Philosophy has been studied for thousands of years. It involves the use of reason and argument to search for the truth about reality - about the nature of things, ethics, aesthetics, language, the mind, God and everything else. This series of five introductory lectures, aimed at students new to phil…
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Reading list for the Philosophy for Beginners series of podcasts.
Language and Mind: What is rationality? What is consciousness? How do we manage to express our thoughts and experiences in language?
Metaphysics and Epistemology: what exists, what is its nature and how can we acquire knowledge of it?
Moral and Political Philosophy: how should we live? What constitutes a just state?
Logic and Argument: the joys of symbolic and philosophical logic.
A romp through the history of philosophy from the Pre-Socratics to the present day.