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What Is Public Philosophy?
Dr. Ellie Anderson and Dr. David Peña-Guzmán, Philosophy professors and co-hosts of Overthink podcast, discuss a topic close to their hearts: what is public philosophy? What are the potential problems with the idea of "public" philosophy? What are the institutional economic structures involved with both public and what might be critically called "private" philosophy?
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106. Fun
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Episode 106. Fun Even philosophers need downtime. In episode 106 of Overthink, Ellie and David take a break and chase down fun’s place in today’s world - from its aesthetic opposition to the highbrow realm of beauty, to its peculiar absence from philosophical discourse. What role does fun play in the good life? How does fun relate to art, play, and ritual? Can you really have fun by yourself? A...
Hope, Trust, and Forgiveness: a conversation with John Lysaker
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Dr. Ellie Anderson interviews Dr. John Lysaker, Professor of Philosophy at Emory University. They discuss his recent book Hope, Trust, and Forgiveness: Essays in Finitude (University of Chicago Press, 2023). They delve into the questions: what does the practice of philosophy really do with language, argumentation, and dialogue? How does hope connect the present and the past through possibility?...
Butler, Senses of the Subject: Ellie Anderson and David Peña-Guzmán
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Dr. Ellie Anderson and Dr. David Peña-Guzmán, philosophy professors and co-hosts of Overthink podcast, discuss Judith Butler’s lesser-known essay, “"HOW CAN I DENY THAT THESE HANDS AND THIS BODY ARE MINE?".” Titled after a quote from Descartes' Meditations, Butler's essay draws out contradictions within Descartes' famous project of radical doubt. Ellie and David discuss how Butler uses their an...
105. Civil Disobedience with Noëlle McAfee
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Episode 105 Do political subjects have a default obligation to obey the law? In episode 105 of Overthink, Ellie and David discuss civil disobedience in the present context of university activism for divestment from genocide in Gaza. They chart the genealogy of the concept of disobedience in political theory, from Thoreau and MLK through to today. Together with guest Noëlle McAfee, Chair of the ...
O My Friends, There is No Friend: a conversation with Am Johal
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Dr. Ellie Anderson interviews Am Johal, director of the Vancity Office of Community Engagement and co-director of the Community Engaged Research Initiative at Simon Fraser University. They discuss his recent book O My Friends, There is No Friend: The Politics of Friendship at the End of Ecology (Columbia UP, 2024). How should we read the (often misattributed) quote "O my friends, there is no fr...
104. Reading
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Episode 104. Reading This is one for the books. In episode 104 of Overthink, Ellie and David consider what makes reading so rewarding, and, for many people today, so challenging! How did society shift toward inward silent reading and away from reading aloud in the Middle Ages? How have changes in teaching phonics and factors of classism, accessibility, and educational justice made it harder for...
William James on the Features of Mystical Experiences
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Dr. David Peña-Guzmán, Philosophy professor and co-host of the Overthink podcast, discusses psychologist and philosopher William James and his account of mystical experience from his book The Varieties of Religious Experience. In the fourth video in our new series of video lectures on mind, consciousness, and self, David outlines the four features of mystical experience that James describes and...
Visual Phenomenology: a conversation with Dr. Michael Madary
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In this video, Dr. David M. Peña-Guzmán interviews Dr. Michael Madary (University of the Pacific) about his recent book Visual Phenomenology (MIT Press, 2016). They discuss the nature of visual experience and visual content, and talk about how different experts have conceptualized and modeled vision in the 20th and 21st centuries. Is vision a bottom-up process of perception, or is it a top-down...
103. Laziness
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Episode 103. Laziness We’re taking it easy! In episode 102 of Overthink, Ellie and David take a leisurely dive into laziness, discussing everything from couchrotting to the biology of energy conservation. They explore Devon Price’s idea of the ‘laziness lie’ in today’s hyperproductive society and search for alternatives to work through Paul Lefargue’s 19th century campaign for ‘the right to be ...
Confucian Ethics: a conversation with Dr. Jing Iris Hu
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Dr. Ellie Anderson, Philosophy professor and co-host of Overthink podcast, sits down with philosopher Dr. Jing Iris Hu to have a conversation about Confucianism and Confucian ethics. They discuss concepts of self-cultivation and interdependence as they inform and shape Confucian accounts of moral life. Ellie and Dr. Hu also dig into questions such as: What is the Confucian tradition, and why is...
102. Mixed-Race Identity
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In episode 102 of Overthink, Ellie and David discuss diverse ideas of racial mixedness, from family-oriented models of mixed race to José Vasconcelos’ and Gloria Anzaldua’s idea of the ‘mestizo’ heritage of Mexican people. They work through phenomenological accounts of cultural hybridity and selfhood, wondering how being multiracial pushes beyond the traditional Cartesian philosophical subject....
William James on Religious Conversion
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Dr. David Peña-Guzmán, Philosophy professor and co-host of the Overthink podcast, discusses psychologist and philosopher William James and his account of religious conversion from his book The Varieties of Religious Experience. In the third video in our new series of video lectures on mind, consciousness, and self, David outlines how James theorizes the nature of religious conversion and how he...
Dictionary of Fine Distinctions: a conversation with Eli Burnstein
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Dr. Ellie Anderson, Philosophy professor and co-host of Overthink podcast, sits down with humor writer and former philosopher Eli Burnstein about his recent book, Dictionary of Fine Distinctions: Nuances, Niceties, and Subtle Shades of Meaning. They discuss why one should care about subtle shades of meaning, Burnstein's distinction between ethics and morality, and some philosophy of language al...
101. AI Safety with Shazeda Ahmed
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Episode 101. AI Safety Welcome your robot overlords! In episode 101 of Overthink, Ellie and David speak with Dr. Shazeda Ahmed, specialist in AI Safety, to dive into the philosophy guiding artificial intelligence. With the rise of LLMs like ChatGPT, the lofty utilitarian principles of Effective Altruism have taken the tech-world spotlight by storm. Many who work on AI safety and ethics worry ab...
William James on Once- vs. Twice-born Believers
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William James on Once- vs. Twice-born Believers
100. Overthinking
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100. Overthinking
William James on Religion and the Sense of Reality
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William James on Religion and the Sense of Reality
Announcement: Public Zoom Event (March 27 6-7pm PT)
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Announcement: Public Zoom Event (March 27 6-7pm PT)
99. Zombies
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99. Zombies
Beauvoir and Contemporary Dating (with Dr. Ellie Anderson)
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Beauvoir and Contemporary Dating (with Dr. Ellie Anderson)
98. Reputation
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98. Reputation
The Boundaries of Philosophy
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The Boundaries of Philosophy
97. Cities
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97. Cities
Hermeneutic Labor: The Gendered Burden of Interpretation (with Dr. Ellie Anderson)
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Hermeneutic Labor: The Gendered Burden of Interpretation (with Dr. Ellie Anderson)
96. Fatphobia with Kate Manne
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96. Fatphobia with Kate Manne
Ellie and David: Who is Better at X?
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Ellie and David: Who is Better at X?
95. Biohacking
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95. Biohacking
Montaigne, On Friendship: Ellie Anderson and David Peña-Guzmán
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Montaigne, On Friendship: Ellie Anderson and David Peña-Guzmán
94. Debt
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94. Debt

