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Episode Title	Description	People	Date
7.3 Hume on Liberty and Necessity	Part 7.3. Looks at Hume's views on liberty and its relationship to causal necessity; that we have free will but it is causally determined.	Peter Millican	1 December, 2010
7.2 Different Concepts of Freedom	Part 7.2. Looks at Hobbes' and Hume's views of free will and the three concepts of freedom, and considers the idea of moral responsibility as dependent on free will.	Peter Millican	1 December, 2010
7.1 Free Will, Determinism and Choice	Part 7.1. Explores the problem of free will and the ideas of moral responsibility, determinism and choice; the need for a concept of freedom to allow free choice, the problems associated with this and asking whether we really have freedom of choice.	Peter Millican	1 December, 2010
6.4 Making Sense of Perception	Part 6.4. A brief overview of contemporary accounts of perception; including phenomenalism (that objects are logical constructions from sense data) and direct realism (that we perceive objects and the external world directly).	Peter Millican	30 November, 2010
6.3 Abstraction and Idealism	Part 6.3. Criticisms of the resemblance theory of perception and an introduction to idealism - that perceptions of the external world are all within the mind as ideas.	Peter Millican	30 November, 2010
6.2 Problems with Resemblance	Part 6.2. Explores Berkeley's and Locke's arguments concerning the resemblance of qualities and objects; that the perceived qualities of objects exist only in the mind or whether secondary qualities are intrinsically part of the object.	Peter Millican	30 November, 2010
6.1 Introduction to Primary and Secondary Qualities	Part 6.1. Introduces the problem of perception (and the distinction between the world and what we perceive), along with the concepts of primary and secondary qualities.	Peter Millican	30 November, 2010
5.4 Scepticism, Externalism and the Ethics of Belief	Part 5.4. Looks at the role the concept of knowledge plays in life, the different levels of knowledge we require in certain contexts and the return of scepticism over knowledge.	Peter Millican	29 November, 2010
5.3 Gettier and Other Complications	Part 5.3. The difference between internalist and externalist accounts of knowledge; whether we need external factors to justify knowledge or whether internal accounts are sufficient, and the Gettier cases.	Peter Millican	29 November, 2010
5.2 The Traditional Analysis of Knowledge	Part 5.2. Explores the idea of conscious and unconscious knowledge (should a person know that they know something or does it not matter?) and the theory of justification of propositions and beliefs.	Peter Millican	29 November, 2010
5.1 Introduction to Knowledge	Part 5.1. Looks at the problem of knowledge; how can we know what we know, three types of knowledge and A J Ayer's two conditions for knowledge.	Peter Millican	29 November, 2010
Research Seminar: Michelangelo: A Life on Paper	In this lecture recorded as a part of the University of Oxford History of Art Department's Research Seminar series, Professor Leonard Barkan (Princeton University) discusses the theme "Michelangelo: A Life on Paper". Recording date - 4th November 2010.	Leonard Barkan	26 November, 2010
Common Values and Federalism in Europe	David Hannay, Peter Sutherland and Peter Luff participate in a discussion on Common Values and Federalism in Europe. Part of the Europaeum Conference recorded at St Anthony's College in September 2010.	Peter Sutherland, Peter Luff, David Hannay	22 November, 2010
The Winter's Tale	How we can make sense of a play that veers from tragedy to comedy and stretches credulity in its conclusion? That's the topic for this fifth Approaching Shakespeare lecture on The Winter's Tale.	Emma Smith	9 November, 2010
Macbeth	In this fourth Approaching Shakespeare lecture the question is one of agency: who or what makes happen the things that happen in Macbeth?	Emma Smith	2 November, 2010
Measure for Measure	The third Approaching Shakespeare lecture, on Measure for Measure, focuses on the vexed question of this uncomic comedy's genre.	Emma Smith	26 October, 2010
Henry V	The second lecture in the Approaching Shakespeare series looks at King Henry V, and asks whether his presentation in the play is entirely positive.	Emma Smith	20 October, 2010
Othello	First in Emma Smith's Approaching Shakespeare lecture series; looking at the central question of race and its significance in the play.	Emma Smith	18 October, 2010
