History of Philosophy Audio Archive
Episodes
Judith Herman - Psychological Trauma, Childhood Influences, and Recovery
01 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Judith Herman wrote an incredible book called "Trauma and Recovery" which I would wholeheartedly recommend to everyone. Advisory: Discusses ...
Jonathan Lear - Virtue Ethics, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Psychotherapy
31 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this talk, Jonathan Lear reviews one of my favorite philosophers, the British virtue ethicist and founder of the Neoareatic movement Alasdair MacIn...
Martha Nussbaum - Upheavals of Thought: Neo-Stoicism and Emotional Cognition
31 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On March 22, 2005, Martha Nussbaum visited the John Adams Institute to talk about Upheavals of Thought - The Intelligence of Emotions. For everybody ...
Deborah Nelson - Ethics Without Empathy: Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil
31 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This talk describes the ethics and aesthetics of unsentimentality as practiced by some of the late twentieth-century’s most notable women artists an...
Chris Hedges - Fascism in the Age of Trump
30 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Hedges explores the cultural, economic, and political forms of fascism that are dredged up by the political phenomenon of Donald Trump's pre...
John Searle - Consciousness as a Problem in Philosophy and Neurobiology [Reupload]
29 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this 2014 lecture, famed philosopher of mind John Searle, originator of the "Chinese Room" critique of machine intelligence discusses com...
Michael Parenti - The Nature of Empire [Reupload]
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ladies and Gentlemen, comrades and compadres, narcs and Feds I proudly present: the only Michael Parenti lecture in existence with good quality audio....
Noam Chomksy - Thought Control In A Democratic Society
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Case by case, we find that conformity is the easy way, and the path to privilege and prestige; dissidence carries personal costs that may be severe...
Masha Gessen - Putin and the Political Uses of Homophobia
26 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Some studies actually showed that that Russian drinkers lived longer than non-drinkers. [Michelle Parsons] suggested an explanation for the apparen...
Richard Wolff - Marxism v. Capitalism: The Game Is Rigged
26 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“The impoverished families of the long-term unemployed strained to the point of dysfunction, communities deprived of viable economies, interrupted e...
Roger Scruton - The Line Between "Left" and "Right"
25 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions and tell us t...
Michelle Alexander - The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
25 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“When we think of racism we think of Governor Wallace of Alabama blocking the schoolhouse door; we think of water hoses, lynchings, racial epithets,...
Naomi Klein - Let Them Drown: The Violence of Othering in a Warming World
25 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On May 4th, 2016 journalist and political activist Naomi Klein delivered the Edward Said Lecture at the London Review of Books. She addressed the hier...
Robert Oppenheimer - Eulogy for Niels Bohr [Reupload]
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"Bohr was the recipient of the Atoms for Peace Prize. None of us knew what the prize was for, but everyone knew that this was the right man to gi...
Cornel West - A Love Supreme (Part 6 of 6)
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In his final Gifford Lecture, Professor Cornel R. West’s jazz-soaked philosophy looks unflinchingly at our own catastrophic times, and says that ‘...
Cornel West - American Allegro Molto Vivace (Part 5 of 6)
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this lecture, Prof. West argues that the two great philosophically-inclined artists in early twentieth-century America were T.S. Eliot and Eugene O...
Cornel West - History Adagio (Part 4 of 6)
21 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this lecture, Prof. West argues that the greatest breakthrough in modern philosophy is found in the works of the Italian Giambattista Vico (1668-17...
Cornel West - Folly Presto (Part 3 of 6)
21 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This third lecture presents Prof. West’s consideration of early modern philosophy, focusing on Erasmus’s The Praise of Folly (1511), as a response...
Cornel West - Metaphilosophic Andante (Part 2 of 6)
21 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Cornel West, a leading philosopher and activist was invited to give the Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh this year (2024). His seri...
