General Philosophy Lecture 8 (Slides)
PDF slides from Peter Millican's General Philosophy lecture 8.
View Article8.4 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.
View Article8.3 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...
View Article8.2 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.
View Article8.1 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.
View ArticleGeneral Philosophy Lecture 7 (Slides)
PDF slides from Peter Millican's General Philosophy lecture 7.
View Article7.4 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.
View Article7.3 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.
View Article7.2 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.
View Article7.1 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...
View ArticleGeneral Philosophy Lecture 6 (Slides)
PDF slides from Peter Millican's General Philosophy lecture 6.
View Article6.4 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...
View Article6.3 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.
View Article6.2 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...
View Article6.1 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.
View ArticleGeneral Philosophy Lecture 5 (Slides)
PDF slides from Peter Millican's General Philosophy lecture 5.
View Article5.4 Scepticism, Externalism and the Ethics of Belief
Part 5.4. Looks at the role the concept of knowledge plays in life, the different levels of knowledge we require in certain contexts and the return of scepticism over knowledge.
View Article5.3 Gettier and Other Complications
Part 5.3. The difference between internalist and externalist accounts of knowledge; whether we need external factors to justify knowledge or whether internal accounts are sufficient, and the Gettier...
View Article5.2 The Traditional Analysis of Knowledge
Part 5.2. Explores the idea of conscious and unconscious knowledge (should a person know that they know something or does it not matter?) and the theory of justification of propositions and beliefs.
View Article5.1 Introduction to Knowledge
Part 5.1. Looks at the problem of knowledge; how can we know what we know, three types of knowledge and A J Ayer's two conditions for knowledge.
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