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The General Philosophy 2009 course lectures and slides from Oxford, compiled.
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The General Philosophy 2009 course lectures and slides from Oxford, compiled.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/moisentinel/oxford-general-philosophy-2009
- Owner: moiSentineL
- License: other
- Created: 2024-10-14T13:01:40.000Z (2 months ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2024-10-20T17:17:12.000Z (2 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-10-21T21:18:36.046Z (2 months ago)
- Topics: education, hacktoberfest, lectures, oxford, philosophy, undergraduate
- Language: Python
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- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 1
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# General Philosophy 2009
This is the culmination of lectures and slides delivered by Professor Peter Millican to first-year philosophy students at the University of Oxford, 2009.
The course is available [online](https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/general-philosophy) under license [CC-BY-NC-SA 2.0 UK](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/): England & Wales.
This is where you can download the lectures, slides and handouts for offline use.
## Usage
Clone the repo:
```bash
git clone https://github.com/moiSentineL/oxford-general-philosophy-2009.git
cd oxford-general-philosophy-2009
```
Run the python file with appropriate arguments:
```bash
python download.py [lectures/slides]
```
(choose `lectures` if you want to download lectures or choose `slides` if you want to download slides)
It will output something like this:
```bash
❯ python download.py slides
Downloading slides...
General Philosophy Lecture 1
75% =====================> |
```
## Course Content
Taken from Peter Millican's [website](https://www.millican.org/genphil.htm) itself:
- **Historical Introduction**
- The Background of Early Modern Philosophy
- Science from Aristotle to Galileo
- From Galileo to Descartes
- Recapitulation/Summary So Far
- Thomas Hobbes: The Monster of Malmesbury
- Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton
- John Locke
- Nicolas Malebranche and George Berkeley
- David Hume
- Conclusion: Kant and Modern Science
- **Induction**
- Hume's Argument
- Responses to Hume's Argument
- **Scepticism**
- Scepticism about the External World
- Possible Answers to External World Scepticism
- Scepticism, Externalism and the Ethics of Belief
- **Knowledge**
- Introduction to Knowledge
- The Traditional Analysis of Knowledge
- Gettier and Other Complications
- **Perception and Primary/Secondary Qualities**
- Introduction to Primary and Secondary Qualities
- Problems with Resemblance
- Abstraction and Idealism
- Making Sense of Perception
- **Mind and Body**
- Cartesian Dualism
- The Mind-Body Problem
- **Personal Identity**
- Introduction to Personal Identity
- John Locke on Personal Identity
- Problems for Locke's View of Personal Identity
- Persons, Humans and Brains
- **Free Will**
- Free Will, Determinism and Choice
- Different Concepts of Freedom
- Hume on Liberty and Necessity
- Making Sense of Free Will and Moral Responsibility
>[!NOTE]
> The 2018 Lecture content is not included here, as of now.
## Licensing
[](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)
This work is licensed under [CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/). This license enables reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format for noncommercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator.