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Introduction to Philosophy

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主页艺术与人文哲学

Introduction to Philosophy

爱丁堡大学

关于此课程: 這門課程中將向你介紹一些當代哲學的主要研究領域,在每一個領域中將針對一位哲學家,討論他的專業領域中最重要的一些問題及議題。課程將以試圖了解甚麼是哲學開始─其特殊目的和方法,以及哲學和其他學科的差異。接著,我們將會花剩下的課程時間來獲得對哲學不同領域的初步概觀。 你將學習的主題包括: 知識論─


制作方:  爱丁堡大学
爱丁堡大学

  • Dr.  Dave Ward

    教学方:  Dr. Dave Ward, Lecturer in Philosophy

    University of Edinburgh

  • Professor Duncan Pritchard

    教学方:  Professor Duncan Pritchard, Professor of Philosophy

    University of Edinburgh

  •  Professor Michela Massimi

    教学方:   Professor Michela Massimi, Full Professor

    Philosophy

  • Dr. Suilin Lavelle

    教学方:  Dr. Suilin Lavelle, Lecturer in Philosophy

    University of Edinburgh

  • Dr. Matthew Chrisman

    教学方:  Dr. Matthew Chrisman, Reader in Philosophy

    Philosophy

  • Dr. Allan Hazlett

    教学方:  Dr. Allan Hazlett


  • Dr. Alasdair Richmond

    教学方:  Dr. Alasdair Richmond, Dr.

