Uehiro Oxford Institute |
Good Intentions and Political Life: Against Virtue Parsimony: St Cross Special Ethics Seminar |
Dr Adrian Walsh delivers a St Cross College Lecture entitled Good Intentions and Political Life: Against Virtue Parsimony. |
Adrian Walsh |
24 January, 2011 |
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Refugee Studies Centre |
RSC Wednesday Seminars 2011: Refugees, Exiles and other Forced Migrants in the late Ottoman Empire |
This podcast was recorded at the Refugee Studies Centre's first Wednesday Public Seminar of Hilary Term 2011. |
Dawn Chatty |
21 January, 2011 |
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Intergenerational Justice: What do we owe future generations?: Hilary Term Seminar Series 2011 |
Is the fiscal crisis forcing a rethink of our intergenerational compact with the elderly? |
Professor Peter Heller (John Hopkins University) on 'Is the fiscal crisis forcing a rethink of our intergenerational compact with the elderly?'. |
Peter Heller |
21 January, 2011 |
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Botanic Garden |
The OneOak Project:using science and art to revive Britain's wood culture |
Part of the Future of Crops lecture series delivered at the Oxford Botanic Gardens. |
Gabriel Hemery |
19 January, 2011 |
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Botanic Garden |
Rice as a crop - a 100 year perspective from 1950 to 2050 |
Part of the Future of Crops lecture series delivered at the Oxford Botanic Gardens. |
Jane Langdale |
19 January, 2011 |
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Refugee Studies Centre |
Protecting Palestinian children from political violence |
This podcast was recorded at a launch event for the fifth Refugee Studies Centre Policy Briefing which was held on Thursday 30th September 2010 at the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund, London. |
Jason Hart, Claudia Lo Forte |
12 January, 2011 |
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History Faculty |
Creating Power: Changing Character of War Program 2010 Annual Lecture |
Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman of King's College, London, gives the 2010 Changing Character of War lecture on the 29th November 2010 entitled 'Creating Power'. |
Lawrence Freedman |
10 January, 2011 |
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Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict |
Invisible War: The United States and The Iraq Sanctions |
Special seminar from the Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC) given by Professor Jay Gordan (Fairfield University with Professor David Miller (Oxford). |
Jay Gordan, David Miller |
5 January, 2011 |
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Christmas Stories from Oxford University |
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight |
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, text of the edition by J. R. R. Tolkien and E. V. Gordon. 2nd ed., ed. Norman Davis. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967. |
Anonymous |
23 December, 2010 |
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Christmas Stories from Oxford University |
Twas The Night Before Christmas |
'Twas The Night Before Christmas. A Visit from St. Nicholas. By Clement C. Moore. |
Clement Moore |
22 December, 2010 |
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Building Peace 2010 to 2019 |
After the Abolition of Slavery and Colonialism, War as a Social Institution: The Role of England |
A plenary session from the 'Building Peace' conference organized by the Oxford Network for Peace Studies and hosted by St John's College, Oxford on 15 May 2010. |
Johan Galtung |
22 December, 2010 |
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Building Peace 2010 to 2019 |
Defining Peace and Debating Peace in Relation to War. OxPeace 2010 |
A breakout session of the Building Peace conference organized by the Oxford Network for Peace Studies and hosted by St John's College, Oxford on 15 May 2010. |
Richard Caplan, CAJ Coady, Robert Harris |
21 December, 2010 |
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Christmas Stories from Oxford University |
A Christmas Carol |
A Christmas carol in prose: being a ghost story of Christmas. By Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. |
Charles Dickens |
21 December, 2010 |
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Translational Medicine |
Drug Discovery |
Professor Chas Bountra explains how new drugs can offer novel treatments for neurodegenerative and gastrointestinal diseases, as well as pain disorders. |
Chas Bountra |
20 December, 2010 |
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Translational and Clinical |
Drug Discovery |
Professor Chas Bountra explains how new drugs can offer novel treatments for neurodegenerative and gastrointestinal diseases, as well as pain disorders. |
Chas Bountra |
20 December, 2010 |
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John Locke Lectures in Philosophy |
2009 Lecture 5: Normative Structures |
Fifth and final lecture in the 2009 John Locke lectures entitled Being Realistic about Reasons. |
Thomas M Scanlon |
20 December, 2010 |
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John Locke Lectures in Philosophy |
2009 Lecture 4: Epistemological Problems |
Fourth lecture in the 2009 John Locke Lecture series entitled Being Realistic about Reasons. |
Thomas M Scanlon |
20 December, 2010 |
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John Locke Lectures in Philosophy |
2009 Lecture 2: Normativity and Metaphysics |
Second lecture in the 2009 John Locke lectures entitled Being Realistic about Reasons. |
Thomas M Scanlon |