British EU Policy After The Election	Recorded on 15th June 2010, the European Studies Centre, St Antony's College presents The Chancellor of the University of Oxford Lord Patten of Barnes in conversation with Lord Hannay and Sir Stephen Wall. Convenor: Professor Jane Caplan.	David Hannay, Stephen Wall, Chris Patten, Jane Caplan	19 July, 2010
Wellbeing and Inequality in Post-Industrial Society	The Annual Ralf Dahrendorf Memorial Lecture is delivered by a leading thinker on a subject related to Ralf Dahrendorf's concerns. This inaugural (2010) Ralf Dahrendorf Memorial Lecture was delivered by Lord (Adair) Turner.	Adair Turner, Timothy Garton Ash, Michael Göring, Robert Skidelsky, Paul Collier	6 July, 2010
Oxford Literary Festival 2010 By Seven Firs and Goldenstone - An account of the Legend of Alderley	Alan Garner gives an illustrated lecture on the Legend of Alderley. This version of the myth of the Sleeping Hero is rooted to places on Alderley Edge in Cheshire, where Alan Garner grew up.	Alan Garner	21 June, 2010
Oxford Literary Festival 2010 Pieces of Places Discussion The Weirdstone of Brisingamen	Alan Garner, Mark Edmonds and Robert Powell take part in a discussion on the subject of pieces of places, objects and artefacts found and what they mean for writing fiction and for archeology in general.	Alan Garner, Mark Edmonds, Robert Powell	21 June, 2010
Oxford Literary Festival 2010 Pieces of Places - Reading of Alan Garner's Work	The 50th anniversary of the publication of Alan Garner's first novel, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen. A talk examining the importance of place in Alan Garner's work. Robert Powell gives a reading of The Stone Book, from The Stone Book Quartet.	Robert Powell, Alan Garner	21 June, 2010
4.3 Cartesian Dualism	Part 4.3. Introduces Descartes' idea of dualism, that there is a separation between the mind and the body, as well as some of the philosophical issues surrounding this idea.	Peter Millican	8 April, 2010
4.4 The Mind-Body Problem	Part 4.4. Looks at some of the modern responses to Cartesian Dualism including Gilbert Ryle's and G. Strawson's responses to the idea.	Peter Millican	8 April, 2010
4.2 Possible Answers to External World Scepticism	Part 4.2. Investigates some of the possible solutions to Descartes' sceptical problem of the external world, looking at G.E Moore's response, among others, to the problem.	Peter Millican	8 April, 2010
3.2 Responses to Hume's Famous Argument	Part 3.2. Responses to and justifications of Hume's argument concerning the problem of induction.	Peter Millican	8 April, 2010
3.1 Hume's Argument Concerning Induction	Part 3.1. Briefly introduces the problem of induction: that is, the problem that it is difficult to justify claims to knowledge of the world through pure reason, i.e. without experience.	Peter Millican	8 April, 2010
2.7 Overview: Kant and Modern Science	Part 2.7. Concludes a historical survey of philosophy with Immanuel Kant, who thought Hume was wrong in his idea of human nature and how we gain knowledge of the world.	Peter Millican	8 April, 2010
4.1 Scepticism about the External World	Part 4.1. Introduces the problem of how do we have knowledge of the world, how do we know what we perceive is in fact what is there?	Peter Millican	8 April, 2010
Evaluating Arguments Part Two	Part six of a six-part series on critical reasoning. In this final lecture we will look at fallacies. These are bad arguments that can easily be mistaken for good arguments.	Marianne Talbot	18 March, 2010
2.6 David Hume	Part 2.6. Introduces 18th Century Scottish philosopher David Hume, 'The Great Infidel', including his life, works and a brief look at his philosophical thoughts.	Peter Millican	16 March, 2010
2.5 Nicolas Malebranche and George Berkeley	Part 2.5. Focuses on Malebranche, a lesser-known French Philosopher, and his ideas on idealism and the influence they had on English philosopher George Berkeley.	Peter Millican	16 March, 2010
2.4 John Locke	Part 2.4. Introduction to the philosophy of John Locke, 'England's first Empiricist', he also gives a very simplistic definition of Empiricism; we obtain knowledge through experience of the world, through sensory data (what we see, hear, etc).	Peter Millican	16 March, 2010
2.3 Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton	Part 2.3. An introduction to Robert Boyle's theory of corpuscularianism and Isaac Newton's ideas on mathematics and the universe.	Peter Millican	16 March, 2010
2.2 Thomas Hobbes: The Monster of Malmesbury	Part 2.2. A brief introduction to Thomas Hobbes, 'The Monster of Malmsbury', his views on a mechanistic universe, his strong ideas on determinism and his pessimistic view of human nature: 'The life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short'.	Peter Millican	16 March, 2010
