Faculty of Philosophy

Oxford is one of the world's great centres for philosophy. More than one hundred and fifty professional philosophers work in the University and its colleges, between them covering a vast range of subjects within philosophy. Many are international leaders in their fields. The Faculty of Philosophy is one of the largest departments of philosophy in the world, and is widely recognized to be amongst the best.
Its reputation draws many distinguished visiting philosophers; each year around fifty philosophers from around the world give lectures or seminars in Oxford. Almost every major philosopher speaks in Oxford at some time.
Each year, more than five hundred undergraduates are admitted to study philosophy in Oxford, always in combination with another subject. The Faculty also has more than a hundred graduate students, who are either taking a taught graduate degree or working for a doctorate.
Oxford is a collegiate university, and every registered student becomes a member of one of the colleges. In this way, he or she has access, not only to the very extensive libraries and facilities of the University, but also to the varied and more intimate life of a college. Colleges offer their students excellent libraries and facilities of their own.
Teaching at Oxford is by lectures and seminars, and by tutorials or supervisions. Courses of lectures and seminars are offered on a very large range of topics, for both undergraduates and graduates. Tutorials are a special feature of Oxford; undergraduates receive regular and frequent tutorials either individually or in pairs from members of the Faculty. All graduate students also receive frequent individual supervisions.
Oxford University dates from the 12th Century or before. The first colleges were founded in the 13th Century. The ancient buildings remain, mingled with magnificent architecture from subsequent centuries, to make Oxford one of the most inspiring and beautiful cities in the world. Within this setting, Oxford remains at the forefront of philosophy.
Series associated with Faculty of Philosophy
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| 138 | 2011 Lecture 4: Platonism as a Way of Life | Fourth and final lecture in the 2011 John Locke lecture series. | John Cooper | 06 Jul 2011 | |
| 137 | 2011 Lecture 3: The Stoic Way of Life | Third lecture in the 2011 John Locke Lecture Series. | John Cooper | 06 Jul 2011 | |
| 136 | 2011 Lecture 2: Aristotle's Philosophy as Two Ways of Life | Second lecture in the 2011 John Locke Lecture Series. | John Cooper | 06 Jul 2011 | |
| 135 | 2011 Lecture 1: Philosophy in Antiquity as a Way of Life | Part of the 2011 John Locke Lecture Series; this year presented by Professor John Cooper, Princeton University, on 'Ancient Greek Philosophies as a Way of Life'. | John Cooper | 06 Jul 2011 | |
| 134 | 4. Metaphor and Art | James Grant, Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Oxford, discusses the use of metaphor to describe music and other artworks. | James Grant | 04 Jul 2011 | |
| 133 | 3. Speaking in Metaphor | James Grant, Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Oxford, discusses the question of how we succeed in communicating to others with metaphor. He also examines the question of whether all metaphors can be paraphrased. | James Grant | 04 Jul 2011 | |
| 132 | 2. How Metaphors Mean | James Grant, Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Oxford, discusses different theories about what gives metaphors the special meaning or content they have. | James Grant | 04 Jul 2011 | |
| 131 | 1. What Metaphors Mean | James Grant, Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Oxford, introduces some of the key concepts in discussions of metaphor in the philosophy of language. | James Grant | 04 Jul 2011 | |
| 130 | Creative Commons | Life and Death | If a patient decides she doesn't want to live any longer, should she be allowed to die? Should she be allowed to kill herself? | Peter Singer | 04 Jul 2011 |
| 129 | Creative Commons | 2nd St Cross Special Ethics Seminar TT11: Museum Ethics | Museum Ethics. | Nick Mayhew | 29 Jun 2011 |
| 128 | Euthydemus part 12 - 304b 6 - end | Track 12 - 304b 6 - end - Hempel comments to Pratt. | Christopher Kirwan | 21 Jun 2011 | |
