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General Philosophy
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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 of the 8-week General Philosophy course, delivered to first year undergraduates. These lectures aim to provide a thorough introduction to many philosophical topics and to get students and others interested in thinking about key areas of philosophy. Taking a chronological view of the history of philosophy, each lecture is split into 3 or 4 sections which outline a particular philosophical problem and how different philosophers have attempted to resolve the issue. Individuals interested in the 'big' questions about life such as how we perceive the world, who we are in the world and whether we are free to act will find this series informative, comprehensive and accessible.
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General Philosophy Lecture 8 (Slides)
Dec 1, 2010Tap to summarizePDF slides from Peter Millican's General Philosophy lecture 8.
Transcribe →8.4 Persons, Humans and Brains
Dec 1, 201000:10:58Tap to summarizePart 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.
Transcribe →8.3 Problems for Locke's View of Personal Identity
Dec 1, 201000:09:37Tap to summarizePart 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.
Transcribe →8.2 John Locke on Personal Identity
Dec 1, 201000:15:01Tap to summarizePart 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.
Transcribe →8.1 Introduction to Personal Identity
Dec 1, 201000:08:50Tap to summarizePart 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.
Transcribe →7.4 Making Sense of Free Will and Moral Responsibility
Dec 1, 201000:09:46Tap to summarizePart 7.4. A brief explanation of Hume's argument for sentimentalism and Robert Kane's views on free will and determinism.
Transcribe →General Philosophy Lecture 7 (Slides)
Dec 1, 2010Tap to summarizePDF slides from Peter Millican's General Philosophy lecture 7.
Transcribe →7.3 Hume on Liberty and Necessity
Dec 1, 201000:10:00Tap to summarizePart 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.
Transcribe →7.2 Different Concepts of Freedom
Dec 1, 201000:14:03Tap to summarizePart 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.
Transcribe →7.1 Free Will, Determinism and Choice
Dec 1, 201000:18:44Tap to summarizePart 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.
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