1. University of Oxford - Faculty of Philosophy - General Philosophy (2018)
1. University of Oxford - Faculty of Philosophy - General Philosophy (2018)
A series of 8 lectures on General Philosophy, delivered to first year Oxford University undergraduates in Michaelmas term 2018. The lectures cover six main topics: Knowledge and Scepticism, Induction, Mind and Body, Personal Identity, Free Will, God and Evil. But they set these topics within a much broader context, encompassing humanity’s history of discovery about the natural world (both in physics and biology), and our place within it (linked to issues of both evolution and morality). Main themes of the lectures are: (1) Introduction, and views of the cosmos from Genesis to Descartes; (2) Humanity’s place in the scientific picture of the world; (3) Scepticism and the problem of induction; (4) More on induction, and facing up to scepticism; (5) The mind, and personal identity; (6) Identity, self-interest, morality, and free will; (7) Free will, causality, explanation, and moral responsibility; (8) God and morality.
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General Philosophy 2018 Handouts
PDF handouts to accompany Peter Millican's 2018 General Philosophy series.
23 June, 2020
General Philosophy 2018 Slides
PDF slides to accompany Peter Millican's 2018 General Philosophy series.
23 June, 2020
GenPhil 2018/8: God and Morality
Lecture 8 in Peter Millican's 2018 General Philosophy series.
23 June, 2020
GenPhil 2018/7: Free Will and Responsibility
Lecture 7 in Peter Millican's 2018 General Philosophy series.
23 June, 2020
GenPhil 2018/6: Identity, Self-Interest, Free Will
Lecture 6 in Peter Millican's 2018 General Philosophy series.
23 June, 2020
GenPhil 2018/5: The Mind, and Personal Identity
Lecture 5 in Peter Millican's 2018 General Philosophy series.
23 June, 2020
GenPhil 2018/4: Facing Up to Scepticism
Lecture 4 in Peter Millican's 2018 General Philosophy series.
23 June, 2020
GenPhil 2018/3: Scepticism and Induction
Lecture 3 in Peter Millican's 2018 General Philosophy series.
23 June, 2020
GenPhil 2018/2: Matter, Mind, and Humanity
Lecture 2 in Peter Millican's 2018 General Philosophy series.
23 June, 2020
GenPhil 2018/1: Historical Introduction
Lecture 1 in Peter Millican's 2018 General Philosophy series.
23 June, 2020
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and for more information please visit the main web page of the University of Oxford - Faculty of Philosophy
Faculty of Philosophy
Oxford is one of the world's great centres for philosophy. More than one hundred and fifty professional philosophers work in the University and its colleges, between them covering a vast range of subjects within philosophy. Many are international leaders in their fields. The Faculty of Philosophy is one of the largest departments of philosophy in the world, and is widely recognized to be amongst the best. Its reputation draws many distinguished visiting philosophers; each year around fifty philosophers from around the world give lectures or seminars in Oxford. Almost every major philosopher speaks in Oxford at some time. Each year, more than five hundred undergraduates are admitted to study philosophy in Oxford, always in combination with another subject. The Faculty also has more than a hundred graduate students, who are either taking a taught graduate degree or working for a doctorate. Oxford is a collegiate university, and every registered student becomes a member of one of the colleges. In this way, he or she has access, not only to the very extensive libraries and facilities of the University, but also to the varied and more intimate life of a college. Colleges offer their students excellent libraries and facilities of their own. Teaching at Oxford is by lectures and seminars, and by tutorials or supervisions. Courses of lectures and seminars are offered on a very large range of topics, for both undergraduates and graduates. Tutorials are a special feature of Oxford; undergraduates receive regular and frequent tutorials either individually or in pairs from members of the Faculty. All graduate students also receive frequent individual supervisions. Oxford University dates from the 12th Century or before. The first colleges were founded in the 13th Century. The ancient buildings remain, mingled with magnificent architecture from subsequent centuries, to make Oxford one of the most inspiring and beautiful cities in the world. Within this setting, Oxford remains at the forefront of philosophy.
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Ethics in AI Seminar: Responsible Research and Publication in AI
Ethics in AI Seminar - presented by the Institute for Ethics in AI
Peter Millican, Rosie Campbell, Carolyn Ashurst, Helena Webb
12 July, 2021
Part of the Colloquium on AI Ethics series presented by the Institute of Ethics in AI. This event is also part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.
Adrienne Mayor, Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer, Armand D'Angour, John Tasioulas
12 July, 2021
AI in a Democratic Culture - Presented by the Institute for Ethics in AI
Launch of the Institute for Ethics in AI with Sir Nigel Shadbolt, Joshua Cohen and Hélène Landemore. Part of the Colloquium on AI Ethics series presented by the Institute for Ethics in AI
Joshua Cohen, Hélène Landemore, Nigel Shadbolt
12 July, 2021
Turing 2018/8: Searle versus Turing - Conclusion
Lecture 8 in Peter Millican's 2018 Turing series.
14 January, 2021
Turing 2018/7: Blockhead, the Chinese Room, and ELIZA
Lecture 7 in Peter Millican's 2018 Turing series.
14 January, 2021
Turing 2018/6: "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" - Overview of Turing's 1950 paper
Lecture 6 in Peter Millican's 2018 Turing series.
14 January, 2021
Turing 2018/5: Settling Hilbert's Entscheidungsproblem, and the Halting Problem
Lecture 5 in Peter Millican's 2018 Turing series.
14 January, 2021
Turing 2018/4: Enumerating the Computable Numbers, and the Universal Turing Machine
Lecture 4 in Peter Millican's 2018 Turing series.
14 January, 2021
Turing 2018/3: "On Computable Numbers" - Turing's 1936 Paper
Lecture 3 in Peter Millican's 2018 Turing series.
14 January, 2021
Turing 2018/2: Hilbert's Programme and Gödel's Theorem
Lecture 2 in Peter Millican's 2018 Turing series.
14 January, 2021
Turing 2018/1: Types of number, Cantor, infinities, diagonal arguments
Lecture 1 in Peter Millican's 2018 Turing series.
14 January, 2021
Does AI threaten Human Autonomy?
This event is also part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.
Peter Millican, Jonathan Pugh, Jessica Morley, Carina Prunkl
7 December, 2020
Part of the Colloquium on AI Ethics series presented by the Institute of Ethics in AI. This event is also part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.
Carissa Véliz, Sir Michael Tugendhat, Stephanie Hare, John Tasioulas
5 November, 2020
Algorithms Eliminate Noise (and That Is Very Good)
Part of the Colloquium on AI Ethics series presented by the Institute of Ethics in AI. This event is also part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.
John Tasioulas, Ruth Chang, Sir Nigel Shadbolt, Cass Sunstein
5 November, 2020
This event is also part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.
Peter Millican, Milo Phillips-Brown, Max Van Kleek, Helena Webb
5 November, 2020
General Philosophy 2018 Handouts
PDF handouts to accompany Peter Millican's 2018 General Philosophy series.
23 June, 2020
General Philosophy 2018 Slides
PDF slides to accompany Peter Millican's 2018 General Philosophy series.
23 June, 2020
GenPhil 2018/8: God and Morality
Lecture 8 in Peter Millican's 2018 General Philosophy series.
23 June, 2020
GenPhil 2018/7: Free Will and Responsibility
Lecture 7 in Peter Millican's 2018 General Philosophy series.
23 June, 2020
GenPhil 2018/6: Identity, Self-Interest, Free Will
Lecture 6 in Peter Millican's 2018 General Philosophy series.
23 June, 2020
GenPhil 2018/5: The Mind, and Personal Identity
Lecture 5 in Peter Millican's 2018 General Philosophy series.
23 June, 2020
GenPhil 2018/4: Facing Up to Scepticism
Lecture 4 in Peter Millican's 2018 General Philosophy series.
23 June, 2020
GenPhil 2018/3: Scepticism and Induction
Lecture 3 in Peter Millican's 2018 General Philosophy series.
23 June, 2020
GenPhil 2018/2: Matter, Mind, and Humanity
Lecture 2 in Peter Millican's 2018 General Philosophy series.
23 June, 2020
GenPhil 2018/1: Historical Introduction
Lecture 1 in Peter Millican's 2018 General Philosophy series.