| 127 | Creative Commons | Human Rights vs Religion? | Professor Roger Trigg gives the St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, Trinity Term 2011. | Roger Trigg | 20 Jun 2011 |
| 126 | Savulescu interview: Moral Enhancement | Nigel Warburton interviews Julian Savulescu on the topic of moral enhancement. | Nigel Warburton, Julian Savulescu | 01 Jun 2011 | |
| 125 | Creative Commons | Moral Status | A stone on the beach, we assume, has no moral status. We can kick or hammer the stone, and we have done the stone no harm. Typical adult human beings do have moral status. We shouldn't, without a very good reason, kick a man or woman. | Jeff McMahan | 31 May 2011 |
| 124 | Creative Commons | Designer Babies | The term 'designer baby' is usually used in a pejorative sense - to conjure up some dystopian Brave New World. There are already ways to affect what kind of children you have - most obviously by choosing the partner to have them with. | Julian Savulescu | 31 May 2011 |
| 123 | Euthydemus part 11 - 300e 1 - 304b 5 | Track 11 - 300e 1 - 304b 5 - Hempel is enmeshed. | Christopher Kirwan | 24 May 2011 | |
| 122 | Euthydemus part 10 - 296e 4 - 300d 9 | Track 10 - 296e 4 - 300d 9 - The same: Identity and predication. | Christopher Kirwan | 24 May 2011 | |
| 121 | Euthydemus part 9 - 293b 1- 296e 3 | Track 9 - 293b 1- 296e 3 - Hempel, the sophists, Clemons: Being competent (epistemon; have ability=epistasthai). | Christopher Kirwan | 24 May 2011 | |
| 120 | Euthydemus part 8 - 290e 1-293a 9 | Track 8 - 290e1-293a9 - Hempel reports to Pratt, and then the encounter resumes. | Christopher Kirwan | 24 May 2011 | |
| 119 | Euthydemus part 7 - 288b 3 - 290d 8 | Track 7 288b 3 - 290d 8 - Hempel resumes with Valerie: Which mastery (episteme) is best? | Christopher Kirwan | 24 May 2011 | |
| 118 | Euthydemus part 6 - 285a 2-288b 2 | Track 6 - 285a2-288 b2 - More with Clemons: Falsehood is impossible. | Christopher Kirwan | 24 May 2011 | |
| 117 | Euthydemus part 5 - 282d 4 - 285a 1 | Track 5 - 282d 4 - 285a 1 - the sophists tackle Hempel; Clemons is nettled. | Christopher Kirwan | 24 May 2011 | |
| 116 | Euthydemus part 4 - 278e2-282d3 | Track 4 - 278e2-282d3 - Hempel questions Valerie: Intelligence (sophia) alone is really good. | Christopher Kirwan | 24 May 2011 | |
| 115 | Euthydemus part 3 - 275b 5 - 278e 1 | Track 3 - 275b 5 - 278e 1 The sophists set to work on Valerie: Is learning possible? | Christopher Kirwan | 24 May 2011 | |
| 114 | Euthydemus part 2 - 272d 7 - 275b 4 | Track 2 272d 7 - 275b 4 - Hempel inquires into the sophists' profession. | Christopher Kirwan | 24 May 2011 | |
| 113 | Euthydemus part 1 - 271a 1 - 272d. 6 | Track 1 -271a 1 - 272d. 6 - Pratt asks Hempel about the sophists. | Christopher Kirwan | 24 May 2011 | |
| 112 | Euthydemus introduction (PDF) | Introductory document on the Euthydemus dialogue series. | Christopher Kirwan | 24 May 2011 | |
| 111 | Creative Commons | Designing Biotechnology | James King, Lead Designer, Science Practice Ltd. gives a talk on Synthetic Biology - a new approach to genetics which applies engineering principles to biology in the hope of creating medicines, fuels, foods and other useful products. | James King | 24 May 2011 |
| 110 | Creative Commons | Prioritarianism, Levelling Down and Welfare Diffusion | Lecture and discussion from Professor Ingmar Persson (Gothenburg University), the discussant is Derek Parfit (Oxford). | Ingmar Persson, Derek Parfit | 28 Mar 2011 |
| 109 | Creative Commons | New Imaging Evidence for the Neural Bases of Moral Sentiments: Prosocial and Antisocial Behaviour | 2nd Annual Wellcome Lecture in Neuroethics, given by Professor Jorge Moll on 18th January 2011 on the subject of new evidence for Neural bases for moral sentiments. | Jorge Moll | 28 Mar 2011 |
| 108 | Creative Commons | Hug me daddy I hate you: the ethical challenges of a C21 business | Dr Mick Blowfield, Fellow of St Cross College, gives the second St Cross Special Ethics Seminar on The Ethical Challenges of 21st Century Businesses. | Mick Blowfield | 22 Mar 2011 |
| 107 | Creative Commons | The discipline of reason: The paralogisms and Antinomies of Pure Reason. | Lecture 8/8. Reason, properly disciplined, draws permissible inferences from the resulting concepts of the understanding. The outcome is knowledge. | Dan Robinson | 16 Mar 2011 |
