Routledge Lectures in Philosophy: Recent Episodes
Cambridge University
Professor Michael Bratman (Stanford University) gives the 8th Routledge Lecture in Philosophy. Human beings act together in characteristic ways, and these forms of shared intentional and shared cooperative activity matter to us a great deal. Think of friendship, singing duets, and the joys of conversation. And think about the usefulness of conversation and of how we frequently manage to work together to achieve complex goals, from constructing buildings to putting on plays to establishing important results in the sciences. I seek a framework for understanding these basic forms of sociality. And the conjecture I explore in this talk is that structures of individual planning agency are at the heart of such sociality. Lecture sponsored by Routledge. Recorded Thursday 12th June 2014.
More than 20 years ago, international law declared torture a crime that can never be justified and yet governments continue to do it. Professor David Luban examines the ethical issues surrounding its use. Lecture sponsored by Routledge. Recorded 21 October 2011.
Recording of talk given by Professor Philip Petit as part of Cambridge Festival of Ideas 2009.
Iris Murdoch and the Rejection of Existentialism - Richard Moran examines the characterization of Sartrean existentialism in Iris Murdoch's The Sovereignty of Good and other writings. Routledge Lecture in Philosophy recorded 30 October 2008.