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Religious Epistemology, Contextualism, and Pragmatic Encroachment

Divine Indifference, or Whatever

Third talk given by Jonathan Weisberg (Toronto) at the New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop on Formal Epistemology and Religious Epistemology, Oxford University, 8 December 2014.
Religious Epistemology, Contextualism, and Pragmatic Encroachment

Against the Orthodoxy: Rethinking Epistemic Reasons and Pascal's Wager

Fourth talk given by Rima Basu (USC) at the New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop on Formal Epistemology and Religious Epistemology, Oxford University, 9 December 2014.
Religious Epistemology, Contextualism, and Pragmatic Encroachment

Salvaging Pascal's Wager

Fifth talk given by Liz Jackson (Nortre Dame) at the New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop on Formal Epistemology and Religious Epistemology, Oxford University, 9 December 2014.
Religious Epistemology, Contextualism, and Pragmatic Encroachment

Updating on Evil

Sixth and final talk given by Professor Roger White (MIT) at the New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop Formal Epistemology and Religious Epistemology, Oxford University, 9 December 2014.
Uehiro Oxford Institute

St Cross Seminar: Mere Practicality? Infants, interests and the value of life

Dr Richard Hain, Consultant in Paediatric Palliative Medicine, explores the difficulties in rationally explaining the value of an infant’s life.
The Emergent Multiverse

The Arrow of Time

In the fourth lecture, Harvey Brown asks why real-world events always proceed in the direction of increasing entropy, even though the laws of physics don’t require it.
The Emergent Multiverse

The Probability Puzzle

In the third lecture, David Wallace asks how we make sense of probability in the Many-Worlds theory.
The Emergent Multiverse

The Life of Psi: More on the Superposition Principle

In the second lecture, Harvey Brown discusses in more depth the superposition principle of quantum mechanics.
The Emergent Multiverse

The Plurality of Worlds

In this first lecture, David Wallace examines the justification for interpreting the superposition states as multiplicities.
Uehiro Oxford Institute

St Cross Seminar: Natural Human Rights: A Theory

This talk explores the central argument in Boylan's recent book, 'Natural Human Rights: A Theory'
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.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Questions and Answers Session

Marianne answers questions from the audience about the four talks in this series.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

The Philosophy of Science

In the fourth and final lecture, we examine the notion of ‘objective fact’ on which scientific theories are built; what sort of fact is such that we can build a scientific theory on it?
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Epistemology and Metaphysics

In the third lecture we examine first the so-called “Gettier Problems” for the traditional account of knowledge, the arguments for saying that possible worlds exist and finally we ask whether there really are unactualised possibles.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Moral and Political Philosophy

In the second lecture we examine first the famous ‘Wilt Chamberlain’ thought experiment that demonstrates a retention between freedom and equality, then arguments for and against two famous moral theories; deontology and utilitarianism.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Logic and Argument: the Methodology of Philosophy

In this first lecture, using Descartes famous argument for the claim “I think therefore I am’, we examine how to identify and evaluate arguments.
Practical Ethics Bites

Is there such a thing as a just war?

Is an ethical war a paradoxical notion? If violence is almost always unacceptable, how can we justify acts of war?
Philosophical perspectives on the causes of mental illness

The Dappled Causal World of Psychiatric Disorders: The Link Between the Classification of Psychiatric Disorders and Their Causal Complexity

The second of the 2014 Loebel Lectures in Philosophy and Psychiatry, by Professor Kenneth S Kendler
Philosophical perspectives on the causes of mental illness

The Genetic Epidemiology of Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Disorders: Multiple Levels, Interactions and Causal Loops

The first of the 2014 Loebel Lectures in Philosophy and Psychiatry, by Professor Kenneth S Kendler
Anthropology

Marett Memorial Lecture 2014: How to capture the wow. Awe and the study of religion

Professor Birgit Meyer delivered the 2014 Marett Memorial Lecture on the interplay of religious things and bodily sensations. Introduced by James Grant. 2 May 2014

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