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History of Philosophy Audio Archive#80 - John Dupré: Process Philosophy, Philosophy of Biology, and EvolutionJohn Dupré is a leading philosopher of biology working at the intersection between the humanities, social sciences, and biological sciences.
The term "process philosophy" is drawn from Alfred North Whitehead who advanced a metaphysics of panpsychism in his text Process and Reality driven by what he called the "experience" embedded in all wave-like entities. In this Gifford Lecture series Dupré presents his approach to evolution, determinism, materialism, and the dynamics of process philosophy and indeterminacy in six parts.
(00:00:00) Why All Life Is Process
(00:50:33) Evolution
(01:43:36) Humans And Their Fellow Travelers
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The Independent with Scott AtlasJohn Etchemendy: Free Speech and Critical Thinking in America’s Universities | Ep. 12Dr. Atlas interviews John Etchemendy, former Provost at Stanford University and the Patrick Suppes Professor at Stanford's School of Humanities & Science and co-director of Stanford's Human Centered Artificial Intelligence Center. They have an insightful conversation about the environment for the free exchange of ideas and critical thinking in academia today.2023-06-0644 min
MCMP – Mathematical Philosophy (Archive 2011/12)Neglect of Independence and Uncertainty (or Randomness) in the Axioms of ProbabilityPatrick Suppes (Stanford) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium titled "Neglect of Independence and Uncertainty (or Randomness) in the Axioms of Probability".2019-04-201h 01
SuchThatCast - Behind the PhilosophyEpisode 9: John DupréJohn Dupré is the director of the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society and professor of philosophy at the University of Exeter. Dupré was educated at the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge and taught at Oxford, Stanford University and Birkbeck College of the University of London before moving to Exeter. Dupré’s chief work area lies in philosophy of biology, philosophy of the social sciences, and general philosophy of science. Together with Nancy Cartwright, Ian Hacking, Patrick Suppes and others, he is often regarded as belonging to the “Stanford School” of philosophy of science. In 2010 Dupré was elected...2013-05-2358 minMCMP – Mathematical Philosophy (Archive 2011/12)Neuroscience Perspective on the Foundations of MathematicsPatrick Suppes (Stanford) gives a talk at the Workshop on Groundedness (26-27 October, 2012) titled "Neuroscience Perspective on the Foundations of Mathematics". Abstract: I mainly ask and partially answer three questions. First, what is a number? Second, how does the brain process numbers? Third, what are the brain processes by which mathematicians discover new theorems about numbers? Of course, these three questions generalize immediately to mathematical objects and processes of a more general nature. Typical examples are abstract groups, high dimensional spaces or probability structures. But my emphasis is not on these mathematical structures as such, but how we think about...2012-11-071h 00
Stanford Emeriti/ae Council Autobiographical ReflectionsPatrick Suppes: My Life and My WorkPatrick Suppes, professor emeritus of philosophy, statistics, psychology, and education, discusses his time spent at Stanford and much of his life in general. (May 23, 2006)
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