DH Lawrence 4. The World at Large |
Catherine Brown gives the fourth lecture in the DH Lawrence series. |
Catherine Brown |
28 February, 2012 |
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DH Lawrence 3. Christianity |
Catherine Brown gives the third lecture in the DH Lawrence series. |
Catherine Brown |
28 February, 2012 |
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King Lear |
Showing how generations of critics - and Shakespeare himself - have rewritten the ending of King Lear, this sixteenth Approaching Shakespeare lecture engages with the question of tragedy and why it gives pleasure. |
Emma Smith |
22 February, 2012 |
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DH Lawrence 2. Humour |
Catherine Brown gives the second lecture in the DH Lawrence series. |
Catherine Brown |
15 February, 2012 |
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DH Lawrence 1. Consciousness |
Catherine Brown gives her first lecture in the D.H. Lawrence series. |
Catherine Brown |
15 February, 2012 |
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King John |
At the heart of King John is the death of his rival Arthur: this fifteenth lecture in the Approaching Shakespeare series looks at the ways history and legitimacy are complicated in this plotline. |
Emma Smith |
10 February, 2012 |
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Pericles, Prince of Tyre |
Pericles has been on the margins of the Shakespearean canon: this fourteenth lecture in the Approaching Shakespeare series shows some of its self-conscious artistry and contemporary popularity. |
Emma Smith |
1 February, 2012 |
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Richard III |
In this thirteenth lecture in the Approaching Shakespeare series the focus is on the inevitability of the ending of Richard III: does the play endorse Richmond's final victory? |
Emma Smith |
25 January, 2012 |
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The Comedy of Errors |
Lecture 12 in the Approaching Shakespeare series asks how seriously we can take the farcical exploits of Comedy of Errors, drawing out the play's serious concerns with identity and selfhood. |
Emma Smith |
23 January, 2012 |
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Guided Meditation |
Professor Mark Williams offers a brief guided meditation in the last of four short videos in this series. |
Mark Williams |
6 December, 2011 |
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Supporting Mindfulness |
Professor Mark Williams explains how you can support the work of the Oxford Mindfulness Centre in the third of four short videos. |
Mark Williams |
6 December, 2011 |
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The Science of Mindfulness |
Professor Mark Williams examines the neuroscience of mindfulness in the second of four short videos. |
Mark Williams |
6 December, 2011 |
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Introduction to Mindfulness |
Professor Mark Williams introduces Mindfulness in the first of four short videos in this series. |
Mark Williams |
6 December, 2011 |
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Mindfulness and the brain |
In this final episode Professor Mark Williams and Danny Penman discuss how imaging studies show that Mindfulness may have numerous profoundly positive effects on the brain. |
Mark Williams, Danny Penman |
5 December, 2011 |
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Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy on trial |
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is especially good for people who have suffered the most debilitating forms of depression. The evidence for its effectiveness is overwhelming and continues to grow. |
Mark Williams, Danny Penman |
28 November, 2011 |
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Henry IV part 1 |
Like generations of theatre-goers, this lecture concentrates on the (large) figure of Sir John Falstaff and investigates his role in Henry IV part 1. Lecture 11 in the Approaching Shakespeare series. |
Emma Smith |
16 November, 2011 |
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Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: A new approach to treating depression |
Mindfulness therapy is an extremely effective treatment preventing relapse in depression. But what does it entail and how does it work? |
Mark Williams, Danny Penman |
14 November, 2011 |
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The Tempest |
That the character of Prospero is a Shakespearean self-portrait is a common reading of The Tempest: this tenth Approaching Shakespeare lecture asks whether that is a useful reading of the play. |
Emma Smith |
14 November, 2011 |
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Antony and Cleopatra |
What kind of tragedy is this play, with its two central figures rather than a singular hero? The ninth lecture in the Approaching Shakespeare series tries to find out. |
Emma Smith |
10 November, 2011 |
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Realism |
Dr Catherine Brown, English Faculty, Oxford, gives a lecture exploring the nature of realism in verbal and visual art. |
Catherine Brown |
8 November, 2011 |
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Can treatments such as Cognitive Therapy help? |
Depression tends to return even if it has been successfully treated. Scientists now understand why this happens and have developed therapies that reduce the risks of relapse and help lift the burden of depression should it return. |
Mark Williams, Danny Penman |
7 November, 2011 |
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Richard II |
Lecture eight in the Approaching Shakespeare series asks the question that structures Richard II: does the play suggest Henry Bolingbroke's overthrow of the king was justified? |
Emma Smith |
1 November, 2011 |
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How is depression treated? |
