Marianne Talbot

Marianne Talbot was thrown out of school at 15. She came back to education at 26 when she took an Open University Foundation course during which she discovered philosophy. Transferring to London University Marianne took First Class Honours then went to Oxford University to do graduate work. She taught for Pembroke College, Oxford from 1987 - 1990, for Brasenose College, Oxford from 1990-2000, and has, since 2001, been director of studies in philosophy at Oxford University's Department for Continuing Education. Two of Marianne's podcasts (A Romp Through the History of Philosophy, and The Nature of Arguments) have been global number one on iTunes U. Her podcasts have received over 3 million downloads.

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Humanities at the Department for Continuing Education

A collection of audio and video resources of lectures, seminars and presentations from ...

The Nature of Causation

We have causal theories of reference, perception, knowledge, content and numerous other...

Psychiatry

Psychiatry is a medical discipline seeking to understand and treat mental illness. Thes...

Openness at Oxford

This podcast series explores the movement towards ‘Openness’ at the University of Oxfor...

Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

A Romp Through Philosophy for Complete Beginners

In this series of podcasts Marianne Talbot uses some famous arguments in the history of...

Critical Reasoning: A Romp Through the Foothills of Logic

This series of podcasts by Marianne Talbot will equip you with everything you need to i...

Alumni Weekend

The annual Oxford University Alumni Weekend aims to showcase the Collegiate University ...

Department for Continuing Education Open Day 2013

The Department welcomed members of the public by the hundreds to this year's Open Day, ...

Cultural Connections: exchanging knowledge and widening participation in the Humanities

Department for Continuing Education Open Day 2012

The Department welcomed members of the public by the hundreds to this year's Open Day, ...

Philosophy for Beginners

Philosophy has been studied for thousands of years. It involves the use of reason and a...

Rewley House Research Seminars

The multi-disciplinary research seminars are held once a term at Rewley House, and are ...

Bioethics: An Introduction

An introductory series by Marianne Talbot exploring bioethical theories and their philo...

Critical Reasoning for Beginners

Are you confident you can reason clearly? Are you able to convince others of your point...

A Romp Through the Philosophy of Mind

The mind is a fascinating entity. Where, after all, would we be without it? But what ex...

A Romp Through Ethics for Complete Beginners

In this introduction to ethics, we shall be considering the underpinnings of ethical th...

The God Delusion Weekend

Richard Dawkins' book The God Delusion has been a run away best seller. It has stimulat...

