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John Locke Lectures in Philosophy

2010 Lecture 5: Hard Cases: Mathematics, Normativity, Ontology, Intentionality

Fifth lecture in the 2010 John Locke lecture series entitled Constructing the World.
John Locke Lectures in Philosophy

2010 Lecture 4: Revisability and Conceptual Change: Carnap vs. Quine

Fourth lecture in the 2010 John Locke lecture series entitled Constructing the World.
John Locke Lectures in Philosophy

2010 Lecture 3: The Case for A Priori Scrutability

Third lecture in the 2010 John Locke lecture series entitled Constructing the World.
John Locke Lectures in Philosophy

2010 Lecture 2: The Cosmoscope Argument

Second lecture in the 2010 John Locke lecture series entitled 'Constructing the World'.
John Locke Lectures in Philosophy

2010 Lecture 1: A Scrutable World

First Lecture in the 2010 John Locke Lecture series entitled Constructing the World.
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.
General Philosophy

General Philosophy Lecture 8

PDF slides from Peter Millican's General Philosophy lecture 8.
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.
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.
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.
General Philosophy

General Philosophy Lecture 7

PDF slides from Peter Millican's General Philosophy lecture 7.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
General Philosophy

General Philosophy Lecture 6

PDF slides from Peter Millican's General Philosophy lecture 6.
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.
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.
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.

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