Introduction to Philosophy by Coursera
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Curriculum
9 Topics
Introduction: What is Philosophy?
Philosophy: Difficult Important and Everywhere
Philosophy: How Do We Do It?
Is There A 'Right Way' To Think About Things?
About this Course
Module: What is Philosophy?
Optional Reading
Practice: What is Philosophy?
What is Philosophy?
7 Topics
The Status of Morality
Objectivism Relativism and Emotivism
Objections to Objectivism Relativism and Emotivism
Further Discussion
Module: Morality: Objective Emotive or Relative?
Related work by Philosophy staff at the University of Edinburgh
Practice: Morality: Objective Relative or Emotive?
8 Topics
The Basic Constituents of Knowledge
The Classical Account of Knowledge and the Gettier Problem
Do We Have Any Knowledge?
Further Discussion 1
Further Discussion 2
Module: What is Knowledge? And Do We Have Any?
Related work by Philosophy staff at the University of Edinburgh
Practice: What is Knowledge? And Do We Have Any?
2 Topics
Morality: Objective Relative or Emotive?
What is Knowledge? And Do We Have Any?
10 Topics
Do You Have an Obligation to Obey the Law?
The Grounds of Political Obligation
Gratitude and Benefit
Consent
Fairness
What if the Problem Can't Be Solved?
Summary
Module: Do We Have an Obligation to Obey the Law?
Related work by Philosophy staff at the University of Edinburgh
Practice: Do We Have an Obligation to Obey the Law?
8 Topics
Introduction: Hume on Testimony and Miracles
Reid's Challenge to Hume
Reid's Argument
Kant the Enlightenment and Intellectual Autonomy
The Value of Intellectual Autonomy
Module: Should You Believe What You Hear?
Related work by Philosophy staff at the University of Edinburgh
Practice: Should You Believe What You Hear?
2 Topics
Do We Have an Obligation to Obey the Law?
Should You Believe What You Hear?
10 Topics
Descartes' Substance Dualism Theory of the Mind
Physicalism: Identity Theory and Functionalism
Functionalism and What Mental States Do
Functionalism and Functional Complexity
Minds vs. Machines: The Turing Test and the Chinese Room
Minds vs. Machines: Problems for the Computational View of the Mind
Further Discussion
Module: Mind Brains and Computers
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Practice: Minds Brains and Computers
10 Topics
The Aim of Science: Saving the Phenomena vs. Truth
Saving the Phenomena? Ptolemeic Astronomy
Truth? Galileo and Copernican Astronomy
Scientific Realism and the No Miracles Argument
Scientific Anti-Realism: Constructive Empiricism
Realist Rejoinders: Inference to the Best Explanation
Concluding Summary
Module: Are Scientific Theories True?
Related work by Philosophy staff at the University of Edinburgh
Practice: Are Scientific Theories True?
2 Topics
Minds Brains and Computers
Are Scientific Theories True?
8 Topics
What is Determinism?
Libertarianism
Compatibilism
Hard Determinism
Summary
Module: Do We Have Free Will? Does it Matter?
Related work by Philosophy staff at the University of Edinburgh
Practice: Do We Have Free Will and Does It Matter?
9 Topics
What Might Time Travel Be Anyway?
Grandfather Paradoxes
Two Senses of Change
Causal Loops
Where Next?
Further Discussions
Module: Time Travel and Philosophy
Related work by Philosophy staff at the University of Edinburgh
Practice: Time Travel and Philosophy
2 Topics
Do We Have Free Will and Does It Matter?
Time Travel and Philosophy
2 Topics
Post-Course Survey
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