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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Light in Germany: Scenes from an Unknown Enlightenment

A discussion of Jim Reed's book
Voltaire Foundation

‘True Enlightenment can be both achieved and beneficial.’ The German Enlightenment and its Interpretation

Professor Joachim Whaley, Professor of German History and Thought, Cambridge, gives the 2014 Besterman Lecture, hosted by The Besterman Centre for the Enlightenment and the TORCH Enlightenment Programme.
Rothermere American Institute

Kant's little East Prussian Head and Other Reasons why we Write

Writer Claire Messud gives the Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters 2014
Humanities at the Department for Continuing Education

The Truth about Art 3 - Aesthetics

Another ancient belief held that an art should be governed by rules.
Sacrifice and Modern Thought

2. Sacrifice, Self-Destructive Love and Feminism

Dr Pamela Sue Anderson talks to Tim Howles about her chapter 'Sacrifice as Self-Destructive Love: Why Autonomy should still matter to Feminists'
A Romp Through Ethics for Complete Beginners

Making Up Your Mind

Part 7 of 7 in Marianne Talbot's "A Romp Through Ethics for Complete Beginners". This final episode is a time to take stock and bring together all the strands we've considered.
The State of the State

The State, Tolerance and Rationalism in Spinoza, Mendelssohn and Kant

Stefan Bird-Pollan (University of Kentucky) delivers a lecture as part of the Anglo-German 'State of the State' Fellowship Programme on the ideas of The State, Tolerance and Rationalism as seen in the philosophies of Kant, Spinoza and Mendelssohn.
A Romp Through Ethics for Complete Beginners

Deontology: Kant, duty and the moral law

Part 5 of 7 in Marianne Talbot's "A Romp Through Ethics for Complete Beginners". In this episode we reflect on Kant's account of morality, including the categorical imperative.
The State of the State

The Practice of Sovereignty: Kant on the Duties of National and International Citizenship

Paul Guyer (University of Pennsylvania) presents his paper on Kant's views of the practice of sovereignty. Presented as part of the Anglo-­German 'State of the State' Fellowship Programme.
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

The discipline of reason: The paralogisms and Antinomies of Pure Reason.

Lecture 8/8. Reason, properly disciplined, draws permissible inferences from the resulting concepts of the understanding. The outcome is knowledge.
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

The "Self" and the Synthetic Unity of Apperception

Lecture 7/8. Kant argues that: "The synthetic unity of consciousness is... an objective condition of all knowledge.
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

Concepts, judgement and the Transcendental Deduction of the Categories

Lecture 6/8. Empiricists have no explanation for how we move from "mere forms of thought" to objective concepts. The conditions necessary for the knowledge of an object require a priori categories as the enabling conditions of all human understanding.
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

Idealisms and their refutations

Lecture 5/8. The very possibility of self-awareness (an "inner sense" with content) requires an awareness of an external world by way of "outer sense". Only through awareness of stable elements in the external world is self-consciousness possible.
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

How are a priori synthetic judgements possible?

Lecture 4/8. Kant claims that, "our sense representation is not a representation of things in themselves, but of the way in which they appear to us.
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

Space, time and the "Analogies of Experiences"

Lecture 3/8. Kant's so-called "Copernican" revolution in metaphysics begins with the recognition of the observer's contribution to the observation.
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

The broader philosophical context

Lecture 2/8. The significant advances in physics in the 17th century stood in vivid contrast to the stagnation of traditional metaphysics, but why should metaphysics be conceived as a "science" in the first place?
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

Just what is Kant's "project"?

Lecture 1/8. Both sense and reason are limited. Kant must identify the proper mission and domain of each, as well as the manner in which their separate functions come to be integrated in what is finally the inter-subjectively settled knowledge of science.
Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art lectures

5. Kant's Critique of Judgement: Lecture 2

James Grant, lecturer in philosophy, University of Oxford concludes his discussion of Kant's Critique of Judgement in the fifth lecture of the Aesthetics series.
Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art lectures

4. Kant's Critique of Judgement: Lecture 1

James Grant, lecturer in philosophy, University of Oxford gives his fourth lecture in the Aesthetics series on Kant's Critique of Judgement.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Provisional Rights and Past Injustice

Professor Anna Stilz (Princeton University) gives a paper for the Kant and Colonialism conference held at Nuffield College, Oxford. Introduced by Dr Reidar Maliks.

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