Quentin Skinner - Belief, Truth and Interpretation

[@sofiahathaway8024]

I can't stop watching lectures by Quentin Skinner! Anyone else feel the same? I also found this book recently based on an interview with Quentin called 'Quest for Freedom'. I'd really recommend it!

[@alonso.guerrerocastaneda]

x2

[@DR-nh6oo]

Beware bias confirmation

[@lordstronghold5802]

Every humanities undergraduate student should watch this. It would have saved me years of grief in trying to examine texts and it certainly would have given me a better vocabulary for challenging misguided comments by fellow masters students.

[@carljosephfriedrich8919]

I love watching videos with Quentin Skinner. While I don't agree with all his politics, he strikes me as a man with a solid moral base and principles. He has many interesting ideas, articulated in a clear and understandable way.

[@abrahamdecruz5128]

Indeed. He gets very engaged and animated and you can sense his honesty, moral certainties and deep interest in his subject and research

[@bubblebobble9654]

Basically he's saying people should avoid intellectual laziness, not jump to conclusions, and to question oneself. All good things 🤙

[@Drfiggy]

Timothy, thanks for sharing Quentin's lecture. Cheers!

[@prajakta4016]

Thank you for making this available! Very grateful

[@morqon]

To add my own thanks: very glad this lecture was preserved, and that you shared it.

[@franzbiberkopf9179]

I love his British humor!

[@brendanstrauss1934]

Thanks, top upload!

[@Drfiggy]

Is there a transcript of Prof. Skinner's talk...and also would love to read Timothy's paper Quentin references.. please let me know

[@someonenew1617]

yes there is. he wrote this. timothy goering and a woman translated it into german for goering's book. i am sure this text exists in english, too. just dig a little for it (:

[@ДенисМаслов-о8м]

Could you please say if there's a printed version of the talk as a book chapter or a paper?

[@thefoolonthehill8394]

2:35 start

[@aleksandaruskokov1499]

Has Professor Skinner published these specific ideas somewhere?

[@someonenew1617]

yes.

[@aleksandaruskokov1499]

@@someonenew1617 thanks, I have found several of his books. My favorite methodology now :)

[@libertyavalanche]

@@aleksandaruskokov1499 Which book most exactly reflects the ideas he is talking about here?

[@lavauru9986]

23:20 name of the game it intertextuality gives you intentionality

[@jerryrhee7748]

master defense! wow...

[@stepheneadon6453]

👍

[@charliegorst9435]

Does anyone with a better ear for French than me know the name of the historian Skinner mentions at 34:33 ?

[@user11847]

Le Roy Ladurie :)

[@ALANLEEY]

are you related to herman goering?!!

Min. 40. Sorry but an explanation and understanding of the partial rationality of a belief does not amount to an acceptance of the rationality of a belief. E.g. the belief in the power of witches to do harm may be partially rational and consonant with other beliefs etc., but it is not rational per se, so it is not "perfectly rational" even though it might contain some rational components. Our own rationality is indeed the last court of appeal for a judgment of rationality.

[@sean5768]

You raise an important issue and I think that Skinner would agree with you in terms of how you are referring to rationality. I think when you use rationality as synonomous with reason you are correct and he would agree. I think if we use rationality as synomous with logic, then we could say that there is an intenal or historical logic in which beliefs about witchcraft were logical, but not logical in the sense of it congruence with "facticity." Think coherence vs. correspondence theories of truth. As he indicates elsewhere in this lecture, he corrects what others intepret Derrida as intending when discussing the "play" of language. Not overt gamepersonship of the author using words, but the inherent mechanical play caused by a gap between parts. The intertextual. He points out that this is not controversial or new contra postmodernism, and mentions understanding Cervantes' Don Quixote in this regard.

[@viktorv4224]

chip

[@TinnedPeachesband]

'no substitute for omniscience' + 'social history = explanatory swamps...' - he is a bit of a snot