John Locke Lectures in Philosophy

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What's John Locke Lectures in Philosophy about?

The John Locke Lectures are among the world's most distinguished lecture series in philosophy. The series began in 1950 and are given once a year.

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John Locke Lectures in Philosophy episodes:

07.06.2011
2011 Lecture 4: Platonism as a Way of Life
Fourth and final lecture in the 2011 John Locke lecture series. Philosophy is a demanding intellectual discipline, with many facets: logic, epistemology, philosophy of nature and science, metaphysics, ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of art, rhetoric, philosophy of language and mind....
07.06.2011
2011 Lecture 3: The Stoic Way of Life
Third lecture in the 2011 John Locke Lecture Series. Philosophy is a demanding intellectual discipline, with many facets: logic, epistemology, philosophy of nature and science, metaphysics, ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of art, rhetoric, philosophy of language and mind. But a...
07.06.2011
2011 Lecture 2: Aristotle's Philosophy as Two Ways of Life
Second lecture in the 2011 John Locke Lecture Series. Philosophy is a demanding intellectual discipline, with many facets: logic, epistemology, philosophy of nature and science, metaphysics, ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of art, rhetoric, philosophy of language and mind. But a...
07.06.2011
2011 Lecture 1: Philosophy in Antiquity as a Way of Life
Part of the 2011 John Locke Lecture Series; this year presented by Professor John Cooper, Princeton University, on 'Ancient Greek Philosophies as a Way of Life'. Philosophy is a demanding intellectual discipline, with many facets: logic, epistemology, philosophy of nature...
12.20.2010
2009 Lecture 5: Normative Structures
Fifth and final lecture in the 2009 John Locke lectures entitled Being Realistic about Reasons. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/
12.20.2010
2009 Lecture 4: Epistemological Problems
Fourth lecture in the 2009 John Locke Lecture series entitled Being Realistic about Reasons. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/
12.20.2010
2009 Lecture 3: Motivation and the Appeal of Expressivism
Third lecture in the 2009 John Locke lecture series entitled Being Realistic about Reasons. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/
12.20.2010
2009 Lecture 2: Normativity and Metaphysics
Second lecture in the 2009 John Locke lectures entitled Being Realistic about Reasons. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/
12.20.2010
2009 Lecture 1: Being Realistic about Reasons Introduction
First lecture of the 2009 John Locke Lectures entitled 'Being Realistic about Reasons. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/
12.15.2010
2010 Lecture 6: Whither the Aufbau?
Sixth and final lecture in the John Locke lecture series entitled Constructing the World.
12.15.2010
2010 Lecture 5: Hard Cases: Mathematics, Normativity, Ontology, Intentionality
Fifth lecture in the 2010 John Locke lecture series entitled Constructing the World.
12.15.2010
2010 Lecture 4: Revisability and Conceptual Change: Carnap vs. Quine
Fourth lecture in the 2010 John Locke lecture series entitled Constructing the World.
12.15.2010
2010 Lecture 3: The Case for A Priori Scrutability
Third lecture in the 2010 John Locke lecture series entitled Constructing the World.
12.15.2010
2010 Lecture 2: The Cosmoscope Argument
Second lecture in the 2010 John Locke lecture series entitled 'Constructing the World'.
12.15.2010
2010 Lecture 1: A Scrutable World
First Lecture in the 2010 John Locke Lecture series entitled Constructing the World.
07.24.2008
2008 Lecture 6: The Revisability Puzzle Revisited.
This is the sixth lecture in the 2008 John Locke Lecture series entitled 'Logic, Normativity, and Rational Revisability'.
07.24.2008
2008 Lecture 5: Epistemology without Metaphysics
This is the fifth lecture in the 2008 John Locke Lecture series entitled 'Logic, Normativity, and Rational Revisability'.
07.24.2008
2008 Lecture 4: Is that Really Revising Logic?
This is the fourth lecture in the 2008 John Locke Lecture series entitled 'Logic, Normativity, and Rational Revisability'.
07.24.2008
2008 Lecture 3: A Case for the Rational Revisability of Logic.
This is the third lecture in the 2008 John Locke Lecture series entitled 'Logic, Normativity, and Rational Revisability'.
07.24.2008
2008 Lecture 2: What is the Normative Role of Logic?
This is the second lecture in the 2008 John Locke Lecture series entitled 'Logic, Normativity, and Rational Revisability'.
07.24.2008
2008 Lecture 1: A Puzzle about Rational Revisability
This is the first lecture in the 2008 John Locke Lecture series entitled 'Logic, Normativity, and Rational Revisability'.
07.10.2008
2007 Lecture 6: Knowing what we are thinking
The sixth lecture will try to resolve a familiar tension between externalism about mental content and the assumption that we have some kind of privileged knowledge of the contents of our own thoughts. I will look at the "slow switching"...
07.10.2008
2007 Lecture 5: Acquaintance and essence
Russell held that we must be acquainted with the constituents of the contents of our thoughts, and remnants of this doctrine persist in the work of a number of more recent philosophers. Our knowledge of our own phenomenal experience is...
07.10.2008
2007 Lecture 4: Phenomenal and epistemic indistinguishability
The fourth lecture will begin with a variation on the thought experiment about Mary that is the focus of the knowledge argument, using it to develop the analogy between self-locating knowledge and knowledge of phenomenal experience. The success of the...
07.10.2008
2007 Lecture 3: Locating ourselves in the world
One strategy for responding to the knowledge argument exploits an analogy between knowledge of phenomenal experience and essentially indexical or self-locating knowledge. I think this is a promising analogy, but I will argue that before we apply it, we need...
07.10.2008
2007 Lecture 2: Epistemic possibilities and the knowledge argument
The second lecture will begin with Frank Jackson's knowledge argument. The argument and the responses to it turn on assumptions about the nature of the contents of belief and the objects of knowledge. I will argue that one cannot escape...
06.26.2008
2007 Lecture 1: Starting in the middle
Our topic is a subject's knowledge of his own phenomenal experience and of the content of his thought, but I will approach the topic from the outside, treating the subject as an object in the world. The first lecture will...

