Robbins Library Notes » Podcasts http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pannone All about philosophy resources at Harvard and beyond. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:50:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ New Podcasts from Philosophy Bites http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pannone/2009/03/17/new-podcasts-from-philosophy-bites-5/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pannone/2009/03/17/new-podcasts-from-philosophy-bites-5/#comments Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 Jason Pannone http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pannone/?p=617 Good morning readers! A Happy St. Patrick’s Day to you!

There are two new podcasts on Philosophy Bites:

Enjoy!

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Here are the latest podcasts from Philosophy Bites:

Enjoy!

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Here are the latest podcasts from Philosophy Bites:

Enjoy!

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Here are the latest podcasts from Philosophy Bites, from late October 2008 to November 2008 — the titles are taken directly from the site:

Enjoy!

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Here are the latest podcasts from Philosophy Bites.  These podcasts were recorded from mid-August 2008 to mid-October 2008:

Just a reminder that I will be out tomorrow.  See you on Monday!

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Mulder: Mr. Simpson, we want you to recreate your every move the night you saw the alien.
Homer: The evening began at the gentlemen’s club, where we were discussing Wittgenstein over a game of backgammon.
Scully: Mr. Simpson, it’s a felony to lie to the FBI.
Homer: We were sitting in Barney’s car eating packets of mustard. Happy?

The Simpsons, “The Springfield Files” (1997)

Good morning, readers!

Via Bookforum.com: a podcast of an interview of Cass Sunstein by Christopher Lydon on behavioral economics. Here’s the overview:

Cass Sunstein gives us the half-hour short course here on “the most exciting intellectual movement of the last thirty years” — behavioral economics, that is, of which we had a taste recently with George Lakoff and Dan Ariely.

Behavioral economics is the demonstration (by clinical psychology, affirmed by neuroscience) that the “rational man” of neo-classical economics is in fact, in Dan Ariely’s book title, Predictably Irrational — that we are eternally kidding ourselves in our choice of credit cards, or of diets and desserts; that we tend to lurch without much reflection from over-optimism to over-anxiety about terrorist threats, war risks, and environmental melt-downs. Cass Sunstein is himself a demonstration of the spread of the new thinking from psychology and economics to law and politics. From the University of Chicago Law School, where he taught alongside Barack Obama for a dozen years, he has just moved permanently to Harvard, where he and Obama seem still to be channeling each other. Sunstein’s new book Nudge, with the economist Richard Thaler, is an introduction to a variety of not-quite-coercive strategies for helping people get what they really want: 401k savings plans, for example, that would be automatic for all workers who didn’t choose to set some of their wages aside. The general trick, Sunstein says, is recognizing that there’s less Immanuel Kant, more Homer Simpson, in each and all us than we’ve been taught.

Thoughts on this?  I know that there has been some criticism of “neuro-[insert discipline of choice]” and related studies, and one of the comments to the podcast description is along these lines.

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I realized yesterday that I haven’t posted any new podcasts from Philosophy Bites since late May. Here’s a list of the podcasts added since then:

  • Clare Carlisle on Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling
  • Alex Neill on the Paradox of Tragedy
  • Quentin Skinner on Machiavelli’s The Prince
  • Peter Adamson on Plotinus on Evil
  • Matthew Kramer on Legal Rights
  • Melissa Lane on Rousseau on Civilization
  • John Broome on Weighing Lives
  • Robert Rowland Smith on Derrida on Forgiveness
  • John Dunn on Locke on Toleration
  • Will Kymlicka on Minority Rights
  • Jennifer Hornsby on Human Agency

    • Enjoy!

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    Enjoy!

    ]]>     http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pannone/2008/05/27/new-podcasts-from-philosophy-bites-2/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/     Podcasts on Hume, the Nature of Men and Women, Torture, and the Definition of Art http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pannone/2008/04/17/podcasts-on-hume-the-nature-of-men-and-women-torture-and-the-defini/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pannone/2008/04/17/podcasts-on-hume-the-nature-of-men-and-women-torture-and-the-defini/#comments Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:54:38 +0000 Jason Pannone http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pannone/2008/04/17/podcasts-on-hume-the-nature-of-men-an Good morning, readers!

    New podcasts from Philosophy Bites are now available for your listening pleasure:

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    If you have been enjoying the Philosophy Bites podcasts, you may want to listen to some of the earlier podcasts — you can link to the first forty-four episodes by clicking on the link at left.

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