Doctors and psychiatrists once believed that patterns of thinking played little or no role in depression, but this is now known to be wrong. Professor Williams and Dr Danny Penman discuss how the treatment of depression has evolved in recent years. |
Mark Williams, Danny Penman |
21 October, 2011 |
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What is depression? |
Depression is expected to impose the second biggest health burden globally by 2020; greater even than heart disease, arthritis and many forms of cancer. Professor Mark Williams and Dr Danny Penman discuss the driving forces behind this startling trend. |
Mark Williams, Danny Penman |
21 October, 2011 |
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Twelfth Night |
The seventh Approaching Shakespeare lecture takes a minor character in Twelfth Night - Antonio - and uses his presence to open up questions of sexuality, desire and the nature of romantic comedy. |
Emma Smith |
20 October, 2011 |
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Titus Andronicus |
Focusing in detail on one particular scene, and on critical responses to it, this sixth Approaching Shakespeare lecture on Titus Andronicus deals with violence, rhetoric, and the nature of dramatic sensationalism. |
Emma Smith |
19 October, 2011 |
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History of Oxford's Experimental Psychology Department |
Professors Oliver Braddick and Larry Weiskrantz give a talk on the history of Oxford University's Experimental Psychology Department as part the department's 113th anniversary. |
Larry Weiskrantz, Oliver Braddick |
13 July, 2011 |
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5. Making a Livelier Drawing |
Lesson 4. Making a livelier drawing, where the line and tone have an energy because they have been applied at speed with a brush. |
Stephen Farthing |
24 March, 2011 |
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9. Creativity |
Lesson 8. Invention! |
Stephen Farthing |
24 March, 2011 |
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8. Field Notes |
Lesson 7. Strategies for collecting information and recording ideas as an aid to memory. |
Stephen Farthing |
24 March, 2011 |
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7. With Colour |
Lesson 6. The most complex form of drawing. Starting with a pencil outline, the drawing is developed with a brush in clearly defined layers. |
Stephen Farthing |
24 March, 2011 |
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6. Measured Drawing |
Lesson 5. Making a drawing that is dependent for its success on mathematical accuracy. |
Stephen Farthing |
24 March, 2011 |
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4. Toned Paper |
Lesson 3. How toned paper can be used to provide the mid-tone in a drawing, which records where light and shade fall as a means of picturing an object. |
Stephen Farthing |
24 March, 2011 |
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3. The Edge of the Pencil |
Lesson 2. We use tone, light, dark and the shades in-between to create illusions of volume and depth. |
Stephen Farthing |
24 March, 2011 |
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2. The Tip of the Pencil |
Lesson 1. We use line to define spaces and things. It is not a question of magically getting the line right first time, but of first turning a contour into a line, and then systematically correcting that line until it looks right. |
Stephen Farthing |
24 March, 2011 |
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1. Introduction to the Elements of Drawing |
Stephen Farthing R.A. presents eight practical drawing classes using John Ruskin's teaching collections to explain the basic principles of drawing. |
Stephen Farthing |
24 March, 2011 |
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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 March, 2011 |
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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 March, 2011 |
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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 March, 2011 |
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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 March, 2011 |
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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 March, 2011 |
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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 March, 2011 |
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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 March, 2011 |
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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 March, 2011 |
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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 |
1 December, 2010 |
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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 |
1 December, 2010 |
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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 |
1 December, 2010 |
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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 |
1 December, 2010 |
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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 |
1 December, 2010 |
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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 |
1 December, 2010 |
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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 |
1 December, 2010 |
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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 |
1 December, 2010 |
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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 November, 2010 |
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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 November, 2010 |
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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 November, 2010 |
