Dr. Darren Staloff, Hume's Epistemology

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[@Sisyphus460]

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.

[@orthostice]

We are spoiled by the presence of these lectures

[@martinbowman1993]

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

[@RNCM_Philosophy]

Darren's still got the fire 🔥

[@gatoblanco5756]

He’s still got it 🔥

[@cheri238]

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

[@thattimestampguy]

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.

[@mike-0451]

Dower?

[@bertjunrieQ]

Thank you for this

[@todorkovacevic]

KING 👑

[@menzisaclown]

❤

[@username1235400]

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]

@@3dvisions absolutely 💯

[@Nikki_Kerr]

Rev 10:6

[@Dino_Medici]

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

[@architsharma6866]

Time is humanity’s worst punishment

[@username1235400]

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

[@rnt45t1]

The girl at 2:40 is INTO THIS.

[@Robloxman226]

She wants to dive deeper.

[@mcol3]

she felt a bit humed

[@bH-tz6ow]

She touches her lips.. she is into the lectureer

[@karlesmcquade2863]

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

[@themisfit7380]

why was she bad tho

[@sk-ui3vh]

Thank you for the upload!

[@mkraulis]

Very engaging lecture. Nicely done.

[@johnnypingsmusic]

Excellent, thank you as always for sharing this information

[@anneruijters6497]

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

[@enlightenedanalysis1071]

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.

[@sheev973]

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]

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

[@daneshed2105]

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

[@benb3500]

Thanks

[@BleaK1211]

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

[@reginaldbauer5243]

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

[@aggelosvasilis7457]

the have it already ! it was a reupload!

[@moonlightkissed5840]

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

[@themisfit7380]

2:39 ayoo that’s my professor

[@casteretpollux]

Really ?

[@CasperLCat]

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

[@donaldist7321]

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.

[@MrAvidLearner]

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

[@davidconroy8554]

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

[@ethanb2554]

2:32 dat thirsty student... 😆

[@alvarionalvarez3671]

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

[@AD-en5dq]

Toleration as the Ultimate Virtue has declined society

[@scienceknight5122]

grat

[@davemacnicol8404]

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]

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

[@henryburby6077]

24:28

[@cheri238]

"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

[@pearz420]

My mind tastes like purple. Checkmate, Hume.

[@casteretpollux]

That is an actual.medical condition. Get help.

[@KungFuHonky]

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

[@davidconroy8554]

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.

[@casteretpollux]

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]

Sean O’Malley in a parallel universe.

[@hyperduality2838]

"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]

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]

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]

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

[@dionysian222]

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

[@elucidation3064]

@@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]

@@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]

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]

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

[@davidconroy8554]

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]

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