    Philosophy

  • Guy Fletcher

    教学方:  Guy Fletcher, Lecturer

    Philosophy

  • Elinor Mason

    教学方:  Elinor Mason, Senior Lecturer

    Philosophy
语言
English, 字幕: Chinese (Simplified), Vietnamese, Dutch, Turkish, Hebrew, Spanish, Romanian
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授课大纲
第 1 周
What is Philosophy?
(Dr. Dave Ward) We’ll start the course by thinking about what Philosophy actually is: what makes it different from other subjects? What are its distinctive aims and methods? We'll also think about why the questions that philosophers attempt to answer are often thought to be both fundamental and important, and have a look at how philosophy is actually practiced. Finally, we'll briefly touch upon two very influential philosophers' answers to the question of how we can know whether, in any given case, there really is a right way of thinking about things.
4 视频, 3 阅读材料, 1 练习测试
  1. Leyendo: About this Course
  2. Leyendo: Module: What is Philosophy?
  3. 视频: Introduction: What is Philosophy?
  4. 视频: Philosophy: Difficult, Important and Everywhere
  5. Leyendo: Optional Reading
  6. 视频: Philosophy: How Do We Do It?
  7. 视频: Is There A 'Right Way' To Think About Things?
  8. Cuestionario de práctica: Practice: What is Philosophy?
已评分: What is Philosophy?
第 2 周
Morality: Objective, Relative or Emotive?
(Dr. Matthew Chrisman) We all live with some sense of what is good or bad, some feelings about which ways of conducting ourselves are better or worse. But what is the status of these moral beliefs, senses, or feelings? Should we think of them as reflecting hard, objective facts about our world, of the sort that scientists could uncover and study? Or should we think of moral judgements as mere expressions of personal or cultural preferences? In this module we’ll survey some of the different options that are available when we’re thinking about these issues, and the problems and prospects for each.
4 视频, 1 阅读材料, 1 练习测试
  1. Leyendo: Module: Morality: Objective, Emotive or Relative?
  2. 视频: The Status of Morality
  3. 视频: Objectivism, Relativism and Emotivism
  4. 视频: Objections to Objectivism, Relativism and Emotivism
  5. 视频: Further Discussion
  6. Cuestionario de práctica: Practice: Morality: Objective, Relative or Emotive?
What is Knowledge? And Do We Have Any?
(Professor Duncan Pritchard) We know a lot of things – or, at least, we think we do. Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that studies knowledge; what it is, and the ways we can come to have it. In this module, we’ll take a tour through some of the issues that arise in this branch of philosophy. In particular, we’ll think about what radical scepticism means for our claims to knowledge. How can we know something is the case if we’re unable to rule out possibilities that are clearly incompatible with it?
5 视频, 1 阅读材料, 1 练习测试
  1. Leyendo: Module: What is Knowledge? And Do We Have Any?
  2. 视频: The Basic Constituents of Knowledge
  3. 视频: The Classical Account of Knowledge and the Gettier Problem
  4. 视频: Do We Have Any Knowledge?
  5. 视频: Further Discussion 1
  6. 视频: Further Discussion 2
  7. Cuestionario de práctica: Practice: What is Knowledge? And Do We Have Any?
Week 2 review
    已评分: Morality: Objective, Relative or Emotive?
    第 3 周
    Do We Have an Obligation to Obey the Law?
    (Dr. Guy Fletcher) The laws of a state govern what we can and cannot do within that state. But do we have an obligation to obey those laws? In this module, we'll discuss this question, together with some of the main positions that philosophers have developed in response to it. We'll start off by examining what obeying the law means exactly. Then we'll look at three factors that might form the basis of an obligation to follow the law. Finally, we'll discuss what the consequences might be if the problem can't be solved.
    7 视频, 1 阅读材料, 1 练习测试
    1. Leyendo: Module: Do We Have an Obligation to Obey the Law?
    2. 视频: Do You Have an Obligation to Obey the Law?
    3. 视频: The Grounds of Political Obligation
    4. 视频: Gratitude and Benefit
    5. 视频: Consent
    6. 视频: Fairness
    7. 视频: What if the Problem Can't Be Solved?
    8. 视频: Summary
    9. Cuestionario de práctica: Practice: Do We Have an Obligation to Obey the Law?
    Should You Believe What You Hear?
    (Dr. Allan Hazlett) Much of what we think about the world we believe on the basis of what other people say. But is this trust in other people's testimony justified? In this module, we’ll investigate how this question was addressed by two great philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment, David Hume (1711 - 1776) and Thomas Reid (1710 - 1796). Hume and Reid's dispute about testimony represents a clash between two worldviews that would continue to clash for centuries: a skeptical and often secular worldview, eager to question everything (represented by Hume), and a conservative and often religious worldview, keen to defend common sense (represented by Reid).
    5 视频, 1 阅读材料, 1 练习测试
    1. Leyendo: Module: Should You Believe What You Hear?
    2. 视频: Introduction: Hume on Testimony and Miracles
    3. 视频: Reid's Challenge to Hume
    4. 视频: Reid's Argument
    5. 视频: Kant, the Enlightenment and Intellectual Autonomy
    6. 视频: The Value of Intellectual Autonomy
    7. Cuestionario de práctica: Practice: Should You Believe What You Hear?