2.1 Recap of General Philosophy Lecture 1	Part 2.1. A brief recap on the first lecture describing how Aristotle's view of the universe, dominant throughout the middle ages in Europe, came to be gradually phased out by a modern, mechanistic view of the universe.	Peter Millican	16 March, 2010
Evaluating Arguments Part One	Part five of a six-part series on critical reasoning. In this lecture we will continue with the evaluation of arguments - this time deductive arguments - focusing in particular on the notion of validity.	Marianne Talbot	15 March, 2010
What is a Good Argument? Validity and Truth	Part four of a six-part series on critical reasoning. In this lecture we will learn how to evaluate arguments and how to tell whether an argument is good or bad, focusing specifically on inductive arguments.	Marianne Talbot	11 March, 2010
Setting out Arguments Logic Book Style	Part three of a six-part series on critical reasoning. In this lecture we will focus on how to identify and analyse arguments, and how to set arguments out logic book-style to make them easier to evaluate.	Marianne Talbot	10 March, 2010
Pre-1500 Printed Books	The earliest printers spread from Mainz in Germany where Gutenberg first had his printing house to Venice, Rome, Paris, and the Netherlands. Examples from all of these centres of 15th-century printing are found in Bodleian collections.	Paul Nash	5 March, 2010
027 Hydrogen part 3 Eigenfunctions	Twenty seventh lecture in Professor James Binney's Quantum Mechanics Lecture series given in Hilary Term 2010.	James Binney	5 March, 2010
026 Hydrogen part 2 Emission Spectra	Twenty sixth lecture in Professor James Binney's Quantum Mechanics Lecture series given in Hilary Term 2010.	James Binney	5 March, 2010
025 Hydrogen part 1	Twenty fifth lecture in Professor James Binney's Quantum Mechanics Lecture series given in Hilary Term 2010.	James Binney	5 March, 2010
024 Classical Spin and Addition of Angular Momenta	Twenty fourth lecture in Professor James Binney's Quantum Mechanics Lecture series given in Hilary Term 2010.	James Binney	5 March, 2010
023 Spin 1/2 , Stern - Gerlach Experiment and Spin 1	Twenty third lecture in Professor James Binney's Quantum Mechanics Lecture series given in Hilary Term 2010.	James Binney	5 March, 2010
022 Spin Angular Momentum	Twenty second lecture in Professor James Binney's Quantum Mechanics Lecture series given in Hilary Term 2010.	James Binney	5 March, 2010
Unfit for Life: Genetically Enhance Humanity of Face Extinction	A St Cross Special Ethics Seminar - If we are to avoid annihilation, we must either alter our political institutions, severely restrain our technology or change our nature (22 February 2010).	Julian Savulescu	3 March, 2010
1.4 From Galileo to Descartes	Part 1.4. Outlines Galileo's revolutionary theories of astronomy and mechanical science and introduces Descartes' (the father of modern philosophy) ideas of philosophical scepticism.	Peter Millican	19 February, 2010
1.3 Science from Aristotle to Galileo	Part 1.3. Describes briefly the Aristotelian view of the universe; the basis for natural science in Europe until the 15th century and its conflict Galileo's theories.	Peter Millican	19 February, 2010
1.2 The Background of Early Modern Philosophy	Part 1.2. Gives a very brief history of philosophy from the 'birth of philosophy' in Ancient Greece through the rise of Christianity in Europe in the Middle Ages through to the Renaissance, the Reformation and the birth of the Modern Period.	Peter Millican	19 February, 2010
1.1 An Introduction to General Philosophy	Part 1.1. Outlines the General Philosophy course, the various topics that will be discussed, and also, more importantly, the philosophical method that this course introduces to students.	Peter Millican	19 February, 2010
021 Even further Orbital Angular Momentum - Eigenfunctions, Parity and Kinetic Energy	Twenty-first lecture in Professor James Binney's Quantum Mechanics Lecture series given in Hilary Term 2010.	James Binney	9 February, 2010
020 Further Orbital Angular Momentum, Spectra of L2 and LZ	Twentieth lecture in Professor James Binney's Quantum Mechanics Lecture series given in Hilary Term 2010.	James Binney	9 February, 2010
019 Diatomic Molecules and Orbital Angular Momentum	Nineteenth lecture in Professor James Binney's Quantum Mechanics Lecture series given in Hilary Term 2010.	James Binney	9 February, 2010
