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制作方： The University of Edinburgh
教学方： Dr. Dave Ward, Lecturer in Philosophy
University of Edinburgh
教学方： Professor Duncan Pritchard, Professor of Philosophy
University of Edinburgh
教学方： Professor Michela Massimi, Full Professor
Philosophy
教学方： Dr. Suilin Lavelle, Lecturer in Philosophy
University of Edinburgh
教学方： Dr. Matthew Chrisman, Reader in Philosophy
Philosophy
教学方： Dr. Allan Hazlett
教学方： Dr. Alasdair Richmond, Dr.
Philosophy
教学方： Guy Fletcher, Lecturer
Philosophy
教学方： Elinor Mason, Senior Lecturer
Philosophy
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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 个视频, 3 个阅读材料, 1 个练习测验
- Leitura: About this Course
- Leitura: Module: What is Philosophy?
- 视频: Philosophy: Difficult, Important and Everywhere
- Leitura: Optional Reading
- 视频: Philosophy: How Do We Do It?
- 视频: Is There A 'Right Way' To Think About Things?
- Teste para praticar: 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 个视频, 1 个阅读材料, 1 个练习测验
- Leitura: Module: Morality: Objective, Emotive or Relative?
- 视频: Objectivism, Relativism and Emotivism
- 视频: Objections to Objectivism, Relativism and Emotivism
- 视频: Further Discussion
- Teste para praticar: 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 个视频, 1 个阅读材料, 1 个练习测验
- Leitura: Module: What is Knowledge? And Do We Have Any?
- 视频: The Classical Account of Knowledge and the Gettier Problem
- 视频: Do We Have Any Knowledge?
- 视频: Further Discussion 1
- 视频: Further Discussion 2
- Teste para praticar: 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 个视频, 1 个阅读材料, 1 个练习测验
- Leitura: Module: Do We Have an Obligation to Obey the Law?
- 视频: The Grounds of Political Obligation
- 视频: Gratitude and Benefit
- 视频: Consent
- 视频: Fairness
- 视频: What if the Problem Can't Be Solved?
- 视频: Summary
- Teste para praticar: 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 个视频, 1 个阅读材料, 1 个练习测验
- Leitura: Module: Should You Believe What You Hear?
- 视频: Reid's Challenge to Hume
- 视频: Reid's Argument
- 视频: Kant, the Enlightenment and Intellectual Autonomy
- 视频: The Value of Intellectual Autonomy
- Teste para praticar: 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 个视频, 2 个阅读材料, 1 个练习测验
- Leitura: Module: Mind, Brains and Computers
- 视频: Physicalism: Identity Theory and Functionalism
- 视频: Functionalism and What Mental States Do
- 视频: Functionalism and Functional Complexity
- 视频: Minds vs. Machines: The Turing Test and the Chinese Room
- 视频: Minds vs. Machines: Problems for the Computational View of the Mind
- 视频: Further Discussion
- Teste para praticar: Practice: Minds, Brains and Computers
- Leitura: Related work by Philosophy staff at the University of Edinburgh
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 个视频, 1 个阅读材料, 1 个练习测验
- Leitura: Module: Are Scientific Theories True?
- 视频: Saving the Phenomena? Ptolemeic Astronomy
- 视频: Truth? Galileo and Copernican Astronomy
- 视频: Scientific Realism and the No Miracles Argument
- 视频: Scientific Anti-Realism: Constructive Empiricism
- 视频: Realist Rejoinders: Inference to the Best Explanation
- 视频: Concluding Summary
- Teste para praticar: 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 个视频, 1 个阅读材料, 1 个练习测验
- Leitura: Module: Do We Have Free Will? Does it Matter?
- 视频: Libertarianism
- 视频: Compatibilism
- 视频: Hard Determinism
- 视频: Summary
- Teste para praticar: 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 个视频, 2 个阅读材料, 1 个练习测验
- Leitura: Module: Time Travel and Philosophy
- 视频: Grandfather Paradoxes
- 视频: Two Senses of Change
- 视频: Causal Loops
- 视频: Where Next?
- 视频: Further Discussions
- Teste para praticar: Practice: Time Travel and Philosophy
- Leitura: Related work by Dr Alasdair Richmond
Week 5 review
已评分: Do We Have Free Will and Does It Matter?
Peer review
1 个项目
- Avaliação entre colegas: Peer Review
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评分和审阅
I think it's a bit basic, but on the other hand it is an introduction.
This course provides users with basic concepts about Philosophy, and it introduces the (typical) questions that are discussed by different philosophers and related sub-fields in philosophy. As an introductory course, it focuses on giving learners a "big picture". I would recommend this course for learners who have little or no basis of philosophy.
Excellent courses, first gate of philosophy, highly reccomded any one want to know more about philosophy
MS
I took this course purely out of self-interest, because as a college student pursuing an engineering degree, my subjects tend to be more technical oriented, and a tab bit dry. This entire course, from start to finish, was nothing short of amazing. Each teacher taught their material with vigorous passion, and the topics covered were both interesting and educative. They were thoroughly explained but easy to understand, and overall, I would, with complete and utter certainty, do a course by this University again in a heartbeat. Thank you to all the teachers, for being so passionate.