Jul 2011

2011 Lecture 4: Platonism as a Way of Life

Fourth and final lecture in the 2011 John Locke lecture series. Philosophy is a demanding intellectual discipline, with many facets: logic, epistemology, philosophy of nature and science, metaphysics, ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of art, rhetoric, philosophy of langua ... Show More

1h 5m

Jul 2011

2011 Lecture 2: Aristotle's Philosophy as Two Ways of Life

Second lecture in the 2011 John Locke Lecture Series. Philosophy is a demanding intellectual discipline, with many facets: logic, epistemology, philosophy of nature and science, metaphysics, ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of art, rhetoric, philosophy of language and min ... Show More

1 h

Jul 2011

2011 Lecture 1: Philosophy in Antiquity as a Way of Life

Part of the 2011 John Locke Lecture Series; this year presented by Professor John Cooper, Princeton University, on 'Ancient Greek Philosophies as a Way of Life'. Philosophy is a demanding intellectual discipline, with many facets: logic, epistemology, philosophy of nature and sci ... Show More

59m 28s

Mar 2011

3. Hume and the Standard of Taste

James Grant, lecturer in philosophy, University of Oxford gives his third lecture in the Aesthetics series on Hume and the Standard of Taste.

55m 58s

Jun 2022

Understanding the Human Mind - the Philosophy of John Locke

Is the mind a blank slate? John Locke's famous essay on Human Understanding This video is a voice over of the introduction from John Locke's publication from 1689: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Essa... Author: John LockeLearn more: https ... Show More

7m 24s

May 2010

Some Fundamental Facts about the Infinite

Professor Adrian Moore delivers a lecture on the concept of the infinite, a concept with deep philosophical implications. This lecture was given in St Hugh's College as part of the St Hugh's Special Lecture Series.

44m 59s

Oct 2024

Immanuel Kant, Groundwork - The Thing In Itself And Free Human Being - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work of ethics, The Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals. Specifically it examines his discussion of the analogy he provides in that work between the Thing-In-Itself (Ding-in-sich) and the free ... Show More

9m 12s

Aug 2025

Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan - The True Moral Philosophy of Laws of Nature - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the modern philosopher Thomas Hobbes' work Leviathan It focuses specifically on his discussion in chapters 15 and 26. In chapter 15, after having enumerated and explained the majority of the "laws of nature", which Hobbes notes correspond to ... Show More

19m 13s

Aug 2012

1a. Hume's Theory of Ideas and the Faculties

First part of lecture one of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One.

20m 43s

Mar 2010

027 Hydrogen part 3 Eigenfunctions

Twenty seventh lecture in Professor James Binney's Quantum Mechanics Lecture series given in Hilary Term 2010.

50m 39s

Oct 2009

The materialist philosophy

De Sade's status as a literary philosopher and his relationship to materialist philosophy is expertly analysed, along with several pertinent readings from his works.

14m 55s

Sep 2024

Immanuel Kant, Groundwork - Heteronomy And Spurious Principles Of Morality - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant's work of ethics, The Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals. Specifically it examines his discussion of what he calls "heteronomy" in moral theories other than his own. He examines empirical princ ... Show More

11m 5s

Mar 2011

7. Musical Expression

James Grant, lecturer in philosophy, University of Oxford gives his seventh lecture in the Aesthetics series on the expression of emotion in music.

52m 16s

2011 Lecture 3: The Stoic Way of Life