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Alumni Weekend

Wildlife in the Anthropocene: Environmentalism without nature

This lecture by Jamie Lorimer explores new ways of thinking and doing environmentalism that need not make recourse to nature.
The Secrets of Mathematics

Symmetry: a talk based on his second book, Finding Moonshine - Marcus du Sautoy

Professor Marcus du Sautoy (New College), Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science, author and broadcaster gives a talk about symmetry and how the rules of symmetry influences our lives and the choices we make.
Chemistry for the Future: Solar Fuels

Photosynthesis in Nature

Dr Alison Foster, a former chemist and Senior Curator at the University of Oxford Botanic Garden explains the principals of natural photosynthesis that the Armstrong Group is trying to mimic in the lab.
Careers in Chemistry: Beyond Academia

Science Communication at the University of Oxford Botanic Garden

Dr Alison Foster (Jesus College), Senior Curator at the University of Oxford Botanic Garden, talks about her journey from industrial pharmaceutical chemistry research to her current role in horticulture, and offers some tips for major career transitions.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Masters of Nature? - The physics of trying to control the climate

The Earth's climate is changing; but what are we doing about it? The frustration felt all around the world at the inability to agree a meaningful deal on global carbon dioxide emission leaves people looking for alternatives.
Humanitas - Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge

Inaugural Lecture - Nature's Revenge: A History of Risk, Responsibility, and Reasonableness

Director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science: Professor Lorraine Daston gives her inaugural lecture at Merton College.
Oxford Physics Public Lectures

Physics and Philosophy: An Introduction

On the inextricable links between physics and philosophy and the ways in which one can lead to the other - how they complement each other in answering the big questions.
D.H. Lawrence

DH Lawrence 5. The Alps

Catherine Brown gives the fifth lecture in the DH Lawrence series.
Nietzsche on Mind and Nature

Nietzsche Source. Scholarly Nietzsche editions on the web

Introduction to the scholarly editions of Nietzsche Source: the digital critical edition based on Colli/Montinary, the digital edition of the Nietzsche estate including works, manuscripts and letters and the future genetic edition of Nietzsche's works.
Nietzsche on Mind and Nature

Nietzsche's Value Monism - Saying Yes to Everything

Lecture on Nietzsche's attack on Value Dualism, as well as the view he offers instead and whether Nietzsche can sustain his Value Monism-the view that everything is good-given the pressures that pull him back into saying no as well as yes.
Nietzsche on Mind and Nature

Nietzsche's Metaphysics

Nietzsche rejects a persisting self; real distinctions of objects and properties, categorical and dispositional properties, causes and effects; free will. He holds that determinism is true, reality is one and fundamentally experiential.
Nietzsche on Mind and Nature

Consciousness, Language and Nature: Nietzsche's Philosophy of Mind and Nature

On the triangulation between consciousness, language and nature in Nietzsche's philosophy and contemporary philosophy of mind and proposes a philosophy of signs and interpretation as a basis for a philosophy of mind, language and nature.
Nietzsche on Mind and Nature

Who is the 'Sovereign Individual?' Nietzsche on Freedom

Nietzsche's Sovereign Individual (SI) argues that 1. Nietzsche denies free will and moral responsibility. 2. SI in no way supports a denial of 1. 3. Nietzsche engages in a 'persuasive definition' of the language of Freedom and Free Will.
Nietzsche on Mind and Nature

Nietzsche on Soul in Nature

This keynote speech examines if, according to Nietzsche, experience of nature is inevitably conditioned by some archetypal phantasm or cultural construction process or if unmediated apprehension of nature is possible.
Isaiah Berlin

Freedom and Its Betrayal: 2 – Jean Jacques Rousseau (1952)

Berlin lectures on Rousseau's 'On the Social Contract' and discusses his anti-intellectualism, his idealism of Nature, and the worryingly authoritarian implications of his philosophy. Originally broadcast on the BBC Third Programme in 1952.

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