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A series of lectures delivered by Peter Millican to first-year philosophy students at 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 topics and to get students and others interested in thinking about key areas of philosophy and taking a chronological view of the history of philosophy.
Assessment
This course does not involve any written exams. Students need to answer 5 assignment questions to complete the course, the answers will be in the form of written work in pdf or word. Students can write the answers in their own time. Each answer needs to be 200 words (1 Page). Once the answers are submitted, the tutor will check and assess the work.
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Course Credit: University of Oxford
Course Curriculum
| Module:01 | |||
| 1.1 An Introduction to General Philosophy | 00:05:00 | ||
| 1.2 The Background of Early Modern Philosophy | 00:16:00 | ||
| 1.3 Science from Aristotle to Galileo | 00:18:00 | ||
| 1.4 From Galileo to Descartes | 00:11:00 | ||
| 2.1 Recap of General Philosophy Lecture 1 | 00:06:00 | ||
| 2.2 Thomas Hobbes: The Monster of Malmesbury | 00:11:00 | ||
| 2.3 Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton | 00:14:00 | ||
| 2.4 John Locke | 00:12:00 | ||
| 2.5 Nicolas Malebranche and George Berkeley | 00:09:00 | ||
| 2.6 David Hume | 00:13:00 | ||
| 2.7 Overview: Kant and Modern Science | 00:17:00 | ||
| Module:02 | |||
| 3.1 Hume’s Argument Concerning Induction | 00:13:00 | ||
| 3.2 Responses to Hume’s Famous Argument | 00:10:00 | ||
| 4.1 Scepticism about the External World | 00:09:00 | ||
| 4.2 Possible Answers to External World Scepticism | 00:09:00 | ||
| 4.3 Cartesian Dualism | 00:14:00 | ||
| 4.4 The Mind-Body Problem | 00:18:00 | ||
| 5.1 Introduction to Knowledge | 00:10:00 | ||
| 5.2 The Traditional Analysis of Knowledge | 00:16:00 | ||
| 5.3 Gettier and Other Complications | 00:15:00 | ||
| 5.4 Scepticism, Externalism and the Ethics of Belief | 00:12:00 | ||
| 6.1 Introduction to Primary and Secondary Qualities | 00:14:00 | ||
| Module:03 | |||
| 6.2 Problems with Resemblance | 00:11:00 | ||
| 6.3 Abstraction and Idealism | 00:10:00 | ||
| 6.4 Making Sense of Perception | 00:16:00 | ||
| 7.1 Free Will, Determinism and Choice | 00:19:00 | ||
| 7.2 Different Concepts of Freedom | 00:14:00 | ||
| 7.3 Hume on Liberty and Necessity | 00:10:00 | ||
| 7.4 Making Sense of Free Will and Moral Responsibility | 00:10:00 | ||
| 8.1 Introduction to Personal Identity | 00:09:00 | ||
| 8.2 John Locke on Personal Identity | 00:15:00 | ||
| 8.3 Problems for Locke’s View of Personal Identity | 00:10:00 | ||
| 8.4 Persons, Humans and Brains | 00:11:00 | ||
| Assessment | |||
| Submit Your Assignment | 00:00:00 | ||
| Certification | 00:00:00 | ||
| Certification | 00:00:00 | ||
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Peter Millican is now my thought uncle. This course demonstrates that the mind, in order to expand and become more agile, healthy and open, requires to be exercised. I now know how to look at simple every day circumstances from different obvious critical angles in order to analyse them for more in-depth understanding including being able to accommodate other people’s points of view. I now am at least beginning to know how to think up thought experiments etc. A humbling experience. What a privilege!