Mini Lectures

Lectures related to Plato

• Who is Socrates?
• Socratic method
• Socrates as midwife
• Indirect communication (Soren Kierkegaard)
• Dad and George

Lectures related to Sophocles

• Introduction to Oedipus

 

Francis Bacon

• Introduction to Francis Bacon

C S Peirce

• Introduction to C S Peirce's Fixation of Belief

Bertolt Brecht

• Brecht: Background
• Introduction to Brecht
• Brecht's Theatre

Pinter

• An Introduction
• An Analysis: Pinter's Techniqueby Martin Esslin
• An Essay by Esslin
• An Essay on Pinter by Tom Markus (very helpful)

Epistemology Lectures - Part I

• Introduction to epistemology
• On Stuff
• Quantum Physics
• My Dream
• Tulpas and Hinduism
• The Empiricist and Rationalist Philosophers
• Introduction to John Locke

Epistemology Lectures - Part II

• Introduction to George Berkeley
• Introduction to David Hume
• Introduction to Immanuel Kant
• A Too-short Outline of Immanuel Kant's Epistemology

Frayn's Copenhagen

• An Introduction to Reading Copenhagen
• Short biographies of the major characters
• Terms
• A History
• Quantum Theory
• A Review

Introduction to Flatland

Lectures Related to Piano Lesson

• August Wilson, an introduction