20 December, 2010 |
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John Locke Lectures in Philosophy |
2009 Lecture 3: Motivation and the Appeal of Expressivism |
Third lecture in the 2009 John Locke lecture series entitled Being Realistic about Reasons. |
Thomas M Scanlon |
20 December, 2010 |
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John Locke Lectures in Philosophy |
2009 Lecture 1: Being Realistic about Reasons Introduction |
First lecture of the 2009 John Locke Lectures entitled 'Being Realistic about Reasons. |
Thomas M Scanlon |
20 December, 2010 |
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Christmas Science Lectures |
Tripping the Light Fantastic 2010 |
Light illuminates and gives life. It also reveals, enlightens, and brings understanding. Jonathan Wood shows us the inspiration and fascination to be found in the use of light, from Harry Potter's invisible cloak to killing cancer cells. |
Jonathan Wood |
18 December, 2010 |
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Institute for Science, Innovation and Society |
Oxford Program for the Future of Cities Part 2: Sustainable development and crime in the urban Caribbean |
David Howard (Lecturer in Sustainable Urban Development, University of Oxford) looks at larger concerns over social and spatial equity, conceptual approaches to sovereignty and the practical interpretation of sustainable forms of justice. |
David Howard |
15 December, 2010 |
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Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities |
Sustainable development and crime in the urban Caribbean |
David Howard (University Lecturer in Sustainable Urban Development, University of Oxford) looks at larger concerns over social and spatial equity, conceptual approaches to sovereignty and the practical interpretation of sustainable forms of justice. |
David Howard |
15 December, 2010 |
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Kellogg College |
Sustainable development and crime in the urban Caribbean |
David Howard (Lecturer in Sustainable Urban Development, University of Oxford) looks at larger concerns over social and spatial equity, conceptual approaches to sovereignty and the practical interpretation of sustainable forms of justice. |
David Howard |
15 December, 2010 |
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Research Integrity |
Good practice in research collections and biobanking |
Dr Jane Kaye, Director of HeLEX-Centre for Health, Law and Emerging Technologies, University of Oxford, gives the third 2010 Research Integrity Seminar. |
Jane Kaye |
15 December, 2010 |
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Research Integrity |
Research integrity and publication ethics [2010 lecture] |
Dr Sabine Kleinert Senior Executive Editor, The Lancet and Vice-Chair of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), gives the fourth 2010 Research Integrity Seminar. |
Sabine Kleinert |
15 December, 2010 |
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Certification and Sustainability |
Fair Trade Certification |
Dr Alex Nicholls (Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship) examines how over the past ten years the market for Fair Trade products has grown at double digit rates across many countries in the North. |
Alex Nicholls |
8 December, 2010 |
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Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family |
Mary Shelley - Journal of Sorrow |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. In the months immediately following Shelley's death Mary lived at Albaro on the outskirts of Genoa. Her only regular companions were her young son, Percy Florence, and the journal she began on 2 October 1822. |
Nouran Koriem |
2 December, 2010 |
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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts) |
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Fair copy of Ode to the West Wind |
Part of the Shelly's Ghost Exhibition. Shelley's best-known poem was written in Florence in late 1819. |
Christopher Adams |
2 December, 2010 |
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Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family |
Harriet Shelley - Letter to Eliza Westbrook, Shelley and her parents |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Harriet Shelley drowned herself in December 1816, aged twenty-one. Her body was recovered from the Serpentine on 10 December, and an inquest into the death of one 'Harriet Smith' was held the following day. |
Hannah Morrell |
2 December, 2010 |
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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts) |
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Adonais. An Elegy on the Death of John Keats |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. This great elegy was prompted by the news of the death of John Keats in Rome, and by Shelley's belief that Keats's illness was caused by the hostile notices his work had been given in the Quarterly Review. |
Jordan Saxby |
2 December, 2010 |
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Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family |
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Opening lines of 'The Triumph of Life' |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Shelley worked on 'The Triumph of Life', a dark and visionary poem, while living at the Villa Magni. |
Hoare Nairne |
2 December, 2010 |
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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts) |
