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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.
Bio-Ethics Bites

Status Quo Bias

Suppose a genetic engineering breakthrough made it simple, safe and cheap to increase people's intelligence.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

The Sacred Rites in Kant's Soul

Steve Clarke, James Martin Research Fellow, Institute for Science and Ethics, Oxford Martin School, Oxford gives a talk for the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion.
John Locke Lectures in Philosophy

2011 Lecture 4: Platonism as a Way of Life

Fourth and final lecture in the 2011 John Locke lecture series.
John Locke Lectures in Philosophy

2011 Lecture 3: The Stoic Way of Life

Third lecture in the 2011 John Locke Lecture Series.
John Locke Lectures in Philosophy

2011 Lecture 2: Aristotle's Philosophy as Two Ways of Life

Second lecture in the 2011 John Locke Lecture Series.
John Locke Lectures in Philosophy

2011 Lecture 1: Philosophy in Antiquity as a Way of Life

Part of the 2011 John Locke Lecture Series; this year presented by Professor John Cooper, Princeton University, on 'Ancient Greek Philosophies as a Way of Life'.
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.
Metaphor: Philosophical Issues

4. Metaphor and Art

James Grant, Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Oxford, discusses the use of metaphor to describe music and other artworks.
Metaphor: Philosophical Issues

3. Speaking in Metaphor

James Grant, Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Oxford, discusses the question of how we succeed in communicating to others with metaphor. He also examines the question of whether all metaphors can be paraphrased.
Metaphor: Philosophical Issues

2. How Metaphors Mean

James Grant, Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Oxford, discusses different theories about what gives metaphors the special meaning or content they have.
Metaphor: Philosophical Issues

1. What Metaphors Mean

James Grant, Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Oxford, introduces some of the key concepts in discussions of metaphor in the philosophy of language.
Bio-Ethics Bites

Life and Death

If a patient decides she doesn't want to live any longer, should she be allowed to die? Should she be allowed to kill herself?
A Romp Through Ethics for Complete Beginners

Utilitarianism: Mill and the utility calculus

Part 6 of 7 in Marianne Talbot's "A Romp Through Ethics for Complete Beginners". A reflection on Mill's account of morality, and the greatest happiness of the greatest number.
Euthydemus - Platonic Dialogue

Euthydemus part 12 - 304b 6 - end

Track 12 - 304b 6 - end - Hempel comments to Pratt.
Uehiro Oxford Institute

Human Rights vs Religion?

Professor Roger Trigg gives the St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, Trinity Term 2011.
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.
A Romp Through Ethics for Complete Beginners

Humean Ethics: Non-Cognitivism, the passions and moral motivation

Part 4 of 7 in Marianne Talbot's "A Romp Through Ethics for Complete Beginners". In this episode we reflect on Hume's account of morality and his rejection of reason as the source of morality.
Bio-Ethics Bites

Moral Status

A stone on the beach, we assume, has no moral status. We can kick or hammer the stone, and we have done the stone no harm. Typical adult human beings do have moral status. We shouldn't, without a very good reason, kick a man or woman.
Bio-Ethics Bites

Designer Babies

The term 'designer baby' is usually used in a pejorative sense - to conjure up some dystopian Brave New World. There are already ways to affect what kind of children you have - most obviously by choosing the partner to have them with.

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