Whooshup Reorganization

To reflect what this blog has become, the format has changed to emphasize the enormous number of useful links to resources we provide. To go to the whooshup blog and conversations about these resources, just scroll to the bottom of the lists of resources!

Thursday, December 23, 2010

A Gathering Place

Over the last few months our list of podcasts has been greatly expanded. This post is intended to solicit recommendations that we can add to the growing list. Following the lead of Dreyfus and his Philosophy 6 & 7 courses the concentration of podcasts listed deal with philosophy, literature, art, and film. Please use the "comments" for this post to recommend any podcasts that you think would make good additions. This would also be a good place to review any of the podcasts we have listed or start a dialogue concerning them.

26 comments:

Karl Tyson said...

What a gift!

How did you come up with this amazing resource list?

I have already started poking around - the video on poststructuralism was breezy yet consolidating...

BH said...

Karl,

I had a lot of time on my hands. I intend to get those leaves raked up any day now.

Actually the list just kind of snowballed. By chance I found a few and that led me to just keep digging.

I have listened to most of the Modern Anglo-Irish course by James Gifford at the University of Victoria. He is an engaging lecturer and a very knowledgable professor. I enjoyed his lectures on Oscar Wilde so much that I have started to read "Dorian Gray." The leaves can wait a little longer.

Anonymous said...

Hannah Arendt Stanford Conference:

http://fsi.stanford.edu/events/hannah_arendt_and_the_humanities_on_the_relevance_of_her_work_beyond_the_realm_of_politics/

Anonymous said...

1.)The Moscow Center for Consciousness Studies:


Interviews with Daniel C. Dennett,Hilary Putnam,Timothy Williamson,Richard G. Swinburne


http://hardproblem.ru/


2.)roundtable “Argument on Pain, Saul Kripke”

http://hardproblem.ru/events/a-round-table-with-scott-soames-on-argument-on-pain/


Also, for the the sake of convenience, would a heading like "newly added podcast" be added on the top of the podcast list ?

Thanks!

cch

BH said...

cch,

Thanks for the podcasts and the suggestion about the "newly added podcast." We will start doing that immediately.

foundrysmith said...

He's Back! Not on iTunes, but here:
http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~hdreyfus/185_s11/Audio.html

Dreyfus on Being & Time Spring 2011.

foundrysmith said...

And this as well:

http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201101041000

"Philosophy professor Hubert Dreyfus's classes on existentialism and phenomenology were long among the most popular classes at UC Berkeley. One of those classes formed the basis of Dreyfus's new book "All Things Shining," co-authored with Harvard philosophy professor Sean Kelly. The authors join us to discuss the book, which deals with moments of meaning and transcendence in great works of Western literature."

Host: Michael Krasny

Guests:

* Hubert Dreyfus, professor emeritus of philosophy at UC Berkeley
* Sean Kelly, professor and chair of the Philosophy Department at Harvard University

foundrysmith said...

David Brooks NYT review:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/31/opinion/31brooks.html?scp=3&sq=david%20brooks%20sean%20kelly%20hubert%20dreyfus&st=cse

Anonymous said...

The Mises Institute has a tremendous quantity of recordings on economics, philosophy, and history:

http://mises.org/media.aspx

Anonymous said...

I am having trouble downloading weeks 1 and 3 of the Merleau Ponty lectures. Any one else experiencing this, and if not can you send me these?

Matthew M Perry said...

I would pay someone money to convert the Dreyfus DSS lectures to MP3 or at least find for me the appropriate software to accomplish it.

Karl Tyson said...

@BH and Hammer: Well, I had no time on my hands, but the amazing work you have done had to be showcased. I am sorry about making mistakes in any of my categorizations but I really wanted to improve the usefulness and access for our readers (and myself). Any ideas for improvement would be welcome. Let's try to add new resources to the best fit of these new lists, if possible. We can start new ones or break existing ones up if necessary.

@Anon - Sorry I can't help. My comment: the M-P lectures are just a mess - everyone who has listened comes away shaking their heads about sound quality and also just the pedagogic quality of some of the lectures. This is one area I personally could not "skip the reading" to get M-P based on a summary grasp from Dreyfus' usually expert lectures.

@Matthew - Sorry I don't have the expertise in audio to whip that translation out. I downloaded a free DSS player to listen to them, and as I recall there were problems I had to hack my way through, but I did listen and they are excellent.

foundrysmith said...

Looks great Karl & Brad! It has grown into a very useful site in-deed, and in-word

Matthew M Perry said...

Well, I know they can be converted, but it requires having the full software suit from the player company, which I haven't been able to find.

Anonymous said...

ALmost completely agree with your division in terms of periods(e.g ancient,modern,contemporary). One thing I want to say is , could a sharp ,large and prominent icon be attached to the newly added podcast?

Thanks!

cch

BH said...

Karl,

Maybe we could have a "Newly Added Podcast" category?

Anonymous said...

Good idea!

cch

Dara said...

Wonderful list. How do you come up with these gems in the Internet Archive? I find searching there very difficult.

BH said...

Dara,

The Archive is a little frustrating to navigate. I always use "community audio" and enter keywords. More than anything else it is just a matter of persistence.

Your site (Do It Yourself Scholar)has for a long-time been one of my favorites and one of the best sources for podcasts on this site. Thanks for the great job you do!

Matthew M Perry said...

See if this isn't worth adding:

http://www.publicchristianity.org/rusevids.html

BH said...

Thanks Matthew.

Matthew M Perry said...

It's a fine summary of Heidegger, but the guy doing the "Voice of Reason - Introduction to Heidegger and His Metaphysics of Place" video is a right wing Orthodox Nationalist hosting a right-wing nationalist radio show. Not only does he derive a nationalist politics from Heidegger, but he makes a brief anti-semitic comment about Jews and the press towards the last third of the talk.

Matthew M Perry said...

The "voice of reason" lecture on Heidegger's ontology of place is actually pretty good, but the speaker is a right-wing nationalist (of a sort not that far off from Heidegger himself). His reading of Building, Dwelling, Thinking and Being and Time is thoroughly political, and he briefly launches into a spat of antisemitism towards the last third of the lecture (something along the lines of "if you look the press is run by outsiders: jews mostly").

king swine said...

@Matthew & Karl

I've converted the Phen. of Perception lectures to MP3. Let me know and I'll upload them or send them or something.

Matthew M Perry said...

Send away! I can be reached at iwpoe1@aol.com

Anonymous said...

yes,please upload the Merleau-Ponty Mp3s. That would be great