Harriet Shelley - Letter to Eliza Westbrook, Shelley and her parents |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Harriet Shelley drowned herself in December 1816, aged twenty-one. Her body was recovered from the Serpentine on 10 December, and an inquest into the death of one 'Harriet Smith' was held the following day. |
Hannah Morrell |
2 December, 2010 |
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Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family |
Mary Shelley (with Percy Bysshe Shelley) - Draft of Frankenstein |
Mary Shelley drafted Frankenstein in two tall notebooks. The first notebook was probably purchased in Geneva, the second several months later in England. |
Christopher Adams |
2 December, 2010 |
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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts) |
Percy Bysshe Shelley: Letter to William Godwin |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Using false names, Shelley sent copies of The Necessity of the Atheism to 'men of thought and learning', including bishops and clergymen. |
Henry Cockburn |
2 December, 2010 |
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Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family |
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Adonais. An Elegy on the Death of John Keats |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. This great elegy was prompted by the news of the death of John Keats in Rome, and by Shelley's belief that Keats's illness was caused by the hostile notices his work had been given in the Quarterly Review. |
Jordan Saxby |
2 December, 2010 |
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Percy Bysshe Shelley - Dedication fair copy of 'With a guitar. To Jane' |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Shelley presented this light-hearted poem, copied out in his best hand, with the guitar he gave to Jane Williams in 1822. |
Jordan Saxby |
2 December, 2010 |
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Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family |
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Draft of 'Ozymandias' |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. 'Ozymandias' is the Greek name for Ramses II, who ruled Egypt for sixty-seven years from 1279 to 1213 BC. |
Christopher Adams |
2 December, 2010 |
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Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family |
Percy Bysshe Shelley: Letter to William Godwin |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Using false names, Shelley sent copies of The Necessity of the Atheism to 'men of thought and learning', including bishops and clergymen. |
Henry Cockburn |
2 December, 2010 |
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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts) |
William Godwin- Letter to Mary Shelley |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. This is the letter Godwin wrote to Mary after hearing of Shelley's death. |
Hoare Nairne |
2 December, 2010 |
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Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family |
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Letter to Mary Shelley |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. 'Everybody is in despair and every thing in confusion' writes Shelley in his last letter to Mary. He was in Pisa to discuss a new journal, The Liberal, with Leigh Hunt and Lord Byron. |
Henry Cockburn |
2 December, 2010 |
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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts) |
Mary Shelley (with Percy Bysshe Shelley) - Draft of Frankenstein |
Mary Shelley drafted Frankenstein in two tall notebooks. The first notebook was probably purchased in Geneva, the second several months later in England. |
Christopher Adams |
2 December, 2010 |
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Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family |
Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley - Joint journal entry |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Shelley and Mary eloped at 4.15 am on 28 July 1814, accompanied by Mary's step-sister Jane Clairmont. |
Henry Cockburn |
2 December, 2010 |
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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts) |
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Opening lines of 'The Triumph of Life' |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Shelley worked on 'The Triumph of Life', a dark and visionary poem, while living at the Villa Magni. |
Hoare Nairne |
2 December, 2010 |
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Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family |
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Fair copy of Ode to the West Wind |
Part of the Shelly's Ghost Exhibition. Shelley's best-known poem was written in Florence in late 1819. |
Christopher Adams |
2 December, 2010 |
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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts) |
Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley - Joint journal entry |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Shelley and Mary eloped at 4.15 am on 28 July 1814, accompanied by Mary's step-sister Jane Clairmont. |
Henry Cockburn |
2 December, 2010 |
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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts) |
Mary Shelley - Journal of Sorrow |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. In the months immediately following Shelley's death Mary lived at Albaro on the outskirts of Genoa. Her only regular companions were her young son, Percy Florence, and the journal she began on 2 October 1822. |
Nouran Koriem |
2 December, 2010 |
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Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family |
William Godwin- Letter to Mary Shelley |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. This is the letter Godwin wrote to Mary after hearing of Shelley's death. |
Hoare Nairne |
2 December, 2010 |
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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts) |
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Draft of 'Ozymandias' |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. 'Ozymandias' is the Greek name for Ramses II, who ruled Egypt for sixty-seven years from 1279 to 1213 BC. |
Christopher Adams |
2 December, 2010 |
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Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family |
Mary Shelley - Letter to Percy Bysshe Shelley |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Shelley and Mary arrived back in London to face the almost universal disapproval of family and friends, and severe money problems. |
Nouran Koriem |
2 December, 2010 |
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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts) |
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Letter to Mary Shelley |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. 'Everybody is in despair and every thing in confusion' writes Shelley in his last letter to Mary. He was in Pisa to discuss a new journal, The Liberal, with Leigh Hunt and Lord Byron. |
Henry Cockburn |
2 December, 2010 |
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Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family |
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Dedication fair copy of 'With a guitar. To Jane' |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Shelley presented this light-hearted poem, copied out in his best hand, with the guitar he gave to Jane Williams in 1822. |
Jordan Saxby |
2 December, 2010 |
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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts) |
Mary Shelley - Letter to Percy Bysshe Shelley |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Shelley and Mary arrived back in London to face the almost universal disapproval of family and friends, and severe money problems. |
Nouran Koriem |
2 December, 2010 |
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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts) |
Mary Wollstonecraft Three notes to William Godwin |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Even after their marriage Godwin and Wollstonecraft preferred to live independently during the day, and communicate by correspondence. |
Hannah Morrell |
2 December, 2010 |
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Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family |
William Godwin: Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Godwin's memoir of Mary Wollstonecraft has been called the first modern biography. At the time, however, its frankness and emotional candour provoked general outrage. |
Henry Cockburn |
2 December, 2010 |
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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts) |
William Godwin: Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Godwin's memoir of Mary Wollstonecraft has been called the first modern biography. At the time, however, its frankness and emotional candour provoked general outrage. |
Henry Cockburn |
2 December, 2010 |
Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ |
Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family |
Mary Wollstonecraft - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. In her most famous work Mary Wollstonecraft argued that if women were educated in the same way as men they would perform as well. |
Annabell James |
2 December, 2010 |
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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts) |
Mary Wollstonecraft - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. In her most famous work Mary Wollstonecraft argued that if women were educated in the same way as men they would perform as well. |
Annabell James |
2 December, 2010 |
Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ |
Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family |
Mary Wollstonecraft Three notes to William Godwin |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Even after their marriage Godwin and Wollstonecraft preferred to live independently during the day, and communicate by correspondence. |
Hannah Morrell |
2 December, 2010 |
Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ |
General Philosophy |
General Philosophy Lecture 8 |
PDF slides from Peter Millican's General Philosophy lecture 8. |
Peter Millican |
1 December, 2010 |
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General Philosophy |
8.1 Introduction to Personal Identity |
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. |
Peter Millican |
1 December, 2010 |
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General Philosophy |
8.4 Persons, Humans and Brains |
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. |
Peter Millican |
1 December, 2010 |
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General Philosophy |
8.3 Problems for Locke's View of Personal Identity |
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. |
Peter Millican |
1 December, 2010 |
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General Philosophy |
8.2 John Locke on Personal Identity |
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. |
Peter Millican |
1 December, 2010 |
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General Philosophy |
General Philosophy Lecture 7 |
PDF slides from Peter Millican's General Philosophy lecture 7. |
Peter Millican |
1 December, 2010 |
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General Philosophy |
7.4 Making Sense of Free Will and Moral Responsibility |
Part 7.4. A brief explanation of Hume's argument for sentimentalism and Robert Kane's views on free will and determinism. |
Peter Millican |
1 December, 2010 |
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General Philosophy |
7.2 Different Concepts of Freedom |
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. |
Peter Millican |
1 December, 2010 |
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General Philosophy |
7.1 Free Will, Determinism and Choice |
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 of choice. |
Peter Millican |
1 December, 2010 |
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General Philosophy |
7.3 Hume on Liberty and Necessity |
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. |
Peter Millican |
1 December, 2010 |
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Certification and Sustainability |
Problems With Credit Rating Agencies |
Professor Timothy Sinclair (University of Warwick) looks at why getting credit ratings 'right' seems vitally important to many professional observers and politicians. |
Timothy Sinclair |
1 December, 2010 |
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General Philosophy |
6.3 Abstraction and Idealism |
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. |
Peter Millican |
30 November, 2010 |
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General Philosophy |
General Philosophy Lecture 6 |
PDF slides from Peter Millican's General Philosophy lecture 6. |
Peter Millican |
30 November, 2010 |
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General Philosophy |
6.2 Problems with Resemblance |
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. |
Peter Millican |
30 November, 2010 |
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General Philosophy |
6.4 Making Sense of Perception |
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). |
Peter Millican |
30 November, 2010 |
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General Philosophy |
6.1 Introduction to Primary and Secondary Qualities |
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. |
Peter Millican |
30 November, 2010 |
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Alumni Weekend |
The Future of Human Rights |
Part of the 2010 Alumni Weekend. Timothy Endicott, Murray Hunt and Sandra Fredman discuss the future of human rights, looking at the human rights constitution, its critics and how to uphold human rights. |
Timothy Endicott, Murray Hunt, Sandra Fredman |
30 November, 2010 |
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General Philosophy |
5.4 Scepticism, Externalism and the Ethics of Belief |
Part 5.4. Looks at the role the concept of knowledge plays in life, the different levels of knowledge we require in certain contexts and the return of scepticism over knowledge. |
Peter Millican |
29 November, 2010 |
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General Philosophy |
5.3 Gettier and Other Complications |
Part 5.3. The difference between internalist and externalist accounts of knowledge; whether we need external factors to justify knowledge or whether internal accounts are sufficient, and the Gettier cases. |
Peter Millican |
29 November, 2010 |
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General Philosophy |
5.2 The Traditional Analysis of Knowledge |
Part 5.2. Explores the idea of conscious and unconscious knowledge (should a person know that they know something or does it not matter?) and the theory of justification of propositions and beliefs. |
Peter Millican |
29 November, 2010 |
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General Philosophy |
General Philosophy Lecture 5 |
PDF slides from Peter Millican's General Philosophy lecture 5. |
Peter Millican |
29 November, 2010 |
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General Philosophy |
5.1 Introduction to Knowledge |
Part 5.1. Looks at the problem of knowledge; how can we know what we know, three types of knowledge and A J Ayer's two conditions for knowledge. |
Peter Millican |
29 November, 2010 |
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History of Art: Special Lectures and Research Seminars |
Research Seminar: Michelangelo: A Life on Paper |
In this lecture recorded as a part of the University of Oxford History of Art Department's Research Seminar series, Professor Leonard Barkan (Princeton University) discusses the theme "Michelangelo: A Life on Paper". Recording date - 4th November 2010. |
Leonard Barkan |
26 November, 2010 |
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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars |
Integrating Technology, Science, Law, Economics, and Politics: Development of Practical Policy for Carbon Capture and Storage |
Dr Kenneth Richards, James Martin Senior Visiting Fellow on how carbon capture and storage (CCS) provides a potentially promising approach to mitigating carbon dioxide emissions. |
Kenneth Richards |
24 November, 2010 |
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Kellogg College |
Teaching Style: Is there such a thing and does it matter? |
A number of inventories have been developed for use by teachers in adult, continuing and higher education to promote and structure reflection on teaching. Delivered by Dr Adrian Stokes. |
Adrian Stokes |
23 November, 2010 |
