Tutor information
Julia Weckend
Julia joined the OUDCE in 2014. Her teaching and research interests include the history of philosophy, with emphasis on metaphysics and the philosophy of mind, perception and emotion.
Courses
Who or what am I? The sense of self is amongst our most basic conceptions of who we are. We experience ourselves as single persisting things. Why then is it nay impossible to find agreement about the nature and constitution of the self?
Reasoning enables us to acquire knowledge, to persuade others and to evaluate their arguments. But only if we reason well. We shall be learning how to recognise, evaluate, construct and analyse arguments, and how to recognise common fallacies.
Who or what am I? The sense of self is amongst our most basic conceptions of who we are. We experience ourselves as single persisting things. Why then is it nay impossible to find agreement about the nature and constitution of the self?
What constitutes human happiness and well-being and what are the conditions that make people flourish?
'What is truth?' is a perplexing and elusive question. A good first response is that truth and falsity are properties of what people say or think. But how is what we think related to actual facts? And what caused the recent corrosion of truth?
'What is truth?' is a perplexing and elusive question. A good first response is that truth and falsity are properties of what people say or think. But how is what we think related to actual facts? And what caused the recent corrosion of truth?
The problem of free will is one of the great philosophical conundrums. We certainly feel free to choose and would be alarmed to lose that sense. But we also experience ourselves constrained by causal laws. So, if it exists, wherein lies our freedom?