23 June, 2020
PDF handouts to accompany Peter Millican's 2018 Hume series.
21 May, 2020
PDF slides to accompany Peter Millican's 2018 Hume series.
21 May, 2020
Hume 2018/8: Sceptical Crisis and Second Thoughts
Lecture 8 in Peter Millican's 2018 Hume series.
21 May, 2020
Hume 2018/7: Scepticism about Body, Soul and Self
Lecture 7 in Peter Millican's 2018 Hume series.
21 May, 2020
Hume 2018/6: Causal Interpretation, to Scepticism
Lecture 6 in Peter Millican's 2018 Hume series.
21 May, 2020
Hume 2018/5: Probability and the Idea of Necessity
Lecture 5 in Peter Millican's 2018 Hume series.
21 May, 2020
Hume 2018/4: Induction and Belief
Lecture 4 in Peter Millican's 2018 Hume series.
21 May, 2020
Hume 2018/3: Faculties and Relations, to Causation
Lecture 3 in Peter Millican's 2018 Hume series.
21 May, 2020
Hume 2018/2: Ideas, Impressions, and Abstraction
Lecture 2 in Peter Millican's 2018 Hume series.
21 May, 2020
Hume 2018/1: Hume’s Background and Chief Aims
Lecture 1 in Peter Millican's 2018 Hume series.
21 May, 2020
3f. Values and AI: view from public policy
Jo Wolff and Vafa Ghazavi, Blavatnik School of Government, gives the sixth and final talk in the third Ethics in AI seminar, held on February 10th 2020.
10 February, 2020
Alan Morrison, Saïd Business School, gives the fifth talk in the third Ethics in AI seminar, held on February 10th 2020.
10 February, 2020
Nir Vulkan, Saïd Business School, gives the fourth talk in the third Ethics in AI seminar, held on February 10th 2020.
10 February, 2020
3c. Population health and AI: efficiency, accuracy and trust
Angeliki Kerasidou, Ethox Centre, gives the third talk in the third Ethics in AI seminar, held on February 10th 2020.
10 February, 2020
Claire Bloomfield, National Consortium of Intelligent Medical Imaging, gives the second talk in the third Ethics in AI seminar, held on February 10th 2020.
10 February, 2020
3a. Rethinking ethics and humanities for the 21st Century
Mike Parker, Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities gives the first talk in the third Ethics in AI seminar, held on February 10th 2020.
10 February, 2020
2e. Artificial Intelligence and the news
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, gives the fifth talk in the second Ethics in AI seminar, held on January 27th 2020 (postponed from December 2nd 2019).
27 January, 2020
Vidya Narayanan, Oxford Internet Institute,
27 January, 2020
2c. Use, users and the social context for AI
Gina Neff, Oxford Internet Institute, gives the third talk in the second Ethics in AI seminar, held on January 27th 2020 (postponed from December 2nd 2019).
27 January, 2020
2b. Capital, labour and power in the age of automation
Carl Benedikt Frey gives the second talk in the second Ethics in AI seminar, held on January 27th 2020 (postponed from December 2nd 2019).
27 January, 2020
Allan Dafoe and Carina Prunkl, Future of Humanity Institute, Faculty of Philosophy give the first talk in the second Ethics in AI seminar, held on January 27th 2020 (postponed from December 2nd 2019).
27 January, 2020
An introduction by Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt; The place of Ethics in AI, AI Ethics and legal regulation, Ethics of AI in healthcare
Tom Douglas, Carissa Véliz, Vicki Nash, Sandra Wachter, Brent Mittelstadt, Gil McVean, Jess Morley
20 January, 2020
1h. Ethics of AI in healthcare
Jess Morley, Oxford Internet Institute, gives the eigth talk in the first Ethics in AI seminar, held on November 11th 2019.
11 November, 2019
1g. Ethics and AI at the Oxford Big Data Institute
Gil McVean, Big Data Institute, gives the seventh talk in the first Ethics in AI seminar, held on November 11th 2019.
11 November, 2019
1f. Re-uniting ethics and the law for AI
Brent Mittelstadt, Oxford Internet Institute, gives the sixth talk in the first Ethics in AI seminar, held on November 11th 2019.
11 November, 2019
Sandra Wachter, Oxford Internet Institute, gives the fifth talk in the first Ethics in AI seminar, held on November 11th 2019.
11 November, 2019
1d. AI ethics and legal regulation
Vicki Nash, Oxford Internet Institute gives the fourth talk in the first Ethics in AI seminar, held on November 11th 2019.
11 November, 2019
1c. AI-ethics research at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy
Tom Douglas, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy gives the third talk in the first Ethics in AI seminar, held on November 11th 2019.
11 November, 2019
1b. The place of philosophy in the ethics of AI
Carissa Véliz, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, gives the second talk in the first Ethics in AI seminar, held on November 11th 2019.
11 November, 2019
1a. Background and Aims of the Institute for Ethics in AI
Nigel Shadbolt, Principal of Jesus College, Department of Computer Science, gives the first talk in the first Ethics in AI seminar, held on November 11th 2019.
11 November, 2019
Modal Epistemology and the Formal Identity of Intellect and Object
A defence of the Formal Identity Thesis and of the immateriality of the human intellect, based on specifically epistemological arguments about our knowledge of necessary or essential truths, including especially essential truths about value.
27 February, 2018
Hylomorphism, natural science, mind and God
Howard Robinson argues that the early moderns were right to think that Aristotelian or scholastic hylomorphism was inconsistent with modern science.
27 February, 2018
Dependent Powerful Qualities and Grounded Downward Causation
David Yates argues that some physically realised qualitative properties have their causal roles solely in virtue of being the qualities they are, and not in virtue of the powers bestowed by their physical realizers on a given occasion.
27 February, 2018
A Biologically Informed Hylomorphism
Utilising recent advances in developmental biology, Christopher Austin argues that the hylomorphic framework is an empirically adequate and conceptually rich explanatory schema with which to model the nature of organisms.
27 February, 2018
Hylomorphic Structure, Emergence, and Supervenience
William Jaworski argues why the hylomorphic structure is the best (and perhaps only) thing that can explain the persistence of individuals that change their matter over time.
27 February, 2018
2015 Welcome & Loebel Lecture in Neuroethics: Death and the self
This lecture investigates changing attitudes and beliefs about the persistence of the self.
23 August, 2017
2015 Loebel Lecture 1: Neurobiological materialism collides with the experience of being human
The first of three public lectures which took place in Oxford in November 2015. Series title: The theoretical challenge of modern psychiatry: no easy cure
23 August, 2017
The second of three public lectures which took place in Oxford in November 2015. Series title: The theoretical challenge of modern psychiatry: no easy cure
23 August, 2017
2015 Loebel Lecture 3: What is the upshot?
The last of three public lectures which took place in Oxford in November 2015. Series title: The theoretical challenge of modern psychiatry: no easy cure
23 August, 2017
Professor Essi Viding delivers the first of two talks in the 2016 Loebel Lectures in Psychiatry and Philosophy series
23 August, 2017
Professor Essi Viding delivers the second of two talks in the 2016 Loebel Lectures in Psychiatry and Philosophy series
23 August, 2017
2016 Loebel Lectures one day Workshop: Eamon McCrory
To complement Essi Viding's lectures, Developmental risk and resilience: The challenge of translating multi-level data to concrete interventions
23 August, 2017
2016 Loebel Lectures one day Workshop: Charlotte Cecil
To complement Essi Viding's lectures, Developmental risk and resilience: The challenge of translating multi-level data to concrete interventions
23 August, 2017
2016 Loebel Lectures one day Workshop: Neil Levy
To complement Essi Viding's lectures, Developmental risk and resilience: The challenge of translating multi-level data to concrete interventions
23 August, 2017
2016 Loebel Lectures one day Workshop: Richard Holton
To complement Essi Viding's lectures, Developmental risk and resilience: The challenge of translating multi-level data to concrete interventions
23 August, 2017
2016 Loebel Lectures one day Workshop: Matthew Parrott
To complement Essi Viding's lectures, Developmental risk and resilience: The challenge of translating multi-level data to concrete interventions
23 August, 2017
2016 Loebel Lectures one day Workshop: Nikolaus Steinbeis
To complement Essi Viding's lectures, Developmental risk and resilience: The challenge of translating multi-level data to concrete interventions
23 August, 2017
2016 Loebel Lectures one day Workshop: Peter Dayan
To complement Essi Viding's lectures, Developmental risk and resilience: The challenge of translating multi-level data to concrete interventions
23 August, 2017
The Euthydemus of Plato. To read this document, please see 'Download Media' section
15 February, 2017
Deliberation welcomes prediction
Alan Hájek (Australian National University) gives a talk for the New Insights seminar series on 21st May 2015.
