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Oxford was one of the pioneers of the University Extension movement in the United Kingdom, and we still retain our original mission of making the scholarship of the University accessible to wider audiences. In recent years the Department has grown very considerably, and now every year more than 15,000 people join one or more of our courses. Our students may be members of the public who wish to study a subject out of general interest or for personal satisfaction, members of professional groups or business organisations who wish to update their professional knowledge and skills, or participants in our increasingly large number of courses for international groups. Most of our longer courses now lead to a University award or other forms of credit but the large number of short courses on offer may be taken by those who are less interested in obtaining further qualifications. Courses last from one day to several weeks; the residential courses are held in Oxford but other part-time courses are also held in a large number of other centres.

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Translational Health Sciences

Translational Health Sciences

Turning innovations into practical solutions for healthcare needs is an imperative – an...
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Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Science in Society

The annual Simonyi Lecture is the highlight of Oxford University's programme to bring t...
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The Nature of Causation

The Nature of Causation

We have causal theories of reference, perception, knowledge, content and numerous other...
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Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

2013 Philosophy and Psychiatry Summer School

Presented by the Faculty of Philosophy and the Department for Continuing Education, thi...
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Department for Continuing Education Award Ceremony 2014

Department for Continuing Education Award Ceremony 2014

Over 200 students (representing 28 programmes of study) and 350 guests attended our 201...
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Department for Continuing Education Open Day 2014

Department for Continuing Education Open Day 2014

The Department's 2014 Open Day was held on 4 November. This is an annual free event tha...
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The Emergent Multiverse

The Emergent Multiverse

The Many-Worlds Interpretation (MWI) of quantum mechanics holds that quantum theory - o...
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Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Revisiting the Rite: The Rite of Spring Centenary Conference

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Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

A Romp Through Philosophy for Complete Beginners

In this series of podcasts Marianne Talbot uses some famous arguments in the history of...
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Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference

Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference

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Knowledge for bright ideas – how research can support innovative health systems Guest lecturer Dr Nick Fahy is a research group director for health and wellbeing at RAND Europe, where he oversees research in such areas as health systems and healthcare innovation, and the behavioural and social determinants of health and wellbeing. Nick Fahy 7 March, 2022 Captions
Justice and the Egalitarian Research Imperative In his new book, 'For the Common Good: Philosophical Foundations of Research Ethics' (Oxford University Press), Prof Alex John London argues that there is a moral imperative to carry out research with human subjects... Alex John London 18 February, 2022 Captions
Using theory, evidence and person-based co-development to improve infection control during COVID-19 Until a vaccine can prevent COVID-19, protective behaviours (such as social distancing, handwashing, cleaning/disinfecting) must be used to limit the spread. Ben Ainsworth 17 December, 2021 Captions
Health Technology Assessment: Global alignment of systems, stakeholders and emerging trends This talk will introduce and explore, the global mechanisms and initiatives that align process, strategy and methodology for Health Technology Assessment (HTA). Neil Bertelsen 17 December, 2021 Captions
'Why would anyone hesitate to help kids with cancer?' or: understanding competing perspectives on innovations 'Homebound' students are unable to attend school for health-related reasons. To lessen their predicament, schools have begun experimenting with 'telepresence robots' for remote participation. Lars Johannessen 4 November, 2021
Why be a Lunatic Dr Maggie Adarin-Pocock delivers the 2019 Simonyi Lecture at the Oxford Playhouse Maggie Adarin-Pocock 19 December, 2019
The future of the planet: life, growth and death in organisms, cities and companies. Geoffrey West In this year’s Simonyi Lecture Geoffrey West discusses universal laws that govern everything from growth to mortality in plants, animals, cities and companies. Geoffrey West 9 May, 2018
Hope What is Hope? This seminar explored what hope is and invited us to consider what hope means to people in different circumstances. Peter Hinton, Carl Heneghan 21 November, 2016
Mathematics: Navigating Nature's Dark Labyrinth The Inaugural Lecture of the Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, 2009. Marcus du Sautoy 18 November, 2016
Can robots be made creative enough to invent their own language? Luc Steels delivers the 2012 Simonyi lecture and asks can machines be creative enough to invent their own language? Luc Steels, Marcus du Sautoy 18 November, 2016
Why climate change action is difficult and how we can make a difference 2014 Charles Simonyi Lecture with David MacKay. David discusses how the laws of physics constrain our energy options, and describes what happened when his reflections on energy arithmetic propelled him into a senior civil service role. David MacKay 18 November, 2016
Putting the Higgs Boson in its Place Professor Melissa Franklin talks about her experiences working towards the discovery of the Higgs Boson and her work today at the Large Hadron Collider Melissa Franklin, Marcus du Sautoy 18 November, 2016
Autism and Minds Wired for Science Simon Baron-Cohen, Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, Cambridge, and Director of the Autism Research Centre, gives the 2016 Charles Simonyi Lecture on new research into autism. Simon Baron-Cohen, Marcus du Sautoy 18 November, 2016
Right Place, Right Time Women composers and their creative communities. Anna Beer 30 June, 2016
Time and Causation Both time and causation seems to have the same 'direction’ . Can we explain this? Marianne Talbot 9 June, 2016 Captions
Mental Causation We do what we do because we believe what we believe. Or do we? How does mental causation work? Marianne Talbot 9 June, 2016 Captions
The necessary connection analysis of causation The idea that there are real metaphysical necessities relating cause and effect. Marianne Talbot 9 June, 2016 Captions
The singularist theory of causation The idea that causation is a relation science will one day discover. Marianne Talbot 9 June, 2016 Captions
The regularity theory of causation Hume's famously influential account of causation Marianne Talbot 9 June, 2016 Captions
The counterfactual theory of causation The idea that event c causes event e if and only if had c not had occurred e would not have occurred either. Marianne Talbot 9 June, 2016 Captions
Ordering Disorder: Mental Disorder, Brain Disorder and Therapeutic Intervention This event will explore the areas in which the philosophy of mind and ethics or the philosophy of value come into contact with issues about mental health. George Graham 11 February, 2016
