This is a banger. Prof. Anand Vaidya of philosophy specializes in Vedic philosophy, epistemology, and we talk about God, free will, mathematics, Kripke, and even the ego as both an illusion and real.
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TIMESTAMPS:
– 00:00:00 Introduction
– 00:02:36 Indian theories of knowledge and sentience
– 00:08:00 Hedonic Tone and the mathematics of pleasure
– 00:18:15 Exploration of non-dualism vs. unity with God & absence of subject-object distinction
– 00:35:00 Misconceptions about non-dualism and the importance of rationality and logic
– 00:46:41 Materialism in Indian philosophy
– 01:56:00 Time, impermanence, and suffering
– 01:15:01 Truth, falsity, and the ineffable
– 01:35:19 Shankara philosophy and Dan Dennett’s rebut against Mary
– 01:47:00 Chomsky vs. Kripke regarding reference and naming
– 02:03:00 Metaphysically possible worlds
– 02:31:10 Inflationary and deflationary approaches
– 02:47:07 The Integration Challenge and the paradox of mathematical knowledge
– 02:57:06 Donald Hoffman’s perception theory
– 03:07:04 Free will and determinism
– 03:21:43 Grounding and grading of moral standing
– 03:33:35 Modal logic
– 03:43:02 Belief in belief
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