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Introduction to General Philosophy Course

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1.1 An Introduction to General Philosophy. 1.2 The Birth of Modern Philosophy. 1.3 From Aristotle to Galileo. 1.4 The Birth of the Early Modern Period: From Galileo to Descartes. 2.1 Recap of General Philosophy Lecture 1. 2.2 Introduction to Thomas Hobbes. 2.3 Robert Boyle's Corpuscularian Theory. 2.4 Isaac Newton and Instrumentalism. 2.5 Introduction to John Locke. 2.6 George Berkeley and Idealism. 3.1 Introduction to David Hume. 3.2 David Hume: Concluding Remarks. 3.3 The Problem of Induction. 4.1 Scepticism of the External World. 4.2 Possible Answers to Scepticism of the External World.

4.3 Introduction to Cartesian Dualism. 4.4 Modern Responses to Dualism. 5.1 Introdution to Knowledge. 5.2 The Traditional Analysis of Knowledge. 5.3 Gettier and Other Complications. 5.4 Scepticism, Externalism and the Ethics of Belief. 6.1 Introduction to Primary and Secondary Qualities. 6.2 Problems with Resemblance. 6.3 Abstraction and Idealism. 6.4 Making Sense of Perception. 7.1 Free Will, Determinism and Choice. 7.2 Different Concepts of Freedom. 7.3 Hume on Liberty and Necessity. 7.4 Making Sense of Free Will and Moral Responsibility. 8.1 Introduction to Personal Identity. 8.2 John Locke on Personal Identity. 8.3 Problems for Locke's View of Personal Identity.

8.4 Persons, Humans and Brains.