24 July, 2015
Roger White (MIT) gives the final talk in the New Insights in Religious Epistemology International Conference, held in Oxford in June 2015.
14 July, 2015
Testimony, Error, and Reasonable Belief in Medieval Religious Epistemology
Richard Cross (Notre Dame) gives a talk in the New Insights in Religious Epistemology International Conference, held in Oxford in June 2015. The commentator is Christina Van Dyke, Calvin
Richard Cross, Christina Van Dyke
14 July, 2015
John Hawthorne (Oxford/USC) gives a talk in the New Insights in Religious Epistemology International Conference, held in Oxford in June 2015.
14 July, 2015
What is Justified Group Belief
Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern) gives a talk in the New Insights in Religious Epistemology International Conference, held in Oxford in June 2015.
14 July, 2015
Foundations of the Fine-Tuning Argument
Hans Halvorson (Princeton) give a talk in the New Insights in Religious Epistemology International Conference, held in Oxford in June 2015. The commentator is John Pittard (Yale).
14 July, 2015
How to Appear to Know that God Exists
Keith DeRose (Yale), gives a talk in the New Insights in Religious Epistemology International Conference, held in Oxford in June 2015. The commentator is Jane Friedman (NYU).
14 July, 2015
Paulina Sliwa (Cambridge) gives the first talk in the New Insights in Religious Epistemology International Conference, held in Oxford in June 2015.
14 July, 2015
The Rev’d Mr Bayes and the Life Everlasting
Peter van Inwagen (Notre Dame) gives the second talk for the New Insights in Religious Epistemology International Conference, held in Oxford in June 2015. The commentator is Jeffrey Sanford Russell (USC).
Peter Van Inwagen, Jeffrey Sanford Russell
14 July, 2015
Phenomenal Conservatism and Religious Belief
Richard Swinburne, University of Oxford, gives the first talk in the New Insights in Religious Epistemology International Conference, held in Oxford in June 2015.
14 July, 2015
Brian Earp discusses the ethics of sexual orientation.
Brian Earp, Nigel Warburton, David Edmonds
14 July, 2015
Skeptical Theism and the Future
First talk given by Cameron Domenico Kirk-Giannini (Rutgers) at the New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop on Formal Epistemology and Religious Epistemology, Oxford University, 8 December 2014.
Cameron Domenico Kirk-Giannini
9 February, 2015
Foundations for an Accuracy-based Approach to Imprecise Credence
Second talk given by Jason Konek (Bristol) and Billy Dunaway (Oxford) at the New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop on Formal Epistemology and Religious Epistemology, Oxford University, 8 December 2014.
9 February, 2015
Divine Indifference, or Whatever
Third talk given by Jonathan Weisberg (Toronto) at the New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop on Formal Epistemology and Religious Epistemology, Oxford University, 8 December 2014.
9 February, 2015
Against the Orthodoxy: Rethinking Epistemic Reasons and Pascal's Wager
Fourth talk given by Rima Basu (USC) at the New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop on Formal Epistemology and Religious Epistemology, Oxford University, 9 December 2014.
9 February, 2015
Fifth talk given by Liz Jackson (Nortre Dame) at the New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop on Formal Epistemology and Religious Epistemology, Oxford University, 9 December 2014.
9 February, 2015
Sixth and final talk given by Professor Roger White (MIT) at the New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop Formal Epistemology and Religious Epistemology, Oxford University, 9 December 2014.
6 February, 2015
Professor Janet Radcliffe Richards argues that homosexuality is natural, and that what is natural can be neither good nor bad.
Janet Radcliffe Richards, Nigel Warburton, David Edmonds
4 November, 2014
Should we allow genetic engineering on embryos?
Does a human embryo have moral status? Tom Douglas explores the ethical issues surrounding genetic research on developing embryos.
Tom Douglas, Nigel Warburton, David Edmonds
28 October, 2014
Is there such a thing as a just war?
Is an ethical war a paradoxical notion? If violence is almost always unacceptable, how can we justify acts of war?
Jeff McMahan, Nigel Warburton, David Edmonds
21 October, 2014
The second of the 2014 Loebel Lectures in Philosophy and Psychiatry, by Professor Kenneth S Kendler
21 October, 2014
The first of the 2014 Loebel Lectures in Philosophy and Psychiatry, by Professor Kenneth S Kendler
16 October, 2014
The rights and wrongs of abortion
Rebecca Roache discusses the conflicting rights and interests of both foetus and mother.
Rebecca Roache, Nigel Warburton, David Edmonds
14 October, 2014
Choosing the sex of your child
Is sex-selection harmful or injust? Julian Savulescu outlines four methods used in sex-selection and explores the ethical issues surrounding each.
Julian Savulescu, Nigel Warburton, David Edmonds
6 October, 2014
Free will, and its connection to moral responsibility
Professor Neil Levy explores the link between free will and responsibility. What makes us blameworthy for our actions?
Neil Levy, Nigel Warburton, David Edmonds
29 September, 2014
In this episode, Professor Roger Crisp introduces the strand of ethical theory known as 'virtue ethics'.
Roger Crisp, Nigel Warburton, David Edmonds
22 September, 2014
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Dr Dominic Wilkinson, Director of Medical Ethics at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, explores the ethical issues surrounding euthanasia and asks whether it should be made legal.
Dominic Wilkinson, Nigel Warburton, David Edmonds
22 July, 2014
Epistemic Intuitions and Defeaters for Noninferential Religious Belief
Sixth and final talk given by Professor Michael Bergmann (Purdue) at the Defeat and Religious Epistemology for the New Insights and Directions in Religious Epistemology Workshop, Oxford University on 17th March 2014
15 July, 2014
Defeaters, Proper Functioning, and the Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism
Fifth talk given by Professor Edward Wierenga (Rochester) at the Defeat and Religious Epistemology for the New Insights and Directions in Religious Epistemology Workshop Oxford University held on 17th March 2014
15 July, 2014
Fundamental Disagreements and Defeat
Fourth talk given by Professor John Pittard (Yale Divinity School) at the Defeat and Religious Epistemology for the New Insights and Directions in Religious Epistemology Workshop, Oxford University on 18th March 2014
15 July, 2014
(Undercutting) Epistemic Defeat and the 'Conciliatory' Road to Agnosticism
Second talk given by Dr. J. Adam Carter (Edinburgh) at the Defeat and Religious Epistemology from the New Insights and Directions in Religious Epistemology Workshop, Oxford University held on 17th March 2014
15 July, 2014
Defeat, Testimony, and Miracles
First talk given by Dr Charity Anderson (Oxford) at the Defeat and Religious Epistemology from the New Insights and Directions in Religious Epistemology Workshop Oxford University on 17th March 2014
15 July, 2014
Religious Belief and the Epistemology of Testimony
Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern) gives the seventh and last presentation, as part of the Testimony and Religious Epistemology workshop, held on 24th and 25th June 2014 by New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop,Oxford University.
8 July, 2014
Epistemic Trust in Oneself and Others – An Argument from Analogy
Lizzie Fricker (Oxford), gives the sixth presentation Testimony and Religious Epistemology workshop, held on 24th and 25th June 2014 by New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop, Oxford University
8 July, 2014
Limits on Religious Testimony: Lessons on Morality
Laura Callahan (Oxford) gives the fifth presentation at the Testimony and Religious Epistemology workshop, held on 24th and 25th June 2014 by New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop Oxford University.
8 July, 2014
Can Anti-Reductionism in the Epistemology of Testimony aid the case of Justified Religious Belief?
Sandford Goldberg (Northwestern) gives the fourth presentation at the Testimony and Religious Epistemology held on 24th and 25th June 2014 by New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop, Oxford University.
