Introduction to Philosophy

An introduction to Western Philosophy from a historical perspective. Click on the lecture you want to watch or discuss.

• 1: What is Philosophy?
• 2: Pre-Socratic Philosophy
• 3: Socrates and the Socratic Turn
• 4: Plato
• 5: Aristotle I: Logic and Rational Thought
• 6: Aristotle II: The Philosopher
• 7: Descartes I: The Method of Doubt
• 8: Descartes II: A Priori Knowledge and Mind/Body Dualism
• 9: Locke & Berkeley: Empiricism & Idealism
• 10: Hume I: Empiricism and the A Priori
• 11: Hume II: The Problem of Induction and the Self
• 12: Kant I: Kant’s solution to the Problem of Induction
• 13: Kant II: Transcendental Idealism
• 14: Contemporary Philosophy of Mind: Dualism and Materialism