Philosophy for Beginners
Oxford University
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.
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Previous episodes
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10 - A romp through the history of philosophy from the Pre-Socratics to the present day. Thu, 13 Nov 2008
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9 - The philosophical method - logic and argument Fri, 09 Jan 2009
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8 - Ethics and politics Fri, 09 Jan 2009
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7 - Metaphysics and Epistemology Fri, 09 Jan 2009
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6 - Philosophy of language and mind Fri, 09 Jan 2009
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