Oxford University reading: Philosophy for Beginners

This series of five introductory lectures, aimed at students new to philosophy, presented by Marianne Talbot, Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford, will test you on some famous thought experiments and introduce you to some central philosophical issues and to the thoughts of some key philosophers. 1: A romp through the history of philosophy from the Pre-Socratics to the present day. 2: The philosophical method - logic and argument 3: Metaphysics and Epistemology 4: Philosophy of language and mind