Cornel West - Philosophical Prelude (Part 1 of 6)
21 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Cornel West, a leading philosopher and activist was invited to give the Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh this year (2024). His seri...
Yanis Varoufakis - Technofeudalism
20 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Economist and political scientist Yanis Varoufakis breaks down his concept of 'technofeudalism' or the successor paradigm to neoliberalism. Th...
Chris Hedges - The Politics of Cultural Despair
20 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Veteran war correspondent and journalist Chris Hedges describes the cultural patterns of the COVID era, and elucidates the work of Fritz Stern, a Germ...
Noam Chomsky - Education for Whom, and for What?
14 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Renowned activist and scholar Noam Chomsky summarizes his lifetime of experience in education, and provides overviews of the divergent mentalities tha...
Aristotle's Philosophical Innovations - M. Nussabum and B. Magee
11 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An interview between the philosopher Martha Nussbaum, who specialize(d) in Ancient Greek philosophy and tragedy and Bryan Magee. Aired originally in 1...
Iain McGilchrist - A Revolution in Thought
10 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist and philosopher. He has written two recent books, The Master and His Emissary, and The Matter with Things (2 Volum...
Sugrue - Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment)
27 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Sugrue explores themes in Dostoevsky, makes the comparison between Nietzsche's self-legislating Übermensch and the Raskolnikov character in &...
Epicurus and Epicureans - Gregory Sadler
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Professor G. Sadler breaks down the world of Epicureans and situates Epicureanism in its historical context while reviewing the major doctrines of the...
Schopenhauer "The World as Will and Idea" - M. Sugrue
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Sugrue's introductory lecture on why Schopenhauer was so grumpy and what exactly MS means when he says that Schoppy described 'the m...
Rick Roderick - Habermas and the Fragile Dignity of Humanity
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Another Roderick lecture from his series on 20th century philosophy "Self Under Siege" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itGtf3ZSkyQ Syndica...
Rick Roderick - Hegel and Modern Life
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Discourse on freedom in Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit" Original video available here, audio tweaks and trims were made to make the a...
Sugrue on the Origin of Science
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One of the final lectures given by the philosopher Michael Sugrue. The original video can be found here. https://youtu.be/GI3ZcEbvTO0 Syndicated for...
Hubert Dreyfus on Heidegger's Being and Time (3)
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Third lecture
Hubert Dreyfus on Heidegger's Being and Time (2)
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Same source as previous
Hubert Dreyfus on Heidegger's Being and Time (1)
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Preserved on Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/Philosophy_185_Fall_2007_UC_Berkeley/ Recorded at UC Berkeley in Fall 2007
Robert C. Solomon on Heideggerian Authenticity
09 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Short lecture on the central concept of authenticity in existentialism in general, Heidegger in particular.
David Christian Introduction to Big History
09 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cosmic and evolutionary history introduced.
Grant Hardy Introduction to Asian Thought
09 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Brief overview of the field of Asian philosophy
Jeffrey L. Kasser on Interpreting Einstein's Theories
09 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Relativity from a philosophical perspective.
Michael Sugrue on Greek Tragedy
09 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Overview of themes in Greek Tragedy
Grant Hardy on Confucius
09 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Single lecture overview of China's first and most influential philosopher.
Michael Sugrue on Plato's Phaedrus
09 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Plato's hymn to Love expounded by one of the philosopher's greatest living interpreters, Dr. Michael Sugrue.
Hubert Dreyfus on Soren Kierkegaard (4 of 4)
23 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Last episode.
Hubert Dreyfus on Soren Kierkegaard (3 of 4)
23 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
3/4
Hubert Dreyfus on Soren Kierkegaard (2 of 4)
23 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Part two of four.
Hubert Dreyfus on Soren Kierkegaard (1 of 4)
23 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Renowned Berkeley philosopher breaks down Kierkegaard in his 2010 iTunes U class on Existentialism in Literature and Film. Part 1 of 4.