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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 November, 2010 |
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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 November, 2010 |
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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 November, 2010 |
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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 November, 2010 |
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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 November, 2010 |
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The Winter's Tale |
How we can make sense of a play that veers from tragedy to comedy and stretches credulity in its conclusion? That's the topic for this fifth Approaching Shakespeare lecture on The Winter's Tale. |
Emma Smith |
9 November, 2010 |
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Macbeth |
In this fourth Approaching Shakespeare lecture the question is one of agency: who or what makes happen the things that happen in Macbeth? |
Emma Smith |
2 November, 2010 |
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Measure for Measure |
The third Approaching Shakespeare lecture, on Measure for Measure, focuses on the vexed question of this uncomic comedy's genre. |
Emma Smith |
26 October, 2010 |
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Henry V |
The second lecture in the Approaching Shakespeare series looks at King Henry V, and asks whether his presentation in the play is entirely positive. |
Emma Smith |
20 October, 2010 |
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Othello |
First in Emma Smith's Approaching Shakespeare lecture series; looking at the central question of race and its significance in the play. |
Emma Smith |
18 October, 2010 |
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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 |
8 April, 2010 |
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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 |
8 April, 2010 |
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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 |
8 April, 2010 |
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3.2 Responses to Hume's Famous Argument |
Part 3.2. Responses to and justifications of Hume's argument concerning the problem of induction. |
Peter Millican |
8 April, 2010 |
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3.1 Hume's Argument Concerning Induction |
Part 3.1. Briefly introduces the problem of induction: that is, the problem that it is difficult to justify claims to knowledge of the world through pure reason, i.e. without experience. |
Peter Millican |
8 April, 2010 |
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2.7 Overview: Kant and Modern Science |
Part 2.7. Concludes a historical survey of philosophy with Immanuel Kant, who thought Hume was wrong in his idea of human nature and how we gain knowledge of the world. |
Peter Millican |
8 April, 2010 |
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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 |
8 April, 2010 |
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Evaluating Arguments Part Two |
Part six of a six-part series on critical reasoning. In this final lecture we will look at fallacies. These are bad arguments that can easily be mistaken for good arguments. |
Marianne Talbot |
18 March, 2010 |
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2.6 David Hume |
Part 2.6. Introduces 18th Century Scottish philosopher David Hume, 'The Great Infidel', including his life, works and a brief look at his philosophical thoughts. |
Peter Millican |
16 March, 2010 |
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2.5 Nicolas Malebranche and George Berkeley |
Part 2.5. Focuses on Malebranche, a lesser-known French Philosopher, and his ideas on idealism and the influence they had on English philosopher George Berkeley. |
Peter Millican |
16 March, 2010 |
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2.4 John Locke |
Part 2.4. Introduction to the philosophy of John Locke, 'England's first Empiricist', he also gives a very simplistic definition of Empiricism; we obtain knowledge through experience of the world, through sensory data (what we see, hear, etc). |
Peter Millican |
16 March, 2010 |
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2.3 Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton |
Part 2.3. An introduction to Robert Boyle's theory of corpuscularianism and Isaac Newton's ideas on mathematics and the universe. |
Peter Millican |
16 March, 2010 |
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2.2 Thomas Hobbes: The Monster of Malmesbury |
Part 2.2. A brief introduction to Thomas Hobbes, 'The Monster of Malmsbury', his views on a mechanistic universe, his strong ideas on determinism and his pessimistic view of human nature: 'The life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short'. |
Peter Millican |
16 March, 2010 |
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2.1 Recap of General Philosophy Lecture 1 |
Part 2.1. A brief recap on the first lecture describing how Aristotle's view of the universe, dominant throughout the middle ages in Europe, came to be gradually phased out by a modern, mechanistic view of the universe. |
Peter Millican |
16 March, 2010 |
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Evaluating Arguments Part One |
Part five of a six-part series on critical reasoning. In this lecture we will continue with the evaluation of arguments - this time deductive arguments - focusing in particular on the notion of validity. |
Marianne Talbot |
15 March, 2010 |
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What is a Good Argument? Validity and Truth |
Part four of a six-part series on critical reasoning. In this lecture we will learn how to evaluate arguments and how to tell whether an argument is good or bad, focusing specifically on inductive arguments. |
Marianne Talbot |
