Inaugural Hocart Lecture: Marshall Sahlins

Jane Guyer - The gift that keeps on giving

Discussion of Mauss' Gift by:
Jacob Copeman, Kostas Retsikas, Jonathan Parry, Maurice Bloch, Keith Hart

Lambek: On Being Present to History

Malcolm X at Oxford Union

"Maybe"

told by Alan Watts

The Psychology of Evil by Philip Zimbardo

Based on his book, the Lucifer Effect and his (in)famous Stanford Prison Experiment:

Tim Ingold - Anthropology beyond humanity

Elizabeth Spelke - What Infants Understand

http://thesciencenetwork.org/programs/the-science-studio/what-infants-understand

Noam Chomsky - Surviving the 21st Century

Tim Ingold: On Human Correspondence

Weber on Protestantism and Capitalism

00:00 - Chapter 1. Similarities and Differences Among Marx, Nietzsche, Freud and Weber
10:22 - Chapter 2. Weber in a Historical Context
26:37 - Chapter 3. "The Protestant Ethic and The Spirit of Capitalism": The Marx-Weber Debate
32:23 - Chapter 4. The Correlation between Capitalism and Protestantism
34:11 - Chapter 5. What is the Spirit of Capitalism?
39:21 - Chapter 6. Luther's Conception of Calling
43:31 - Chapter 7. Religious Foundation of Worldly Asceticism
46:59 - Chapter 8. Asceticism and the Spirit of Capitalism

Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website:
http://open.yale.edu/courses

This course was recorded in Fall 2009.

Talal Asad: Reflections on the Origins of Human Rights

The Social Life of Money - Nigel Dodd; response: Keith Hart

Supplement: Thomas Piketty and David Graeber have a discussion here

Alain Badiou - Towards a Contemporary Conception of the Absolute

Lesebühne extra: Towards a Contemporary Conception of the Absolute - Vortrag von Alain Badiou from Volksbühne Berlin on Vimeo.

John Searle on Consciousness as a Problem in Philosophy and Neurobiology

Tanya Luhrmann - "Placebo and Prayer: Why Prayer Practice May Help Heal"

David Pizarro: 'The Failure of Social and Moral Intuitions'

transcript and source

Joshua Knobe: Experimental Philosophy and Notion of the Self

here

Are we our brains?

source

Martha Nussbaum - The New Religious Intolerance

She talks more about it here @ Moment Magazine