The second lecture in my five-lecture series "PTJ Live in Vienna." But no Grammy for me, at least not this year. Today we have a discussion of Popper, falsification, and the strange hybrid of logical positivism and Popperian falsification that is contempo

The first lecture from my European Consortium on Political Research week-long intensive course in the philosophy of science -- this is the overview and some initial discussions of Vienna Circle logical positivism. Note that this is a 150mb file both becau

The fourth lecture for SIS-301 Spring 2012 -- this one's on Locke. There's good news and there's other news. The good news is that I fixed the recording problems from last week, so this file actually plays with intelligible sound. The other news is that

The third lecture of the semester -- Hobbes and the Enlightenment project. UPDATE -- there was some kind of a recording error on this version of the lecture, so it's inaudible for about the first 25 minutes. Sigh. I don't have the time to re-do it just a

Lecture 2, Machiavelli. As before, best results in iTunes and QuickTime Player 7.

Podcast lecture 1 for SIS-301, Spring 2012. Topic: Thucydides. Note that this enhanced AAC file (.m4a) has both slide images and a voice track; in my experience it plays best in QuickTime Player 7 or in iTunes. QuickTime Player 10 and other media players

Here's a talk I gave at the University of Southern California on 10 January, in which I took up the question of how to make the field of IR safe for the world -- I identified at least three conceptual/theoretical/methodological/vocational boundaries that

ISA-Northeast 2011, a panel entitled "Systems, Process, and International Relations." My comments as discussant.

The fourth recording from the 2011 ISA-NE Methodology Workshop: Sherrill Stroschein, University College London.

The third recording from the 2011 ISA-NE Methodology Workshop: LHM Ling, Graduate Program in International Affairs, The New School.