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Sep 2008
31m 56s

Adrian Moore on Metaphysics

OXFORD UNIVERSITY
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Adrian Moore, Professor of Philosophy at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, explores the definition and origin of metaphysics, and then discusses some of the enduring metaphysical questions. 
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