Karl Jaspers and the Ethics of Incomprehensibility This event will explore the areas in which the philosophy of mind and ethics or the philosophy of value come into contact with issues about mental health. Giovanni Stanghellini 11 February, 2016
Mental Health and Moral Virtue This event will explore the areas in which the philosophy of mind and ethics or the philosophy of value come into contact with issues about mental health. Terence Irwin 11 February, 2016
False Perceptions and False Beliefs: Understanding the Symptoms of Schizophrenia This event will explore the areas in which the philosophy of mind and ethics or the philosophy of value come into contact with issues about mental health. Chris Frith 14 January, 2016
Impact What is the impact we create? How is it measured, justified, used? Three speakers from a social, historical and professional background examine what impact means in different scenarios, both for academics themselves, and the public at large. Gorgi Krlev, Matt Smart, Jonathan Healey 3 December, 2015
Award Ceremony 2014: speech by Professor Sally Mapstone Professor Mapstone is Oxford University's Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education. Each year she welcomes and congratulates the award recipients and their guests, and acknowledges the commitment to study that brings this assembly together. Sally Mapstone 15 April, 2015
Award Ceremony 2014: guest speaker Joanne Pearce RSC actress Joanne Pearce is an alumna of our Foundation Certificate in History. In her speech for our award cermeony she urged award recipients to ‘mark the moment... go on, climb higher, do more.’ Joanne Pearce 15 April, 2015
Award Ceremony 2014: Students interviewed Four students speak of their experience on the Department's undergraduate award courses, and anticipate receiving their award in Oxford's famous and historical Sheldonian Theatre. Various students 15 April, 2015
Back to Downton Abbey? Is the rise in inequality sustainable? Political Economy - Professor Jonathan Michie Jonathan Michie 15 April, 2015
Party games: coalitions in British politics History - Professor Angus Hawkins Angus Hawkins 15 April, 2015
Discoveries in Theology and Religion: Middle Eastern Christianity explored! Theology and Religious Studies - Rev'd Canon Dr Robin Gibbons Robin Gibbons 15 April, 2015
Art, Design and World War History of Art - Dr Claire O'Mahony Claire O'Mahony 15 April, 2015
Oxford University’s MSt in Creative Writing Learn more about the Master's in Creative Writing at the University of Oxford Clare Morgan, Alice Jolly, Jane Draycott, Frank Egerton, Jonathan Evans, Jenny Lewis 3 February, 2015
The Arrow of Time In the fourth lecture, Harvey Brown asks why real-world events always proceed in the direction of increasing entropy, even though the laws of physics don’t require it. Harvey Brown 7 January, 2015
The Probability Puzzle In the third lecture, David Wallace asks how we make sense of probability in the Many-Worlds theory. David Wallace 7 January, 2015
The Life of Psi: More on the Superposition Principle In the second lecture, Harvey Brown discusses in more depth the superposition principle of quantum mechanics. Harvey Brown 7 January, 2015
The Plurality of Worlds In this first lecture, David Wallace examines the justification for interpreting the superposition states as multiplicities. David Wallace 6 January, 2015
Mapping Nijinsky’s Cross - Cultural Legacy: Min Tanaka’ s Le Sacré du Printemps (1987) Igor Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du printemps is arguably the most influential score composed for dance in the last century. Lucy Weir 5 December, 2014
The Chosen One: Massine’s Choreographic Rite of Passage Seven years after the succès de scandale of the Stravinsky-Nijinsky-Roerich ballet Le Sacre du printemps, Serge Diaghilev decided to revive the ballet with new choreography by his young protégé, Léonide Massine. Lisa Fusillo 5 December, 2014
The Spanish Reception of The Rite of Spring : Ballet, Music, Fine Arts (1913-33) This study analyses the reception of The Rite of Spring in the Spanish cultural networks. Although the ballet was only performed in 1913, three years before the first visit of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes to Spain, its influence became notorious among some Idoia Murga Castro 5 December, 2014
D H Lawrence’s Rite In a notable scene from Women in Love (1920), D. H. Lawrence draws attention to the popularity of Diaghilev’s enterprise as representative of the avant garde in the arts in contemporary Britain. Sue Jones 5 December, 2014
A Bardic Rite? Designing the Savoy Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream For a few nights in March 1914 if contemplating buying a theatre ticket in London, there was a brief chance when one could have seen Nijinsky dance at the Palace Theatre one night and the next the new Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Claire O'Mahony 5 December, 2014