018 Angular Momentum	Eighteenth lecture in Professor James Binney's Quantum Mechanics Lecture series given in Hilary Term 2010.	James Binney	4 February, 2010
017 Einstein-Podolski-Rosen Experiment and Bell's Inequality	Seventeenth lecture in Professor James Binney's Quantum Mechanics Lecture series given in Hilary Term 2010.	James Binney	4 February, 2010
016 Composite Systems - Entanglement and Operators	Sixteenth lecture in Professor James Binney's Quantum Mechanics Lecture series given in Hilary Term 2010.	James Binney	4 February, 2010
Different Types of Arguments	The second of six lectures dealing with critical reasoning. In this lecture you will learn about the different types of arguments, in particular deductive and inductive arguments.	Marianne Talbot	29 January, 2010
The Nature of Arguments	The first of six lectures dealing with critical reasoning. In this lecture you will learn how to recognise arguments and what the nature of an argument is.	Marianne Talbot	29 January, 2010
015 Tunnelling and Radioactive Decay	Fifteenth lecture in the Quantum Mechanics course given in Hilary term 2010.	James Binney	26 January, 2010
014 A Pair of Square Wells and the Ammonia Maser	Fourteenth Lecture in the Quantum Mechanics Course given in Hilary term 2010.	James Binney	26 January, 2010
013 Hilary: The Square Well	Thirteenth lecture in Professor James Binney's Quantum Mechanics Lecture series given in Hilary Term 2010.	James Binney	26 January, 2010
Nietzsche Source. Scholarly Nietzsche editions on the web	Introduction to the scholarly editions of Nietzsche Source: the digital critical edition based on Colli/Montinary, the digital edition of the Nietzsche estate including works, manuscripts and letters and the future genetic edition of Nietzsche's works.	Paolo D’Iorio	23 December, 2009
Nietzsche's Value Monism - Saying Yes to Everything	Lecture on Nietzsche's attack on Value Dualism, as well as the view he offers instead and whether Nietzsche can sustain his Value Monism-the view that everything is good-given the pressures that pull him back into saying no as well as yes.	John Richardson	23 December, 2009
Nietzsche's Metaphysics	Nietzsche rejects a persisting self; real distinctions of objects and properties, categorical and dispositional properties, causes and effects; free will. He holds that determinism is true, reality is one and fundamentally experiential.	Galen Strawson	22 December, 2009
Consciousness, Language and Nature: Nietzsche's Philosophy of Mind and Nature	On the triangulation between consciousness, language and nature in Nietzsche's philosophy and contemporary philosophy of mind and proposes a philosophy of signs and interpretation as a basis for a philosophy of mind, language and nature.	Gunter Abel	22 December, 2009
Who is the 'Sovereign Individual?' Nietzsche on Freedom	Nietzsche's Sovereign Individual (SI) argues that 1. Nietzsche denies free will and moral responsibility. 2. SI in no way supports a denial of 1. 3. Nietzsche engages in a 'persuasive definition' of the language of Freedom and Free Will.	Brian Leiter	22 December, 2009
Nietzsche on Soul in Nature	This keynote speech examines if, according to Nietzsche, experience of nature is inevitably conditioned by some archetypal phantasm or cultural construction process or if unmediated apprehension of nature is possible.	Graham Parkes	22 December, 2009
The Genealogy of Guilt	Nietzsche's objective is not to challenge the Christian non-naturalistic account of guilt but to show that Christian representation of guilt is a product of the exploitation of human susceptibility to guilt as instrument of self-directed cruelty.	Bernard Reginster	22 December, 2009
012 Angular Momentum and Motion in a Magnetic Field	Final lecture of the Quantum Mechanics course given in Michaelmas Term 2009.	James Binney	11 December, 2009
011 Transformation of Operators and the Parity Operator	Eleventh lecture of the Quantum Mechanics course given in Michaelmas Term 2009.	James Binney	11 December, 2009
008 The Harmonic Oscillator and the Wavefunctions of its Stationary States	Eighth lecture of the Quantum Mechanics course given in Michaelmas Term 2009.	James Binney	11 December, 2009
005 Further TDSE and the Position Representation	Fifth lecture of the Quantum Mechanics course given in Michaelmas Term 2009.	James Binney	11 December, 2009
004 Commutators and Time Evolution (the Time Dependent Schrodinger Equation)	Fourth lecture of the Quantum Mechanics course given in Michaelmas Term 2009.	James Binney	11 December, 2009
003 Operators and Measurement	Third lecture of the Quantum Mechanics course given in Michaelmas Term 2009.	James Binney	11 December, 2009
