“For just as the engineer studies the structure of material things, so the philosopher studies the structure of thought. Understanding the structure involves seeing how parts function and how they interconnect. It means knowing what would happen for better or worse if changes were made.”

~ Simon Blackburn, Think, page 2

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#SimonBlackburn - The #Illusion of #Self: #Understanding #PersonalIdentity Through #Time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4Ei2NZDOFg

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfMind #PhilosophyOfConsciousness #Mind #Consciousness #Personhood #Selfhood #Individuality #Perception #Continuity #Pattern #Patterns #Persistence #Memory #Personality #Change #Organisation #Me #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

#SimonBlackburn - What Are #Selves?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl8fD2H0xyI

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfMind #Empiricism #Dualism #Self #Mind #Consciousness #Selfhood #Soul #Experience #Perception #Hume #Kant #Perspective #PointOfView #Neuroscience #Location #Coordinates #ArtificialIntelligence #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

#SimonBlackburn - Arguments About #God?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0hBG08tslY&t=23s&ab_channel=CloserToTruth

#Philosophy #Science #PhilosophyOfScience #Religion #PhilosophyOfReligion #Theism #Atheism #Theology #Sociology #Society #Evolution #Scepticism #Skepticism #Design #Teleology #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

#SimonBlackburn - What is #Causation ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuvD1B_kpaA&ab_channel=CloserToTruth

#Philosophy #Hume #DavidHume #LawsOfPhysics #LawsOfNature #Regularities #PatternsOfRegularities #Induction #InductiveExperience #BottomUpCausation #MentalCausation #Consciousness #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

#Deontology and #HumanRights with #Philosopher #SimonBlackburn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4ve3n3uIL4&ab_channel=NortheasternUniversityLondon

#Philosophy #Utilitarianism #IndirectUtilitarianism #Consequentialism #CategoricalImperative #Mill #JohnStuartMill #JSM #Kant #ImmanuelKant #Liberalism #Economics #Ethics #MoralPhilosophy

Five Minutes on #Hume

Professor #SimonBlackburn gives five minutes on #Scottish #historian, #philosopher, #economist, #diplomat and #essayist #DavidHume

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4kdlQSLd6U&ab_channel=NewCollegeoftheHumanities

#Philosophy #Epistemology #MoralPhilosophy #Induction