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Ai Generated. Human edited. Introductions and summaries of important books in philosophy and the interdisciplinary cognitive sciences. Modified and curated to improve listening experience. This channel not eligible for monetization due to YouTube"s "reused content" policy. If you"d like to help support us on Patreon.

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[198] The Great Guide: What David Hume Can Teach Us...

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2025/05/20

Ai generated & human edited. Introduction and summary of :The Great Guide:What David Hume Can Teach Us about Being Human and Living Well"By Julian Baggini 2021Invaluable wisdom on living a good life from one of the Enlightenment's greatest philosophersDavid Hume (1711–1776) is perhaps best known for his ideas about cause and effect and his criticisms of religion, but he is rarely thought of as a philosopher with practical wisdom to offer. Yet Hume's philosophy is grounded in an

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00:21:01

[197] John McDowell on Worldly Subjectivity By Tony...

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2025/05/18

Ai generated & human edited. Introduction and summary of "John McDowell on Worldly Subjectivity: Oxford Kantianism Meets Phenomenology and Cognitive Sciences" By Tony Cheng 2022John McDowell’s philosophical ideas are both influential and comprehensive, encompassing philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, epistemology, ethics, metaphysics and the history of philosophy. This book is a much-needed systematic overview of McDowell’s thought that offers a clear and accessible route

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00:29:13

[196] Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics By Martin...

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2025/05/14

Ai generated & human edited. Introduction and summary of "Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics" By Martin Heidegger 1929/1997Since its original publication in 1929, Martin Heidegger's provocative book on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason has attracted much attention both as an important contribution to twentieth-century Kant scholarship and as a pivotal work in Heidegger's own development after Being and Time. This fifth, enlarged edition includes marginal notations made by

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00:25:40

[195] Ideas: General Introduction to Pure...

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2025/05/11

Ai generated & human edited. Introduction and summary of "Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology" By Edmund Husserl 1931/2012Widely regarded as the principal founder of phenomenology, one of the most important movements in twentieth century philosophy, Edmund Husserl’s Ideas is one of his most important works and a classic of twentieth century thought. This Routledge Classics edition of the original translation by W.R. Boyce Gibson includes the introduction to the English

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00:18:55

[194] Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science...

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2025/05/08

Ai generated & human edited. Introduction and summary of "Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness" By Philip Goff 2019 From a leading philosopher of mind comes this lucid, provocative argument that offers a radically new picture of human consciousness—panpsychism.Understanding how brains produce consciousness is one of the great scientific challenges of our age. Some philosophers argue that consciousness is something “extra,” beyond the physical workings of

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00:20:49

[193] Disclosing the World: On the Phenomenology of...

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2025/05/06

Ai generated & human edited. Introduction and summary of "Disclosing the World: On the Phenomenology of Language" By Andrew Inkpin 2016A phenomenological conception of language, drawing on Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Wittgenstein, with implications for both the philosophy of language and current cognitive science.In this book, Andrew Inkpin considers the disclosive function of language—what language does in revealing or disclosing the world. His approach to this question is a phenomenological

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00:31:33

[192] The Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems By...

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2025/05/04

Ai generated & human edited. Introduction and summary of "The Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems" By James J. Gibson 1966Dr. Gibson does not treat of the different senses as mere producers of visual, auditory, tactual, or other sensations. Rather, he regards them as active seeking mechanisms for looking, listening, touching, and the like. This means that the emphasis is on explanations of how we are able to have the constant perceptions that we need for effective action and

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00:26:09

[191] Mind and World By John McDowell

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2025/05/01

Ai generated & human edited. Introduction and summary of "Mind and World" By John McDowell 1994Modern philosophy finds it difficult to give a satisfactory picture of the place of minds in the world. In Mind and World, based on the 1991 John Locke Lectures, one of the most distinguished philosophers writing today offers his diagnosis of this difficulty and points to a cure. In doing so, he delivers the most complete and ambitious statement to date of his own views, a statement that no

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00:25:24

[190] Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence...

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2025/04/28

Ai generated & human edited. Introduction and summary of "Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era" By James Barrat 2023Artificial Intelligence helps choose what books you buy, what movies you see, and even who you date. It puts the “smart” in your smartphone and soon it will drive your car. It makes most of the trades on Wall Street, and controls vital energy, water, and transportation infrastructure. But Artificial Intelligence can also threaten our

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00:23:18

[189] Philosophy and Simulation: The Emergence of...

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2025/04/25

Ai generated & human edited. Introduction and summary of "Philosophy and Simulation: The Emergence of Synthetic Reason" By Manuel DeLanda 2011In this groundbreaking book, Manuel DeLanda analyzes different genres of simulation, from cellular automata and generic algorithms to neural nets and multi-agent systems, as a means to conceptualize the space of possibilities associated with casual and other capacities.This remarkably clear philosophical discussion of a rapidly growing field,

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00:19:51

[188] Human Motives: Hedonism, Altruism, and the...

