Short (5-20 mins)
Philosophy
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Charles Taylor Against Pinker, Dennett & Dawkins
Theologian
Charles Taylor
Duration
9.29
Uploaded to YouTube
11 June 2024
Added to Database
4 April 2026
YouTube description
Created by Prof Jason Blakely for pedagogical purposes: philosopher Charles Taylor's critique of attempts to reduce human agency to mechanisms through theories of materialism, Darwinism, computational theory of mind, and behaviorism. Excerpts from a public 2009 "Can Human Action Be Explained?" lecture available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCZlpOTTPHQ