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.
| Title | Date published | ||
| 1.1 An Introduction to General Philosophy | 2010-02-19 | ||
| 1.2 The Background of Early Modern Philosophy | 2010-02-19 | ||
| 1.3 Science from Aristotle to Galileo | 2010-02-19 | ||
| 1.4 From Galileo to Descartes | 2010-02-19 | ||
| 2.1 Recap of General Philosophy Lecture 1 | 2010-03-16 | ||
| 2.2 Thomas Hobbes: The Monster of Malmesbury | 2010-03-16 | ||
| 2.3 Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton | 2010-03-16 | ||
| 2.4 John Locke | 2010-03-16 | ||
| 2.5 Nicolas Malebranche and George Berkeley | 2010-03-16 | ||
| 2.6 David Hume | 2010-03-16 | ||
| 2.7 Overview: Kant and Modern Science | 2010-04-08 | ||
| 3.1 Hume's Argument Concerning Induction | 2010-04-08 | ||
| 3.2 Responses to Hume's Famous Argument | 2010-04-08 | ||
| 4.1 Scepticism about the External World | 2010-04-08 | ||
| 4.2 Possible Answers to External World Scepticism | 2010-04-08 | ||
| 4.3 Cartesian Dualism | 2010-04-08 | ||
| 4.4 The Mind-Body Problem | 2010-04-08 | ||
| 5.1 Introduction to Knowledge | 2010-11-29 | ||
| 5.2 The Traditional Analysis of Knowledge | 2010-11-29 | ||
| 5.3 Gettier and Other Complications | 2010-11-29 |