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What is Tragedy?

Defining Tragedy

First dialogue between Oliver Taplin and Joshua Billings on tragedy: they discuss what 'tragedy' means, from its origins in Greek culture to philosophical notions of what tragedy and tragic drama are.
General Philosophy

General Philosophy Lecture 1

PDF slides from Peter Millican's General Philosophy lecture 1.
General Philosophy

1.4 From Galileo to Descartes

Part 1.4. Outlines Galileo's revolutionary theories of astronomy and mechanical science and introduces Descartes' (the father of modern philosophy) ideas of philosophical scepticism.
General Philosophy

1.3 Science from Aristotle to Galileo

Part 1.3. Describes briefly the Aristotelian view of the universe; the basis for natural science in Europe until the 15th century and its conflict Galileo's theories.
General Philosophy

1.2 The Background of Early Modern Philosophy

Part 1.2. Gives a very brief history of philosophy from the 'birth of philosophy' in Ancient Greece through the rise of Christianity in Europe in the Middle Ages through to the Renaissance, the Reformation and the birth of the Modern Period.
General Philosophy

1.1 An Introduction to General Philosophy

Part 1.1. Outlines the General Philosophy course, the various topics that will be discussed, and also, more importantly, the philosophical method that this course introduces to students.
Critical Reasoning for Beginners

Different Types of Arguments

The second of six lectures dealing with critical reasoning. In this lecture you will learn about the different types of arguments, in particular deductive and inductive arguments.
Critical Reasoning for Beginners

The Nature of Arguments

The first of six lectures dealing with critical reasoning. In this lecture you will learn how to recognise arguments and what the nature of an argument is.
Censorship in Literature in South Africa

Censorship in South Africa: Introduction

Peter McDonald talks briefly about what first interested him in Censorship of Literature in South Africa.
Censorship in Literature in South Africa

Peter McDonald on Censorship in South Africa

Peter McDonald talks with Oliver Lewis about censorship, its philosophical basis and general history within Apartheid South Africa.
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.
Nietzsche on Mind and Nature

The Genealogy of Guilt

Nietzsche's objective is not to challenge the Christian non-naturalistic account of guilt but to show that Christian representation of guilt is a product of the exploitation of human susceptibility to guilt as instrument of self-directed cruelty.
Interviews with Oxonians

Peter McDonald on Censorship in South Africa

Peter McDonald talks about censorship, its philosophical basis and general history within Apartheid South Africa.
Uehiro Oxford Institute

Julian Savulescu's Monash Distinguished Alumni

Julian Savulescu and the other Monash Distinguished Alumni discuss how Monash University has influenced their careers.
Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford

The Universe, the Brain and Second Life

Three presentations that explore the possibilities of the virtual world Second Life, the philosophical implications of society’s dependence on the internet and the development of the world’s first private space shuttle.

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