Ian Ramsey Centre: The Great Debate

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The Great Debated is a series of fifteen lectures by Timothy McGrew, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Philosophy, Western Michigan University. The 'Great Debate' is a convenient umbrella ... more

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June 29, 2017 Lecture 05: Populist Skepticism: Paine and Watson
This lecture begins the account of the sceptics who appealed to the common working man, with the main focus of this first lecture on Thomas Paine, with responses by Bishop Richard Watson.
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44min
June 29, 2017 Lecture 04: Urbane Skepticism: Mill and Arnold
This second and final lecture on urbane scepticism deals with the work of the Utilitarian John Stuart Mill and the English poet Matthew Arnold.
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53min
June 29, 2017 Lecture 03: Urbane Skepticism: Gibbon vs. Watson
Urbane scepticism, an extension of English Deism, is presented in this lecture mostly through the lens of Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, with a response by Bishop Richard Watson.
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41min
June 29, 2017 Lecture 02: Continental Skepticism
The focus of this lecture is continental scepticism, primarily a French movement influenced by Deism, and its main proponents: Voltaire and Rousseau.
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39min
June 29, 2017 Lecture 01: Introduction and Course Overview
This lecture introduces the course and the seven sceptical challenges of the period: continental, urbane, populist, scholarly, transcendental, establishment, and Dutch and German.
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17min

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