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I ask the philosopher Rae Langton five questions about herself. Rae Langton is Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of “Kantian Humility” (1998) and “Sexual Solipsism” (2009).

Tim Crane is a world leading philosopher whose areas of research gravitate towards the study of the mind. His book, The Mechanical Mind, has introduced thousands of people to the central ideas which unite Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science. He is currently the Head of Department at the Central European University, having previously been the Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge.Conversation outline: 00:00 The problem of mental representation10:38 Can a computer think? Is the Turing Test satisfactory?14:15 Can a robot think?18:32 What is the Computational Theory of Mind?20:20 The Language of Thought Hypothesis26:33 Do neural networks implement our language of thought?31:32 Can deep neural networks achieve a complexity which brings about awareness or AGI?33:03 What is general intelligence?34:29 Are there necessary conditions for intelligence?38:00 What is the mechanical view of the human mind?42:35 Consciousness46:32 Can we have free will on the mechanical picture?50:58 Can God account for the explanatory gap between science and consciousness?54:40 Comments on aspects of religionhttps://www.twitter.com/tedynenu

Rae Langton is Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Newnham College. Born and raised in India, she studied Philosophy at Sydney and Princeton, and has taught philosophy in Australia, Scotland, the USA, and England. She held professorships at Edinburgh 1999-2004 and at MIT 2004-2013. She works in moral and political philosophy, speech act theory, philosophy of law, the history of philosophy, metaphysics, and feminist philosophy. She is the author of Kantian Humility: Our Ignorance of Things in Themselves (Oxford University Press, 1998), and Sexual Solipsism: Philosophical Essays on Pornography and Objectification (Oxford University Press, 2009). Her best known articles are ‘Speech Acts and Unspeakable Acts’, ‘Duty and Desolation’, and ‘Defining Intrinsic’ (co-authored with David Lewis). She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013, to the British Academy in 2014, and to the Academia Europeae in 2017. She is one of five Cambridge faculty on Prospect Magazine’s voted list of 50 ‘World Thinkers 2014’, chosen for ‘engaging most originally and profoundly with the central questions of the world today’. In 2015 she gave the John Locke Lectures, currently being finalised for publication. She plans to give the H.L.A.Hart Lecture in 2019. This podcast is an audio recording of Professor Langton's talk - 'Empathy and First Personal Imagining' - at the Aristotelian Society on 12 November 2018. The recording was produced by the Backdoor Broadcasting Company.

Today I talk to Tim Crane about his book The Meaning of Belief: Religion from an Atheist's Point of View.Tim was Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Peterhouse from 2009. He is currently the Head of Department and Professor of Philosophy at Central European University.In the interview, Tim explains why the claim of some scientists that all philosophical questions will eventually become scientific questions is false. We discuss what religion is and why the so-called New Atheists work with an incomplete conception of religion. Believing is not just about accepting cosmological and moral propositions but also centrally involves what Tim calls, the "religious impulse" and an aspect of identification. Tim argues that indicating the fault of a religion is in a way a self-flattering intellectual project and calls for reflection on whether the kind of arguments put forward by New Atheists ever work. After going into the rationality of religious beliefs, we end by exploring whether the question of the meaning of life is tremendously important or only seems that way but is, in fact, an ill-formed one. I hope you'll enjoy this conversation as much as I did!

This is a public lecture by Tim Crane, Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy. It is part of the New Directions in the Study of the Mind project, supported by the John Templeton Foundation.

As the first talk for the 2016/17 Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, this year's Presidential Address marks the official inauguration of Professor Tim Crane (University of Cambridge) as the 109th President of the Aristotelian Society. The Society's President is elected on the basis of lifelong, exemplary work in philosophy. Please visit our Council page for further information regarding the Society's past presidents. The 109th Presidential Address will be chaired by Susan James (Birkbeck) - 108th President of the Aristotelian Society. Tim Crane is Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge. Before coming to Cambridge in 2009 he taught at UCL for twenty years and founded the Institute of Philosophy in the University of London in 2005. He is the philosophy editor of the TLS and general editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Crane is the author of a number of books, including The Mechanical Mind (1995, 3rd edition 2016), Elements of Mind (2001), The Objects of Thought (2013) and Aspects of Psychologism (2014). He has defended a conception of the mind which rejects both scientistic reductionism and the idea that philosophy of mind should be insulated from science, and he has argued that intentionality — the mind’s direction on its objects, or its representational power — is the essential feature of the mind. This podcast is an audio recording of Professor Crane's address - 'The Unity of Unconsciousness' - at the Aristotelian Society on 3 October 2016. The recording was produced by the Backdoor Broadcasting Company.

  Henry Sidgwick was already something of an enigma in Cambridge less than six years after his death, and recent interest in his work has tended to compound this by re-inventing him as a modern moral philosopher. The Moral Sciences Tripos that Sidgwick led as Knightbridge Professor from 1883 had been reshaped in 1860 by John Grote, the successor in the chair to William Whewell; and so to understand the Tripos as Sidgwick first encountered it in the 1860s we need to understand quite what Grote had in mind – and Grote himself is an important figure, having in 1862 composed a running critique of John Stuart Mill's utilitarianism. Furthermore, until the foundation of the Economics Tripos in 1903 the teaching of political economy in Cambridge was directed almost entirely to the Moral Sciences Tripos. Alfred Marshall's strenuous efforts to detach the teaching of economics from the Moral Sciences Tripos have tended to distort subsequent understanding of “Cambridge Economics” from Marshall, through Pigou, to Maynard Keynes. In any case, Marshall's own economics developed from his studies of John Stuart Mill. In this lecture, Keith Tribe examines the nexus between utilitarianism, ethics and political economy, to the construction of which Mill, Grote and Sidgwick made important contributions.

Professor Colin McGinn, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami, delivers a public lecture at Madingley Hall on 19 November 2012. The lecture is chaired by Professor Tim Crane, Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, and introduced by Dr Rebecca Lingwood, Director of Continuing Education. Please note that the lecture proper begins at the 02:50 minute point in the video.

Professor Tim Crane gives his inaugural lecture as Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy: What is Distinctive About Human Thought?