General Philosophy

General Philosophy is Peter Millican's lecture course for first-year philosophy undergraduates at Oxford, released as open content by the Faculty of Philosophy. The series runs to 41 episodes: the eight lectures of Oxford's eight-week General Philosophy course, together with numbered shorter sections covering the same ground. It opens with the background to early modern philosophy, from Aristotle and Galileo to Descartes, and a survey of Hobbes, Boyle, Newton, Locke, Malebranche, Berkeley, Hume and Kant. The remaining lectures take one problem each: Hume's argument concerning induction, scepticism about the external world and the mind-body problem, the analysis of knowledge and Gettier cases, primary and secondary qualities, free will and moral responsibility, and Locke on personal identity.

Everything is free: there is no enrolment, no assessment and no certificate. Episodes can be played or downloaded from the series page or followed through Apple Podcasts and RSS, most are available as both audio and video, and every episode page offers a transcript. The recordings are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK, so they may be reused non-commercially with attribution.