philosopher Robert Nozick, including his views on fairness, justice, and equality. Watch more videos: lrnlbty.co

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Does the Animal Kingdom need a Bill of Rights? The question poised at a debate at the Royal institute (UK) in 1989. This is my last vid of the debate and features remarks made by the opposition. Mary Warnock a philosopher from Cambridge University (yes Cambridge). Stephen Rose Professor of Biology Who works for the British medical and Science council and Germaine Greer writer, femminist. These people are all Phds, the best the anti Animal Rights brigade could muster. Watch and enjoy how the famous American Philosopher Dr Tom Regan destroys their arguments.

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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. This interview is an excerpt from a documentary film entitled "Mastermind" by Sophie Besandoun and Pierre Faye. en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org The complete 21-minute interview can be found here: philosophyfaculty.ucsd.edu

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Daniel Dennett is a prominent American philosopher whose research centers on philosophy of mind and philosophy of science; 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. en.wikipedia.org In this clip, Dennett discusses what is known as "The Binding Problem." Namely, how is the unity of conscious perception brought about by the distributed activities of the central nervous system? Dennett argues that while it may intuitively seem like consciousness is a unitary phenomena, cognitive science has illustrated that one's experience is much less unified then first believed. As a result, Dennett concludes that one's sense of unity is simply an illusion.

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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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Hilary Putnam is a prominent American philosopher. In this lecture, Putnam discusses a wide range of topics from economics, ethics, logical positivism, pragmatism, social sciences and more.

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