Sandford Goldberg, John Hawthorne
8 July, 2014
Understanding and Knowing by Testimony
Paulina Sliwa (Cambridge) gives the third presentation of the Testimony and Religious Epistemology workshop geld onb 24th and 25th June 2014 by New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop, Oxford University.
8 July, 2014
Trent Dougherty (Baylor), gives the second presentation at the Testimony and Religious Epistemology workshop, held on 24th and 25th June 2014 by New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop Oxford University.
8 July, 2014
Rachel Fraser (Oxford) gives the first presentation of the Testimony and Religious Epistemology, held on 24th and 25 June 2014 by the New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop Oxford University.
Rachel Fraser, Max Baker-Hytch
8 July, 2014
Reid on the Principles of Morals
The final part of Professor Dan Robinson's series on Reid's critique of David Hume.
14 May, 2014
Hume’s “Sentimentalist” Theory of Morals
The seventh part of Professor Dan Robinson's series on Reid's critique of David Hume.
14 May, 2014
The sixth part of Professor Dan Robinson's series on Reid's critique of David Hume.
14 May, 2014
The fifth part of Professor Dan Robinson's series on Reid's critique of David Hume.
14 May, 2014
Reid on Causation and Active Powers
The fourth part of Professor Dan Robinson's series examining Reid's critique of David Hume.
14 May, 2014
The third part of Professor Dan Robinson's series examining Reid's critique of David Hume.
14 May, 2014
Part two of Professor Dan Robinson's examination of Reid's critique of David Hume.
14 May, 2014
The “representational” theory of knowledge
Professor Dan Robinson, Oxford University, delivers the first part of his series examining Reid's Critique of Hume.
14 May, 2014
The inevitable implausibility of physical determinism
Richard G. Swinburne, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology seminar series.
12 May, 2014
Timothy O'Connor (Indiana) gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies podcast series.
7 May, 2014
John Dupré (Exeter) gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies podcast series
7 May, 2014
Powers: Necessity and Neighbourhoods
Neil Williams (Buffalo University) gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies podcast series
7 May, 2014
Causal Production as Interaction: a Causal Account of Persistence and Grounding
Rögnvaldur Ingthorsson (Lund University) gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies podcast series
7 May, 2014
Doing Away With Dispositions: Towards a Law-Based Account of Modality in Science
Stephen French (Leeds) gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies series.
18 February, 2014
Quidditism and Modal Methodology
Alastair Wilson, Birmingham, gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies series
18 February, 2014
The Fundamentality of the Familiar
Nick Jones, University of Birmingham, gives a talk in which he appeal to an examination of the explanatory role of ordinary macroscopic objects to argue that some of them are metaphysically fundamental.
18 February, 2014
Aristotle's Dynamics in Physics VII 5: the Importance of Being Conditional
Henry Mendell (California State) gives a talk for the Power Structualism in Ancient Ontologies series
18 February, 2014
Aristotle on the Happiness of the City
Don Morison (Rice) gives a talk for the Power Structualism in Ancient Ontology series.
18 February, 2014
Thomas Sattig (Tübingen) gives a talk for the Power Structualism in Ancient Ontologies series.
18 February, 2014
Inclination and the Modality of Dispositions
Mark Sinclair (Manchester Metropolitan) gives a talk for the Power Structualism in Ancient Ontologies series
18 February, 2014
Can We Make Sense of Metaphysical Knowledge?
Claudine Tiercelin (Collège de France) gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies series.
18 February, 2014
Stilpo of Megara and the Uses of Argument
Nick Denyer (Cambridge) gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies podcast series
13 February, 2014
Marcus Aurelius' Meditations: How Stoic are They?
Christopher Gill (Exeter) gives a talk on Marcus Aurelius' Meditations and asks How Stoic are They?
13 February, 2014
Moral Development and Self-Knowledge in Aristotle
Steve Makin, (Sheffield) gives a talk for the Power Structualism in Ancient Ontologies podcast series
13 February, 2014
Freedom and Responsibility Revisited
Richard Sorabji gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontolgies podcast series
13 February, 2014
Collective Agency and Knowledge of Others' Minds
Stephen Butterfill gives a talk on philosophy and collective agency and other people's minds
12 February, 2014
Mika Perala gives a talk on Aristotle's philosophy
12 February, 2014
Multimodal Perception and the Distinction Between the Senses
Louise Fiona Richardson gives a talk on philosophy and perception
12 February, 2014
Common Sense and Metaperception
Jerome Dokic gives a talk on common sense and philosophy
12 February, 2014
The Causal Power of Structure and the Role of Intellect
Howard Robinson gives a talk on philosophy and the role of the intellect
12 February, 2014
Aristotle on the Problem of Common Sensibles
Anna Marmodoro gives a talk on Aristotle and his philosophy
12 February, 2014
New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology lecture by Dan Howard-Snyder (Washington), 29th October 2013.
6 November, 2013
The Persistence of Animate Organisms
Rory Madden, Lecturer in Philosophy at University College London, gives a talk about animate organisms for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies Project.
23 August, 2013
Freedom and Responsibility Revisited
Professor Richard Sorabji, Wolfson College Oxford, gives a talk on freedom and responsibility as part of the series 'Talks on Powers, Structures and Relations in Ancient Philosophy'.
23 August, 2013
Causes, Powers and Structures in a Factored Process Ontology: Solutions and Lacunae
Peter Simons, Professor of Philosophy, Trinity College, Dublin, gives a talk as part of the series 'Metaphysics of Powers, Causation and Persons'.
23 August, 2013
There are Mechanisms, and Then There are Mechanisms
Mechanisms are at centre-stage right now in philosophy of science, especially in discussions of causal explanation and causal inference.
23 August, 2013
John Heil, Professor of Philosophy, Washington University in St Louis, gives a talk on Cartesian Transubstantiation.
23 August, 2013
Powers, Functions and Parts: the Stoics (and Others) on the Nature of the Passions
Professor Jim Hankinson, University of Texas at Austin, gives a talk for the Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies project.
23 August, 2013
Aristotelian v. Contemporary Perspectives on Relations
Jeff Brower, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University, gives a talk explaining the key differences between Aristotelian and more contemporary theories of relations.
23 August, 2013
A talk from Galen Strawson, Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas.
23 August, 2013
Freedom and Indifference in Marcus Aurelius
John Sellars, Wolfson College, Oxford, gives a talk as part of the series "Marcus Aurelius: Philosophical, Historical, and Literary Perspectives".
23 August, 2013
Michael Griffin, Assistant Professor in Philosophy at University of British Columbia, gives a talk as part of the series "Marcus Aurelius: Philosophical, Historical, and Literary Perspectives".
23 August, 2013
Religious Debate and Religious Competition in the Age of Marcus Aurelius
Mark Edwards, Christ Church College, Oxford, discusses religion in the age of Marcus Aurelius as part of the series "Marcus Aurelius: Philosophical, Historical, and Literary Perspectives".
23 August, 2013
Marcus Aurelius' Meditations - Is there a Core Project?
Professor Christopher Gill, University of Exeter, meditates on Marcus Aurelius as part of the series, "Marcus Aurelius: Philosophical, Historical, and Literary Perspectives".
23 August, 2013
Empedocles' Dynamic, Changeless World
In this talk Anna Marmodoro, Corpus Christi, Oxford, explore the view that Empedocles' world is both dynamic and changeless, and investigate the metaphysical account that Empedocles gives for such a world.
23 August, 2013
A talk given by Professor Oliver Primavesi, Ludwig-Maximilians Universitat, from the series on Empedocles' Metaphysics.
23 August, 2013
A talk about Empedoclean Superorganisms from Professor David Sedley, Christ's College, Cambridge, from the series on Empedocles' Metaphysics.
23 August, 2013
Which Things have Divine Names in Empedocles and Why?
A talk from Professor Catherine Rowett, University of East Anglia, from a series on Empedocles' Metaphysics.
23 August, 2013
Elemental Change in Empedocles
John shows how recognising that the Empedoclean roots - fire, water, earth, and air - are subject to forms of generation and destruction consistent with his rejection into nothing.
23 August, 2013
Patricia Curd takes the problem of structure to cover both of these questions: (1) How is it that the cosmos is an organized system of diverse entities? (2) Why does this system maintain regularity over long periods of time?