Title	Description	People	Date
Philosophy and the Future of Warfare	Can there be such a thing as a ‘moral’ war? Can it ever be right to kill innocent people, even in self-defence?	Helen Frowe, Alex Leveringhaus, James Pattison, Marianne Talbot	12 December, 2016
Time and Causation	Both time and causation seems to have the same 'direction’ . Can we explain this?	Marianne Talbot	9 June, 2016
Mental Causation	We do what we do because we believe what we believe. Or do we? How does mental causation work?	Marianne Talbot	9 June, 2016
The necessary connection analysis of causation	The idea that there are real metaphysical necessities relating cause and effect.	Marianne Talbot	9 June, 2016
The singularist theory of causation	The idea that causation is a relation science will one day discover.	Marianne Talbot	9 June, 2016
The regularity theory of causation	Hume's famously influential account of causation	Marianne Talbot	9 June, 2016
The counterfactual theory of causation	The idea that event c causes event e if and only if had c not had occurred e would not have occurred either.	Marianne Talbot	9 June, 2016
Engaging with the community	Marianne Talbot, author and philospher, gives a talk for the Oxford Conference on Psychiatry and Ageing.	Marianne Talbot	9 October, 2015
What is Openness?	‘Openness’ is a far-reaching concept--find out what it is about and why it is becoming increasingly important to academics, researchers, students and the general public!	Marianne Talbot, Simon Benjamin	6 July, 2015
Questions and Answers Session	Marianne answers questions from the audience about the four talks in this series.	Marianne Talbot	11 November, 2014
The Philosophy of Science	In the fourth and final lecture, we examine the notion of ‘objective fact’ on which scientific theories are built; what sort of fact is such that we can build a scientific theory on it?	Marianne Talbot	11 November, 2014
Epistemology and Metaphysics	In the third lecture we examine first the so-called “Gettier Problems” for the traditional account of knowledge, the arguments for saying that possible worlds exist and finally we ask whether there really are unactualised possibles.	Marianne Talbot	11 November, 2014
Moral and Political Philosophy	In the second lecture we examine first the famous ‘Wilt Chamberlain’ thought experiment that demonstrates a retention between freedom and equality, then arguments for and against two famous moral theories; deontology and utilitarianism.	Marianne Talbot	11 November, 2014
Logic and Argument: the Methodology of Philosophy	In this first lecture, using Descartes famous argument for the claim “I think therefore I am’, we examine how to identify and evaluate arguments.	Marianne Talbot	11 November, 2014
Answers to Questions	Answers to Questions posed in lectures 1 to 6 of Marianne Talbot's lecture series on critical reasoning for beginners.	Marianne Talbot	20 March, 2014
Fallacies: Understanding where Arguments go Wrong	Lecture 6 of 6 in Marianne Talbot's series on critical reasoning for beginners.	Marianne Talbot	20 March, 2014
Inductive Strength: Evaluating Inductive Arguments	Lecture 5 of 6 in Marianne Talbot's series on critical reasoning for beginners.	Marianne Talbot	20 March, 2014
Deductive Validity: Evaluating Deductive Arguments	Lecture 4 of 6 in Marianne Talbot's series on critical reasoning for beginners.	Marianne Talbot	20 March, 2014
Deduction and Induction: Classifying Arguments	Lecture 3 of 6 in Marianne Talbot's series on critical reasoning for beginners.	Marianne Talbot	20 March, 2014
Analysing Arguments: How to Identify Premises and Conclusions	Lecture 2 of 6 in Marianne Talbot's series on critical reasoning for beginners.	Marianne Talbot	20 March, 2014
The Nature Of Argument: How to Recognise Arguments	Lecture 1 of 6 in Marianne Talbot's series on critical reasoning for beginners.	Marianne Talbot	20 March, 2014
Biotechnology: For better or worse?	Marianne Talbot talks about the uses and dangers of the relatively new discipline of synthetic biology.	Marianne Talbot	8 October, 2013
Philosophy in 45 minutes!	Philosophy deals with the BIG questions of life: does God exist? How should we live? What is truth? What are numbers and do we need them? Does space come to an end or is it infinite? NO SOUND FOR FIRST 3 MINUTES.	Marianne Talbot	7 October, 2013
20.Spreading the Word.	Cultural Connections talk by Marianne Talbot. Part of the Digital Humanities @ Oxford Summer School 2013.	Marianne Talbot	7 August, 2013
Philosophy in 45 minutes!	Marianne Talbot takes participants on a romp through the nature of philosophy for complete beginners discussing some of the BIG questions of life: does God exist? How should we live? What is truth? Does space come to an end or is it infinite?	Marianne Talbot	19 December, 2012
Ethics	Ethical decisions, and often dilemma, lie at the heart of all research methodologies and practice. Marianne Talbot, course director in Philosophy, chaired three presentations from across the disciplines.	Marianne Talbot, Abi Sriharan, Kate Blackmon, David Griffiths	20 June, 2012
Reading List for Bioethics: An Introduction	Reading List to accompany the Bioethics: An Introduction podcast series.	Marianne Talbot	30 May, 2012
Common moral arguments: 'morality? It's all a matter of opinion'	Final of nine short introductory podcasts on Bioethics by Marianne Talbot.	Marianne Talbot	29 May, 2012
Common moral arguments: 'it's too risky' (the Precautionary Principle)	Eighth of nine short introductory podcasts on Bioethics by Marianne Talbot.	Marianne Talbot	29 May, 2012
Common moral arguments: 'it's not natural' and 'it's disgusting'	Seventh of nine short introductory podcasts on Bioethics by Marianne Talbot.	Marianne Talbot	29 May, 2012
Induction	Sixth of nine short introductory podcasts on Bioethics by Marianne Talbot.	Marianne Talbot	29 May, 2012
Deduction	Fifth of nine short introductory podcasts on Bioethics by Marianne Talbot.	Marianne Talbot	29 May, 2012
Arguments	Fourth of nine short introductory podcasts on Bioethics by Marianne Talbot.	Marianne Talbot	29 May, 2012
Utilitarianism	Third of nine short introductory podcasts on Bioethics by Marianne Talbot.	Marianne Talbot	29 May, 2012
Deontology	Second of nine short introductory podcasts on Bioethics by Marianne Talbot.	Marianne Talbot	29 May, 2012
Virtue Ethics	First of nine short introductory podcasts on Bioethics by Marianne Talbot.	Marianne Talbot	29 May, 2012
Further reading and more...	So you've finished this series of podcasts. Find out where to go from here...	Marianne Talbot	16 April, 2012
