November 2023

https://youtu.be/PqCD663Ndbk Ernst Cassirer began as a philosophical idealist in the tradition of Kant and aimed to create an idealistic philosophy of science. As his thought evolved, however, his philosophy came…

https://youtu.be/yV-XAdFNsQ4 For a time, Rudolf Carnap was among the most famous philosophers of the twentieth century. He was a member of the so-called Vienna Circle of the 1920s and 1930s,…

https://youtu.be/1gAhxN8B3go With Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus is perhaps the most famous, even iconic, exponent of existentialist philosophy. And yet, he always rejected the label “existentialism” and preferred “absurdism.” His absurdism…

https://youtu.be/1p2oRaVktbk Martin Buber was a polymath, whose interests encompassed literary translation, political activism, Zionism, Jewish mysticism, biblical study, art, politics, and philosophy, including social philosophy, religious phenomenology, and philosophical anthropology.…

https://youtu.be/UscFXDPAKFw George Boole was born on November 2, 1815 in Lincoln, England, into the family of a shoemaker, who had an avocational interest in technology and science. His family’s modest…

https://youtu.be/PIOyML8OjBY Born on February 4, 1906, in Breslau, one of eight children of psychiatrist and neurologist Karl Bonhoeffer, Dietrich Bonhoeffer earned both an undergraduate degree and the equivalent of a…

https://youtu.be/kPSD773mD6c Boethius is believed to have been born the year after the “barbarian” Odoacer overthrew the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire and proclaimed himself King of Italy. Thus,…

https://youtu.be/T1mmkD_Fqqk Bharthari lived in the fifth century AD and is known through two texts, Satakatraya, a Sanskrit poetic work, and Vakyapadiya, a work of linguistic philosophy concerning Sanskrit grammar. It…

https://youtu.be/7b96wgTrgeM Born on March 12, 1685, in County Kilkenny, Ireland, George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne, formulated a philosophical theory he called “immaterialism” but that is better known today as subjective…

https://youtu.be/vKRGjyDG3sw Henri Bergson sought to free philosophy from mechanistic views of causality and argued for the role of free will in creating new things and ideas in a gloriously unpredictable…