Divining the 1920s: Precious Body Image in Vaslav Nijinsky’s 1913 Ballets This paper examines the ways in which dancers’ body image in Vaslav Nijinsky’s 1913 ballets The Rite of Spring and Jeux looked forward to 1920s developments in ballet and fashion. Katerina Pantelides 5 December, 2014
Disruption in Continuity: The Use of Ornament in The Rite of Spring Vaslav Nijinsky’s choreography for the Rite of Spring was structured by movement patterns based on simple geometrical forms – such as circles, triangles, lines and angles – which his dancers incorporated with their bodies and limbs. Alexander Schwan 5 December, 2014
A Century of Rites : The Making of an Avant - Garde Tradition A historiography of a century of productions of the Rite of Spring. Lynn Garafola 5 December, 2014
Prehistoric Ballets: L’Après Midi d’un Faune as precursor of The Rite of Spring On the 29th of May 1912, exactly a year earlier than the premiere of The Rite of Spring, Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes had scandalized Parisian audiences with the first performance of another Nicoletta Momigliano 5 December, 2014
Decorated Handkerchiefs: cotton, colours and conflict ‘in and about’ Northern Ireland This paper examines a cotton handkerchief decorated by women republican prisoners Armagh Jail in 1976. It considers the power of cloth, its appropriation and circulation through in prisons of the conflict ‘in and about’ Northern Ireland. Louise Purbrick 5 December, 2014
Questions and Answers Session Marianne answers questions from the audience about the four talks in this series. Marianne Talbot 11 November, 2014
The 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 that we can build a scientific theory on it? Marianne Talbot 11 November, 2014
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 that possible worlds exist and finally we ask whether there really are unactualised possibles. Marianne Talbot 11 November, 2014
Moral and Political Philosophy In the second lecture we examine first the famous ‘Wilt Chamberlain’ thought experiment that demonstrates a retention between freedom and equality, then arguments for and against two famous moral theories; deontology and utilitarianism. Marianne Talbot 11 November, 2014
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 arguments. Marianne Talbot 11 November, 2014
A Jewish Teenager in Hiding: Representations of Anne Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl (1952) chronicles the two years that Anne, her family, and four other Jews spent in hiding during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands during World War II. Sarach Lichtman 21 October, 2014
Design for the Reconstruction: housing Exhibitions and the QT8 Model District at the ninth Triennale in Milan (1947) The reconstruction in Italy is perceived as a call by architects who, after the fall of Fascism and the Civil War. The first postwar Triennale in 1947 is the test for the new design, architecture and urban planning in Italy. Elena Dellapiana 21 October, 2014
Clothing Soldiers: Development of an organised system of production and supply of military clothing in England between 1645 and 1708 This paper will set up and identify certain needs that a soldier's clothing of this period had to satisfy Katherine Elliott 21 October, 2014
How Disabled Design Changed the History of Modernism. This lecture explores disabled design as an alternative to canonical aesthetic and political histories of David Serlin 16 October, 2014
Trapped in Shells: Mindset and Materiality in First World War Trench Art and Beyond First World War Trench Art. Nicholas Saunders 16 October, 2014
Designed to Kill: The Social Life of Weapons in Twentieth Century Britain Weapon design and modern warfare. Joanna Bourke 16 October, 2014
Arthur Wragg: Pacifist Polemics in Black and White Arthur Wragg Damon Taylor 9 October, 2014
“Not for Glory, not for Gain!” The Czech Glass Spartakiad Figurine, 1955 This paper looks at the glass figurines of Czech artist Miloslav Klinger, made to commemorate the 1955 Prague Spartakiad, as complex sites of memory, craft and political propaganda. Rebecca Bell 7 October, 2014
“Design, Domesticity and Revolution: Transitioning the Cuban Ideal Home” Through an examination of domestic advice and advertisements found in Cuban popular magazines, this paper explores the relationship between politics and popular media during the period 1950 to 1970. Sara Desvernine-Reed 30 September, 2014
The Politics of Memory: Designing the Ganatantra Smarak (Republic Memorial), Kathmandu, Nepal Examination of the design competition of Nepal's republic memorial. Bryony Whitmarsh 30 September, 2014
War on Wheels First World War vehicles as instruments of order and chaos. Gregory Votolato 30 September, 2014
