Dr. Darren Staloff, Hume's Epistemology

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  • @username1235400
    @username1235400 Před rokem +65

    Seeing young Dr. Staloff and Dr. Sugure lectures makes me realize something - That perhaps the most valuable piece of wisdom I’ve garnered from this channel is the poignant reminder of the passing of time.

    • @username1235400
      @username1235400 Před rokem +2

      @@3dvisions absolutely 💯

    • @Nikki_Kerr
      @Nikki_Kerr Před rokem +3

      Rev 10:6

    • @Dino_Medici
      @Dino_Medici Před 5 měsíci +2

      Que Robin Williams in Dead Poets Society saying SIEZE THE DAY 🕺⚡️

    • @architsharma6866
      @architsharma6866 Před 5 měsíci +3

      Time is humanity’s worst punishment

    • @username1235400
      @username1235400 Před 5 měsíci

      @architsharma6866 yeah it's rough...curious to hear what you mean when you say "time". How would you describe time ?

  • @Sisyphus460
    @Sisyphus460 Před 9 měsíci +23

    It is a CRIME that this only has 12k views. Beautiful lecture. I'm at university right now, and every single lecture on this channel is better than the philosophy classes I've taken. Thank you.

  • @martinbowman1993
    @martinbowman1993 Před rokem +32

    Dr. Staloff was fired up when he was young. Excellent lecture

    • @RNCM_Philosophy
      @RNCM_Philosophy Před 11 měsíci +7

      Darren's still got the fire 🔥

    • @gatoblanco5756
      @gatoblanco5756 Před 10 měsíci +7

      He’s still got it 🔥

    • @cheri238
      @cheri238 Před 9 měsíci +1

      ​​@@gatoblanco5756
      Yes, he still loves what he does.

  • @orthostice
    @orthostice Před 9 měsíci +4

    We are spoiled by the presence of these lectures

  • @thattimestampguy
    @thattimestampguy Před rokem +33

    0:24 Hume is attractive, witty, charming, pleasant, admirable. Rarely came to anger.
    1:19 He was also thought to be dreary and uninspiring. Dry, Dower.
    3:03 He laughs at religious believers.
    5:01 Utilitarianism, Logical Positivism.
    5:32 Empiricist Phenomenology.
    8:21 Resemblance.
    9:13 Contiguity.
    9:48 Cause & Effect.
    10:27 Intuitively Certain Knowledge and Demonstrable Knowledge.
    13:05 How do we know "matter of fact."
    17:52 Cause and Effect is based on Experience.
    18:30 Instinct. Habit. Worked before keeps working, faith in habit.
    20:04 Power, Force, Necessary Connection. 21:53 Powerful Psychological Phenomena
    23:16 Common Sense.
    23:36 Necessity. The Future Will Resemble The Past.
    24:36 Moral Law. Character of Will.
    26:02 No surprises in standard practice.
    27:54 A Miracle is a Violation of The Laws of Nature. Completely Irrational occurrences.
    29:09 "The only thing you can't laugh at is The Sacred." Hume laughs at everything.
    31:05 Skepticism, Solipsism. Practical Life is the refutation to Skepticism.
    Practical Fulfillment.
    32:42 Radical Skeptics are dreamers.
    34:01/34:26 Mankind come across rather certain in their opinions.
    35:10 Watch your Hubris, be more open minded, be less dogmatic.
    36:04 The Ultimate Virtue: Toleration.
    37:43 PH.D's may be the most dogmatic people on the planet.
    38:57 We should be just and moderate and playful in education.
    39:55 Freedom of Belief in America.
    42:05 Humean Open Mindedness/Anti-Dogmaticism.

  • @rnt45t1
    @rnt45t1 Před rokem +16

    The girl at 2:40 is INTO THIS.

    • @Robloxman226
      @Robloxman226 Před rokem +10

      She wants to dive deeper.

    • @mcol3
      @mcol3 Před rokem +5

      she felt a bit humed

    • @bH-tz6ow
      @bH-tz6ow Před rokem +4

      She touches her lips.. she is into the lectureer

    • @karlesmcquade2863
      @karlesmcquade2863 Před rokem +2

      I have to agree, but I'm more curious why the editor cut to her, seemingly apropos of nothing...

    • @themisfit7380
      @themisfit7380 Před rokem +2

      why was she bad tho

  • @enlightenedanalysis1071
    @enlightenedanalysis1071 Před rokem +8

    Thanks Dr. Stalloff. This was great. I specially like Hume's humorous attitude towards matters of philosophy. Your ending of the lecture regards religion, tolerance and dogmatism was also spot on. Thanks also Dr. Sugrue for uploading this.

  • @sk-ui3vh
    @sk-ui3vh Před rokem +2

    Thank you for the upload!

  • @mkraulis
    @mkraulis Před rokem +1

    Very engaging lecture. Nicely done.

  • @johnnypingsmusic
    @johnnypingsmusic Před rokem

    Excellent, thank you as always for sharing this information

  • @anneruijters6497
    @anneruijters6497 Před 3 měsíci

    Really takes me back to my Anthropological studies. Excellent lecture!

