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Philosophy for Beginners

Oxford University

5 episodes

Philosophy has been studied for thousands of years. It involves the use of reason and argument to search for the truth about reality - about the nature of things, ethics, aesthetics, language, the mind, God and everything else. This series of five introductory lectures, aimed at students new to philosophy, presented by Marianne Talbot, Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford, will test you on some famous thought experiments and introduce you to some central philosophical issues and to the thoughts of some key philosophers.

Episodes

  1. Philosophy of language and mind

    · 1 h 28 min

    Language and Mind: What is rationality? What is consciousness? How do we manage to express our thoughts and experiences in language?

  2. Metaphysics and Epistemology

    · 1 h 31 min

    Metaphysics and Epistemology: what exists, what is its nature and how can we acquire knowledge of it?

  3. Ethics and politics

    · 1 h 33 min

    Moral and Political Philosophy: how should we live? What constitutes a just state?

  4. The philosophical method - logic and argument

    · 1 h 34 min

    Logic and Argument: the joys of symbolic and philosophical logic.

  5. A romp through the history of philosophy from the Pre-Socratics to the present day.

    · 1 h 32 min

    A romp through the history of philosophy from the Pre-Socratics to the present day.

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