‘Help to win the war’: an analysis of the typographic posters produced by the New Zealand Government 1914-1918 This paper analyses typographic posters produced by the New Zealand Government in WWI to recruit men and money to the war effort. They chart the progress of recruitment strategies from voluntarism through to the contested years leading to conscription. Patricia Thomas 30 September, 2014
‘Public memory and everyday memorials: work of the Imperial War Graves Commission’ The paper highlights tensions that appeared in the near routine collection of trophies for memorials and the design of war cemeteries between British imperial offices and those of former colonies, particularly Australia’s War Records Section. William Taylor 30 September, 2014
Images of Women in a Changing Colonial Taiwanese Society during the Period of World War I Propaganda: graphic design and print culture Chu-Yu Sun 30 September, 2014
Funky Bunkers: The Post-Military Landscape as a Readymade Space and a Cultural Playgound On adapted reuse of military establishments. Per Strömberg 30 September, 2014
Cultural Trauma: Kós, Kozma, and Hungarian Design in the First World War By comparing the work and career trajectories of these two architect-designers, this paper explored the changes in taste, style and cultural meaning of the dominant trends in Hungarian interior design before and after World War 1. Paul Stirton 30 September, 2014
Furniture in Portugal, 1940-1974: between tradition, authoritarianism and modernity Portuguese design furniture (1940-1974) and the industrial policies of the New State's dictatorship. Helena Maria Souto, Eduardo Cortês Real 30 September, 2014
Authenticity and commemoration: an analysis of Otto Weidt Worshop for the Blind and the Jewish Museum in Berlin This paper will analyse both spaces according to their scale, location in the city, authenticity, phenomenology and prosthetic memory, in order to determine whether design can enhance and protect our collective memory. Ana Souto 30 September, 2014
Collective Memory and Conflict Representation: War and Peace in Colombian Museums This paper studies some Colombian museums that are reflecting upon war. Andrés Pardo Rodriguez 30 September, 2014
'Ambassador of Good Will': Three Centuries of American Art in 1930s Europe The 1938 exhibition, Three Centuries of American Art, on display in Europe and the United States. Caroline Riley 30 September, 2014
South African poster propaganda during the Second World War The paper examines poster propaganda produced in South Africa during the Second World War. Deirdre Pretorius 30 September, 2014
The AIDS Memorial Quilt: Mourning an Ongoing War Contemporary Design History; History of the AIDS Crisis Clementine Power 30 September, 2014
Syonan Shimbun: Singapore's Wartime Newspaper The presentation looks at the design and production of this propaganda paper as part of the wider history of the Singaporean Straits Times, the newspaper it briefly replaced. Jessie O'Neill 30 September, 2014
Designed to Kill : The Difficult Study of Military Design Design is perceived by most as a positive concept meant to improve people lives. But it is first a means to answer efficiently a specific purpose. How can we morally accept that the act of killing led to the development of an important design industry? Marie-Anne Michaux 30 September, 2014
Camouflage for peace: disruptive pattern material and dazzle painting in contemporary design and art The aim of this paper is to analyse the consequences of this change, in other words, the examination of the ways, the strategies, the semiotics and the social uses of the objects which conform the so-called camouflage for peace. Maite Méndez-Baiges 30 September, 2014
Draw me an AK-47: Transnational imaginaries in the trenches of the cold war This paper examines the image of the Kalashnikov in the cold war period through two intersecting lenses that cut across disciplines of design –– the object in its public mediation and the image in its transnational circulation through print culture. Zeina Maasri 30 September, 2014
"Good Housing depends on You”: Wartime Housing, 1942 MoMA’s 1942 Wartime Housing exhibition demonstrated that housing contributed to the war effort. Through innovative display, the museum proposed that new materials, modern techniques, and community planning would create lively permanent communities. Erin McKellar 30 September, 2014
Quiet, Humane and ‘Anonymous’: Pevsner’s art-historical response to wartime This paper focuses on Pevsner’s wartime writings. Ariyuki Kondo 30 September, 2014
Furniture Behind the Wire An examination of the material culture and social history of the German internees held on the Isle of Man, who made furniture designed by CR Mackintosh for the Northampton home of the Bassett-Lowke family between 1916 and 1919. Jake Kaner, Yvonne Cresswell 30 September, 2014
