INTRODUCTION TO THE PHILOSOPHY-UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH(COURSERA)

WEEK 01:Introduction: What is Philosophy? The Status of Morality, Objectivism, Relativism, and Emotivism. How can we know something is the case if we’re unable to rule out possibilities that are clearly incompatible with it?
WEEK 02:In this module, we'll discuss this question, together with some of the main positions that philosophers have developed in response to it. We'll start off by examining what obeying the law means exactly. In this module, we’ll investigate how this question was addressed by two great philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment, David Hume (1711 - 1776) and Thomas Reid (1710 - 1796).
WEEK 03:In this module, we’ll look at how and why recent philosophy of mind and psychology has embraced each of these options in turn, and think about the problems and prospects for each.
WEEK 04: In this module, we'll look at the concept of determinism. In particular, we'll consider the implications that determinism might have for the notion of free will.