| 106 | Creative Commons | The "Self" and the Synthetic Unity of Apperception | Lecture 7/8. Kant argues that: "The synthetic unity of consciousness is... an objective condition of all knowledge. | Dan Robinson | 16 Mar 2011 |
| 105 | Creative Commons | Concepts, judgement and the Transcendental Deduction of the Categories | Lecture 6/8. Empiricists have no explanation for how we move from "mere forms of thought" to objective concepts. The conditions necessary for the knowledge of an object require a priori categories as the enabling conditions of all human understanding. | Dan Robinson | 16 Mar 2011 |
| 104 | Creative Commons | Idealisms and their refutations | Lecture 5/8. The very possibility of self-awareness (an "inner sense" with content) requires an awareness of an external world by way of "outer sense". Only through awareness of stable elements in the external world is self-consciousness possible. | Dan Robinson | 16 Mar 2011 |
| 103 | Creative Commons | How are a priori synthetic judgements possible? | Lecture 4/8. Kant claims that, "our sense representation is not a representation of things in themselves, but of the way in which they appear to us. | Dan Robinson | 16 Mar 2011 |
| 102 | Creative Commons | Space, time and the "Analogies of Experiences" | Lecture 3/8. Kant's so-called "Copernican" revolution in metaphysics begins with the recognition of the observer's contribution to the observation. | Dan Robinson | 16 Mar 2011 |
| 101 | Creative Commons | The broader philosophical context | Lecture 2/8. The significant advances in physics in the 17th century stood in vivid contrast to the stagnation of traditional metaphysics, but why should metaphysics be conceived as a "science" in the first place? | Dan Robinson | 16 Mar 2011 |
| 100 | Creative Commons | Just what is Kant's "project"? | Lecture 1/8. Both sense and reason are limited. Kant must identify the proper mission and domain of each, as well as the manner in which their separate functions come to be integrated in what is finally the inter-subjectively settled knowledge of science. | Dan Robinson | 16 Mar 2011 |
| 99 | Creative Commons | 8. Defining Art | James Grant, lecturer in philosophy, University of Oxford gives his eight and final lecture in the Aesthetics series on Defining Art. | James Grant | 15 Mar 2011 |
| 98 | Creative Commons | 7. Musical Expression | James Grant, lecturer in philosophy, University of Oxford gives his seventh lecture in the Aesthetics series on the expression of emotion in music. | James Grant | 15 Mar 2011 |
| 97 | Creative Commons | 6. Literary Interpretation | James Grant, lecturer in philosophy, University of Oxford gives his sixth lecture in the Aesthetics series on the interpretation of literature. | James Grant | 15 Mar 2011 |
| 96 | Creative Commons | 5. Kant's Critique of Judgement: Lecture 2 | James Grant, lecturer in philosophy, University of Oxford concludes his discussion of Kant's Critique of Judgement in the fifth lecture of the Aesthetics series. | James Grant | 15 Mar 2011 |
| 95 | Creative Commons | 4. Kant's Critique of Judgement: Lecture 1 | James Grant, lecturer in philosophy, University of Oxford gives his fourth lecture in the Aesthetics series on Kant's Critique of Judgement. | James Grant | 15 Mar 2011 |
| 94 | Creative Commons | 3. Hume and the Standard of Taste | James Grant, lecturer in philosophy, University of Oxford gives his third lecture in the Aesthetics series on Hume and the Standard of Taste. | James Grant | 15 Mar 2011 |
| 93 | Creative Commons | 2. Aristotle's Poetics | James Grant, lecturer in philosophy, University of Oxford gives his second lecture in the Aesthetics series on Aristotle's Poetics. | James Grant | 15 Mar 2011 |
| 92 | Creative Commons | 1. Plato's Philosophy of Art | James Grant, lecturer in philosop-hy, University of Oxford gives his first lecture in the Aesthetics series on Plato's philosophy of Art. | James Grant | 15 Mar 2011 |
| 91 | Creative Commons | Good Intentions and Political Life: Against Virtue Parsimony: St Cross Special Ethics Seminar | Dr Adrian Walsh delivers a St Cross College Lecture entitled Good Intentions and Political Life: Against Virtue Parsimony. | Adrian Walsh | 24 Jan 2011 |
