Show overview
Philosophy for Beginners launched in 2008 and has put out 5 episodes in the time since. That works out to roughly 8 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a fortnightly cadence.
Episodes typically run over ninety minutes — most land between 1h 31m and 1h 33m — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. It is catalogued as a EN-UK-language Education show.
The catalogue appears to be on hiatus or wound down — the most recent episode landed 17.4 years ago, with no new episodes in over a year. Published by Oxford University.
From the publisher
Philosophy has been studied for thousands of years. It involves the use of reason and argument to search for the truth about reality - about the nature of things, ethics, aesthetics, language, the mind, God and everything else. 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.
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Metaphysics and Epistemology: what exists, what is its nature and how can we acquire knowledge of it?
Ethics and politics
Moral and Political Philosophy: how should we live? What constitutes a just state?
The philosophical method - logic and argument
Logic and Argument: the joys of symbolic and philosophical logic.
A romp through the history of philosophy from the Pre-Socratics to the present day.
A romp through the history of philosophy from the Pre-Socratics to the present day.