  • @sheev973
    @sheev973 Před 9 měsíci

    I've got to say the way you explained this really hit me. The part about reality being a joke and Humes book being a joke book was really powerful - especially since you explained instinct vs. reason.
    I really never thought about how I try to filter everything through reason - and sometimes that is not the most useful perspective to take - and instinct in a situation like that is not necessarily inferior to reason like I would commonly assume. It all made sense - as trying to reason everything makes me take it very serious, whereas the perspective of instinct made me appreciate the funnier side of it. Amazing work bro 👍

  • @Robinson8491
    @Robinson8491 Před 8 měsíci

    Waiting for the time these shirts will be hot again. Looks so comfortable man
    In all earnestness what a pleasure to listen to these lively lectures. I wish heaven was filled with hours of these for everyone to enjoy and enlighten people in sublime joy

  • @benb3500
    @benb3500 Před 11 měsíci +3

    Thanks

  • @BleaK1211
    @BleaK1211 Před rokem +5

    I didnt know Zlatan was a university professor at one time.

  • @daneshed2105
    @daneshed2105 Před rokem +3

    I thought all the lectures ended!😂Glad to see a new one🙏

  • @themisfit7380
    @themisfit7380 Před rokem +3

    2:39 ayoo that’s my professor

  • @donaldist7321
    @donaldist7321 Před 10 dny

    Hume's "metaphysical posture" is certainly not contingent upon his agnosticism: his best friend, Adam Smith, also built his philosophy of science on the epistemic value of humility, and Smith was a believer. Smith argued that Newton's theory of gravity, though the pinnacle of science, was nothing more than a product of imagination built on Aristotle's sense of wonder of the splendor of creation. Other than the valorisation of agnosticism, I find this to be a very good intro to Hume.

  • @reginaldbauer5243
    @reginaldbauer5243 Před rokem +4

    Why was the video on Hume's morality with Dr. Darren Staloff (uploaded today) taken down?

  • @davidconroy8554
    @davidconroy8554 Před rokem +5

    "What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself." - Seneca.

  • @CasperLCat
    @CasperLCat Před 18 dny

    That featureless blue backdrop is very weird. Is he lecturing in the stratosphere ?

  • @moonlightkissed5840
    @moonlightkissed5840 Před rokem

    Hello, new viewer here, do you have any lectures on the romantic poets like Shelley, Keats and such?
    P.S. from your old Kierkegaard lecture, you are not very fond of the romantics it seems :P

  • @MrAvidLearner
    @MrAvidLearner Před 9 měsíci

    16:30 -17:02 wonder what Staloff would think of the Autodidactic Universe paper

  • @ethanb2554
    @ethanb2554 Před rokem +1

    2:32 dat thirsty student... 😆

  • @davemacnicol8404
    @davemacnicol8404 Před 9 měsíci +2

    Dude that girl at the beginning was totally digging the professor!
    I think the cameraman did that for him so he could shoot his shot afterwards. Great wingman qualities.

    • @casteretpollux
      @casteretpollux Před 8 měsíci +5

      She was the only female who attended any of these lectures. Cameraman recorded the moment for the historic record.

  • @AD-en5dq
    @AD-en5dq Před rokem

    Toleration as the Ultimate Virtue has declined society

  • @alvarionalvarez3671
    @alvarionalvarez3671 Před rokem

    Can Dr.Sugrue make a video on Jordan Peterson's
    Maps of meaning

  • @KungFuHonky
    @KungFuHonky Před 3 měsíci

    Does anyone else think Darren looks like Dr. Evil's son, Scott with long hair?

  • @cheri238
    @cheri238 Před rokem +3

    "No mind, no matter." Hume. Lol
    (Tolerance and open-minded.) That only one can learn from being awake with no divisions of beliefs.
    Look at us now in 2023

  • @davidconroy8554
    @davidconroy8554 Před rokem +1

    I'm currently reading "Mike Tyson , the undisputed truth". Now that's an example of the strong, not the ascetic, imagine if Mike had learned Stoicism, what we would see then is an Alexander or a Julius Caesar.

  • @henryburby6077
    @henryburby6077 Před 3 měsíci

    24:28

  • @scienceknight5122
    @scienceknight5122 Před 9 měsíci

    grat

  • @pearz420
    @pearz420 Před rokem

    My mind tastes like purple. Checkmate, Hume.

    • @casteretpollux
      @casteretpollux Před 8 měsíci

      That is an actual.medical condition. Get help.

  • @casteretpollux
    @casteretpollux Před 8 měsíci +1

    Watch falls.... This is lovely stuff. Idealism hurts my head because it is so nonsensical. 90 % of philosophy is not philosophy it is just ideology of hierarchical rule.

  • @dionysian222
    @dionysian222 Před rokem +3

    Sean O’Malley in a parallel universe.