| 90 | Creative Commons | 2009 Lecture 5: Normative Structures | Fifth and final lecture in the 2009 John Locke lectures entitled Being Realistic about Reasons. | Thomas M Scanlon | 20 Dec 2010 |
| 89 | Creative Commons | 2009 Lecture 4: Epistemological Problems | Fourth lecture in the 2009 John Locke Lecture series entitled Being Realistic about Reasons. | Thomas M Scanlon | 20 Dec 2010 |
| 88 | Creative Commons | 2009 Lecture 3: Motivation and the Appeal of Expressivism | Third lecture in the 2009 John Locke lecture series entitled Being Realistic about Reasons. | Thomas M Scanlon | 20 Dec 2010 |
| 87 | Creative Commons | 2009 Lecture 2: Normativity and Metaphysics | Second lecture in the 2009 John Locke lectures entitled Being Realistic about Reasons. | Thomas M Scanlon | 20 Dec 2010 |
| 86 | Creative Commons | 2009 Lecture 1: Being Realistic about Reasons Introduction | First lecture of the 2009 John Locke Lectures entitled 'Being Realistic about Reasons. | Thomas M Scanlon | 20 Dec 2010 |
| 85 | 2010 Lecture 6: Whither the Aufbau? | Sixth and final lecture in the John Locke lecture series entitled Constructing the World. | David Chalmers | 15 Dec 2010 | |
| 84 | 2010 Lecture 5: Hard Cases: Mathematics, Normativity, Ontology, Intentionality | Fifth lecture in the 2010 John Locke lecture series entitled Constructing the World. | David Chalmers | 15 Dec 2010 | |
| 83 | 2010 Lecture 4: Revisability and Conceptual Change: Carnap vs. Quine | Fourth lecture in the 2010 John Locke lecture series entitled Constructing the World. | David Chalmers | 15 Dec 2010 | |
| 82 | 2010 Lecture 3: The Case for A Priori Scrutability | Third lecture in the 2010 John Locke lecture series entitled Constructing the World. | David Chalmers | 15 Dec 2010 | |
| 81 | 2010 Lecture 2: The Cosmoscope Argument | Second lecture in the 2010 John Locke lecture series entitled 'Constructing the World'. | David Chalmers | 15 Dec 2010 | |
| 80 | 2010 Lecture 1: A Scrutable World | First Lecture in the 2010 John Locke Lecture series entitled Constructing the World. | David Chalmers | 15 Dec 2010 | |
| 79 | Creative Commons | 8.4 Persons, Humans and Brains | Part 8.4. The final part of this series. Explores the distinction between mind and body and whether this makes a difference to the idea of personal identity. | Peter Millican | 01 Dec 2010 |
| 78 | Creative Commons | General Philosophy Lecture 8 | PDF slides from Peter Millican's General Philosophy lecture 8. | Peter Millican | 01 Dec 2010 |
| 77 | Creative Commons | 8.3 Problems for Locke's View of Personal Identity | Part 8.3. Criticisms of Locke's view of personal identity; if personal identity is dependent on memory then how does forgetting personal history and the concept of false memory change Locke's view of personal identity. | Peter Millican | 01 Dec 2010 |
| 76 | Creative Commons | 8.2 John Locke on Personal Identity | Part 8.2. Looks at John Locke's view of personal identity; how consciousness and 'personal history' distinguish personal identity and the idea of memory as crucial for personal identity. | Peter Millican | 01 Dec 2010 |
| 75 | Creative Commons | 8.1 Introduction to Personal Identity | Part 8.1. Introduces the concept of personal identity, what is it to be a person, whether someone is the same person over time and Leibniz's law of sameness. | Peter Millican | 01 Dec 2010 |
| 74 | Creative Commons | 7.4 Making Sense of Free Will and Moral Responsibility | Part 7.4. A brief explanation of Hume's argument for sentimentalism and Robert Kane's views on free will and determinism. | Peter Millican | 01 Dec 2010 |
| 73 | Creative Commons | General Philosophy Lecture 7 | PDF slides from Peter Millican's General Philosophy lecture 7. | Peter Millican | 01 Dec 2010 |
| 72 | Creative Commons | 7.3 Hume on Liberty and Necessity | Part 7.3. Looks at Hume's views on liberty and its relationship to causal necessity; that we have free will but it is causally determined. | Peter Millican | 01 Dec 2010 |
| 71 | Creative Commons | 7.2 Different Concepts of Freedom | Part 7.2. Looks at Hobbes' and Hume's views of free will and the three concepts of freedom, and considers the idea of moral responsibility as dependent on free will. | Peter Millican | 01 Dec 2010 |
