Jeff Kasser! Love the guy. E-mailed him a while ago to thank him for his profound 'Philosophy of Science' series, which had a big impact on my intellectual development. We got into a short letter exchange which warmed my heart. It warms once more hearing him on Philosophy Overdose again.
Two wonderful lectures. Listening to this lecture, I notice how luch background knowledge it requires. In 2019, I wouldn't have had the necessary background information to understand most of what was said, but over the course of last two years, I've learned the structure of arguments, inductive abd deductive logic, I've understood the concepts and goals of empiricism and its most famous proponents. The lecturer also mentioned Nelson Goodman's concept of grue that I was already familiar with. My reading and listening comprehension have improved significantly, because I realize that every instance of listening or hearing language, I project my background knowledge onto the text/speech and use it to interpret what the author is saying, his motiovations and so on. My conscious awareness of the act of interpretation and what it involved has done wonders to my thinking, argumentative skills and learning skills.
The same happened to me. These two pandemics years have been the occasion for me to incorporate a great deal of philosophy. I must say that mostly my learning has passed through this UA-cam channel. So thanks a lot Philosophy Overdose!
Unimpressed and bored at 5 minutes in. Does it really get better? He uses some real nonessential examples, like economic laws, for instance law of supply and demand, which is totally manipulable, and formal logic to complicate the question of whether laws of nature are actually laws. Was hoping more to hear of the four fundamental laws that govern the action of atoms and thus give the different chemical events their properties and thus their potential whether to produce actual “life” or technology or materials, and the laws of temperature, pressure, etc that make for a habitable earth, or that even governed the formation of our universe and the formation of the elements from the Big Bang. But do I dare stomach this introduction hoping to get to some essence or dies this go on for a whole hour?
00:00 Intro & the Regularity Theory
29:39 The Necessitarian Theory
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Jeff Kasser! Love the guy. E-mailed him a while ago to thank him for his profound 'Philosophy of Science' series, which had a big impact on my intellectual development. We got into a short letter exchange which warmed my heart. It warms once more hearing him on Philosophy Overdose again.
Yay! I was waiting for this re-upload! Thank you for all of your hard work!!
Two wonderful lectures. Listening to this lecture, I notice how luch background knowledge it requires. In 2019, I wouldn't have had the necessary background information to understand most of what was said, but over the course of last two years, I've learned the structure of arguments, inductive abd deductive logic, I've understood the concepts and goals of empiricism and its most famous proponents. The lecturer also mentioned Nelson Goodman's concept of grue that I was already familiar with.
My reading and listening comprehension have improved significantly, because I realize that every instance of listening or hearing language, I project my background knowledge onto the text/speech and use it to interpret what the author is saying, his motiovations and so on. My conscious awareness of the act of interpretation and what it involved has done wonders to my thinking, argumentative skills and learning skills.
The same happened to me. These two pandemics years have been the occasion for me to incorporate a great deal of philosophy. I must say that mostly my learning has passed through this UA-cam channel. So thanks a lot Philosophy Overdose!
Thank you! I loved this lecture and was eagerly waiting for its return.
I think Paul Feyerabend would have some hilarious things to say about the Systems approach.
"There are no 'laws' that phenomena 'obey'!" -Nietzsche
Unimpressed and bored at 5 minutes in. Does it really get better? He uses some real nonessential examples, like economic laws, for instance law of supply and demand, which is totally manipulable, and formal logic to complicate the question of whether laws of nature are actually laws. Was hoping more to hear of the four fundamental laws that govern the action of atoms and thus give the different chemical events their properties and thus their potential whether to produce actual “life” or technology or materials, and the laws of temperature, pressure, etc that make for a habitable earth, or that even governed the formation of our universe and the formation of the elements from the Big Bang. But do I dare stomach this introduction hoping to get to some essence or dies this go on for a whole hour?
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