23 August, 2013
Standard forms of desire-based theories of well-being claim that what is better for you is what you prefer. But how shall we decide whether one life is better for you than another when your preferences change across these lives?
25 July, 2013
Well-Being for Autists: Some Conceptual and Methodological Issues
The aim of this paper is to provide some concrete guidelines for understanding and measuring the well-being of individuals affected by autism. I discuss the use of psychometric tests to understand and measure the well-being of autists.
8 July, 2013
Benefitting Friends and Idealized Theories of Well-Being
In this paper I give an overview of the kind of idealized theory I endorse and describe the conditions under which a person can appropriately discount, ignore or override a friend's own conception of what's good for him or her.
8 July, 2013
Some desires are conditional on their persistence and some are not. I aim to show that desire fulfilment theorists should reject the view that fulfilment of some of a person's past desires for the present contribute to her well-being.
8 July, 2013
I address the question of what constitutes an addition to well-being. Perhaps under specifiable conditions what someone desires is pivotal to what should be done, even if fulfilment of the desires does not add to that person's well-being.
8 July, 2013
The Certain Intrinsic Desirability of Pleasure
I argue that intrinsically desiring to feel pleasure makes it certain that pleasure is intrinsically desirable for you, which it could not do if there is a non-natural, irreducible reason to desire pleasure for its own sake.
8 July, 2013
The standard utilitarian view of happiness seems to be 'pleasure and the absence of pain'. But is the happiest life one in which there are no suffering at all? Or does one's life as a whole go better if there are some sufferings in it?
8 July, 2013
Economists have tended to assess choices by their contribution to a single good, often pleasure or preference-satisfaction. I discuss how some values can be relevant to social and political choices, ie education, the free market, etc.
8 July, 2013
Religious Epistemology and the Safety Condition for Knowledge, New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop, 12th-13th June 2013. Day one 1st paper by Julien Dutant. Comments from Yoaav Isaacs and chaired by Charity Anderson.
Julien Dutant, Yoaav Isaacs, Charity Anderson
20 June, 2013
Religious Epistemology and the Safety Condition for Knowledge, New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop, 12th-13th June 2013. Day one 2nd paper by Amia Srinivasan. Comments from Clayton Littlejohn and chaired by Matthew Benton.
Amia Srinivasan, Clayton Littlejohn, Matthew Benton
20 June, 2013
Religious Epistemology and the Safety Condition for Knowledge, New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop, 12th-13th June 2013. Day one 3rd paper by Duncan Pritchard. Chaired by Declan Smithies.
Duncan Pritchard, Declan Smithies
20 June, 2013
When does Data Count as Evidence? Reflections on CORNEA, Safety and Sensitivity
Religious Epistemology and the Safety Condition for Knowledge, New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop, 12th-13th June 2013. Day two 1st paper by Patrick Bondy. Comments from Sara Kier Praëm and chaired by Emil Moeller.
Patrick Bondy, Sara Kier Praëm, Emil Moeller
20 June, 2013
Religious Epistemology and the Safety Condition for Knowledge, New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop, 12th-13th June 2013. Day two 2nd paper by Dani Rabinowitz. Comments Rachel Fraser, chaired by Daniel Berntson.
Dani Rabinowitz, Rachel Fraser, Daniel Berntson
20 June, 2013
Safety, Simplicity and Abduction.
Religious Epistemology and the Safety Condition for Knowledge, New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop held in Oxford University on 12th-13th June 2013. Day two 3rd paper by Tim Williamson. Chaired by Jeffrey Russell.
Tim Williamson, Jeffrey Russell
20 June, 2013
On Two Ultimately Unsuccessful Objections to Pragmatic Encroachment
Religious Epistemology, Contextualism, and Pragmatic Encroachment, New Insights and Directions in Religious Epistemology Workshop held in Oxford University on 13th-14th March 2013. The commentator is Jane Friedman.
9 April, 2013
Wagering on Pragmatic Encroachment
Part of the Religious Epistemology, Contextualism, and Pragmatic Encroachment, New Insights and Directions in Religious Epistemology Workshop held in Oxford University on 13th-14th March 2013. The commentator is Jeffrey Russell.
9 April, 2013
A Contextualist Look at Skeptical Theism
Religious Epistemology, Contextualism, and Pragmatic Encroachment, New Insights and Directions in Religious Epistemology Workshop held in Oxford University on 13th-14th March 2013. The commentator is Amia Srinivasan.
9 April, 2013
Knowledge, Practical Adequacy, and Stakes
Part of the Religious Epistemology, Contextualism, and Pragmatic Encroachment, New Insights and Directions in Religious Epistemology Workshop held in Oxford University on 13th-14th March 2013. The commentator is Sandy Goldberg.
Charity Anderson, John Hawthorne
9 April, 2013
Pragmatic Encroachment and the Nature of Faith
Part of the Religious Epistemology, Contextualism, and Pragmatic Encroachment, New Insights and Directions in Religious Epistemology Workshop held at Oxford University on 13th-14th March 2013. The commentator is Julien Dutant.
9 April, 2013
Pragmatic Encroachment and Religious Knowledge
Part of the Religious Epistemology, Contextualism, and Pragmatic Encroachment, New Insights and Directions in Religious Epistemology Workshop held at Oxford University on 13th-14th March 2013. The Commentator is Tim Pickavance.
9 April, 2013
The Metaphysics of Rovelli's Relational Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Mauro Dorato (University of Rome) gives a talk for the Metaphysics of Relations Conference, held on 3rd-5th October 2012 in University of London.
12 December, 2012
John Heil (Washington University in St. Louis) gives a talk for the Metaphysics of Relations Conference, held on 3rd-5th October 2012 in University of London.
12 December, 2012
External Relations, Causal Coincidence and Contingency
Peter Simons (Trinity College Dublin) gives a talk for the Metaphysics of Relations Conference, held on 3rd-5th October 2012 in University of London.
12 December, 2012
Stephen Mumford (Nottingham University) gives a talk for the Metaphysics of Relations Conference, held on 3rd-5th October 2012 in University of London. Co-written by Sebastian Briceno.
12 December, 2012
Maureen Donnelly (SUNY at Buffalo) gives a talk for the Metaphysics of Relations Conference, held on 3rd-5th October 2012 in University of London.
12 December, 2012
There Are (Probably) No Relations
Jonathan Lowe (University of Durham) gives a talk for the Metaphysics of Relations Conference, held on 3rd-5th October 2012 in University of London.
12 December, 2012
Galen and the Ontology of Powers
Jim Hankinson (University of Texas at Austin) gives a talk for the Causing Health and Disease: Medical Powers in Classical and Late Antiquit conference, held at Corpus Christi College on 21st-22 September 2012.
12 December, 2012
Immanent Intelligence and the Natural Faculties in Galen
Brooke Holmes (Princeton University) gives a talk for the Causing Health and Disease: Medical Powers in Classical and Late Antiquit conference, held at Corpus Christi College on 21st-22 September 2012.
12 December, 2012
On Weakness/Strength and Sickness/Health in Ancient Daoist Philosophy
Hans-Georg Moeller (University College Cork), gives a talk for the Causing Health and Disease: Medical Powers in Classical and Late Antiquit conference, held at Corpus Christi College on 21st-22 September 2012.
12 December, 2012
Causing Health and Disease: Medical Powers in Classical and Late Antiquity
Philip van der Ejik gives a talk for the Causing Health and Disease: Medical Powers in Classical and Late Antiquit conference, held at Corpus Christi College on 21st-22 September 2012.
12 December, 2012
A Determinable-based Account of Metaphysical Indeterminacy
Jessica Wilson (University of Toronto) gives a talk for the Metaphysics of Relations Conference, held at Senate House, University of London on 3rd-5th October 2012.
12 December, 2012
8. Conclusion; Scepticism in the Treatise and the Enquiry
Eighth and final lecture in Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Central Principles.
14 August, 2012
7. Scepticism with Regard to Reason, the Soul and the Self
Seventh lecture in Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Central Principles.
14 August, 2012
Sixth lecture in Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Central Principles.
14 August, 2012
Fifth lecture in Peter Millican's series on Hume's Central Principles.
14 August, 2012
Fourth lecture in Peter Millican's series on Hume's Central Principles.
14 August, 2012
3: Hume's Logic: Relations, and Forms of Argument
Third lecture in Peter Millican's series on Hume's Central Principles.
