Philosophy Gets Schooled

PGS - Property Dualism

Part 1: Introduction to metaphysics of mind, dualism and property dualism.  Chalmers's zombies!  Part 2 (starts 31min 05 sec): Jackson's Mary argument.  Epiphenomenalism, introspection, natural selection.  Evaluation.  Ben Jones, DaN McKee and Mabel Rowe chat with Simon Kirchin.  (Music by Alex Grohl.)  

PGS - Mind-Brain Type Id. Theory / Eliminative Materialism

Part 1: Intro to metaphysics of mind, physicalism, mind-brain type identity theory - explanation, arguments for and against.  Part 2 (starts 35 min 15 sec): eliminative materialism - explanation, arguments for and against.  Michael Lacewing, Sally Latham and Adrian Samuel chat with Simon Kirchin.  (Music by Alex Grohl.) 

PGS - Substance Dualism

Part 1: Intro to metaphysics of mind, dualism and substance dualism.  Descartes' Indivisibility Argument.  Part 2 (starts: 21min40sec): Descartes' Conceivability Argument, criticisms (possibility of other minds, interaction, and category errors).  Ben Jones, DaN McKee and Mabel Rowe chat with Simon Kirchin.  (Music by Alex Grohl.)  [AND APOLOGIES - SK's mic goes funny right at the end.  Hope it doesn't spoil your enjoyment!]  

PGS - Philosophical Behaviourism

Part 1: intro to metaphysics of mind and physicalism, 'hard' & 'soft' behaviourism.  Part 2 (starts 29min50sec): dualism against behaviourism, Putnam's super-Spartans, circularity and multiple realisability, asymmetry between self-knowledge and knowledge of others, and evaluations.  Michael Lacewing, Sally Latham and Adrian Samuel talk with Simon Kirchin.  (Music by Alex Grohl.)  

PGS - Functionalism

Part 1: intro to metaphysics of mind, functionalism, advantages. Part 2 (starts: 24min55sec): inverted qualia, no qualia, Mary argument, zombies, Turing/Chinese room/AI and evaluation of functionalism.  Sally Latham, Mabel Rowe and Adrian Samuel chat with Simon Kirchin (Kent/Leeds).  (Music by Alex Grohl.) 

PGS - Reason as a Source of Knowledge

Part 1: Types of knowledge, definitions. Part 2 (18min15sec): Innate knowledge: Plato's Meno, Leibniz, Locke and Hume.  Part 3 (41min15sec): 'Intuition and Deduction' - Hume's Fork, Descartes' Cogito, clear and distinct ideas, Trademark Argument, etc. Sally Latham and DaN McKee chat with Simon Kirchin.  [Music by Alex Grohl] 

PGS - Cosmological Argument(s)

Part 1: Intro, Kalam and Aquinas (first 2 ways).  Part 2 (23min25sec): Descartes and criticisms. Part 3 (41min45sec) Aquinas (3rd way), Leibniz and evaluation.  Matt Harris and Michael Lacewing chat with Simon Kirchin. [Music by Alex Grohl]

PGS - Scepticism

Part 1: Scepticism: definition and purpose, brains in vats, scepticism vs. normal disbelief.  Part 2 (25min25sec): Descartes: waves of doubt and his responses.  Part 3 (45min45sec): empiricist responses (Locke, Berkeley and Russell), and reliabilism.  Beth Mackintosh and Ben Jones chat with Simon Kirchin.  [Music by Alex Grohl] 

PGS - God’s Attributes

Part 1: Introduction (the 'Omni-God'), eternal and everlasting.  Part 2 (16min50sec): Foreknowledge and time.  Part 3 (33min35sec): Stone Paradox and Euthyphro dilemma.  Sally Latham and Michael Platt chat with Simon Kirchin (Univ of Kent). 

PGS - Teleological Argument / Argument from Design

Part 1: introduction, Aquinas, Paley and Hume.  Part 2 (starts 25min05sec): Swinburne, evolution, fine-tuning and evaluation.  Michael Platt and Matt Harris chat with Simon Kirchin.  [Music by Alex Grohl.]