| 70 | Creative Commons | 7.1 Free Will, Determinism and Choice | Part 7.1. Explores the problem of free will and the ideas of moral responsibility, determinism and choice; the need for a concept of freedom to allow free choice, the problems associated with this and asking whether we really have freedom of choice. | Peter Millican | 01 Dec 2010 |
| 69 | Creative Commons | 6.4 Making Sense of Perception | Part 6.4. A brief overview of contemporary accounts of perception; including phenomenalism (that objects are logical constructions from sense data) and direct realism (that we perceive objects and the external world directly). | Peter Millican | 30 Nov 2010 |
| 68 | Creative Commons | General Philosophy Lecture 6 | PDF slides from Peter Millican's General Philosophy lecture 6. | Peter Millican | 30 Nov 2010 |
| 67 | Creative Commons | 6.3 Abstraction and Idealism | Part 6.3. Criticisms of the resemblance theory of perception and an introduction to idealism - that perceptions of the external world are all within the mind as ideas. | Peter Millican | 30 Nov 2010 |
| 66 | Creative Commons | 6.2 Problems with Resemblance | Part 6.2. Explores Berkeley's and Locke's arguments concerning the resemblance of qualities and objects; that the perceived qualities of objects exist only in the mind or whether secondary qualities are intrinsically part of the object. | Peter Millican | 30 Nov 2010 |
| 65 | Creative Commons | 6.1 Introduction to Primary and Secondary Qualities | Part 6.1. Introduces the problem of perception (and the distinction between the world and what we perceive), along with the concepts of primary and secondary qualities. | Peter Millican | 30 Nov 2010 |
| 64 | Creative Commons | 5.4 Scepticism, Externalism and the Ethics of Belief | Part 5.4. Looks at the role the concept of knowledge plays in life, the different levels of knowledge we require in certain contexts and the return of scepticism over knowledge. | Peter Millican | 29 Nov 2010 |
| 63 | Creative Commons | General Philosophy Lecture 5 | PDF slides from Peter Millican's General Philosophy lecture 5. | Peter Millican | 29 Nov 2010 |
| 62 | Creative Commons | 5.3 Gettier and Other Complications | Part 5.3. The difference between internalist and externalist accounts of knowledge; whether we need external factors to justify knowledge or whether internal accounts are sufficient, and the Gettier cases. | Peter Millican | 29 Nov 2010 |
| 61 | Creative Commons | 5.2 The Traditional Analysis of Knowledge | Part 5.2. Explores the idea of conscious and unconscious knowledge (should a person know that they know something or does it not matter?) and the theory of justification of propositions and beliefs. | Peter Millican | 29 Nov 2010 |
| 60 | Creative Commons | 5.1 Introduction to Knowledge | Part 5.1. Looks at the problem of knowledge; how can we know what we know, three types of knowledge and A J Ayer's two conditions for knowledge. | Peter Millican | 29 Nov 2010 |
| 59 | A Tale of Two Churches | Professor Ben Kaplan (University College London) gives a talk for the 2010 Science and Religious Conflict Conference. Dr Mark Sheehan (Oxford) is the discussant. | Ben Kaplan, Mark Sheehan | 22 Jun 2010 | |
| 58 | Religious Toleration and Political Liberalism | Professor Susan Mendus (York) gives a talk for the Science and Religious Conflict Conference 2010. Dr Nick Southwood (Oxford) is the commentator. | Susan Mendus, Nick Southwood | 14 Jun 2010 | |
| 57 | Creative Commons | Concluding Remarks | Professor Richard Dawkins gives a few concluding thoughts on the Science and Religious Conflict Conference. | Richard Dawkins | 08 Jun 2010 |
| 56 | Social psychological aspects of religion and prejudice | Professor Miles Hewstone (Oxford) gives a talk entitled Social psychological aspects of religion and prejudice: evidence from experimental and survey research. The commentator is Professor Ingmar Persson (Gothenburg University). | Miles Hewstone, Ingmar Persson | 07 Jun 2010 | |
| 55 | Creative Commons | The relation between the neurobiology of morality and religion | Professor Patricia Churchland (University of California San Diego) gives a talk for the Science and Religious Conflict Conference.The commentator is Professor Julian Savulescu (Oxford). | Patricia Churchland, Julian Savulescu | 07 Jun 2010 |