14 August, 2012
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2. Overview, Theory of Ideas, and Faculty Psychology
Second lecture in Peter Millican's series on Hume's Central Principles.
14 August, 2012
1. Historical Background, and His 'Chief Argument'
First lecture on David Hume's Central Principles; focusing on the historical background and Hume's Chief Argument.
14 August, 2012
5. Of the Sceptical and Other Systems of Philosophy
Accompanying slides for Lectures 5a to 5c of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature Book One.
1 August, 2012
4. Of Knowledge and Probability
Accompanying slides for Lectures 4a to 4f of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature Book One.
1 August, 2012
3. Abstract Ideas, Space and Time
Accompanying slides for Lectures 3a to 3c of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature Book One.
1 August, 2012
1. Introduction, Hume's Theory of Ideas and the Faculties
Accompanying Slides for Lectures 1a to 1c of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One.
1 August, 2012
5c. Of the Ancient and Modern Philosophies
Third and Final part of Lecture 5 of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. Of the Skeptical and Other Systems of Philosophy.
1 August, 2012
5b. Of Skepticism with Regard to the Senses
Second part of Lecture 5 of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. Of the Skeptical and Other Systems of Philosophy.
1 August, 2012
5a. Of Skepticism with Regard to Reason
First part of Lecture 5 of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. Of the Skeptical and Other Systems of Philosophy.
1 August, 2012
4f. The Point of Hume's Analysis of Causation
Sixth part of Lecture 4 of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. Of Knowledge and Probability.
1 August, 2012
4e. Understanding Hume on Causation
Fifth part of Lecture 4 of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. Of Knowledge and Probability.
1 August, 2012
4d. Of the Necessary Connection
Fourth part of Lecture 4 of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. Of Knowledge and Probability.
1 August, 2012
Third part of Lecture 4 of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. Of Knowledge and Probability.
1 August, 2012
4b. The Argument Concerning Induction
Second part of Lecture 4 of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. Of Knowledge and Probability.
1 August, 2012
4a. Relations, and a Detour to the Causal Maxim
First part of Lecture 4 of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. Of Knowledge and Probability.
1 August, 2012
Second part of Lecture 3 of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. Abstract Ideas, Space and Time.
1 August, 2012
3a. Hume's Theory of General (or Abstract) Ideas
First part of Lecture 3 of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. Abstract Ideas, Space and Time.
1 August, 2012
Lecture 2 of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One.
1 August, 2012
Third part of lecture one of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One.
1 August, 2012
Second part of lecture one of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One.
1 August, 2012
1a. Hume's Theory of Ideas and the Faculties
First part of lecture one of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One.
1 August, 2012
Eighth and final lecture in the Philosophy of Religion lecture series.
2 May, 2012
7. Arguments against the Existence of God - The Problem of Evil
Seventh lecture in the Philosophy of Religion lecture series.
2 May, 2012
6. Arguments for the Existence of God - Religious Experience and Miracles
Sixth lecture in the Philosophy of Religion lecture series.
2 May, 2012
5. Arguments for the Existence of God -The Design Argument
Fifth lecture in the Philosophy of Religion lecture series.
2 May, 2012
4. Arguments for the Existence of God - The Ontological and Cosmological Arguments
Fourth lecture in the Philosophy of Religion lecture series.
2 May, 2012
3. The Accidental Properties of God
Third lecture in the Philosophy of Religion lecture series.
2 May, 2012
2. The Essential Properties of God (continued)
Second lecture in the Philosophy of Religion lecture series.
2 May, 2012
1. The Essential Properties of God
First lecture in the Philosophy of Religion Lecture series.
2 May, 2012
Overview of the Philosophy of Religion Lecture Series (Handout)
Introductory document for the Philosophy of Religion lecture series.
2 May, 2012
A Platonic Theory of Truthmaking
Berman (St Louis Univ.) lays out and defends a platonic explanation of non-modal and modal truths using Forms as their truthmakers. He argues that this platonic theory is parsimonious, naturalistic, and ontologically serious.
6 March, 2012
Objective and Subjective Powers and Dispositions
Kistler (Sorbonne) introduces a distinction between powers and dispositions: A 'multi-track disposition' manifests itself in different ways Mi in different triggering circumstances Ti.
6 March, 2012
Bird (Bristol) warns against overextending the case for a powers ontology, arguing that it cannot answer typical questions outside fundamental metaphysics, for example concerning the analysis of causal statements.
15 February, 2012
Mutual Manifestations and Martin's Two Triangles
Mumford (Nottingham) argues that although superior to a stimulus-response model, Martin's mutual manifestation model must be amended to resemble less mereological composition and more causation.
15 February, 2012
Identity, Individuality and Discernibility
Ladyman (Bristol) explains the recent debates about the Principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles and results about weak discernibility. He considers their implications for structuralism and the light they shed on ontological dependence.
15 February, 2012
Relational vs. Constituent Ontologies
Van Inwagen (Notre Dame) argues that relational ontologies (denying properties can be constituents of particulars) are preferable to constituent ontologies (holding properties are constituents of the particulars that have them).
15 February, 2012
Jacobs (St. Louis Univ.) explores the view that between a substance and its power, on one hand, and the result of the substance manifesting its power, there is no relation at all. Thus, causal, relational truths have non-relational ontological grounds.
15 February, 2012
Neuroscience Can Tell Us About Morality
What can science tell us about morality? Many philosophers would say, 'nothing at all'. Facts don't imply values, they say. you need further argument to move from facts about us and about the world to conclusions about what we ought to do.
3 February, 2012
Brain Chemistry and Moral Decision-Making
Answers to moral questions, it seems, depend on how much serotonin there is flowing through your brain. In the future might we be able to alter people's moral behaviour with concoctions of chemicals?
4 January, 2012
If someone caught me shoplifting, and I was later diagnosed with kleptomania, should I be held responsible? Should I be blamed?
1 December, 2011
Everyday people die in hospitals because there aren't enough organs available for transplant. In most countries of the world - though not all - it is illegal to sell organs.
1 November, 2011
Demand for health care is infinite, but money is finite. So how should we distribute resources? Whom should we help, and why?
3 October, 2011
Radically new techniques are opening up exciting possibilities for those working in health care - for psychiatrists, doctors, surgeons; the option to clone human beings, to give just one example.
1 September, 2011
James Grant, Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Oxford, discusses arguments that claim citizens of rich countries are responsible for harming poor people in other countries.
8 August, 2011
3. Arguments from Distributive Justice
James Grant, Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Oxford, discusses the debate over whether distributive justice requires that well-off people do something about poverty in other countries.
8 August, 2011
2. Arguments from Beneficence, Part 2
James Grant, Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Oxford, discusses objections to the belief that well-off people have extremely demanding obligations to poor people in other countries.
8 August, 2011
1. Arguments from Beneficence, Part 1
James Grant, Lecturer in Philosophy at Oxford University, introduces some of the key concepts in philosophical debates about global poverty.
8 August, 2011
Suppose a genetic engineering breakthrough made it simple, safe and cheap to increase people's intelligence.
1 August, 2011
James Grant, Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Oxford, discusses the use of metaphor to describe music and other artworks.
4 July, 2011
James Grant, Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Oxford, discusses the question of how we succeed in communicating to others with metaphor. He also examines the question of whether all metaphors can be paraphrased.
4 July, 2011
James Grant, Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Oxford, discusses different theories about what gives metaphors the special meaning or content they have.
4 July, 2011
James Grant, Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Oxford, introduces some of the key concepts in discussions of metaphor in the philosophy of language.
4 July, 2011
If a patient decides she doesn't want to live any longer, should she be allowed to die? Should she be allowed to kill herself?
4 July, 2011
Euthydemus part 12 - 304b 6 - end
Track 12 - 304b 6 - end - Hempel comments to Pratt.
21 June, 2011
A stone on the beach, we assume, has no moral status. We can kick or hammer the stone, and we have done the stone no harm. Typical adult human beings do have moral status. We shouldn't, without a very good reason, kick a man or woman.
31 May, 2011
The term 'designer baby' is usually used in a pejorative sense - to conjure up some dystopian Brave New World. There are already ways to affect what kind of children you have - most obviously by choosing the partner to have them with.
