Philosophy Overdose

In this introductory program on the mind-body problem from 1998, the relation between mind & body is discussed by various philosophers (including W. V. Q...

Richard Rorty gives a 2002 lecture at Calvin College. #philosophy #rorty

Frederick Copleston and Bryan Magee discuss the work of the 19th century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer in this 1987 program on the Great Philosopher...

In this program, J. P. Stern discusses the life and thought of Friedrich Nietzsche with Bryan Magee. This is from the 1987 series on the Great Philosophers w...

Professor Geoffrey Warnock discusses the life and thought of Immanuel Kant in this episode of the 1987 series on the Great Philosophers with Bryan Magee, whi...

A few clips of Noam Chomsky discussing language, freedom, and Marx. This comes from a 1994 interview from the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation. #philosoph...

In this program, Charles Taylor discusses Marxist philosophy with Bryan Magee. This is from a 1977 series on Modern Philosophy called Men of Ideas. You can f...

In this program, William Barrett discusses Martin Heidegger and Modern Existentialism with Bryan Magee. This is from a 1977 series on Modern Philosophy calle...

Thelma Z. Lavine delivers a few lectures on Plato as part of a televised lecture series called 'From Socrates to Sartre, A Historical Introduction to Philoso...

In this program, John Searle discusses the life and thought of Ludwig Wittgenstein. This is an episode from the 1987 series on the Great Philosophers with Br...

In this program, Myles Burnyeat discusses the thought of Socrates and Plato with Bryan Magee. This is the first episode in the 1987 series on the Great Philo...

Martha Nussbaum discusses the thought of Aristotle with Bryan Magee in this program. This is the second episode in the 1987 series on the Great Philosophers....

Anthony Quinton discusses the 17th-18th century philosophers Spinoza and Leibniz with Bryan Magee in an episode of this 1987 series on the Great Philosophers...

In this program, John Searle discusses the philosophy of language with Bryan Magee. This is from a 1977 series on Modern Philosophy called Men of Ideas. #Ph...

In this program, Noam Chomsky discusses his work and its philosophical implications for knowledge and thought with Bryan Magee. This is from a 1977 series on...

In this program, Bernard Williams discusses the thought of René Descartes with Bryan Magee. This is from the 1987 series on the Great Philosophers with Bryan...

A few introductory clips on Descartes' individualistic versus Hegel's social notion of the self. These clips come from the 1998 examined life series. #philo...

This is an introductory program on epistemology, which travels from Plato’s cave to Gettier cases, while addressing, along the way, questions such as: What d...

In this program, John Passmore discusses the philosophy of David Hume with Bryan Magee. This is from the 1987 series on the Great Philosophers with Bryan Mag...

In this program, Iris Murdoch discusses philosophy and literature with Bryan Magee. This is from a 1977 series on Modern Philosophy called Men of Ideas. #Ph...

William Barrett gives a lecture on existentialism and modern man in 1968 at Cooper Union in New York. #philosophy #existentialism #sartre #camus

A good introduction to the philosophy of mathematics by Ray Monk. He considers the issue of the nature of mathematical truth - what mathematics is actually a...

A wonderful 1961 show with Hazel Barnes called Self-Encounter which provides an introductory exploration of existentialism. Existentialists take human exist...

In this program, Hilary Putnam discusses the philosophy of science with Bryan Magee. This is from a 1977 series on Modern Philosophy called Men of Ideas. Hil...

Some wonderful Schopenhauerian prose from LibriVox and read by D.E. Wittkower. Chapters: 00:00​ Start 00:21​ On the Sufferings of the World 33:58​ On the Va...

In this program, Hubert Dreyfus and Bryan Magee discuss the thinkers Husserl and Heidegger, as well as the movements of phenomenology and existentialism. Thi...

In this program, Isaiah Berlin discusses the nature and importance of philosophy with Bryan Magee. This is from a 1977 series on Modern Philosophy called Men...

Hubert Dreyfus discusses expertise and some of the attempts to make decision making more scientific in a talk given in 1978 at Iowa State University. #phil...

In this program, Michael Ayers discusses the thought of the two great classical empiricists, John Locke and George Berkeley. This is an episode from the 1987...

In this program, Willard Van Orman Quine discusses the nature of philosophy and some of his own work in philosophy with host Bryan Magee. This is from a 1977...

John Searle discusses the standard conception of rationality and some of the problems and paradoxes that it gives rise to, including the impossibility of Akr...

Clips of Hubert Dreyfus discussing various topics. 00:00 Socrates & Plato on Knowledge 09:27 Aristotle on Knowledge 11:50 Inner Self & External Wo...

A brief introductory clip about Aristotle's ethics. It comes from the series on great ideas of philosophy. #philosophy #aristotle #ethics

An introductory philosophy talk given on the world as it is in itself by Michael Morris. The talk provides an overview of one of the problems associated with...

Charles Taylor discusses the modern notion of the self in a lecture at the Vancouver Institute in 1988. It is a Cecil and Ida Green lecture. Note, the introd...

An introductory discussion of Immanuel Kant's epistemological views. #Philosophy #Kant #Epistemology

In this program, Herbert Marcuse discusses the Frankfurt School of Marxism and his own philosophical work in an interview with Bryan Magee. This is from a 19...

In this talk, Jonathan Glover discusses Socrates' method, moral philosophy, human nature in the light of Darwin, utilitarianism, and the ethics of life and d...

Peter Singer discusses the thought of Hegel and Marx in this episode of the 1987 series on the Great Philosophers with Bryan Magee. Hegel was an important an...

Thelma Z. Lavine delivers a few lectures on the life and thought of Karl Marx as part of a televised lecture series called 'From Socrates to Sartre, A Histor...

A few clips of Heidegger saying some cryptic stuff about language and technology. The translation is my own. This is a version of an upload from the previous...

Erich Fromm discusses mental health and society in a 1960 interview. #philosophy #psychology #erichfromm