The American Pragmatists - Bryan Magee & Sidney Morgenbesser (1987)

#philosophy #bryanmagee #epistemology #pragmatism

[Philosophy_Overdose]

This is a reupload. I preferred the audio of this version, so that's the main reason I decided to reupload it. I’ll still leave the previous video up as unlisted, so as to not break any external links with it. Sorry about any inconvenience!

[grahamnewton]

This is the only presentation that I feel non the wiser having listened to it. I kept getting a glimpse of what it was about and then it just faded away with the guest seeming to rarely finish a sentence.

[joelturken]

Mr. Magee certainly made the correct choice in Professor Morgenbesser for this interview. The sheer breath of his knowledge harks back to a time when graduate students knew their material 150% and their scholarship was expected to be of a world class nature. I am sure if he was awoken at 3am he could answer any of these questions with a quality that is slowly disappearing from the academic landscape. It was a sheer delight to study with him, and though I was not an outstanding student of his (by any stretch), I still appreciate his uncanny ability to use an encyclopedic mind in order to grapple with the issues discussed, whether in this interview or beyond. Question on the office door: What is 'p' and what is 'q'?

[CesarClouds]

Though not as prominent, Josiah Royce was another noted American pragmatist. John Dewey was one of Will Durant's PhD examiners.

[JeffChen]

Pragmatism is the first effort to overcome the dualistic dilemma in the sense that the useful truth is located somewhere between value truth and and factual truth, dualism actually doesn't matter. The evolution has determind that our sensing system is limited to detect survival-relevant part of the world only. Because life is a purposeful and internal phenomenon therefore the truth must hold the similar characteristics.

[aberturadedeus]

By the end of this video, I have no clue about what american pragmatists thought or proposed. And if a Bryan Magee interview doesn't help you grasping the idea, you know you're gonna have to face a long away ahead trying other methods... Well... Maybe I'll just let the american pragmatists right there in the USA resting in peace... It seems Mr. Magee tried really hard to help me, but Mr. Morgenbesser had other plans in mind... Thank you anyway Mr. Magee.

[blqkbpz]

Unfortunately, I am going to have to agree with others and say that this is the least satisfying of the Magee interviews due to Morganbesser's inability to present the material in a succinct manner for the non-specialist.

[JonSebastianF]

Morgenbesser is an absolutely brilliant philosopher, but gosh... It is astounding how he completely misses all of Magee's cues to level with the layman, and to define the technical terms, and not to interrupt him while he is explaining, etc.
What went wrong, you think? Did Morgenbesser misunderstand his role here? Was he just untrained for television? Did he lose himself in over-excitement? Is this what 35 years among philosophers does to you?

[JKFlipFlop..]

I understand that many people from NYC use "cooperative overlapping" in conversation, but it rankles me just as much as any other type of interruption.

[JoshSmith-ffdw]

Dreadful. The only one of these videos to make me less interested in the subject

[paulnejtek]

The Harvard School? Gonna have to unsubscribe based on that alone