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  • @leo09703
    @leo09703 2 години тому

    Great explanation I am from kashmir I love the way you teach

  • @benquinneyiii7941
    @benquinneyiii7941 2 години тому

    Breakfast

  • @benquinneyiii7941
    @benquinneyiii7941 3 години тому

    Pain or boredom

  • @benquinneyiii7941
    @benquinneyiii7941 3 години тому

    Nausea

  • @benquinneyiii7941
    @benquinneyiii7941 3 години тому

    A nazi?

  • @benquinneyiii7941
    @benquinneyiii7941 3 години тому

    Freakish

  • @benquinneyiii7941
    @benquinneyiii7941 4 години тому

    In jail

  • @jithinjose8065
    @jithinjose8065 18 годин тому

    Thats peak when; Plato uses dialogue, a dynasian way to describe the rationalism.. same reason i hate rationalusm, people, science, human need art. Only through art they could survive. Its not just an entertainment as everyone thinks, its a necessary thing that remind human certain things.

  • @tedjaeckel5623
    @tedjaeckel5623 22 години тому

    Do not forget that Sartre became a communist after being in a camp that made him realize his commonality and his shared ness. Your theory is very American. You start from self. That is great. You need grow up and understand that I started from us!

  • @lonesomealeks4206
    @lonesomealeks4206 23 години тому

    bla bla bla blablabla bla BLAh!

  • @moogzoliver
    @moogzoliver День тому

    I love your face

  • @bijaypandey9218
    @bijaypandey9218 День тому

    What about Shakespeare's view on friendship?

