Book or Lecture Series Recommendations

Kmaca June 28, 2020 at 13:03 2150 views 8 comments

What are some good collections of relatively accessible lectures?

I just finished reading the collection of lectures called Philosophers of our Time compiled by Ted Honderich. It consists of essays from the annual lectures given at the Royal Institute of Philosophy in London. It was highly readable without being too technical and gave a good sense of some current contemporary philosophical approaches with writers like Chalmers, Searle, Foot, etc. It was something a 3rd or 4th year undergrad could sink their teeth into. Meaty without being too technical. Any other collections or books of lectures like that?

Comments (8)

Heracloitus June 28, 2020 at 13:57 #429157 0 likes

There is this excellent history of philosophy lecture series by Arthur Holmes

Kmaca June 29, 2020 at 06:42 #429556 0 likes

Reply to emancipate Thanks! Looks fantastic and very comprehensive

Banno June 29, 2020 at 06:45 #429558 0 likes

J.L Austin, Philosophical Papers.

Edit: Ah, boomer error You want videos, not papers.

Banno June 29, 2020 at 06:49 #429560 0 likes

Reply to emancipate Nice.

Wheatley June 29, 2020 at 06:53 #429562 0 likes

Edit: missed the "recommend" part

There's an introduction to philosophy course on Coursera (link)

It's starts june 29th and it's free to enroll.

Edit: I personally never tried this course.

Wheatley June 29, 2020 at 07:04 #429567 0 likes

John Searle has 3 lectures on YouTube:

UC Berkeley lectures.

Edit: I found them very interesting.

Wheatley June 29, 2020 at 07:08 #429569 0 likes

Open Yale Courses

Death

Edit: I also found this one interesting, but I don't really like his style.

Wheatley June 29, 2020 at 07:13 #429572 0 likes

There are tons of different free philosophy courses online. (link)

Edit: Mixed quality, I'm sure. I obviously didn't go through every one of them.