002 Dirac Notation and the Energy Representation	Second lecture of the Quantum Mechanics course given in Michaelmas Term 2009.	James Binney	11 December, 2009
001 Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, Probability Amplitudes and Quantum States	First lecture of the Quantum Mechanics course given in Michaelmas Term 2009.	James Binney	11 December, 2009
007 Back to Two-Slit Interference, Generalization to Three Dimensions and the Virial Theorem	Seventh Lecture of the Quantum Mechanics course given in Michaelmas Term 2009.	James Binney	11 December, 2009
006 Wavefunctions for Well Defined Momentum, the Uncertainty Principle and Dynamics of a Free Particle	Sixth lecture of the Quantum Mechanics course given in Michaelmas Term 2009.	James Binney	11 December, 2009
009 Dynamics of Oscillators and the Anharmonic Oscillator	Ninth lecture of the Quantum Mechanics course given in Michaelmas Term 2009.	James Binney	11 December, 2009
010 Transformation of Kets, Continuous and Discrete Transformations and the Rotation Operator	Tenth lecture of the Quantum Mechanics course given in Michaelmas Term 2009.	James Binney	11 December, 2009
BODcast: P.D. James in conversation with Colin Dexter (long)	Special footage celebrating the launch of Talking about Detective Fiction by PD James, the latest Bodleian Library publication. PD James is donating all royalties from the hardback edition to the Bodleian and hopes it will encourage further philanthropy.	P. D. James, Colin Dexter	30 September, 2009
BODcast: P.D. James in conversation with Colin Dexter (short)	Special footage celebrating the launch of Talking about Detective Fiction by PD James, the latest Bodleian Library publication. PD James is donating all royalties from the hardback edition to the Bodleian and hopes it will encourage further philanthropy.	P. D. James, Colin Dexter	30 September, 2009
The Flipside of Scientific Freedom	Scientists have always had to contend with the idea that their research may be misused. The problem, weighing scientific freedom of inquiry against the possibility that research could be used for harm, is known as the 'dual-use dilemma'.	Tom Douglas	12 August, 2009
Julian Savulescu's Monash Distinguished Alumni	Julian Savulescu and the other Monash Distinguished Alumni discuss how Monash University has influenced their careers.	Julian Savulescu	30 June, 2009
Philosophy of language and mind	Language and Mind: What is rationality? What is consciousness? How do we manage to express our thoughts and experiences in language?	Marianne Talbot	9 January, 2009
Metaphysics and Epistemology	Metaphysics and Epistemology: what exists, what is its nature and how can we acquire knowledge of it?	Marianne Talbot	9 January, 2009
The philosophical method - logic and argument	Logic and Argument: the joys of symbolic and philosophical logic.	Marianne Talbot	9 January, 2009
Ethics and politics	Moral and Political Philosophy: how should we live? What constitutes a just state?	Marianne Talbot	9 January, 2009
Reframing Human Rights in the Global Era:a tribute to Sérgio Vieira de Mello	"Reframing Human Rights in the Global Era: a tribute to Sírgio Vieira de Mello", delivered by the former president of Brazil, Dr Fernando Henrique Cardoso as part of the British Council's series of lectures on "Raising Human Rights Awareness".	Fernando Henrique Cardoso	8 December, 2008
Putting China in its Place in the History of Art	The inaugural lecture by Professor Craig Clunas.	Craig Clunas	2 December, 2008
A romp through the history of philosophy from the Pre-Socratics to the present day.	A romp through the history of philosophy from the Pre-Socratics to the present day.	Marianne Talbot	13 November, 2008
Magna Carta and Wind In The Willows	A short history of how the Bodleian library stores original copies of the Magna Carta and the original Wind in the Willows letters.	Bodleian Library	11 September, 2008
Reading at the 'Archipelago Poetry Evening'	Reading at the 'Archipelago Poetry Evening'.	Bernard O'Donoghue	30 April, 2008
The Anglo-Saxon poem 'The Wanderer'	Reading from his translation of the Anglo-Saxon poem 'The Wanderer'.	Greg Delanty	30 April, 2008
A poem by Osip Mandelshtam (read in Russian)	An introduction and excerpts from a poem by Osip Mandelshtam (read in Russian).	Andrew Kahn	30 April, 2008
Reading of a poem in Scottish Gaelic	Reading of a poem in Scottish Gaelic.	Mark Williams	30 April, 2008
Reading from his poem 'Flood'	Reading from his poem 'Flood'.	Paul Abbot	30 April, 2008
Reading from his poem 'Muck'	Reading from his poem 'Muck'.	Mick Imlah	30 April, 2008