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Amna Whiston
Dr Amna Whiston is a philosopher whose work brings together moral philosophy, the philosophy of mind, and an engagement with the history of ideas from Plato and Aristotle to Kant and Marx. She approaches philosophy with an empirical and interdisciplinary sensibility, attentive to how abstract concepts illuminate lived experience.
Alongside publishing and presenting her work in the UK and internationally, she teaches philosophy for Oxford University’s Department of Lifelong Learning and supervises students on Cambridge’s Advanced Diploma and PgCert programmes in philosophy. Her current research focuses on the normativity of emotions.
Courses
The philosophy of mind is concerned with questions about the nature of mind and the relation between our minds and the physical world. This course provides an introduction to the mind body problem, one of the most intractable problems in philosophy.
We think we know, but do we? We think we are free, but are we? We think our actions are moral, but are they? What is this reality we take ourselves to live in? The oldest questions meet the newest technology in this online introduction to philosophy.
The course looks at what, if anything, it is that Jews, Christians and Muslims are agreeing about when they claim that there is a God; and we shall look at what, if any, prospects there are for rationally defending or attacking this claim.
An introduction to metaphysics, the most general investigation of reality. It has been at the centre of philosophy since the beginning of the Western tradition in ancient Greece, and many of its concerns are the same as those of Plato and Aristotle.
The theory of knowledge is one of the most central areas of philosophy. In this online course you will cover the key issues in epistemology while also learning to think for yourself and develop your own answers to the core questions in this area.
In this introduction to ethics, we shall examine four important ethical theories, applying them to two practical questions: the rights of animals and euthanasia. There will be plenty of opportunity to engage in debate and test your own thinking.
Join us in Oxford and explore the thinking of several key Early Modern philosophers on a range of fascinating topics at this in-person weekend event.