Update of the Philosophy Videos Page

I updated the page with online videos of philosophy lectures, with following:

At Young Philosophers:

1. A Priori Skepticism - James Beebe
2. The Fine Tuning Argument for the Existence of God - James Beebe
3. Is Morality Real, or Do We Make It Up? - Joshua Thurow

Also from the comments of that page…

1. Debbie pointed to this course on Death by Shelly Kagan
2. And a link to a Gresham College Lectures and Events, which Tjh recommended in the comments long time ago, but I never got to pick out the philosophically interesting ones. There are many lectures there on all kind of topics.

Chalmers Finally Got The Answer

Happy 42nd birthday to David Chalmers! Go to his blog, and follow the link to the pictures from the birthday party!

Philosophers’ Carnival #68

here

Eliezer Weaves Epiphenomenalism Into A Movie Script

This is very funny - Zombie - the movie over at Overcoming Bias.

But don’t forget… Zombie Argument is good.

Allan Watts Theatre

Here (HT:Genuine Life)

from www.freshminds.com posted with vodpod

On This Date, 28 Years Ago…

Died the great chef Jean Paul Sartre.

A part from the linked cookbook/diary…

November 15
Today I made a Black Forest cake out of five pounds of cherries and a live beaver, challenging the very definition of the word cake. I was very pleased. Malraux said he admired it greatly, but could not stay fo dessert. Still, I feel that this may be my most profound achievement yet, and have resolved to enter it in the Betty Crocker Bake-Off.

By some coincidence, I yesterday watched episode on Sartre from BBC’s Human, All Too Human, available on YouTube (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6). (The same person have uploaded also the episodes on Heidegger and Nietzsche)

We Interrupt Our Regular Programming

For some healthy dose of idealism, as part of 67th Philosophers’ Carnival, go over at blog.kennypearce.net

News From the Zombie World

Eliezer Yudkowsky started behaving as if he is attacking epiphenomenalism!

He makes some of the points as I am making, and which were probably made by many opponents of epiphenomenalism so far. Though be warned! Eliezer is a physicalist, so his points are good just as far they are not related to the physicalism. ;)

UPDATE:Richard Brown started behaving as being surprised that other zombies behave as talking about epiphenomenalism those days.

UPDATE 2:Brandon has interesting remarks on the recent anti-zombie-blog-activities, and have put together a list of posts about zombies in the blogosphere in his Zombie Invasion post.

A Couple of Links

Over at Brain Hammer, Pete Mandik is cooking up two compilations… One is Neurosemantics Bibliography, and the other is a list of references to definitions for key terms from philosophy of mind at couple of online philosophical encyclopedias.

Oh, and the Greek philosopher/mathematician that I mentioned in the post on Rationalism and Einstein, which is supposed to have calculated the height of the pyramids in Egypt is Thales (scroll to chapter 9).

And something scary… Richard from Et.Cetera said few things, and the result is bunch of angry scientismists (this is not really how do you call proponents of scientism, is it?)

The New Philosophers’ Carnival

…is over at The Uncredible Hallq (and it is #66, if we are to believe its host Chris Hallquist. I do believe him.)

Philosophers’ Carnival #65 is…

…over at Philosophy, et cetera

To be updated in the videos post

Via Methods of Projection, I found out about the good flame0430 person on YouTube who has uploaded a bunch of very interesting videos. They include interview with John Searle on Wittgenstein, interview with Ayer on Frege and Russell, and interviews with Quine and Searle about their work. It seems that there will be more interviews coming. Many thanks to flame0430!

The other thing is an episode from UC Berkley’s “Conversations with History”, hosted by Harry Kreisler, where he interviews Hubert Dreyfus about Heidegger, M.Ponty, AI, and such things. Very interesting stuff. (via Continental Philosophy)

If you didn’t have enough of Searle, there is also his talk on Authors@Google series, where he talks about his book “Freedom and Neurobiology: Reflections on Free Will, Language, and Political Power.”, and explains in what way he thinks free will might be related to Quantum Mechanics. (BTW, I just noticed that there is one by Pinker from the same series, haven’t watched that one. It says that he talks about his book “The stuff of thought”)

Oops, Almost Forgot…

…to link to the 64th Philosophers’ Carnival…
It is over at Movement of Existence. You probably visited it by now, but just to add a link.

Philosophers’ Carnival #63

is over at the Blog of Noah Greenstein

Not Creative (And I Even Cheated)!

OK, the code that they gave me, doesn’t work on wordpress.com. So, imagine ‘23%’ between ‘My brain is’ and ‘wired for creativity’.
I think that for low percentage, they need new messages like:

My brain is unwired.
or
I’m never blue when I’m sad.
or
I have touch-Angelina Jolie synaesthesia. I see Angelina Jolie when my wife touches me.
or
My brain is not creative, but I am.