Questions and Answers Session
Marianne answers questions from the audience about the four talks in this series.
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A Romp Through Philosophy for Complete Beginners
In this series of podcasts Marianne Talbot uses some famous arguments in the history of philosophy to examine philosophy as a discipline. By harnessing participants’ intuitions on both sides...
Episodes
5 episodesThe Philosophy of Science
In the fourth and final lecture, we examine the notion of ‘objective fact’ on which scientific theories are built; what sort of fact is such...
Epistemology and Metaphysics
In the third lecture we examine first the so-called “Gettier Problems” for the traditional account of knowledge, the arguments for saying th...
Moral and Political Philosophy
In the second lecture we examine first the famous ‘Wilt Chamberlain’ thought experiment that demonstrates a retention between freedom and eq...
Logic and Argument: the Methodology of Philosophy
In this first lecture, using Descartes famous argument for the claim “I think therefore I am’, we examine how to identify and evaluate argum...