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European Studies Centre |
Common Values and Federalism in Europe |
David Hannay, Peter Sutherland and Peter Luff participate in a discussion on Common Values and Federalism in Europe. Part of the Europaeum Conference recorded at St Anthony's College in September 2010. |
Peter Sutherland, Peter Luff, David Hannay |
22 November, 2010 |
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Certification and Sustainability |
Standards for sweatshops: voluntary labour standards programs in global supply chains |
Increased attention to sweatshops, child labour, and the suppression of labour rights has led to a range of voluntary initiatives that set, monitor, and certify labour standards in global supply chains. |
Tim Bartley |
19 November, 2010 |
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Botanic Garden |
Streptomyces in Nature and Medicine: The Antibiotic Makers |
Although plants are a very important part of a garden, we must not forget about the important contribution that soil makes. Bacteria living in the soil also produce compounds important as modern antibiotics. |
Sir David Hopwood |
17 November, 2010 |
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Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities |
New business models for low-carbon cities |
Mark Hinnells (Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford) explores the impact of policy measures to deliver a low-carbon economy on the development of new business models for low-carbon cities. |
Mark Hinnells |
16 November, 2010 |
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Institute for Science, Innovation and Society |
Oxford Program for the Future of Cities Part 1: New business models for low-carbon cities |
Mark Hinnells (Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford) explores the impact of policy measures to deliver a low-carbon economy on the development of new business models for low-carbon cities. |
Mark Hinnells |
16 November, 2010 |
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Botanic Garden |
The Botanic Garden - Your Modern Medicine Cabinet |
The first talk in the series from the Oxford Botanic Garden. This talk will describe the development of this new area as well as explaining the involvement of some of the plants grown there in the discovery and development of modern drugs. |
Alison Foster |
15 November, 2010 |
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Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict |
Access to a Court and the Security Council: Implications for Normative Hierarchy |
Dr Antonios Tzanakopoulos (University of Glasgow) gives a talk for the Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict seminar series. Delivered on the 9th November 2010. |
Antonios Tzanakopoulos |
15 November, 2010 |
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Genetics |
Chromatin Remodelling |
Dr Erika Mancini explains the role of chromatin in the regulation of gene transcription. |
Erika Mancini |
15 November, 2010 |
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Translational Medicine |
Chromatin Remodelling |
Dr Erika Mancini explains how malfunctions in the regulation of chromatin structure often leads to complex multi-system diseases and cancer, notably leukemia. |
Erika Mancini |
15 November, 2010 |
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Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict |
The Wager Lost By Winning: on the 'Triumph' of the Just War Tradition |
Lecture delivered on the 19th of October 2010, part of the ELAC/CCW Seminar Series on War and Armed Conflict. Delivered by Professor Nicholas Rengger (St Andrews). Introduced by Jennifer Welsh. |
Nicholas Rengger |
9 November, 2010 |
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Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict |
Power and Norms: What can the Nobel Peace Prize Accomplish? The Inside Story |
Professor Geir Lundestad gives a talk for the ELAC/CCW seminar series on war and armed conflict. |
Geir Lundestad |
9 November, 2010 |
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Approaching Shakespeare |
The Winter's Tale |
How we can make sense of a play that veers from tragedy to comedy and stretches credulity in its conclusion? That's the topic for this fifth Approaching Shakespeare lecture on The Winter's Tale. |
Emma Smith |
9 November, 2010 |
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Certification and Sustainability |
Driven to Drive Markets: The contradictions of forest certification in the promotion of sustainability |
Professor Dan Klooster (University of Redlands) summarizes the formation and growth of forest certification and illustrates how it qualifies sustainability and leverages meaningful changes in forest management. |
Dan Klooster |
4 November, 2010 |
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Approaching Shakespeare |
Macbeth |
In this fourth Approaching Shakespeare lecture the question is one of agency: who or what makes happen the things that happen in Macbeth? |
Emma Smith |
2 November, 2010 |
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Malaria |
Malaria and Global Health |
Dr Climent Casals-Pascual tells us how new tools can help us diagnose and manage malaria more effectively. |
Climent Casals-Pascual |
2 November, 2010 |
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Translational Medicine |
Malaria and Global Health |
Dr Climent Casals-Pascual explains how the development of new tools to diagnose and manage malaria more effectively will allow us to decrease the mortality of this condition. |
Climent Casals-Pascual |
2 November, 2010 |
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