00:59 What this Course Is

02:31 How to Succeed in the Class

05:11 How to Use this Podcast

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

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

"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

"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

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

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

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

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

“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

The Gay Science, Preface, sections 124-124, 343-344, and 346

CHAPTERS

02:03 Introduction

04:08 Relationship to Schopenhauer

08:54 Why a Critique of Morality?

12:53 Origin of good and evil

21:20 Inversion of Morals

30:40 Development of the Subject

37:42 Development of the Conscience

44:36 Threat of Nihilism

55:50 Revaluation of all Values

59:34 Conclusion

NOTES

Friedrich Nietzsche Lecture Listening Notes

“The Second Sex,” excerpts from the Introduction

CHAPTERS

01:54 Introduction

06:44 What is a Woman?

14:56 Woman as Other

19:02 Women’s Complicity

26:56 How Did This Begin?

28:18 Justifications of Men

41:08 Existentialist Morality

51:00 Exclusion of Women from Philosophy

58:15 Conclusion

NOTES

Simone de Beauvoir Lecture Listening Notes

Blackness Visible, excerpts from the Preface and chapter 5

CHAPTERS

03:13 Introduction

07:26 Race in Philosophy

14:21 The Preface

25:56 Ch. 5: The Problem

36:55 Ch. 5: Personhood

55:23 New Approaches

59:36 Conclusion

NOTES

Charles W. Mills Lecture Listening Notes

01:01 Why this guy?

02:53 Slowing Down

04:42 The Value of Thinking

07:20 Intersections

10:33 Teaching Philosophy vs. Teaching Philosophically

13:45 Managing Resistance

16:13 Flashlight Tag

19:45 Becoming a Sociosopher

21:16 So, who are we?