Category — science

Boeiende lezing in de serie TED talks van een van de meest vooraanstaande hedendaagse psychologen Daniel Kahneman.

De relatie tussen geheugen en verhaal biedt talloze mogelijkheden tot verdere uitwerking in educatieve en therapeutische situaties. [Read more →]

Human Interaction: The Interview

I have an idea that may or may not work but let’s try this to get the audience to understand the simple insight at the heart of what you’re saying. In a way, our interview has been an example of coming to terms with a reality. I had some ideas about where we would go, but it’s in our action — interaction, in our sizing each other up — that we’re embodying a reality that you and the people who’ve influenced you are writing about. Is that fair? [Read more →]

The Disembodied Internet

But now I want to get from there to an issue which isn’t computers. I got interested in writing this book about the Internet because there’s no longer a question of making artificial minds by using computers. Heidegger trashed AI and it trashed itself. But now, people have said — it’s hard to remember, it’s only maybe ten years ago — that the marvelous thing about the Internet is that we don’t have to have bodies on the Internet; [Read more →]

Artificial Intelligence

Now let’s go pick up that first book that you wrote, which I will show our audience, which is called What Computers Still Can’t Do. [Read more →]

Merleau-Ponty

[Let's go back to Merleau-Ponty.]

Heidegger’s the important one. He saw that what Kierkegaard was saying in a Christian context, in 1850 in Denmark, was a deep, important thing about what it was to be a human being, which nobody had seen, and he wrote Being and Time which now, I think, practically everybody thinks is the great book of twentieth century philosophy. [Read more →]

More Thoughts on Teaching

Let me interrupt you one second, because the next thing I wanted to ask you was, you said that your main vocation is a teacher, so let’s talk about skills, which you’ve already started doing, but related to what is involved in making teaching a calling and doing it well. [Read more →]

The Question of the Body

It strikes me, as I listen to you and having read some of your work, that there’s a real focus on humanity. The words that come up again and again are “vulnerability”, “commitment”, “risk”, and “meaning”. Is that a fair assessment?

That’s right. [Read more →]

Teaching Philosophy

In a recent interview you said that there is in the universe a power to grab people and motivate them to do great things which doesn’t come out of their inner [being] and doesn’t come out of their culture. We don’t know what it is but people call it a calling. So, I want you to reflect a moment. You led us to coming to philosophy — what do you see in your background that led to that calling? Or was it the problem that interested you? [Read more →]

Background

Bert, welcome to the show.

Thanks, Harry.

Where were you born and raised?

In the middle of nowhere: Terre Haute, Indiana. I was there for seventeen years without realizing there was an outside world.

Looking back, how do you think your parents shaped your thinking about the world? [Read more →]

Goede atheïsten zijn inderdaad onmisbaar. En, wanneer ze goed zijn is de vraag of ze dat stempel moeten hebben.

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