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I teach philosophy. I'm interested in a lot of things but am constantly uncertain about everything.

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For Karl Marx's birthday, here's G.A. Cohen, the funniest Marxist philosopher — and quite possibly the funniest philosopher — of all time doing his impression of a British philosopher. This is one of his lesser-known, but is also one of his funniest, bits.

For Karl Marx's birthday, here's G.A. Cohen, the funniest Marxist philosopher — and quite possibly the funniest philosopher — of all time doing his impression of a British philosopher. This is one of his lesser-known, but is also one of his funniest, bits.

159,133 views • 1 month ago

G.A. Cohen — the funniest philosopher ever to live — gives his best impression of his supervisor at Oxford, Gilbert Ryle.

G.A. Cohen — the funniest philosopher ever to live — gives his best impression of his supervisor at Oxford, Gilbert Ryle.

132,405 views • 1 month ago

My favourite academia joke of all time. "The moral of this story is: The topic of your dissertation isn't really important; what's important is who your advisor is." —Harvey Cox, When Jesus Came to Harvard

My favourite academia joke of all time. "The moral of this story is: The topic of your dissertation isn't really important; what's important is who your advisor is." —Harvey Cox, When Jesus Came to Harvard

190,969 views • 3 months 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

“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

32,342 views • 20 days ago

“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

“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

88,665 views • 2 months ago

“[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

“[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

36,311 views • 1 month ago

“Another old philosopher was Plato. Plato invented platonic relationships. Before him, men and women couldn't just be friends; they had to have full sexual intercourse with each other.” —Philomena Cunk on Plato

“Another old philosopher was Plato. Plato invented platonic relationships. Before him, men and women couldn't just be friends; they had to have full sexual intercourse with each other.” —Philomena Cunk on Plato

70,735 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

“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

37,547 views • 1 month 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

“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

113,978 views • 6 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

“[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 Hoyeck

49,266 views • 4 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

“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 Hoyeck

32,925 views • 3 months ago

"When Heidegger actually looked at the way human beings are related to the world, he found that it wasn't as subjects related to objects at all, that awareness and consciousness didn't play any role." —Hubert Dreyfus on Heidegger's Being and Time

"When Heidegger actually looked at the way human beings are related to the world, he found that it wasn't as subjects related to objects at all, that awareness and consciousness didn't play any role." —Hubert Dreyfus on Heidegger's Being and Time

35,032 views • 4 months ago

"Socrates, right at the beginning of philosophy, got it going by saying that you mustn't discuss important and puzzling questions without studying the concepts in which they're posed." —R.M. Hare on philosophical methodology

"Socrates, right at the beginning of philosophy, got it going by saying that you mustn't discuss important and puzzling questions without studying the concepts in which they're posed." —R.M. Hare on philosophical methodology

40,964 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

“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

13,640 views • 2 months ago

“All the things that we want to say in ethics and aesthetics and religion [...] are, in the literal sense, nonsensical – not, however, that that means that they are in some way unimportant.” —A.C. Grayling on Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“All the things that we want to say in ethics and aesthetics and religion [...] are, in the literal sense, nonsensical – not, however, that that means that they are in some way unimportant.” —A.C. Grayling on Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Philippe-Antoine Hoyeck

15,552 views • 4 months ago

“If there is a rational basis for thinking, for instance, that agony is a bad thing and that it’s good to reduce agony, I would hope that any rational being, human or nonhuman, would agree with that judgment.” —Peter Singer on objectivity in ethics

“If there is a rational basis for thinking, for instance, that agony is a bad thing and that it’s good to reduce agony, I would hope that any rational being, human or nonhuman, would agree with that judgment.” —Peter Singer on objectivity in ethics

22,794 views • 8 months ago

"No greater freedom can be imagined for a man than absolute blind submission to an unjust law." — G.A. Cohen, The German Idea of Freedom

"No greater freedom can be imagined for a man than absolute blind submission to an unjust law." — G.A. Cohen, The German Idea of Freedom

Philippe-Antoine Hoyeck

24,011 views • 8 months ago

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