
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 An Introduction to General Philosophy
1.2 The Background of Early Modern Philosophy
2.1 Recap of General Philosophy Lecture 1
1.3 Science from Aristotle to Galileo
1.2 The Birth of Modern Philosophy
1.4 From Galileo to Descartes
2.2 Thomas Hobbes: The Monster of Malmesbury
2.4 John Locke
1.3 From Aristotle to Galileo
2.6 David Hume
2.3 Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton
2.5 Nicolas Malebranche and George Berkeley
2.7 Overview: Kant and Modern Science
2.2 Introduction to Thomas Hobbes
1.4 The Birth of the Early Modern Period: From Galileo to Descartes
3.1 Hume's Argument Concerning Induction
8.4 Persons, Humans and Brains
2.5 Introduction to John Locke
3.2 Responses to Hume's Famous Argument
2.3 Robert Boyle's Corpuscularian Theory
4.4 The Mind-Body Problem
2.4 Isaac Newton and Instrumentalism
4.3 Cartesian Dualism
4.2 Possible Answers to External World Scepticism
2.6 George Berkeley and Idealism
7.1 Free Will, Determinism and Choice
5.4 Scepticism, Externalism and the Ethics of Belief
4.1 Scepticism of the External World
5.2 The Traditional Analysis of Knowledge
3.1 Introduction to David Hume
4.4 Modern Responses to Dualism
6.1 Introduction to Primary and Secondary Qualities
8.1 Introduction to Personal Identity
5.1 Introdution to Knowledge
5.3 Gettier and Other Complications
8.2 John Locke on Personal Identity
8.3 Problems for Locke's View of Personal Identity
6.3 Abstraction and Idealism
3.2 David Hume: Concluding Remarks
6.2 Problems with Resemblance
6.4 Making Sense of Perception
7.4 Making Sense of Free Will and Moral Responsibility
4.3 Introduction to Cartesian Dualism
7.2 Different Concepts of Freedom
7.3 Hume on Liberty and Necessity
4.1 Scepticism about the External World
4.2 Possible Answers to Scepticism of the External World
3.3 The Problem of Induction
5.1 Introduction to Knowledge
1a. Hume's Theory of Ideas and the Faculties
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