    Week 3 review
      已评分: Do We Have an Obligation to Obey the Law?
      第 4 周
      Minds, Brains and Computers
      (Dr. Suilin Lavelle) If you’re reading this, then you’ve got a mind. But what is a mind, and what does it take to have one? Should we understand minds as sets of dispositions to behave in certain ways, as patterns of neural activation, or as akin to programmes that are run on the computational hardware of our brains? In this module, we’ll look at how and why recent philosophy of mind and psychology has embraced each of these options in turn, and think about the problems and prospects for each.
      7 视频, 1 阅读材料, 1 练习测试
      1. Leyendo: Module: Mind, Brains and Computers
      2. 视频: Descartes' Substance Dualism Theory of the Mind
      3. 视频: Physicalism: Identity Theory and Functionalism
      4. 视频: Functionalism and What Mental States Do
      5. 视频: Functionalism and Functional Complexity
      6. 视频: Minds vs. Machines: The Turing Test and the Chinese Room
      7. 视频: Minds vs. Machines: Problems for the Computational View of the Mind
      8. 视频: Further Discussion
      9. Cuestionario de práctica: Practice: Minds, Brains and Computers
      Are Scientific Theories True?
      (Professor Michela Massimi) In this module we will explore a central and ongoing debate in contemporary philosophy of science: whether or not scientific theories are true. Or better, whether a scientific theory needs to be 'true' to be good at all. The answer to this question comes in two main varieties. Scientific realists believe that theories ought to be true in order to be good. We will analyse their main argument for this claim (which goes under the name of 'no miracles argument'), and some prominent objections to it. Scientific antirealists, on the other hand, defend the view that there is nothing special about 'truth' and that scientific theories and scientific progress can be understood without appeal to it. The aim of this session is to present both views, their main arguments, and prospects.
      7 视频, 1 阅读材料, 1 练习测试
      1. Leyendo: Module: Are Scientific Theories True?
      2. 视频: The Aim of Science: Saving the Phenomena vs. Truth
      3. 视频: Saving the Phenomena? Ptolemeic Astronomy
      4. 视频: Truth? Galileo and Copernican Astronomy
      5. 视频: Scientific Realism and the No Miracles Argument
      6. 视频: Scientific Anti-Realism: Constructive Empiricism
      7. 视频: Realist Rejoinders: Inference to the Best Explanation
      8. 视频: Concluding Summary
      9. Cuestionario de práctica: Practice: Are Scientific Theories True?
      Week 4 review
        已评分: Minds, Brains and Computers
        第 5 周
        Do We Have Free Will and Does It Matter?
        (Dr. Elinor Mason) We typically feel that the actions that we make are the result of our own free choices. But what if those actions are simply the end result of a long chain of cause and effect? What does this mean for free will? In this module, we'll look at the concept of determinism. In particular, we'll consider the implications that determinism might have for the notion of free will.
        5 视频, 1 阅读材料, 1 练习测试
        1. Leyendo: Module: Do We Have Free Will? Does it Matter?
        2. 视频: What is Determinism?
        3. 视频: Libertarianism
        4. 视频: Compatibilism
        5. 视频: Hard Determinism
        6. 视频: Summary
        7. Cuestionario de práctica: Practice: Do We Have Free Will and Does It Matter?
        Time Travel and Philosophy
        (Dr. Alasdair Richmond) In this module we'll think about some issues in metaphysics, a branch of philosophy that investigates the ways that reality could intelligibly be. Our case study will be the possibility, or otherwise, of time-travel. Some have thought that the apparent possibility of creating a machine that we could use to transport a person backwards in time can be ruled out just by thinking about it. But is time-travel really logically impossible? What would the universe have to be like for it to be possible? And can we know whether our universe fits the bill?
        6 视频, 1 阅读材料, 1 练习测试
        1. Leyendo: Module: Time Travel and Philosophy
        2. 视频: What Might Time Travel Be Anyway?
        3. 视频: Grandfather Paradoxes
        4. 视频: Two Senses of Change
        5. 视频: Causal Loops
        6. 视频: Where Next?
        7. 视频: Further Discussions
        8. Cuestionario de práctica: Practice: Time Travel and Philosophy
        Week 5 review
          已评分: Do We Have Free Will and Does It Matter?
          Peer review
          1 项目
          1. Revisión por el compañero: Peer Review

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          评分和审阅
          已评分 4.6,总共 5 个 2,815 评分
          Ahmed Ebrahim Asal

          Very useful as intoductionary course for the subject , i highly recommend it

          Alberto Heraclio Godínez Escudero

          Excelente curso, me ha dado una nueva perspectiva de las cosas, desde lo superficial hasta lo específico.

          LD

          Excelente curso muy buenas las exposiciones de los distintos profesores, y muy interesante su contenido, muchísimas gracias por haberme dejado participar del mismo.

          Mónica B. F

          Fantastic! Now I'm more interested in philosophy than I have never been.



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