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Evaluating Arguments Part Two

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Critical Reasoning for Beginners
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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.
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Critical Reasoning for Beginners
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Marianne Talbot
Keywords
critical reasoning
philosophy
reasoning
arguments
argument
Department: Oxford Lifelong Learning
Date Added: 18/03/2010
Duration: 00:57:03

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2.6 David Hume

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General Philosophy
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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.
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General Philosophy
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Peter Millican
Keywords
David Hume
philosophy
history
hume
Department: Faculty of Philosophy
Date Added: 16/03/2010
Duration: 00:12:40

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2.5 Nicolas Malebranche and George Berkeley

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General Philosophy
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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.
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General Philosophy
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Peter Millican
Keywords
idealism
perception
god
causation
philosophy
empiricism
malebranche
berkeley
Department: Faculty of Philosophy
Date Added: 16/03/2010
Duration: 00:09:26

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2.4 John Locke

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General Philosophy
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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).
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General Philosophy
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Peter Millican
Keywords
perception
treatise
locke
government
philosophy
human understanding
empiricism
rationalism
Department: Faculty of Philosophy
Date Added: 16/03/2010
Duration: 00:12:08

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2.3 Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton

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General Philosophy
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Part 2.3. An introduction to Robert Boyle's theory of corpuscularianism and Isaac Newton's ideas on mathematics and the universe.
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General Philosophy
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Peter Millican
Keywords
newton
corpuscularian
corpuscles
science
philosophy
gravity
atoms
mathematics
Physics
boyle
Department: Faculty of Philosophy
Date Added: 16/03/2010
Duration: 00:13:58

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2.2 Thomas Hobbes: The Monster of Malmesbury

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General Philosophy
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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'.
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General Philosophy
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Peter Millican
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causation
philosophy
civil war
leviathan
hobbes
materialism
Department: Faculty of Philosophy
Date Added: 16/03/2010
Duration: 00:11:33

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2.1 Recap of General Philosophy Lecture 1

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General Philosophy
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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.
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General Philosophy
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Peter Millican
Keywords
christianity
descartes
society
science
philosophy
religion
renaissance
aristotle
mathematics
astronomy
Department: Faculty of Philosophy
Date Added: 16/03/2010
Duration: 00:05:42

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Evaluating Arguments Part One

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Critical Reasoning for Beginners
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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.
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Critical Reasoning for Beginners
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Marianne Talbot
Keywords
critical reasoning
philosophy
reasoning
arguments
argument
Department: Oxford Lifelong Learning
Date Added: 15/03/2010
Duration: 01:06:22

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Taming the Casino Banks

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The Credit Crunch and Global Recession
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In this podcast the experts discuss whether the 'casino' banks that are considered too big to fail are simply too big, and explain the arguments for and against splitting them up.
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The Credit Crunch and Global Recession
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Jonathan Michie
Martin Slater
Linda Yueh
Keywords
credit crunch
finance
economics
bail out
recession
banking
bail-out
banks
bank
Department: Oxford Lifelong Learning
Date Added: 15/03/2010
Duration: 00:29:16

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Taming the Casino Banks

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Kellogg College
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In this podcast the experts discuss whether the 'casino' banks that are considered too big to fail are simply too big, and explain the arguments for and against splitting them up.
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Kellogg College
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Jonathan Michie
Martin Slater
Linda Yueh
Keywords
credit crunch
finance
economics
bail out
recession
banking
bail-out
banks
bank
Department: Kellogg College
Date Added: 15/03/2010
Duration: 00:29:16

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