31 May, 2011
Euthydemus part 11 - 300e 1 - 304b 5
Track 11 - 300e 1 - 304b 5 - Hempel is enmeshed.
24 May, 2011
Euthydemus part 10 - 296e 4 - 300d 9
Track 10 - 296e 4 - 300d 9 - The same: Identity and predication.
24 May, 2011
Euthydemus part 9 - 293b 1- 296e 3
Track 9 - 293b 1- 296e 3 - Hempel, the sophists, Clemons: Being competent (epistemon; have ability=epistasthai).
24 May, 2011
Euthydemus part 8 - 290e 1-293a 9
Track 8 - 290e1-293a9 - Hempel reports to Pratt, and then the encounter resumes.
24 May, 2011
Euthydemus part 7 - 288b 3 - 290d 8
Track 7 288b 3 - 290d 8 - Hempel resumes with Valerie: Which mastery (episteme) is best?
24 May, 2011
Euthydemus part 6 - 285a 2-288b 2
Track 6 - 285a2-288 b2 - More with Clemons: Falsehood is impossible.
24 May, 2011
Euthydemus part 5 - 282d 4 - 285a 1
Track 5 - 282d 4 - 285a 1 - the sophists tackle Hempel; Clemons is nettled.
24 May, 2011
Euthydemus part 4 - 278e2-282d3
Track 4 - 278e2-282d3 - Hempel questions Valerie: Intelligence (sophia) alone is really good.
24 May, 2011
Euthydemus part 3 - 275b 5 - 278e 1
Track 3 - 275b 5 - 278e 1 The sophists set to work on Valerie: Is learning possible?
24 May, 2011
Euthydemus part 2 - 272d 7 - 275b 4
Track 2 272d 7 - 275b 4 - Hempel inquires into the sophists' profession.
24 May, 2011
Euthydemus part 1 - 271a 1 - 272d. 6
Track 1 -271a 1 - 272d. 6 - Pratt asks Hempel about the sophists.
24 May, 2011
Introductory document on the Euthydemus dialogue series.
24 May, 2011
James King, Lead Designer, Science Practice Ltd. gives a talk on Synthetic Biology - a new approach to genetics which applies engineering principles to biology in the hope of creating medicines, fuels, foods and other useful products.
24 May, 2011
The discipline of reason: The paralogisms and Antinomies of Pure Reason.
Lecture 8/8. Reason, properly disciplined, draws permissible inferences from the resulting concepts of the understanding. The outcome is knowledge.
16 March, 2011
The "Self" and the Synthetic Unity of Apperception
Lecture 7/8. Kant argues that: "The synthetic unity of consciousness is... an objective condition of all knowledge.
16 March, 2011
Concepts, judgement and the Transcendental Deduction of the Categories
Lecture 6/8. Empiricists have no explanation for how we move from "mere forms of thought" to objective concepts. The conditions necessary for the knowledge of an object require a priori categories as the enabling conditions of all human understanding.
16 March, 2011
Idealisms and their refutations
Lecture 5/8. The very possibility of self-awareness (an "inner sense" with content) requires an awareness of an external world by way of "outer sense". Only through awareness of stable elements in the external world is self-consciousness possible.
16 March, 2011
How are a priori synthetic judgements possible?
Lecture 4/8. Kant claims that, "our sense representation is not a representation of things in themselves, but of the way in which they appear to us.
16 March, 2011
Space, time and the "Analogies of Experiences"
Lecture 3/8. Kant's so-called "Copernican" revolution in metaphysics begins with the recognition of the observer's contribution to the observation.
16 March, 2011
The broader philosophical context
Lecture 2/8. The significant advances in physics in the 17th century stood in vivid contrast to the stagnation of traditional metaphysics, but why should metaphysics be conceived as a "science" in the first place?
16 March, 2011
Just what is Kant's "project"?
Lecture 1/8. Both sense and reason are limited. Kant must identify the proper mission and domain of each, as well as the manner in which their separate functions come to be integrated in what is finally the inter-subjectively settled knowledge of science.
16 March, 2011
James Grant, lecturer in philosophy, University of Oxford gives his eight and final lecture in the Aesthetics series on Defining Art.
15 March, 2011
James Grant, lecturer in philosophy, University of Oxford gives his seventh lecture in the Aesthetics series on the expression of emotion in music.
15 March, 2011
James Grant, lecturer in philosophy, University of Oxford gives his sixth lecture in the Aesthetics series on the interpretation of literature.
15 March, 2011
5. Kant's Critique of Judgement: Lecture 2
James Grant, lecturer in philosophy, University of Oxford concludes his discussion of Kant's Critique of Judgement in the fifth lecture of the Aesthetics series.
15 March, 2011
4. Kant's Critique of Judgement: Lecture 1
James Grant, lecturer in philosophy, University of Oxford gives his fourth lecture in the Aesthetics series on Kant's Critique of Judgement.
15 March, 2011
3. Hume and the Standard of Taste
James Grant, lecturer in philosophy, University of Oxford gives his third lecture in the Aesthetics series on Hume and the Standard of Taste.
15 March, 2011
James Grant, lecturer in philosophy, University of Oxford gives his second lecture in the Aesthetics series on Aristotle's Poetics.
15 March, 2011
James Grant, lecturer in philosop-hy, University of Oxford gives his first lecture in the Aesthetics series on Plato's philosophy of Art.
15 March, 2011
8.4 Persons, Humans and Brains
Part 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.
1 December, 2010
PDF slides from Peter Millican's General Philosophy lecture 8.
1 December, 2010
8.3 Problems for Locke's View of Personal Identity
Part 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.
1 December, 2010
8.2 John Locke on Personal Identity
Part 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.
1 December, 2010
8.1 Introduction to Personal Identity
Part 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.
1 December, 2010
PDF slides from Peter Millican's General Philosophy lecture 7.
1 December, 2010
7.4 Making Sense of Free Will and Moral Responsibility
Part 7.4. A brief explanation of Hume's argument for sentimentalism and Robert Kane's views on free will and determinism.
1 December, 2010
7.3 Hume on Liberty and Necessity
Part 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.
1 December, 2010
7.2 Different Concepts of Freedom
Part 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.
1 December, 2010
7.1 Free Will, Determinism and Choice
Part 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.
1 December, 2010
6.4 Making Sense of Perception
Part 6.4. A brief overview of contemporary accounts of perception; including phenomenalism (that objects are logical constructions from sense data) and direct realism (that we perceive objects and the external world directly).
30 November, 2010
PDF slides from Peter Millican's General Philosophy lecture 6.
30 November, 2010
Part 6.3. Criticisms of the resemblance theory of perception and an introduction to idealism - that perceptions of the external world are all within the mind as ideas.
30 November, 2010
Part 6.2. Explores Berkeley's and Locke's arguments concerning the resemblance of qualities and objects; that the perceived qualities of objects exist only in the mind or whether secondary qualities are intrinsically part of the object.
30 November, 2010
6.1 Introduction to Primary and Secondary Qualities
Part 6.1. Introduces the problem of perception (and the distinction between the world and what we perceive), along with the concepts of primary and secondary qualities.
30 November, 2010
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PDF slides from Peter Millican's General Philosophy lecture 5.
29 November, 2010
5.4 Scepticism, Externalism and the Ethics of Belief
Part 5.4. Looks at the role the concept of knowledge plays in life, the different levels of knowledge we require in certain contexts and the return of scepticism over knowledge.
29 November, 2010
5.3 Gettier and Other Complications
Part 5.3. The difference between internalist and externalist accounts of knowledge; whether we need external factors to justify knowledge or whether internal accounts are sufficient, and the Gettier cases.
29 November, 2010
5.2 The Traditional Analysis of Knowledge
Part 5.2. Explores the idea of conscious and unconscious knowledge (should a person know that they know something or does it not matter?) and the theory of justification of propositions and beliefs.
29 November, 2010
Part 5.1. Looks at the problem of knowledge; how can we know what we know, three types of knowledge and A J Ayer's two conditions for knowledge.
29 November, 2010
Professor Ben Kaplan (University College London) gives a talk for the 2010 Science and Religious Conflict Conference. Dr Mark Sheehan (Oxford) is the discussant.