  • @SimoniousB
    @SimoniousB День тому

    At 9 minutes you discuss affective consciousness, Bauer et al; Are you saying it is not a dualism but a spectrum? Similar to ‘learning’ and ‘teaching’ the concept of ‘me and you’ because a sense of self is already present and can be seen as a prerequisite to learning this?

  • @nicolasdelaforge7420
    @nicolasdelaforge7420 День тому

    The other is radically "not me" - she is an absolute other. The other and the me do not form a totality. Nevertheless, the other appears only because I appear, and I appear only because the other appears - but this is not reducing the other to the self- same. This fact arises from infinity, not psychology or being. It invites us into the "nearness" - the "welcome", the "sociality". It is not me welcoming - the welcome, the nearness, the sociality are instructed by infinity. Seing the face of the other brings up infinity. His book "Otherwise than being" is the book to read, as it was written to answer Derrida's critique of "Totality and Infinity". We are both free (Sartre) and "hostage" (of love- election).

  • @DemetriosKongas
    @DemetriosKongas День тому

    Herbert Blumer, the American sociologist, in a paper of his, “The Mass, the Public and Public Opinion” drew a distinction between mass, then a new type of social formation, and other formations like groups, crowds and publics. In a group members know each other, are aware of their common membership, they have a certain structure of stable relationships. Students of a particular module (subject) form groups. Crowds are larger, but restricted within observable boundaries in a particular space. They are temporary and rarely re-form with the same composition. They may possess an identity and share the same mood. People attending a political meeting or rally form crowds. The public is likely to be relatively large, widely dispersed and enduring. It tends to be formed around an issue or cause in public life, and its primary purpose is to advance an interest or an opinion or political change. It is an essential element in a democracy, based as it is on rational discourse and comprising a better-informed section of the population. In Greece there are publics of middle-class educated people who attend even philosophy classes in amphitheaters. Mass captures features of the audiences or spectators of the mass media of communication. They are much larger than groups, crowds and publics. They are widely dispersed. They lack self-awareness and self-identity and they are incapable of acting together in an organized manner to secure objectives. They have a shifting composition within changing boundaries. The interesting thing is that, whereas in traditional mass media, mass did not act for itself but acted upon, the new media that you are using like youtube and podcast and twitter provide the opportunity for people to respond, to act. Finally, community is a social unit that shares socially significant characteristics like place, norms, culture, religion, values and customs. Thus, we can talk about the community of Sacramento, California or of the Pomona College.

  • @juljos9343
    @juljos9343 День тому

    Very interesting

  • @vonryansexpress
    @vonryansexpress 2 дні тому

    Total tosh - Human nature is how it is for obvious reasons - the need to survive . . . Any aspect of human nature is thusly arranged to that end, competitiveness and greed mentioned here just two of those . . . The suggestion that somehow Capitalism created these imperatives is one of a long line of bizarre fanciful attempts to perpetuate the obscenity that is Marxism . . . Communism is deadly, simple as that . . .

  • @Okgeneric
    @Okgeneric 2 дні тому

    oh wow yall really let yaselves go. what happened? public philosophy also known as propa-propaganda

  • @pierre-9164
    @pierre-9164 2 дні тому

    t is a great simplification of Hegel's thought, perhaps citing some of Hegel's works would have been better: The phenomenology of spirit and above all The Science of Logic but let's forget it

  • @jithinjose8065
    @jithinjose8065 2 дні тому

    Please do more videos about Nietzsche. I think only Nietzsche is relevant to discuss now, especially with the new present of gen z, where the negation of past is playing a vital role and I think need of discussion about nietzche is necessary in our present culture.

  • @jithinjose8065
    @jithinjose8065 2 дні тому

    Please do more videos about Nietzsche.

  • @jithinjose8065
    @jithinjose8065 2 дні тому

    Can you please do a video about Nietzsche and the relation to his work on the idea of iconic. How the history and iconic works. I usually think the iconic played a main role in creating passion. Hence relating the present to the past( unlikely to Hegel)

  • @johndoe-rq1pu
    @johndoe-rq1pu 2 дні тому

    Seems like Merleau-Ponty forgot to do his philosophy career so he just wrote what Einstein wrote and changed a few words so the teacher wouldn’t notice.

  • @Hadoken.
    @Hadoken. 2 дні тому

    The problem with this approach is that it doesn’t foresee a future where humans are poor saps living in a box, donning VR helmets or jacked into a virtual paradise from which they can’t and don’t want to escape. There is no essence there, just code made by someone to delude the mind in order to make the body produce more and resist less.

  • @user-gc6wd7dm4w
    @user-gc6wd7dm4w 2 дні тому

    Having examined hundreds of conversion stories, I'd say William James is spot on.

