Fourth and final lecture in the 2011 John Locke lecture series. Philosophy is a demanding intellectual discipline, with many facets: logic, epistemology, philosophy of nature and science, metaphysics, ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of art, rhetoric, philosophy of language and mind. But a long tradition of ancient Greek philosophers, beginning with Socrates, made their philosophies also complete ways of life. For them reason, perfected by philosophy-not religion, not cultural traditions...
Jul 06, 2011•1 hr 6 min
Third lecture in the 2011 John Locke Lecture Series. Philosophy is a demanding intellectual discipline, with many facets: logic, epistemology, philosophy of nature and science, metaphysics, ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of art, rhetoric, philosophy of language and mind. But a long tradition of ancient Greek philosophers, beginning with Socrates, made their philosophies also complete ways of life. For them reason, perfected by philosophy-not religion, not cultural traditions and practi...
Jul 06, 2011•1 hr 1 min
Second lecture in the 2011 John Locke Lecture Series. Philosophy is a demanding intellectual discipline, with many facets: logic, epistemology, philosophy of nature and science, metaphysics, ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of art, rhetoric, philosophy of language and mind. But a long tradition of ancient Greek philosophers, beginning with Socrates, made their philosophies also complete ways of life. For them reason, perfected by philosophy-not religion, not cultural traditions and pract...
Jul 06, 2011•1 hr
Part of the 2011 John Locke Lecture Series; this year presented by Professor John Cooper, Princeton University, on 'Ancient Greek Philosophies as a Way of Life'. Philosophy is a demanding intellectual discipline, with many facets: logic, epistemology, philosophy of nature and science, metaphysics, ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of art, rhetoric, philosophy of language and mind. But a long tradition of ancient Greek philosophers, beginning with Socrates, made their philosophies also com...
Jul 06, 2011•59 min
Fifth and final lecture in the 2009 John Locke lectures entitled Being Realistic about Reasons.
Dec 20, 2010•1 hr
Fourth lecture in the 2009 John Locke Lecture series entitled Being Realistic about Reasons.
Dec 20, 2010•1 hr
Third lecture in the 2009 John Locke lecture series entitled Being Realistic about Reasons.
Dec 20, 2010•59 min
Second lecture in the 2009 John Locke lectures entitled Being Realistic about Reasons.
Dec 20, 2010•52 min
First lecture of the 2009 John Locke Lectures entitled 'Being Realistic about Reasons.
Dec 20, 2010•55 min
Sixth and final lecture in the John Locke lecture series entitled Constructing the World.
Dec 15, 2010•1 hr 9 min
Fifth lecture in the 2010 John Locke lecture series entitled Constructing the World.
Dec 15, 2010•1 hr 5 min
Fourth lecture in the 2010 John Locke lecture series entitled Constructing the World.
Dec 15, 2010•1 hr 3 min
Third lecture in the 2010 John Locke lecture series entitled Constructing the World.
Dec 15, 2010•1 hr 4 min
Second lecture in the 2010 John Locke lecture series entitled 'Constructing the World'.
Dec 15, 2010•1 hr 4 min
First Lecture in the 2010 John Locke Lecture series entitled Constructing the World.
Dec 15, 2010•1 hr 6 min
This is the sixth lecture in the 2008 John Locke Lecture series entitled 'Logic, Normativity, and Rational Revisability'.
Jul 24, 2008•56 min
This is the fifth lecture in the 2008 John Locke Lecture series entitled 'Logic, Normativity, and Rational Revisability'.
Jul 24, 2008•57 min
This is the fourth lecture in the 2008 John Locke Lecture series entitled 'Logic, Normativity, and Rational Revisability'.
Jul 24, 2008•58 min
This is the third lecture in the 2008 John Locke Lecture series entitled 'Logic, Normativity, and Rational Revisability'.
Jul 24, 2008•1 hr 1 min
This is the second lecture in the 2008 John Locke Lecture series entitled 'Logic, Normativity, and Rational Revisability'.
Jul 24, 2008•1 hr 10 min
This is the first lecture in the 2008 John Locke Lecture series entitled 'Logic, Normativity, and Rational Revisability'.
Jul 24, 2008•1 hr 3 min
The sixth lecture will try to resolve a familiar tension between externalism about mental content and the assumption that we have some kind of privileged knowledge of the contents of our own thoughts. I will look at the "slow switching" scenarios, and consider what they show about the role of propositional content in characterizing mental states.
Jul 10, 2008•1 hr 1 min
Russell held that we must be acquainted with the constituents of the contents of our thoughts, and remnants of this doctrine persist in the work of a number of more recent philosophers. Our knowledge of our own phenomenal experience is supposed to be a paradigm of acquaintance, but acquaintance is sometimes explained in a way that implies that it involves knowledge of the essential nature of a thing or property.
Jul 10, 2008•1 hr
The fourth lecture will begin with a variation on the thought experiment about Mary that is the focus of the knowledge argument, using it to develop the analogy between self-locating knowledge and knowledge of phenomenal experience. The success of the analogy will turn on the rejection of an assumption that is intuitively plausible, but that I will argue should be rejected.
Jul 10, 2008•55 min
One strategy for responding to the knowledge argument exploits an analogy between knowledge of phenomenal experience and essentially indexical or self-locating knowledge. I think this is a promising analogy, but I will argue that before we apply it, we need to get clearer about the contents of self-locating belief and knowledge.
Jul 10, 2008•1 hr 2 min
The second lecture will begin with Frank Jackson's knowledge argument. The argument and the responses to it turn on assumptions about the nature of the contents of belief and the objects of knowledge. I will argue that one cannot escape the anti-materialist conclusion of the knowledge argument by adopting a fine-grained conception of content.
Jul 10, 2008•1 hr 2 min
Our topic is a subject's knowledge of his own phenomenal experience and of the content of his thought, but I will approach the topic from the outside, treating the subject as an object in the world. The first lecture will characterize, in a general way, this externalist strategy, and look at some familiar examples of it in the recent philosophical tradition.
Jun 26, 2008•55 min
