Moral and Political Philosophy: how should we live? What constitutes a just state?

Philosophy for Beginners

Ethics and politics

Language and Mind: What is rationality? What is consciousness? How do we manage to express our thoughts and experiences in language?

Philosophy of language and mind

Metaphysics and Epistemology: what exists, what is its nature and how can we acquire knowledge of it?

Metaphysics and Epistemology

Logic and Argument: the joys of symbolic and philosophical logic.

The philosophical method - logic and argument

A romp through the history of philosophy from the Pre-Socratics to the present day.

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Philosophy has been studied for thousands of years. It involves the use of reason and argument to search for the truth about reality - about the nature of things, ethics, aesthetics, language, the mind, God and everything else. This series of five introductory lectures, aimed at students new to philosophy, presented by Marianne Talbot, Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford, will test you on some famous thought experiments and introduce you to some central philosophical issues and to the thoughts of some key philosophers.

Ethics and politics

Philosophy for Beginners

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Philosophy of language and mind

Metaphysics and Epistemology