What's John Locke Lectures in Philosophy about?

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John Locke Lectures in Philosophy episodes:

2011 Lecture 4: Platonism as a Way of Life

2011 Lecture 3: The Stoic Way of Life

2011 Lecture 2: Aristotle's Philosophy as Two Ways of Life

2011 Lecture 1: Philosophy in Antiquity as a Way of Life

2009 Lecture 5: Normative Structures

2009 Lecture 4: Epistemological Problems

2009 Lecture 3: Motivation and the Appeal of Expressivism

2009 Lecture 2: Normativity and Metaphysics

2009 Lecture 1: Being Realistic about Reasons Introduction

2010 Lecture 6: Whither the Aufbau?

2010 Lecture 5: Hard Cases: Mathematics, Normativity, Ontology, Intentionality

2010 Lecture 4: Revisability and Conceptual Change: Carnap vs. Quine

2010 Lecture 3: The Case for A Priori Scrutability

2010 Lecture 2: The Cosmoscope Argument

2010 Lecture 1: A Scrutable World

2008 Lecture 6: The Revisability Puzzle Revisited.

2008 Lecture 5: Epistemology without Metaphysics

2008 Lecture 4: Is that Really Revising Logic?

2008 Lecture 3: A Case for the Rational Revisability of Logic.

2008 Lecture 2: What is the Normative Role of Logic?

2008 Lecture 1: A Puzzle about Rational Revisability

2007 Lecture 6: Knowing what we are thinking

2007 Lecture 5: Acquaintance and essence

2007 Lecture 4: Phenomenal and epistemic indistinguishability

2007 Lecture 3: Locating ourselves in the world

2007 Lecture 2: Epistemic possibilities and the knowledge argument

2007 Lecture 1: Starting in the middle