Podcasts by Philosophy for Beginners
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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Further reading and more... (Slides) from 2012-04-16T13:38:41
So you've finished this series of podcasts. Find out where to go from here...
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Reading List (Slides) from 2012-04-16T13:33:40
Reading list for the Philosophy for Beginners series of podcasts.
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Philosophy of language and mind from 2009-01-09T14:36:49
Language and Mind: What is rationality? What is consciousness? How do we manage to express our thoughts and experiences in language?
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Metaphysics and Epistemology from 2009-01-09T12:14:35
Metaphysics and Epistemology: what exists, what is its nature and how can we acquire knowledge of it?
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Ethics and politics from 2009-01-09T12:11:41
Moral and Political Philosophy: how should we live? What constitutes a just state?
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The philosophical method - logic and argument from 2009-01-09T12:04:15
Logic and Argument: the joys of symbolic and philosophical logic.
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A romp through the history of philosophy from the Pre-Socratics to the present day. from 2008-11-13T15:10:43
A romp through the history of philosophy from the Pre-Socratics to the present day.
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