  • @Weebei
    @Weebei 3 дні тому

    Weird way to simply say lack honesty today.

  • @thomasj.loebel9809
    @thomasj.loebel9809 3 дні тому

    The study of what you don't know for everyone to think about.

  • @jacobmuir9020
    @jacobmuir9020 3 дні тому

    With all respect, there is high pitched background noise in this video

  • @peterthefourth4
    @peterthefourth4 3 дні тому

    READ MARX for help understanding capitalism! The channel DISSIDENT THEORY is a great help. Just as helpful as OVERTHINK PODCAST 📕❤️📕❤️📕❤️📕

  • @peterthefourth4
    @peterthefourth4 3 дні тому

    READ MARX for help understanding capitalism! The channel DISSIDENT THEORY is a great help. 📕❤️📕❤️📕❤️📕

  • @michaelsintef7337
    @michaelsintef7337 3 дні тому

    Much gratitude toward Dave and Ellie for the thought and effort they put in for these presentations. I love the “public” dynamic of the delivery guy arriving in the middle of this.

  • @achantus1
    @achantus1 3 дні тому

    The world is still enchanted - to those who have what Bergson called "an open soul". Science haven't changed that. We don't know everything, so much is still a mystery.

  • @NousSpeak
    @NousSpeak 3 дні тому

    For some reason I find I resonate with and enjoy French philosophers more than German ones. Even when it's someone I disagree with like Derrida. I don't know if that's just a coincidence or why that is. Nietzsche has been a bit of an exception but he has a voice that unusually jumps off the page in Beyond Good and Evil at least.

  • @NousSpeak
    @NousSpeak 3 дні тому

    Sartre's defense against the fourth charge or Existentialism as Nihilistic feels like a precedent to Zizek's whole "God is dead thus everything is forbidden." which he elaborates on being related to the tremendous burden of responsibility we assume once God isn't a factor.

  • @108u9
    @108u9 4 дні тому

    Here in 2024!

  • @michaelchangaris1632
    @michaelchangaris1632 4 дні тому

    Democratizing philosophy means there’s a dialogue between academia and non-academia with respect for training and respect for human capacity to engage in the process of philosophical generation.

  • @anonymoushuman8344
    @anonymoushuman8344 4 дні тому

    This use of 'public' assumes that philosophy and serious intellectual activity are things that ordinarily happen inside the academy rather than outside it. It reaffirms a norm to the effect that philosophy outside the academy is the exception.

    • @OverthinkPodcastPhilosophy
      @OverthinkPodcastPhilosophy День тому

      Did you watch the video? This point is discussed in detail

    • @anonymoushuman8344
      @anonymoushuman8344 День тому

      Yeah, I wrote the comment as I was starting the video. Woops. It's a good one. Thanks for a good, nuanced public discussion. We needn't accept this binary of academic and public. Problematizing it leads into questions about the role of the academy in society, about its relations to power, to other institutions and to authorities. Likewise for philosophy and "intellectuals" in general. I'll have to watch the video again.

  • @123456789tube100
    @123456789tube100 4 дні тому

    Most philosophy is just too dense for the general public and it takes too much work to go through.

  • @hrr6851
    @hrr6851 4 дні тому

  • @hrr6851
    @hrr6851 4 дні тому

    ❤❤❤

  • @chintandatt7444
    @chintandatt7444 4 дні тому

    Thank you for sharing this.

  • @ahmetdogan5685
    @ahmetdogan5685 4 дні тому

    "people of color"? this is the most racist phrase I've ever heard. STOP using this phrase concocted by some idiot, spread by morons.

  • @chrischaves5116
    @chrischaves5116 4 дні тому

    Public philosophy may rescue our democratic culture, which is under threat.

  • @heatherinCT
    @heatherinCT 4 дні тому

    Yea existential angst isn't what you think it is ....

  • @Buy_YT_Views_6784
    @Buy_YT_Views_6784 4 дні тому

    Great to see such a detailed exploration.

  • @julesdudes853
    @julesdudes853 4 дні тому

    it's interesting that you talk about philosophy as something that happens in the classroom -- obviously both of you are teachers -- but when we're talking about philosophy autodidacts, it has to happen in conversation with friends and peers, and it truly becomes concrete when it's utilized as a framework or put into practice as an ethics

  • @bookerandavril
    @bookerandavril 4 дні тому

    I jumped for a sec I thought someone just knocked on my door LOLLLL !! 😭14:18

  • @NoPrivateProperty
    @NoPrivateProperty 4 дні тому

    what is private philosophy?