  • @hyperduality2838
    @hyperduality2838 Před 10 měsíci

    "The relation of ideas" is dual to "The matter of facts" -- Hume's fork.
    Absolute truth is dual to relative truth -- Hume's fork.
    Concepts are dual to percepts -- the mind duality of Immanuel Kant.
    Mathematicians create new concepts form their perceptions or observations all the time.
    Mind (the internal soul, syntropy) is dual to matter (the external soul, entropy) -- Descartes or Plato's divided line.
    "Always two there are" -- Yoda.
    Syntropy is dual to increasing entropy -- the 4th law of thermodynamics!

  • @isaacromoproject
    @isaacromoproject Před rokem +3

    I wonder what Dr. Sugrue and Dr. Staloff would conclude on the topic of recent artificial intelligence advancements. How it is able to create visuals and sounds out of nothing that look just like real footage and voices. Perhaps Hume would say there is even less evidence to suggest we know anything is true now! lol

    • @casteretpollux
      @casteretpollux Před 8 měsíci

      What are you saying? That in certain limited circumstances we can be fooled about what is real? Are you saying that has some significance in terms of cognition and our materiality ?

  • @elucidation3064
    @elucidation3064 Před rokem +5

    The idea of moral duties in the absence of God is so ridiculous.

    • @dionysian222
      @dionysian222 Před rokem +1

      You can either presuppose God as the source of your morals or just presuppose your morals.

    • @elucidation3064
      @elucidation3064 Před rokem +5

      @@dionysian222 It makes no sense to presuppose morals alone.
      Morality is a standard applied to behaviour, how can you presuppose the existence of a standard to something without there being a judge, or external party that is satisfied when the standard is met.
      It makes no damn sense!
      It's like a company with no customers and a product they don't intend on selling to anyone trying to make sure that their product meets the standards of their nonexistent buyers? (This is the fastest analogy I could make up, sorry if it doesn't make sense)

    • @dionysian222
      @dionysian222 Před rokem +2

      @@elucidation3064 I totally get your approach. My stand is that one can presuppose morals without presupposing God. For example the Kantian Categorical Imperative where the ethics became an end in themselves. One can commit to a set of values before hand and when one fails to uphold these values, one must take responsibility and not make any exceptions for themselves. Or you can presuppose God as the judge but that can easily be a back door out of being accountable to our fellow men. Idk man, you tell me.

    • @Tom-rg2ex
      @Tom-rg2ex Před rokem +3

      What you're describing is not morality, it's obedience.
      Morality ought to come from the heart, and determining the morality of an action is a complicated process of using one's judgment on a case-by-case basis.
      Every parent in every culture who earnestly loves their child has a basic conception of moral responsibility independent of divine instruction, for example.

    • @metroidfighter90
      @metroidfighter90 Před rokem +3

      Regardless of whether or not there is a God, morals are nevertheless still necessary for society to function properly.

  • @davidconroy8554
    @davidconroy8554 Před rokem +2

    Nietzsche said the same, that a scholar couldn't be a philosopher , but yet he poured over the works of scholars and took great delight in any glimmer of idolatry of him by any of his contemporaries.
    I know the lecture is about Hume but I'm really struggling to understand that after two thousand years of bickering they can't see past their own bullshit. That they can't understand matter and form, body and mind/soul.
    Philosophy is for understanding life, not eating mutton and drinking ale with, what did he call Hume's friends? I forget.
    Let me demonstrate how my philosophy works. I recently moved to a new hostel, I've taken the high ground. When I arrived the flower beds were overgrown, I'm not much of a Gardner in that I have absolutely no knowledge or experience in that regard, but my soul said " tend your garden and the butterflies will come"
    So I got stuck in and having no knowledge to distinguish a plant from a weed I decided. I decided on what got to live and what died. So I was working quite furiously and my soul said stop, stop, what about biodiversity, what about the bee's.
    I replied," you can do biodiversity somewhere else, I am imposing my will on this. I removed all plants I considered pervasive and any I didn't find aesthetically pleasing.
    That night in bed my soul asked ":now do you understand the German Reich? And I said " I do".
    I completely understand Nietzsche's concept of the will to power, I questioned recently the origin of Greed and the idea of God not liking the seven deadly sins when it is God that is as Aristotle said is " the first cause".
    Nietzsche identified as the last Stoic, my arse he was, I'm sure we share the same soul, I have made videos in which I called myself Dionysus, but there is a big difference, I am a friend to myself. We are best friends because I seek to understand, I don't impose my morality on Nature. Nietzsche did. As for his concept of the will to power, we see things not as they are but as we are".
    He wanted power, he wanted to be adored he wanted to be a teacher to lou, he published his own books, he was anything but humble. But where I feel he made his biggest error was in considering the ascetic the most powerful man, the one who could dominate his soul. What purpose does that serve? Only to engage in a perpetual war. Happiness comes with power? Not one mention of Eudaimonia nor did he seem to understand it.
    Suppression of every Impluse and subjecting it to a morality that he refused to question or revise. Well it's sort of evident that he lost that war.

    • @davidconroy8554
      @davidconroy8554 Před rokem +1

      I lost my mint, my thyme and what pains me most, the salvia divinorum.