The Traditional Analysis of Knowledge

Introduction to General Philosophy (Oxford)

• Introduction to General Philosophy
• The Birth of Modern Philosophy
• From Aristotle to Galileo
• The Birth of Early Modern Period From Galileo to Descartes
• Recap of General philosophy Lecture
• Introduction to Thomas Hobbes
• Robert Boyle’s Corpuscularian Theory
• Isaac Newton Instrumentalism
• Introduction to John Locke
• George Berkeley and Idealism
• Introduction to David Hume
• David Hume Concluding Remarks
• The Problem of Induction
• Scepticism of External World
• Possible Answers to Scepticism of External World
• Introduction to Cartesian Dualism
• Modern Responses to Dualism
• Introduction to Knowledge
• The Traditional Analysis of Knowledge
• Gettier and Other Complications
• Scepticism, Externalism and the Ethics of Belief
• Introduction to Primary and Secondary Qualities
• Problems with Resemblance
• Abstraction and Idealism
• Making Sense of Perception
• Free Will, Determinism and Choice
• Different Concepts of Freedom
• Hume on Liberty and Necessity
• Making Sense of Free Will and Moral Responsibility
• John Locke on Personal Identity
• Problems for Locke’s View of Personal Identity
• Persons, Humans and Brains