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Timothy McGrew

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Ian Ramsey Centre: The Great Debate

Ian Ramsey Centre: The Great Debate

The Great Debated is a series of fifteen lectures by Timothy McGrew, Professor and Depa...
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Ian Ramsey Centre: The Deist Controversy

Ian Ramsey Centre: The Deist Controversy

The Deist Controversy was an extended debate that took place first in England and then ...
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Lecture 05: Populist Skepticism: Paine and Watson This lecture begins the account of the sceptics who appealed to the common working man, with the main focus of this first lecture on Thomas Paine, with responses by Bishop Richard Watson. Timothy McGrew 29 June, 2017
Lecture 04: Urbane Skepticism: Mill and Arnold This second and final lecture on urbane scepticism deals with the work of the Utilitarian John Stuart Mill and the English poet Matthew Arnold. Timothy McGrew 29 June, 2017
Lecture 03: Urbane Skepticism: Gibbon vs. Watson Urbane scepticism, an extension of English Deism, is presented in this lecture mostly through the lens of Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, with a response by Bishop Richard Watson. Timothy McGrew 29 June, 2017
Lecture 02: Continental Skepticism The focus of this lecture is continental scepticism, primarily a French movement influenced by Deism, and its main proponents: Voltaire and Rousseau. Timothy McGrew 29 June, 2017
Lecture 01: Introduction and Course Overview This lecture introduces the course and the seven sceptical challenges of the period: continental, urbane, populist, scholarly, transcendental, establishment, and Dutch and German. Timothy McGrew 29 June, 2017
Lecture 18: Hume’s “Of Miracles,” Part 2 The final lecture gives an overview of the second part of Hume’s argument in ‘Of Miracles’, with responses from William Adams, George Campbell, Peter Bayne, and John Douglas. Timothy McGrew 22 June, 2017
Lecture 17: Hume’s “Of Miracles,” Part 1 The second in this series on Hume explicates the details of his argument and gives an explanation of the argument in part one, as well as responses from Hume’s contemporary, William Adam, and the Mathematician Charles Babbage. Timothy McGrew 22 June, 2017
Lecture 16: David Hume: Introduction to “Of Miracles” Here begins the discussion of David Hume, especially his essay ‘Of Miracles’ from his Philosophical Essays. This lecture includes differing interpretations for the argument Hume is making in part one of his essay. Timothy McGrew 22 June, 2017
Lecture 15: Dodwell and his Critics This lecture wraps up the discussion of Dodwell, containing more of his thoughts, and reactions to them from Philip Doddridge and John Leland, with additional comments on the connection between Dodwell and David Hume. Timothy McGrew 22 June, 2017
Lecture 14: Annet and Dodwell This lecture continues Annet’s response to the Tryal of the Witnesses and a rebuttal of him by Charles Moss. Another subject covered is the work of Henry Dodwell Jr and his arguments against using reason as a basis for Christianity. Timothy McGrew 22 June, 2017
Lecture 13: Thomas Chubb and Peter Annet This lecture details the ideas of two popular Deists, Thomas Chubb and Peter Annet, as well as responses by Caleb Fleming, Jonathan Edwards, and John Leland. Timothy McGrew 22 June, 2017
Lecture 12: Butler’s Analogy of Religion The Anglican Bishop Joseph Butler’s Analogy of Religion, an important and influential work in the Deist controversy, is the content of this lecture. Timothy McGrew 22 June, 2017

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