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 under license CC-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:

git clone https://github.com/moiSentineL/oxford-general-philosophy-2009.git
cd oxford-general-philosophy-2009

Run the python file with appropriate arguments:

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:

❯ python download.py slides

Downloading slides...
General Philosophy Lecture 1
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Course Content

Taken from Peter Millican's website 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

This work is licensed under CC-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.