3.1 Introduction to David Hume

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A series of lectures delivered by Peter Millican to first-year philosophy students at the University of Oxford. The lectures comprise the 8-week General Philosophy course and were delivered in late 2009.
Slides for all his lectures can be found here:
podcasts.ox.ac.uk/people/peter...
Learn more about Oxford:
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@mariacovasneanu1517 10 жыл бұрын

I am so happy and so grateful that videos like these are uploaded and freely accessible!

@RobTyleruk 10 жыл бұрын

at the expense of your service provider

@moodyplus 9 жыл бұрын

Rob Tyler I am watching this from the public library.

@danielhill3528 8 жыл бұрын

+moody nothing is free. Someone is paying for that library.

@moodyplus 8 жыл бұрын

Daniel Hill Guess we're all prisoner of the system and our condition.

@moodyplus 8 жыл бұрын

Usama Khan 2 things you cannot avoid.

@dan8085 6 жыл бұрын

Hume is a giant amongst our species.

@KnightsHospitallerBC 10 жыл бұрын

I respect Prof. Millican a great deal, despite I don't agree with him on some the points. He is gentle, and willing to open dialogue with opposition in a friendly, respectable manner.

@denishasselbeck3345 12 жыл бұрын

This is infinitely better than my Intro to philosophy class at my public uni.

@htferretti6523 7 жыл бұрын

Lesson 3.1 is incredible!

@dzaileen 10 жыл бұрын

It was brilliant! I had a philosophy exam on Saturday and luckily, the subject I picked was political life and the role of the State; the summary on Hobbes and Locke really helped ;) Even referenced to this lecture ^^

@jfriesen39 12 жыл бұрын

Thank you for posting this!

@joshi5507 7 жыл бұрын

I just got into philosophy, I was given A treatise of human nature by david hume... but I got lost in even the introduction... And It's my understanding that this is really a beginner level work... so.. any tips?

@naturphilosophie1 12 жыл бұрын

There are many avatars of Hume. He's one of those people who changed everything. Derrida's friend Deleuze wrote his first book on Hume, to take only one example. Hume pervades most subsequent thought, although different thinkers have more or less radical interpretations.

@salomelh8889 10 жыл бұрын

Thanks. You just saved my finals.

@politeista12 12 жыл бұрын

awesomee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@soggybottommage6665 9 жыл бұрын

Can someone explain Hume's Copy Principle to me please? Thanks!

@Mraliaziz1 9 жыл бұрын

Hania Sisco In accordance to Hume, nature is the source of our ideas through copy principle. How? We form ideas about nature (life) when we observe the things and the images of these things are copied in our mind through customs and experience. This process allows you to know how the things work but it does not allow you to know the essence of the things because you know the effect of the things only (their movement, action, their appearance to you... etc.). So what about science? Hume believes that the purpose of science is not to make ultimate understanding of the enquiry ... Milican explained well in the minute: 1:58 onwards.

@stephanimoroni 11 жыл бұрын

I am glad I am not in this class, everyone is sick. I can't concentrate on what he is talking about because there are so many people coughing! The professor is pretty good.

@oedipuslex8557 10 жыл бұрын

1:45 like Wittgenstein says, a serious work of philosophy could be composed entirely of jokes

@pawsoned 12 жыл бұрын

Isn't Derrida a modern day avatar of Hume so to speak?

@firstlast9111 8 жыл бұрын

How myopic are the philosophers-where is the origin the fabric the esscence-mute on that i beleive. Lets get our degrees first and leave real philosophy for later