    • @magoomba
      @magoomba 4 дні тому

      Thoughts I don't tell anyone That's a joke. I think they mean the language used? Private philosophy uses language only accessible to the author and experts while public philosophy uses language that can be accessed by most people. Like you might hear a lot about people not understanding hegel. So I suppose his original works are private philosophy, but a guy that posts a 5 minute hegel intro to UA-cam or a 300 part video explanation of his interpretation of one Hegel book to UA-cam or these overthink guys are public philosophy. I think

    • @anonymoushuman8344
      @anonymoushuman8344 4 дні тому

      It's disciplinary philosophy, philosophy safely contained within the walls of academic control systems. Even when you're teaching courses that include Gramsci, Marx, and Fanon, or Foucault or Deleuze. Philosophy as academic steppingstone to comfortable status within established institutions, be they socialist, capitalist, or whatever. (Nope, no sour grapes here!)

    • @dago87able
      @dago87able 2 дні тому

      @@anonymoushuman8344and yet Foucault and Deleuze worked within academy.

    • @OverthinkPodcastPhilosophy
      @OverthinkPodcastPhilosophy День тому

      a lot of the themes in this comment thread are discussed in the video

  • @addammadd
    @addammadd 4 дні тому

    Just throwing it out there, the rode dual lav mic setup costs $200 on Amazon right now. I love your guys’ work but this is nigh-unlistenable.

    • @KC-hk2ub
      @KC-hk2ub 4 дні тому

      The mic on the shelf is probably adequate as it has several settings for picking up audio. Omnidirectional, Bidirectional, or Stereo would all probably work, if the mic was positioned in front of, and between, two speakers. On a little table just above their knee height.

    • @108u9
      @108u9 4 дні тому

      @David and Ellie IMO it doesn’t bother me too much. Can it be better? Yes. Equally you guys can be heard so it’s good enough. On the audio side, this was probably on camera microphone audio, which can be good but because you guys are probably a distance away from the camera’s microphone, it doesn’t capture the speaking voices quite as clearly. IMO there isn’t a perfect solution as each approach has its caveats: • For the Rode branded lavelier mics (or any “lav” mics for that matter), the issue is picking up clothes ruffling noises especially if the subject is wearing clothing that crinkles or has an outer layer like what David has on. There’s also the aspect of keeping them charged because the transmitters and receivers have internal batteries. • Shotgun microphones don’t have the same clothing noise issue though they tend to require that the microphones are pointed at the sound source to get good sound (“on axis”). With you both, you also need two separate shotgun microphones to connect to the camera, which is doable but not typically straightforward as a plug and play out of box situation. One feature you guys can shop for is something with “32 bit float audio recording”. It essentially negates issues with sound sources being too soft or loud though there needs to be some audio post production to take advantage of it. In recent years, more products at an accessible price have been including it. Not widespread common yet but it’s becoming easier to find. Overall, a wireless lav microphone set up might be the easiest next step noting the caveats. Brands like Rode, Sennheiser, Shure, Saramonic, DJI (though there’s a pending Bill looking to ban DJI in the US. Primarily over their drones but the Bill seem to be a blanket ban across all their products), Deity all (probably) have product options at various price points to choose from. If the camera used has a microphone port (which may be 2.5mm or 3.5mm, this needs to be checked), the products usually include the necessary cable to connect the receiver to the camera. For cameras without a microphone input, or phones, an adapter might need needed. Other than that, IMO I’d try to go for the one with the rated battery life that’s suitable for the duration of the recording sessions and one with USB C charging in case you guys forget to charge it before hand (handy to have so the battery can be topped up last minute). 32-bit float would be a nice to have if you guys can spring for it with a bit extra budget and have someone handling audio post production to take advantage of it. Hope something in the above helps! :) Edit: Just found out an important detail. The 32 bit float feature in the ‘Rode Wireless Pro’ only applies to the audio recorded to the receiver. It does not send that audio to the camera. This may or may not be the case for other products

    • @raven2tongue
      @raven2tongue 3 дні тому

      @@108u9maaaan - as someone who is currently trying to learn about audio options, this comment is SO incredibly helpful! Thanks so much for writing out all this detail! (Even though it wasn’t intended for me haha)

    • @Pretzels722
      @Pretzels722 3 дні тому

      “Nigh unlistenable” is dramatising

  • @vonHolzwege
    @vonHolzwege 4 дні тому

    Very happy for your version of "public philosophy"