Peter Millican

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Peter Millican (born March 1, 1958) is a British philosopher and prominent scholar of David Hume. Millican is currently teaching at Hertford College, Oxford University in the United Kingdom. His primary interests include the philosophy of David Hume, philosophy of religion, philosophy of language, and epistemology. Millican is particularly well known for his work on David Hume, emphasising the importance of Hume's later work, and defending a broadly traditional interpretation against influential revisionary trends (e.

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  1. 1.1 An Introduction to General Philosophy
  2. 1.2 The Background of Early Modern Philosophy
  3. 2.1 Recap of General Philosophy Lecture 1
  4. 1.3 Science from Aristotle to Galileo
  5. 1.2 The Birth of Modern Philosophy
  6. 1.4 From Galileo to Descartes
  7. 2.2 Thomas Hobbes: The Monster of Malmesbury
  8. 2.4 John Locke
  9. 1.3 From Aristotle to Galileo
  10. 2.6 David Hume
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  1. 2.3 Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton
  2. 2.5 Nicolas Malebranche and George Berkeley
  3. 2.7 Overview: Kant and Modern Science
  4. 2.2 Introduction to Thomas Hobbes
  5. 1.4 The Birth of the Early Modern Period: From Galileo to Descartes
  6. 3.1 Hume's Argument Concerning Induction
  7. 8.4 Persons, Humans and Brains
  8. 2.5 Introduction to John Locke
  9. 3.2 Responses to Hume's Famous Argument
  10. 2.3 Robert Boyle's Corpuscularian Theory
  11. 4.4 The Mind-Body Problem
  12. 2.4 Isaac Newton and Instrumentalism
  13. 4.3 Cartesian Dualism
  14. 4.2 Possible Answers to External World Scepticism
  15. 2.6 George Berkeley and Idealism
  16. 7.1 Free Will, Determinism and Choice
  17. 5.4 Scepticism, Externalism and the Ethics of Belief
  18. 4.1 Scepticism of the External World
  19. 5.2 The Traditional Analysis of Knowledge
  20. 3.1 Introduction to David Hume
  21. 4.4 Modern Responses to Dualism
  22. 6.1 Introduction to Primary and Secondary Qualities
  23. 8.1 Introduction to Personal Identity
  24. 5.1 Introdution to Knowledge
  25. 5.3 Gettier and Other Complications
  26. 8.2 John Locke on Personal Identity
  27. 8.3 Problems for Locke's View of Personal Identity
  28. 6.3 Abstraction and Idealism
  29. 3.2 David Hume: Concluding Remarks
  30. 6.2 Problems with Resemblance
  31. 6.4 Making Sense of Perception
  32. 7.4 Making Sense of Free Will and Moral Responsibility
  33. 4.3 Introduction to Cartesian Dualism
  34. 7.2 Different Concepts of Freedom
  35. 7.3 Hume on Liberty and Necessity
  36. 4.1 Scepticism about the External World
  37. 4.2 Possible Answers to Scepticism of the External World
  38. 3.3 The Problem of Induction
  39. 5.1 Introduction to Knowledge
  40. 1a. Hume's Theory of Ideas and the Faculties
  41. 1b. The Theory of Ideas
  42. 1c. Hume's Faculty Psychology
  43. 2. Overview, Theory of Ideas, and Faculty Psychology
  44. 1. Historical Background, and His 'Chief Argument'
  45. 2. Hume's Theory of Relations
  46. 6. Hume on the External World
  47. 8. Conclusion; Scepticism in the Treatise and the Enquiry
  48. 4: Hume on Induction
  49. 4a. Relations, and a Detour to the Causal Maxim
  50. 4d. Of the Necessary Connection
  51. 3: Hume's Logic: Relations, and Forms of Argument
  52. 7. Scepticism with Regard to Reason, the Soul and the Self
  53. 4c. Belief and Probability
  54. 4b. The Argument Concerning Induction
  55. 5a. Of Skepticism with Regard to Reason
  56. 5: Hume on Causal Necessity
  57. 5b. Of Skepticism with Regard to the Senses
  58. 5c. Of the Ancient and Modern Philosophies
  59. 3b. Space and Time
  60. 3a. Hume's Theory of General (or Abstract) Ideas
  61. Hume's Significance
  62. 4f. The Point of Hume's Analysis of Causation
  63. 4e. Understanding Hume on Causation
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  73. 1a Overview of the Treatise
  74. 1b The Theory of Ideas
  75. Peter Millican on Hume's Significance
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  80. David Hume
  81. History of Philosophy: Hume, Week 5
  82. Hume at 300
  83. 2 Hume's Theory of Relations

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