The secret dollhouse: craft and resistance in Stalinist Estonia My presentation will focus on the subject of nonprofessional craft as a tool of resistance against the official power. I will be concentrating on one particular case study from Soviet Estonia, dating from the 1940s. Triin Jerlei 30 September, 2014
Material objects and visual web presentation: the Virtual Peace Palace Museum Material objects and visual web presentation: the Virtual Peace Palace Museum. Marjan Groot 30 September, 2014
Conflicting Views: Print Propaganda Depicting Tourism in a Landscape of War An analysis of Ruth Taylor White’s “cartograph” for the 1945 guidebook A G.I. View of American Red Cross China, India and Burma, published by the American Red Cross. Dori Griffin 30 September, 2014
Prints of Peace: Elihu Burritt and the graphics of reform This talk examines the propaganda campaign conducted by mid-nineteenth century American reformer Elihu Burritt and a group of engravers and artists who used the graphic potential of postal items, such as envelopes, to pressure politicians for peace. Peter Gilderdale 30 September, 2014
Book and musket | graphic design of Italian school reports and diplomas during the Fascism In the interwar period, the Italian school reports and diplomas turned into a direct expression of the most advanced artistic research. Fascism revolutionized institutional graphic design to achieve a modern effective communication. Caterina Franchini 30 September, 2014
Modernising the V&A: From War to Reconstruction 1918-51 In the aftermath of two world wars, the V&A struggled to reconstruct a national view of contemporary art and design in which Britain’s industrial past and contemporary developments could be reconciled. Laura Elliot 30 September, 2014
Dressed to Dissent: 'Catch-22' Clothing This paper examines dress as a form of anti-war Vietnam protest using the cross dressing character of Corporal Maxwell Klinger on the long-running American sitcom MASH as its focus. Marilyn Cohen 30 September, 2014
Design during the War: the seventh Triennale in Milan and the Mostra della produzione in serie (Serial production exhibition, 1940) The Serial production exhibition, by Giuseppe Pagano, opens a new attitude in Italian design. The most advanced industrial products are shown to the public: typewriters, calculators, metal furnitures, microscopes, optical instruments, raincoats and so on. Alberto Bassi 28 September, 2014
ENIAC versus Colossus and the early presentation of electronic computers A description of the concurrent yet different development of electronic computers during WWII in the UK and US– most notably the secrecy of the UK development compared to the widely known work in the US and the consequent effects on the computing industry Paul Atkinson 28 September, 2014
‘Propaganda in Three Dimensions’: British Ministry of Information Exhibitions During World War Two Exhibitions designed by the British Ministry of Information exhibitions branch during World War Two as official propaganda: their methods and impact. Harriet Atkinson 28 September, 2014
Danger Speakers for our seminar on the theme of Danger have Medical and Humanities backgrounds, and will consider the following: experimentation to diminish danger; the risks of ignoring danger, danger to the self and the ideal. Marion Kibuka, Yasmin Khan, Anna Beer 12 August, 2014
Truth The presentations invite us to consider what truth means to people in different circumstances, and how definitions of truth can affect decision-making, from literary risks to clinical trials. Anne Jensen, Rosemary Yallop, Carl Heneghan, Yasmin Khan 12 August, 2014
Patterns Three speakers share their insights into pattern exploration and, in some cases, exploitation, in their fields of finance, mathematics and climate change. Bob Lockhart; Kevon Rhiney; David Howard 12 August, 2014
Future The presentations focus on the impact of the concept of future in changing debate, and how, in specific instances, concerns about the future affect behaviours in the present. David Howard, Jill Hind 7 April, 2014
Answers to Questions Answers to Questions posed in lectures 1 to 6 of Marianne Talbot's lecture series on critical reasoning for beginners. Marianne Talbot 20 March, 2014
Fallacies: Understanding where Arguments go Wrong Lecture 6 of 6 in Marianne Talbot's series on critical reasoning for beginners. Marianne Talbot 20 March, 2014
Inductive Strength: Evaluating Inductive Arguments Lecture 5 of 6 in Marianne Talbot's series on critical reasoning for beginners. Marianne Talbot 20 March, 2014
Deductive Validity: Evaluating Deductive Arguments Lecture 4 of 6 in Marianne Talbot's series on critical reasoning for beginners. Marianne Talbot 20 March, 2014
Deduction and Induction: Classifying Arguments Lecture 3 of 6 in Marianne Talbot's series on critical reasoning for beginners. Marianne Talbot 20 March, 2014

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