E1. Introduction
E2. Mary Midgley
E3. Sextus Empiricus
E4. William James
E5. Plato
E6. Epictetus
E7. Rene Descartes
E8. David Hume
E9. Immanuel Kant
CHAPTERS 00:59 What this Course Is 02:31 How to Succeed in the Class 05:11 How to Use this Podcast
READING What is Philosophy For?, excerpts from sections 1-13 CHAPTERS 02:13 Introduction 06:03 Section 1 (pattern creation) 09:06 Section 2 (Socrates) 14:03 Section 4 (learning how to think) 15:44 Section 8 (progress) 20:16 Section 9 (conceptual geography) 28:19 Section 10 (plumbing) 36:15 Section 11 (the concept of toleration) 45:23 Section 12 (facilitating change) 51:27 Section 13 (philosophy is relevant) 56:44 Conclusion NOTES Mary Midgley Lecture Listening Notes
READING Outlines of Pyrrhonism, excerpts from chapters 1, 4, 6-8, 10, 12-14 CHAPTERS 01:21 Introduction 06:34 Chapter 1 (schools of philosophy) 08:22 Chapter 4 (definition) 15:17 Chapter 6 (cause) 20:40 Chapter 7 (dogmatizing) 29:37 Chapter 8 (doctrine) 35:14 Chapter 10 (assent to appearances) 38:30 Chapter 12 (end) 47:31 Chapters 13 & 14 (modes) 55:01 Conclusion NOTES Sextus Empiricus Lecture Listening Notes
READING "The Will to Believe" CHAPTERS 0:01:15 Introduction 0:06:05 Section 1 (genuine option) 0:12:22 Section 2 (psychology of human opinion) 0:19:01 Section 3 (the willing nature) 0:25:32 Section 4 (thesis) 0:31:31 Section 5 (faith in truth) 0:35:13 Section 6 (criterion for truth) 0:40:05 Section 7 (quest for the avoidance of error) 0:45:34 Section 8 (suspension of judgment) 0:49:44 Section 9 (when the passional nature decides) 1:00:19 Section 10 (courage) 1:08:38 Conclusion NOTES William James Lecture Listening Notes
READING "The Allegory of the Cave," from Republic CHAPTERS 01:08 Introduction 02:49 Branches of Philosophy 04:22 Allegory of the Cave 32:45 Analogy of the Divided Line 56:24 Conclusion NOTES Plato Lecture Listening Notes
READING Discourses, Book I, excerpts from chapters 1, 2, 4, 15, and 24 CHAPTERS 01:10 Introduction 02:41 Stoic Metaphysics 07:46 Stoic Happiness 14:09 Stoic Theory of Emotions 29:08 Excerpts from Epictetus 54:37 Conclusion NOTES Epictetus Lecture Listening Notes
READING Meditations on First Philosophy, excerpts from Meditations I & II CHAPTERS 03:49 Introduction 06:25 Meditation I Begins 17:49 1st Thought Experiment (Dreaming) 28:28 2nd Thought Experiment (Deceiving God/Genius) 41:50 Meditation 2 Begins 42:02 Cogito (“I think, I am”) 51:02 Wax Example 57:19 Conclusion NOTES Rene Descartes Lecture Listening Notes
READING A Treatise of Human Nature, Book 1, chapters 1-3 CHAPTERS 01:42 Introduction 06:25 Impressions & Ideas 08:37 Simple & Complex Impressions 13:14 Simple Ideas & Simple Impressions 17:26 Impressions of Sensation & Impressions of Reflection 34:51 Principles of Association 48:59 Conclusion NOTES David Hume Lecture Listening Notes
READING Critique of Pure Reason, excerpts from Introduction CHAPTERS 01:55 Introduction 15:45 The Hume Problem 23:47 A priori & A posteriori Judgments 28:04 Synthetic & Analytic Judgments 3 3:59 Critique of Rationalism 38:02 Critique of Empiricism 42:48 Transcendental Arguments 52:21 Conclusion NOTES Immanuel Kant Lecture Listening Notes
READING “On the Sufferings of the World” & “On the Vanity of Existence” CHAPTERS 01:19 Introduction 05:30 Two-Part Universe 07:35 World as Will & Representation 18:31 Inversion of Reason & Will 22:28 Argument for Pessimism 29:08 Suffering 35:19 Moral Action 39:44 Path of Asceticism 54:50 Conclusion NOTES Arthur Schopenhauer Lecture Listening Notes