11 March, 2010 |
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Setting out Arguments Logic Book Style |
Part three of a six-part series on critical reasoning. In this lecture we will focus on how to identify and analyse arguments, and how to set arguments out logic book-style to make them easier to evaluate. |
Marianne Talbot |
10 March, 2010 |
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1.4 From Galileo to Descartes |
Part 1.4. Outlines Galileo's revolutionary theories of astronomy and mechanical science and introduces Descartes' (the father of modern philosophy) ideas of philosophical scepticism. |
Peter Millican |
19 February, 2010 |
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1.3 Science from Aristotle to Galileo |
Part 1.3. Describes briefly the Aristotelian view of the universe; the basis for natural science in Europe until the 15th century and its conflict Galileo's theories. |
Peter Millican |
19 February, 2010 |
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1.2 The Background of Early Modern Philosophy |
Part 1.2. Gives a very brief history of philosophy from the 'birth of philosophy' in Ancient Greece through the rise of Christianity in Europe in the Middle Ages through to the Renaissance, the Reformation and the birth of the Modern Period. |
Peter Millican |
19 February, 2010 |
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1.1 An Introduction to General Philosophy |
Part 1.1. Outlines the General Philosophy course, the various topics that will be discussed, and also, more importantly, the philosophical method that this course introduces to students. |
Peter Millican |
19 February, 2010 |
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Different Types of Arguments |
The second of six lectures dealing with critical reasoning. In this lecture you will learn about the different types of arguments, in particular deductive and inductive arguments. |
Marianne Talbot |
29 January, 2010 |
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The Nature of Arguments |
The first of six lectures dealing with critical reasoning. In this lecture you will learn how to recognise arguments and what the nature of an argument is. |
Marianne Talbot |
29 January, 2010 |
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Nietzsche Source. Scholarly Nietzsche editions on the web |
Introduction to the scholarly editions of Nietzsche Source: the digital critical edition based on Colli/Montinary, the digital edition of the Nietzsche estate including works, manuscripts and letters and the future genetic edition of Nietzsche's works. |
Paolo D’Iorio |
23 December, 2009 |
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Nietzsche's Value Monism - Saying Yes to Everything |
Lecture on Nietzsche's attack on Value Dualism, as well as the view he offers instead and whether Nietzsche can sustain his Value Monism-the view that everything is good-given the pressures that pull him back into saying no as well as yes. |
John Richardson |
23 December, 2009 |
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Nietzsche's Metaphysics |
Nietzsche rejects a persisting self; real distinctions of objects and properties, categorical and dispositional properties, causes and effects; free will. He holds that determinism is true, reality is one and fundamentally experiential. |
Galen Strawson |
22 December, 2009 |
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Consciousness, Language and Nature: Nietzsche's Philosophy of Mind and Nature |
On the triangulation between consciousness, language and nature in Nietzsche's philosophy and contemporary philosophy of mind and proposes a philosophy of signs and interpretation as a basis for a philosophy of mind, language and nature. |
Gunter Abel |
22 December, 2009 |
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Who is the 'Sovereign Individual?' Nietzsche on Freedom |
Nietzsche's Sovereign Individual (SI) argues that 1. Nietzsche denies free will and moral responsibility. 2. SI in no way supports a denial of 1. 3. Nietzsche engages in a 'persuasive definition' of the language of Freedom and Free Will. |
Brian Leiter |
22 December, 2009 |
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Nietzsche on Soul in Nature |
This keynote speech examines if, according to Nietzsche, experience of nature is inevitably conditioned by some archetypal phantasm or cultural construction process or if unmediated apprehension of nature is possible. |
Graham Parkes |
22 December, 2009 |
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The Genealogy of Guilt |
Nietzsche's objective is not to challenge the Christian non-naturalistic account of guilt but to show that Christian representation of guilt is a product of the exploitation of human susceptibility to guilt as instrument of self-directed cruelty. |
Bernard Reginster |
22 December, 2009 |
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Philosophy of language and mind |
Language and Mind: What is rationality? What is consciousness? How do we manage to express our thoughts and experiences in language? |
Marianne Talbot |
9 January, 2009 |
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Metaphysics and Epistemology |
Metaphysics and Epistemology: what exists, what is its nature and how can we acquire knowledge of it? |
Marianne Talbot |
9 January, 2009 |
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The philosophical method - logic and argument |
Logic and Argument: the joys of symbolic and philosophical logic. |
Marianne Talbot |
9 January, 2009 |
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Ethics and politics |
Moral and Political Philosophy: how should we live? What constitutes a just state? |
Marianne Talbot |
9 January, 2009 |
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A romp through the history of philosophy from the Pre-Socratics to the present day. |
A romp through the history of philosophy from the Pre-Socratics to the present day. |
Marianne Talbot |
13 November, 2008 |
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