Philosophy for Beginners
7 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 12 years ago - ★★★★ - 302 ratingsPhilosophy 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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Reading List (Slides)
April 16, 2012 12:33 - 80 KB application/pdfReading list for the Philosophy for Beginners series of podcasts.
Philosophy of language and mind
January 09, 2009 14:36 - 1 hour - 80.7 MBLanguage and Mind: What is rationality? What is consciousness? How do we manage to express our thoughts and experiences in language?
Metaphysics and Epistemology
January 09, 2009 12:14 - 1 hour - 82.6 MBMetaphysics and Epistemology: what exists, what is its nature and how can we acquire knowledge of it?
Ethics and politics
January 09, 2009 12:11 - 1 hour - 83.3 MBMoral and Political Philosophy: how should we live? What constitutes a just state?
The philosophical method - logic and argument
January 09, 2009 12:04 - 1 hour - 86.5 MBLogic and Argument: the joys of symbolic and philosophical logic.
A romp through the history of philosophy from the Pre-Socratics to the present day.
November 13, 2008 15:10 - 1 hour - 84.3 MBA romp through the history of philosophy from the Pre-Socratics to the present day.