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  • 8.4 Persons, Humans and Brains

    December 1, 2010 · 11 min

    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.

  • 8.3 Problems for Locke's View of Personal Identity

    December 1, 2010 · 10 min

    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.

  • 8.2 John Locke on Personal Identity

    December 1, 2010 · 15 min

    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.

  • 8.1 Introduction to Personal Identity

    December 1, 2010 · 9 min

    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.

  • 7.4 Making Sense of Free Will and Moral Responsibility

    December 1, 2010 · 10 min

    Part 7.4. A brief explanation of Hume's argument for sentimentalism and Robert Kane's views on free will and determinism.

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  • 7.3 Hume on Liberty and Necessity

    December 1, 2010 · 10 min

    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.

  • 7.2 Different Concepts of Freedom

    December 1, 2010 · 14 min

    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.

  • 7.1 Free Will, Determinism and Choice

    December 1, 2010 · 19 min

    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…

  • 6.4 Making Sense of Perception

    November 30, 2010 · 17 min

    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).

  • 6.3 Abstraction and Idealism

    November 30, 2010 · 10 min

    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.

  • 6.2 Problems with Resemblance

    November 30, 2010 · 11 min

    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.

  • 6.1 Introduction to Primary and Secondary Qualities

    November 30, 2010 · 15 min

    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.

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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.