Reading List	Reading list for the Philosophy for Beginners series of podcasts.	Marianne Talbot	16 April, 2012
Further reading and more...	So you've finished this series of podcasts. Find out where to go from here...	Marianne Talbot	16 April, 2012
Further reading and more...	So you've finished this series of podcasts. Find out where to go from here...	Marianne Talbot	16 April, 2012
Further reading and more...	So you've finished this series of podcasts. Find out where to go from here...	Marianne Talbot	16 April, 2012
Part 5: Questions and Answers	Marianne Talbot presents the last of five episodes of the Romp through the Philosophy of Mind, engaging in a questions and answers discussion with the audience.	Marianne Talbot	10 April, 2012
Part 4: Are We Asking the Wrong Questions?	Marianne Talbot presents the fourth of five episodes of the Romp through the Philosophy of Mind, wondering if we are asking the wrong questions?	Marianne Talbot	7 February, 2012
Part 3: If Physicalism Won't Work, What is the Alternative?	Marianne Talbot presents the third of five episodes of the Romp through the Philosophy of Mind, on alternatives to Physicalism.	Marianne Talbot	7 February, 2012
Part 2: Non-Reductive Physicalisms and the Problems they Face	Slides to accompany Marianne Talbot's second of five episodes of the Romp through the Philosophy of Mind, on Non-Reductive Physicalisms and the problems they face.	Marianne Talbot	7 February, 2012
Part 1: Identity Theory and Why it Won't Work	Marianne Talbot presents the first of five episodes of the Romp through the Philosophy of Mind, on Identity Theory and why it won't work.	Marianne Talbot	7 February, 2012
Making Up Your Mind	Part 7 of 7 in Marianne Talbot's "A Romp Through Ethics for Complete Beginners". This final episode is a time to take stock and bring together all the strands we've considered.	Marianne Talbot	8 August, 2011
Utilitarianism: Mill and the utility calculus	Part 6 of 7 in Marianne Talbot's "A Romp Through Ethics for Complete Beginners". A reflection on Mill's account of morality, and the greatest happiness of the greatest number.	Marianne Talbot	27 June, 2011
Deontology: Kant, duty and the moral law	Part 5 of 7 in Marianne Talbot's "A Romp Through Ethics for Complete Beginners". In this episode we reflect on Kant's account of morality, including the categorical imperative.	Marianne Talbot	3 June, 2011
Humean Ethics: Non-Cognitivism, the passions and moral motivation	Part 4 of 7 in Marianne Talbot's "A Romp Through Ethics for Complete Beginners". In this episode we reflect on Hume's account of morality and his rejection of reason as the source of morality.	Marianne Talbot	2 June, 2011
Virtue Ethics: virtue, values and character	Part 3 of 7 in Marianne Talbot's "A Romp Through Ethics for Complete Beginners". In this episode we will reflect on Aristotle's account of morality and the centrality of the virtues in this account.	Marianne Talbot	24 May, 2011
Freedom, knowledge and society: the preconditions of ethical reasoning	Part 2 of 7 in Marianne Talbot's "A Romp Through Ethics for Complete Beginners". In this episode we examine the preconditions of ethical reasoning and make a comparison between the law of the land and the moral law.	Marianne Talbot	20 May, 2011
Rules, truths and theories: an introduction to ethical reasoning	Part 1 of 7 in Marianne Talbot's "A Romp Through Ethics for Complete Beginners". In this episode we examine moral dilemmas, moral truth and moral knowledge, freewill and determinism.	Marianne Talbot	19 May, 2011
The God Delusion: Questions and Answers	Stephen Law and Marianne Talbot take part in a panel discussion with Tom Fisher, chairman of the Oxford Philosophical Society, chairing. They answer questions form the audience about The God Delusion and discuss the philosophical issues surrounding it.	Marianne Talbot, Stephen Law, Tom Fisher	20 May, 2010
Has Dawkins shown that God is Redundant?	Marianne Talbot presents the third talk on Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion as part of The God Delusion Weekend.	Marianne Talbot	20 May, 2010
A Scientific Hypothesis?	Marianne Talbot gives the first talk on Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion as part of The God Delusion Weekend.	Marianne Talbot	20 May, 2010
Evaluating Arguments Part Two	Part six of a six-part series on critical reasoning. In this final lecture we will look at fallacies. These are bad arguments that can easily be mistaken for good arguments.	Marianne Talbot	18 March, 2010
Evaluating Arguments Part One	Part five of a six-part series on critical reasoning. In this lecture we will continue with the evaluation of arguments - this time deductive arguments - focusing in particular on the notion of validity.	Marianne Talbot	15 March, 2010
What is a Good Argument? Validity and Truth	Part four of a six-part series on critical reasoning. In this lecture we will learn how to evaluate arguments and how to tell whether an argument is good or bad, focusing specifically on inductive arguments.	Marianne Talbot	11 March, 2010
Setting out Arguments Logic Book Style	Part three of a six-part series on critical reasoning. In this lecture we will focus on how to identify and analyse arguments, and how to set arguments out logic book-style to make them easier to evaluate.	Marianne Talbot	10 March, 2010
Different Types of Arguments	The second of six lectures dealing with critical reasoning. In this lecture you will learn about the different types of arguments, in particular deductive and inductive arguments.	Marianne Talbot	29 January, 2010
The Nature of Arguments	The first of six lectures dealing with critical reasoning. In this lecture you will learn how to recognise arguments and what the nature of an argument is.	Marianne Talbot	29 January, 2010
Philosophy of language and mind	Language and Mind: What is rationality? What is consciousness? How do we manage to express our thoughts and experiences in language?	Marianne Talbot	9 January, 2009
Metaphysics and Epistemology	Metaphysics and Epistemology: what exists, what is its nature and how can we acquire knowledge of it?	Marianne Talbot	9 January, 2009
Ethics and politics	Moral and Political Philosophy: how should we live? What constitutes a just state?	Marianne Talbot	9 January, 2009
The philosophical method - logic and argument	Logic and Argument: the joys of symbolic and philosophical logic.	Marianne Talbot	9 January, 2009
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.	Marianne Talbot	13 November, 2008

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