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Philosophers at universities and schools talk about philosophy topics in A-Levels / IB / Highers. Fun and engaging, informative and clear.

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Philosophers at universities and schools talk about philosophy topics in A-Levels / IB / Highers. Fun and engaging, informative and clear.

    PGS - Reason as a Source of Knowledge

    PGS - Reason as a Source of Knowledge

    Part 1: Types of knowledge, definitions. Part 2 (18min15sec): Innate knowledge: Plato's Meno, Leibniz, Locke and Hume.  Part 3 (41min15sec): 'Intuition and Deduction' - Hume's Fork, Descartes' Cogito, clear and distinct ideas, Trademark Argument, etc. Sally Latham and DaN McKee chat with Simon Kirchin.  [Music by Alex Grohl] 

    • 1 hr 13 min
    PGS - Cosmological Argument(s)

    PGS - Cosmological Argument(s)

    Part 1: Intro, Kalam and Aquinas (first 2 ways).  Part 2 (23min25sec): Descartes and criticisms. Part 3 (41min45sec) Aquinas (3rd way), Leibniz and evaluation.  Matt Harris and Michael Lacewing chat with Simon Kirchin. [Music by Alex Grohl]

    • 59 min
    PGS - Scepticism

    PGS - Scepticism

    Part 1: Scepticism: definition and purpose, brains in vats, scepticism vs. normal disbelief.  Part 2 (25min25sec): Descartes: waves of doubt and his responses.  Part 3 (45min45sec): empiricist responses (Locke, Berkeley and Russell), and reliabilism.  Beth Mackintosh and Ben Jones chat with Simon Kirchin.  [Music by Alex Grohl] 

    • 1 hr 17 min
    PGS - God’s Attributes

    PGS - God’s Attributes

    Part 1: Introduction (the 'Omni-God'), eternal and everlasting.  Part 2 (16min50sec): Foreknowledge and time.  Part 3 (33min35sec): Stone Paradox and Euthyphro dilemma.  Sally Latham and Michael Platt chat with Simon Kirchin (Univ of Kent). 

    • 53 min
    PGS - Teleological Argument / Argument from Design

    PGS - Teleological Argument / Argument from Design

    Part 1: introduction, Aquinas, Paley and Hume.  Part 2 (starts 25min05sec): Swinburne, evolution, fine-tuning and evaluation.  Michael Platt and Matt Harris chat with Simon Kirchin.  [Music by Alex Grohl.]

    • 51 min
    PGS - Key Terms Bonanza!

    PGS - Key Terms Bonanza!

    Key Terms!  Part 1: assertion/claim, proposition, true/false, justification, analytic/synthetic, a priori/a posteriori.  / Part 2 (starts: 22min05sec): argument, deductive/inductive/abductive, consistent/inconsistent/contradiction, proof, antecedent/consequent, tautology, dilemma (and Catch 22), paradox, fallacy, slippery slope. / Part 3 (starts 59min35sec): necessary/contingent, objective/subjective, agape, telos, via negativa and via positiva.  DaN McKee and Ben Jones chat with Simon Kirchin. [Music by Alex Grohl] 

    • 1 hr 24 min

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