2013-08-15

General Philosophy (by Professor Peter Millican at Oxford, 2009)

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A series of lectures delivered by Peter Millican to first-year philosophy students at the University of Oxford. The lectures comprise the 8-week General Philosophy course and were delivered in late 2009. Slides for all his lectures can be found here: http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/people/peter...

1.1 An Introduction to General Philosophy 5:55
1.2 The Birth of Modern Philosophy 15:56
1.3 From Aristotle to Galileo 18:14
1.4 The Birth of the Early Modern Period: From Galileo to Descartes 10:49
2.1 Recap of General Philosophy Lecture 1 5:50
2.2 Introduction to Thomas Hobbes 11:35
2.3 Robert Boyle's Corpuscularian Theory 6:21
2.4 Isaac Newton and Instrumentalism 7:58
2.5 Introduction to John Locke 12:16
2.6 George Berkeley and Idealism 9:31
3.1 Introduction to David Hume 19:36
3.2 David Hume: Concluding Remarks 10:35
3.3 The Problem of Induction 23:00
4.1 Scepticism of the External World 8:48
4.2 Possible Answers to Scepticism of the External World 9:09
4.3 Introduction to Cartesian Dualism 22:13
4.4 Modern Responses to Dualism 10:56
5.1 Introduction to Knowledge 10:32
5.2 The Traditional Analysis of Knowledge 16:39
5.3 Gettier and Other Complications 14:49
5.4 Scepticism, Externalism and the Ethics of Belief 12:33
6.1 Introduction to Primary and Secondary Qualities 14:33
6.2 Problems with Resemblance 10:56
6.3 Abstraction and Idealism 10:18
6.4 Making Sense of Perception 16:38
7.1 Free Will, Determinism and Choice 18:49
7.2 Different Concepts of Freedom 14:06
7.3 Hume on Liberty and Necessity 10:05
7.4 Making Sense of Free Will and Moral Responsibility 9:49
8.1 Introduction to Personal Identity 8:54
8.2 John Locke on Personal Identity 15:06
8.3 Problems for Locke's View of Personal Identity 9:41
8.4 Persons, Humans and Brains 11:03