| 54 | Creative Commons | The view from the East pole: Buddhist and Confucian soteriologies and tolerance | Professor Owen Flanagan (Duke University) gives a talk for the Science and Religious Conflict Conference. The commentator is Dr Guy Kahane (Oxford). | Owen Flanagan, Guy Kahane | 07 Jun 2010 |
| 53 | Creative Commons | Personal religion, tolerance, and universal compassion | Professor Dan Batson (University of Kansas) gives a talk for the Science and Religious Conflict Conference. The commentator is Dr Steve Clarke (Oxford). | Dan Batson, Steve Clarke | 07 Jun 2010 |
| 52 | Creative Commons | Religious disagreement and religious accommodation | Professor Tony Coady (University of Melbourne) gives a talk for the Science and Religious Conflict Conference. The commentator is Reverend Dr Liz Carmichael (University of Oxford). | Tony Coady, Liz Carmichael | 07 Jun 2010 |
| 51 | Creative Commons | Religion and compromise | Professor Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Duke University) gives a talk for the Science and Religious Conflict Conference. The discussant is Dr Nick Shackel (Cardiff). | Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Nick Shackel | 07 Jun 2010 |
| 50 | Creative Commons | Religious Toleration, Religious Freedom and Human Nature | Professor Roger Trigg (Oxford) gives a talk for the Science and Religious Conflict Conference. The commentator is Dr John Perry (Oxford). | Roger Trigg, John Perry | 07 Jun 2010 |
| 49 | Creative Commons | Religion, Cohesion and Hostility | Professor Harvey Whitehouse (Oxford) gives a talk for the Science and Religious Conflict Conference. The commentator is Professor Michael Wong (Monash University). | Harvey Whitehouse, Michael Wong | 07 Jun 2010 |
| 48 | Creative Commons | Religion as Parochial Altruism | Professor Ara Norenzayan (University of British Columbia) gives a talk for the Science and Religious Conflict Conference. The commentator is Professor John Wilkins (Bond University). | Ara Norenzayen, John Wilkins | 07 Jun 2010 |
| 47 | Creative Commons | Is Religion an Adaptation for Inter-Group Conflict? | Dominic Johnson (Edinburgh) gives a talk for the Science and Religious Conflict Conference. The commentator is Dr Russell Powell (Oxford). | Dominic Johnson, Russell Powell | 07 Jun 2010 |
| 46 | Creative Commons | Is Religion Adaptive? Integrating Cognition and Function | Professor Robin Dunbar (Oxford) gives the first presentation for the Science and Religious Conflict Conference. The commentator is Professor Janet Radcliffe-Richards (Oxford). | Robin Dunbar, Janet Radcliffe-Richards | 07 Jun 2010 |
| 45 | Creative Commons | Some Fundamental Facts about the Infinite | Professor Adrian Moore delivers a lecture on the concept of the infinite, a concept with deep philosophical implications. This lecture was given in St Hugh's College as part of the St Hugh's Special Lecture Series. | Adrian Moore | 14 May 2010 |
| 44 | Creative Commons | Ethics, Hospitality and Radical Atheism: A Dialogue | Dialogue between Martin Hägglund and Derek Attridge in Wadham College discussing Philosopher Jacques Derrida's ideas on hospitality and the challenge of Radical Atheism. | Martin Hägglund, Derek Attridge | 16 Apr 2010 |
| 43 | Creative Commons | 4.4 The Mind-Body Problem | Part 4.4. Looks at some of the modern responses to Cartesian Dualism including Gilbert Ryle's and G. Strawson's responses to the idea. | Peter Millican | 08 Apr 2010 |
| 42 | Creative Commons | General Philosophy Lecture 4 | PDF slides from Peter Millican's General Philosophy lecture 4. | Peter Millican | 08 Apr 2010 |
| 41 | Creative Commons | 4.3 Cartesian Dualism | Part 4.3. Introduces Descartes' idea of dualism, that there is a separation between the mind and the body, as well as some of the philosophical issues surrounding this idea. | Peter Millican | 08 Apr 2010 |
| 40 | Creative Commons | 4.2 Possible Answers to External World Scepticism | Part 4.2. Investigates some of the possible solutions to Descartes' sceptical problem of the external world, looking at G.E Moore's response, among others, to the problem. | Peter Millican | 08 Apr 2010 |
| 39 | Creative Commons | 4.1 Scepticism about the External World | Part 4.1. Introduces the problem of how do we have knowledge of the world, how do we know what we perceive is in fact what is there? | Peter Millican | 08 Apr 2010 |
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