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2025/04/23

Ai generated & human edited. Introduction and summary of "Human Motives:Hedonism, Altruism, and the Science of Affect" By Peter Carruthers 2024Motivational hedonism (often called "psychological hedonism") claims that everything we do is done in pursuit of pleasure (in the widest sense) and to avoid pain and displeasure (again, in the widest sense). Although perennially attractive, many philosophers and experimental psychologists have claimed to refute it. Human Motives shows

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00:26:48

[187] The World of Perception By Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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2025/04/20

Ai generated & human edited. Introduction and summary of "The World of Perception" By Maurice Merleau-Ponty 2004In 1948, Maurice Merleau-Ponty wrote and delivered on French radio a series of seven lectures on the theme of perception. Translated here into English for the first time, they offer a lucid and concise insight into one of the great philosophical minds of the twentieth-century.These lectures explore themes central not only to Merleau-Ponty's philosophy but phenomenology as a whole. He

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00:19:42

[186] What Is It Like to Be a Bat? By Thomas Nagel

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2025/04/18

Ai generated & human edited. Introduction and summary of "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" By Thomas Nagel 2024A 50th anniversary edition of one of the most widely influential articles of 20th Century philosophy“Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable.” So begins Thomas Nagel's classic 1974 essay “What is it Like to be a Bat?” Nagel's essay initiated the now widespread attention to consciousness as a central problem for philosophy, psychology, and

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00:25:49

[185] Being We: Phenomenological Contributions to...

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2025/04/16

Ai generated & human edited. Introduction and summary of "Being We: Phenomenological Contributions to Social Ontology" By Dan Zahavi 2025What does it take to constitute a we with others and how does feeling, thinking, and acting as part of a we, transform one's sense of self, one's relation to others, and the way one experiences the world? Is individual subjectivity something that necessarily requires a communal grounding or does a we-relationship always presuppose a plurality

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00:20:04

[184] The Character of Consciousness By David J....

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2025/04/11

Ai generated & human edited. Introduction and summary of "The Character of Consciousness" By David J. Chalmers 2010What is consciousness? How does the subjective character of consciousness fit into an objective world? How can there be a science of consciousness? In this sequel to his groundbreaking and controversial The Conscious Mind, David Chalmers develops a unified framework that addresses these questions and many others. Starting with a statement of the "hard problem" of

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00:27:22

[183] The Parallax View By Slavoj Zizek

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2025/04/07

Ai generated & human edited. Introduction and summary of "The Parallax View" By Slavoj Zizek 2009In Žižek's long-awaited magnum opus, he theorizes the "parallax gap" in the ontological, the scientific, and the political—and rehabilitates dialectical materialism.The Parallax View is Slavoj Žižek's most substantial theoretical work to appear in many years; Žižek himself describes it as his magnum opus. Parallax can be defined as the apparent displacement of an object,

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00:20:48

[182] The World as Will and Presentation: Volume I By...

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2025/04/05

Ai generated & human edited. Introduction and summary of "The World as Will and Presentation: Volume I" By Arthur Schopenhauer, Daniel Kolak (Editor), Richard Aquila (Translator) c.1818/2019Taking the transcendental idealism of Immanuel Kant as his starting point, Schopenhauer argues that the world humans experience around them—the world of objects in space and time and related in causal ways—exists solely as "representation" (Vorstellung) dependent on a cognizing subject,

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00:24:59

[181] Structure Phenomenology By Herbert Witzenmann

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2025/04/02

Ai generated & human edited. Introduction and summary of "Structure Phenomenology: Preconscious Formation in the Epistemic Disclosure of Reality" By Herbert Witzenmann 1983/2022This is the first English translation of Herbert Witzenmann's seminal work, Strukturphänomenologie, which departs from the traditional phenomenological methods of Husserl, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty to introduce a fresh approach to the nexus of consciousness and reality.In Structure Phenomenology, published

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00:35:46

[180] Kant's Construction of Nature By Michael Friedman

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2025/03/30

Ai generated & human edited. Introduction and summary of "Kant's Construction of Nature: A Reading of the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science" By Michael Friedman 2013Kant's Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science is one of the most difficult but also most important of Kant's works. Published in 1786 between the first (1781) and second (1787) editions of the Critique of Pure Reason, the Metaphysical Foundations occupies a central place in the development of

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00:23:19

[179] Self-Knowledge and Self Identity By Sydney...

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2025/03/27

Ai generated & human edited. Introduction and summary of "Self-Knowledge and Self Identity" By Sydney Shoemaker 1963Sydney Shoemaker's 1963 book, Self-Knowledge and Self-Identity, investigates the philosophical concepts of how we know ourselves and what constitutes our individual identity. The text critically examines various historical and contemporary theories regarding the self, including those positing a substantial ego, a bundle of perceptions, and the importance of memory and

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