Above you can see a video of my inaugural lecture (Did Descartes Read Wittgenstein? Towards a Conceptual Geography), held on 31st of October in 2017 at the University of Groningen. Taken together with my regular course on methodology in the history of philosophy for research master students at our faculty, the preparation of this lecture may be said to have served as the main source of ideas for this blog, which I started about nine months after presenting the lecture.
The lecture (beginning at minute 20:50) is preceded by a brief introduction through the Rector and a laudatio by Dean Lodi Nauta (beginning at minute 9:30). In the meantime, the original text of the lecture has been turned into a small paper, kindly published in a special issue of Magyar Filozófiai Szemle (2022/1) edited by Judit Szalai and Olivér István Tóth, and now even translated into Russian by Marija Weste.
The main reason for keeping the video for posterity is of course a soundbite, early on in the lecture, by my daughter Hannah who was then just under a year old. At some point in her life, it might please her to have one of her early public oppositions to my views on record. Along with some other videos, my lecture used to be stored on my Youtube channel under “Going Loopy”, the name of my alter ego on soundcloud. But since my university decided to close brand accounts with Google, these videos are no longer accessible on Youtube. Thus, I thought I might as well make it available here.
Handling Ideas 