22 June, 2010
Religious Toleration and Political Liberalism
Professor Susan Mendus (York) gives a talk for the Science and Religious Conflict Conference 2010. Dr Nick Southwood (Oxford) is the commentator.
14 June, 2010
Professor Richard Dawkins gives a few concluding thoughts on the Science and Religious Conflict Conference.
8 June, 2010
Social psychological aspects of religion and prejudice
Professor Miles Hewstone (Oxford) gives a talk entitled Social psychological aspects of religion and prejudice: evidence from experimental and survey research. The commentator is Professor Ingmar Persson (Gothenburg University).
Miles Hewstone, Ingmar Persson
7 June, 2010
The relation between the neurobiology of morality and religion
Professor Patricia Churchland (University of California San Diego) gives a talk for the Science and Religious Conflict Conference.The commentator is Professor Julian Savulescu (Oxford).
Patricia Churchland, Julian Savulescu
7 June, 2010
The view from the East pole: Buddhist and Confucian soteriologies and tolerance
Professor Owen Flanagan (Duke University) gives a talk for the Science and Religious Conflict Conference. The commentator is Dr Guy Kahane (Oxford).
7 June, 2010
Personal religion, tolerance, and universal compassion
Professor Dan Batson (University of Kansas) gives a talk for the Science and Religious Conflict Conference. The commentator is Dr Steve Clarke (Oxford).
7 June, 2010
Religious disagreement and religious accommodation
Professor Tony Coady (University of Melbourne) gives a talk for the Science and Religious Conflict Conference. The commentator is Reverend Dr Liz Carmichael (University of Oxford).
7 June, 2010
Professor Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Duke University) gives a talk for the Science and Religious Conflict Conference. The discussant is Dr Nick Shackel (Cardiff).
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Nick Shackel
7 June, 2010
Religious Toleration, Religious Freedom and Human Nature
Professor Roger Trigg (Oxford) gives a talk for the Science and Religious Conflict Conference. The commentator is Dr John Perry (Oxford).
7 June, 2010
Religion, Cohesion and Hostility
Professor Harvey Whitehouse (Oxford) gives a talk for the Science and Religious Conflict Conference. The commentator is Professor Michael Wong (Monash University).
Harvey Whitehouse, Michael Wong
7 June, 2010
Religion as Parochial Altruism
Professor Ara Norenzayan (University of British Columbia) gives a talk for the Science and Religious Conflict Conference. The commentator is Professor John Wilkins (Bond University).
7 June, 2010
Is Religion an Adaptation for Inter-Group Conflict?
Dominic Johnson (Edinburgh) gives a talk for the Science and Religious Conflict Conference. The commentator is Dr Russell Powell (Oxford).
Dominic Johnson, Russell Powell
7 June, 2010
Is Religion Adaptive? Integrating Cognition and Function
Professor Robin Dunbar (Oxford) gives the first presentation for the Science and Religious Conflict Conference. The commentator is Professor Janet Radcliffe-Richards (Oxford).
Robin Dunbar, Janet Radcliffe-Richards
7 June, 2010
Some Fundamental Facts about the Infinite
Professor Adrian Moore delivers a lecture on the concept of the infinite, a concept with deep philosophical implications. This lecture was given in St Hugh's College as part of the St Hugh's Special Lecture Series.
14 May, 2010
Ethics, Hospitality and Radical Atheism: A Dialogue
Dialogue between Martin Hägglund and Derek Attridge in Wadham College discussing Philosopher Jacques Derrida's ideas on hospitality and the challenge of Radical Atheism.
Martin Hägglund, Derek Attridge
16 April, 2010
PDF slides from Peter Millican's General Philosophy lecture 4.
8 April, 2010
Part 4.4. Looks at some of the modern responses to Cartesian Dualism including Gilbert Ryle's and G. Strawson's responses to the idea.
8 April, 2010
Part 4.3. Introduces Descartes' idea of dualism, that there is a separation between the mind and the body, as well as some of the philosophical issues surrounding this idea.
8 April, 2010
4.2 Possible Answers to External World Scepticism
Part 4.2. Investigates some of the possible solutions to Descartes' sceptical problem of the external world, looking at G.E Moore's response, among others, to the problem.
8 April, 2010
4.1 Scepticism about the External World
Part 4.1. Introduces the problem of how do we have knowledge of the world, how do we know what we perceive is in fact what is there?
8 April, 2010
3.2 Responses to Hume's Famous Argument
Part 3.2. Responses to and justifications of Hume's argument concerning the problem of induction.
8 April, 2010
PDF slides from Peter Millican's General Philosophy lecture 3.
8 April, 2010
3.1 Hume's Argument Concerning Induction
Part 3.1. Briefly introduces the problem of induction: that is, the problem that it is difficult to justify claims to knowledge of the world through pure reason, i.e. without experience.
8 April, 2010
PDF slides from Peter Millican's General Philosophy lecture 2.
8 April, 2010
2.7 Overview: Kant and Modern Science
Part 2.7. Concludes a historical survey of philosophy with Immanuel Kant, who thought Hume was wrong in his idea of human nature and how we gain knowledge of the world.
8 April, 2010
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.
16 March, 2010
2.5 Nicolas Malebranche and George Berkeley
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.
16 March, 2010
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).
16 March, 2010
2.3 Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton
Part 2.3. An introduction to Robert Boyle's theory of corpuscularianism and Isaac Newton's ideas on mathematics and the universe.
16 March, 2010
2.2 Thomas Hobbes: The Monster of Malmesbury
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'.
16 March, 2010
2.1 Recap of General Philosophy Lecture 1
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.
16 March, 2010
Part 1.4. Outlines Galileo's revolutionary theories of astronomy and mechanical science and introduces Descartes' (the father of modern philosophy) ideas of philosophical scepticism.
19 February, 2010
PDF slides from Peter Millican's General Philosophy lecture 1.
19 February, 2010
1.3 Science from Aristotle to Galileo
Part 1.3. Describes briefly the Aristotelian view of the universe; the basis for natural science in Europe until the 15th century and its conflict Galileo's theories.
19 February, 2010
1.2 The Background of Early Modern Philosophy
Part 1.2. Gives a very brief history of philosophy from the 'birth of philosophy' in Ancient Greece through the rise of Christianity in Europe in the Middle Ages through to the Renaissance, the Reformation and the birth of the Modern Period.
19 February, 2010
1.1 An Introduction to General Philosophy
Part 1.1. Outlines the General Philosophy course, the various topics that will be discussed, and also, more importantly, the philosophical method that this course introduces to students.
19 February, 2010
Nietzsche Source. Scholarly Nietzsche editions on the web
Introduction to the scholarly editions of Nietzsche Source: the digital critical edition based on Colli/Montinary, the digital edition of the Nietzsche estate including works, manuscripts and letters and the future genetic edition of Nietzsche's works.
23 December, 2009
Nietzsche's Value Monism - Saying Yes to Everything
Lecture on Nietzsche's attack on Value Dualism, as well as the view he offers instead and whether Nietzsche can sustain his Value Monism-the view that everything is good-given the pressures that pull him back into saying no as well as yes.
23 December, 2009
Nietzsche rejects a persisting self; real distinctions of objects and properties, categorical and dispositional properties, causes and effects; free will. He holds that determinism is true, reality is one and fundamentally experiential.
22 December, 2009
Consciousness, Language and Nature: Nietzsche's Philosophy of Mind and Nature
On the triangulation between consciousness, language and nature in Nietzsche's philosophy and contemporary philosophy of mind and proposes a philosophy of signs and interpretation as a basis for a philosophy of mind, language and nature.
22 December, 2009
Who is the 'Sovereign Individual?' Nietzsche on Freedom
Nietzsche's Sovereign Individual (SI) argues that 1. Nietzsche denies free will and moral responsibility. 2. SI in no way supports a denial of 1. 3. Nietzsche engages in a 'persuasive definition' of the language of Freedom and Free Will.
22 December, 2009
This keynote speech examines if, according to Nietzsche, experience of nature is inevitably conditioned by some archetypal phantasm or cultural construction process or if unmediated apprehension of nature is possible.
22 December, 2009
Nietzsche's objective is not to challenge the Christian non-naturalistic account of guilt but to show that Christian representation of guilt is a product of the exploitation of human susceptibility to guilt as instrument of self-directed cruelty.
22 December, 2009
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