Phil Hoyeck
@PAHoyeck • 14,747 subscribers
I teach philosophy. I'm interested in a lot of things but am constantly uncertain about everything.
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![“When Newton published [his theory of gravitation], quite a lot of other scientists were disappointed. They wanted to know what gravity was, and Newton apparently didn't tell them what it was; he told them what it did. Then Hume came along and said that actually, the kind of thing Newton did was the only kind of thing the human mind could ever do.” —Simon Blackburn on the philosophy of science](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2047854311825121542/amplify_video_thumb/2047854059781271554/img/FVaOtAWxaacqLxTk.jpg)
“When Newton published [his theory of gravitation], quite a lot of other scientists were disappointed. They wanted to know what gravity was, and Newton apparently didn't tell them what it was; he told them what it did. Then Hume came along and said that actually, the kind of thing Newton did was the only kind of thing the human mind could ever do.” —Simon Blackburn on the philosophy of science
Phil Hoyeck88,900 views • 3 months ago
![“In any area where you’re not quite sure what the right questions are—whether you’re asking the right questions—what you’re doing is philosophy, whether you like it or not. […] It is really fascinating and even entertaining to watch really brilliant scientists start thinking about tough issues and reinventing all the mistakes of the history of philosophy. If you don’t know the history of what’s wrong with Hume and Kant and Aristotle and Plato and all the rest, then you’re going to fall into those mistakes. [You] don’t know for sure if [you]’re asking the right questions.” —Daniel Dennett on science and philosophy.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2083176351566119224/amplify_video_thumb/2083016891572854784/img/zQG5kmu7AyoDvope.jpg)
“In any area where you’re not quite sure what the right questions are—whether you’re asking the right questions—what you’re doing is philosophy, whether you like it or not. […] It is really fascinating and even entertaining to watch really brilliant scientists start thinking about tough issues and reinventing all the mistakes of the history of philosophy. If you don’t know the history of what’s wrong with Hume and Kant and Aristotle and Plato and all the rest, then you’re going to fall into those mistakes. [You] don’t know for sure if [you]’re asking the right questions.” —Daniel Dennett on science and philosophy.
Phil Hoyeck18,163 views • 19 days ago
![“What makes the self is a whole big collection of memories and projects and plans and likes and dislikes. […] Now, what holds that all together? Nothing!” —Daniel Dennett on the nature of personal identity](https://image.24vids.com/tw-1998503917106376999/amplify_video_thumb/1998503721492250624/img/Pe49t_cCPp0E_O3R.jpg)
![“[Philosophy] originates as a reaction against the stories that were told by the poets […]. The very word ‘mythos,’ which in Homer signifies a story that is infused with authority, with truth [comes to mean] the opposite: a mythos, a myth is a fable, a fantasy. The philosophers opposed this to another word, ‘logos,’ which means ‘reasoned argument.’ So you have myth, fantasy, and you have logos, reasoned argument.” —Tom Holland on Greek philosophy](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2081544547679564032/amplify_video_thumb/2081543389753847808/img/y4rAdSdjhaUfPHnq.jpg)
“[Philosophy] originates as a reaction against the stories that were told by the poets […]. The very word ‘mythos,’ which in Homer signifies a story that is infused with authority, with truth [comes to mean] the opposite: a mythos, a myth is a fable, a fantasy. The philosophers opposed this to another word, ‘logos,’ which means ‘reasoned argument.’ So you have myth, fantasy, and you have logos, reasoned argument.” —Tom Holland on Greek philosophy
Phil Hoyeck14,245 views • 24 days ago
![“How the world began is a problem for the physicist and the astronomer [...] How life began is a problem for the biologist [...]. Why the world began, why life began, on the other hand, I think are pseudo-questions.” —W.V.O. Quine on the nature of philosophy](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2065935050852421855/amplify_video_thumb/2065934497019748352/img/jx8DmSrSSXFX5PKD.jpg)
![“[Philosophy’s] goal is not to discover new truths about the world on the model of physics, let alone about possible worlds—the glories of metaphysics. […] Philosophy aims to disentangle conceptual confusions, to destroy metaphysical illusions.” —Peter Hacker on Wittgenstein](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2060797236041109609/amplify_video_thumb/2060797124292349956/img/iFoD2T8ovKUFth9k.jpg)
“[Philosophy’s] goal is not to discover new truths about the world on the model of physics, let alone about possible worlds—the glories of metaphysics. […] Philosophy aims to disentangle conceptual confusions, to destroy metaphysical illusions.” —Peter Hacker on Wittgenstein
Phil Hoyeck36,529 views • 2 months ago
![“This is one of the deep motives for literature, or for art of any sort: that one is defeating the formlessness of the world. One is cheering oneself up [and] instructing oneself by giving a form to something that is, perhaps, alarmingly formless.” —Iris Murdoch on literature](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2055444973466587150/amplify_video_thumb/2055443608463900672/img/4-owbKjRvkvjh0EU.jpg)
“This is one of the deep motives for literature, or for art of any sort: that one is defeating the formlessness of the world. One is cheering oneself up [and] instructing oneself by giving a form to something that is, perhaps, alarmingly formless.” —Iris Murdoch on literature
Phil Hoyeck37,756 views • 3 months ago
![“[Our public discourse] is very impoverished […]. We don’t expect [politicians] have contact with literature, with history, with the richness of descriptive language that the humanities have always stood for. I think that's a great loss.” —Martha Nussbaum on Political Discourse](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2023887776719269926/amplify_video_thumb/2023887701452484609/img/4klvr8-uNv1emS_e.jpg)
“[Our public discourse] is very impoverished […]. We don’t expect [politicians] have contact with literature, with history, with the richness of descriptive language that the humanities have always stood for. I think that's a great loss.” —Martha Nussbaum on Political Discourse
Philippe-Antoine Hoyeck49,266 views • 6 months ago
![“I do think it would be healthier [...] to understand ourselves [...] as heirs to both religious and specifically Greek scientific traditions. What I mean is that there should be a shift in dialogical attitudes towards religious traditions, the semantical potential of which is not yet exhausted.” —Jürgen Habermas on religion and postmetaphysical thinking](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2032855087995834414/amplify_video_thumb/2032854923956858883/img/WdePko2T6Nes-b2t.jpg)
“I do think it would be healthier [...] to understand ourselves [...] as heirs to both religious and specifically Greek scientific traditions. What I mean is that there should be a shift in dialogical attitudes towards religious traditions, the semantical potential of which is not yet exhausted.” —Jürgen Habermas on religion and postmetaphysical thinking
Philippe-Antoine Hoyeck32,925 views • 5 months ago
![“Pragmatists say we should stop thinking [...] in terms of a distinction between appearance and reality. [We] never do anything like penetrating beyond the world of the senses, or penetrating beyond appearance to reality.” —Richard Rorty on Pragmatism](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2047440863026884981/amplify_video_thumb/2047439758117289984/img/lHLIJE4GGbxNpPw0.jpg)
