Charles Taylor Against Pinker, Dennett & Dawkins
Created by Prof Jason Blakely for pedagogical purposes: philosopher Charles Taylor's critique of attempts to reduce human agency to mechanisms through theories of materialism, Darwinism, computational theory of mind, and behaviorism. Excerpts from a public 2009 "Can Human Action Be Explained?" lecture available here: • Can Human Action Be Explained? (Charles Ta...
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Charles Taylor, "Democratic Degeneration: Three Easy Paths to Regression," March 26, 2018
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Sean Carroll, Daniel Dennett, & Steven Pinker: AI, Parapsychology, Panpsychism, & Physics Violations
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Conversation with Charles Taylor
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The Politics of Consciousness | video lecture with Yuval Noah Harari
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Marxist Philosophy - Bryan Magee & Charles Taylor (1977)
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The famous Chinese Room thought experiment - John Searle (1980)
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Sir Roger Scruton: How to Be a Conservative
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The Illusion of 'Free Will', The Psychology Behind Donald Trump, and The Science of Stress
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The Inner Self - Charles Taylor (1988)
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Charles Taylor | The Strange Uses of Political Religion: Philosophy Series (3/13/2017)
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The 4 biggest ideas in philosophy, with legend Daniel Dennett for Big Think+
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2009 - The Religious-Secular Divide: The U.S. Case -- Keynote: Charles Taylor | The New School
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You’ll stop using ChatGPT after listening to this | Jonathan Pageau [ARC 2026]
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The 100 year history of ‘woke’ (in 15 minutes) | Paul Marshall
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Noam Chomsky on Jung, Wittgenstein, and Gödel (Ask Me Anything)
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S4E20 Cosmic Connections: A Conversation with Charles Taylor
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Charles Taylor: "The Language Animal" – Institute for Social Justice
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Robert Sapolsky -- Hate and the Brain
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Charles Taylor Lecture: Disenchantment and Secularity
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