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Episode Title	Description	People	Date
Building a Business: Entrepreneurship and the Ideal Business Plan	Fiona Reid (Former Executive Director of the Oxford Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation) talks about communicating your vision and the ideal business plan.	Fiona Reid	24 March, 2011
Building a Business: Marketing: Creating and Keeping Customers	Jonathan Reynolds (Academic Director of the Oxford Institute of Retail Management) discusses principles of marketing, including using the internet and social media.	Jonathan Reynolds	24 March, 2011
5. Making a Livelier Drawing	Lesson 4. Making a livelier drawing, where the line and tone have an energy because they have been applied at speed with a brush.	Stephen Farthing	24 March, 2011
9. Creativity	Lesson 8. Invention!	Stephen Farthing	24 March, 2011
8. Field Notes	Lesson 7. Strategies for collecting information and recording ideas as an aid to memory.	Stephen Farthing	24 March, 2011
7. With Colour	Lesson 6. The most complex form of drawing. Starting with a pencil outline, the drawing is developed with a brush in clearly defined layers.	Stephen Farthing	24 March, 2011
6. Measured Drawing	Lesson 5. Making a drawing that is dependent for its success on mathematical accuracy.	Stephen Farthing	24 March, 2011
4. Toned Paper	Lesson 3. How toned paper can be used to provide the mid-tone in a drawing, which records where light and shade fall as a means of picturing an object.	Stephen Farthing	24 March, 2011
3. The Edge of the Pencil	Lesson 2. We use tone, light, dark and the shades in-between to create illusions of volume and depth.	Stephen Farthing	24 March, 2011
2. The Tip of the Pencil	Lesson 1. We use line to define spaces and things. It is not a question of magically getting the line right first time, but of first turning a contour into a line, and then systematically correcting that line until it looks right.	Stephen Farthing	24 March, 2011
1. Introduction to the Elements of Drawing	Stephen Farthing R.A. presents eight practical drawing classes using John Ruskin's teaching collections to explain the basic principles of drawing.	Stephen Farthing	24 March, 2011
Hug me daddy I hate you: the ethical challenges of a C21 business	Dr Mick Blowfield, Fellow of St Cross College, gives the second St Cross Special Ethics Seminar on The Ethical Challenges of 21st Century Businesses.	Mick Blowfield	22 March, 2011
Idealisms and their refutations	Lecture 5/8. The very possibility of self-awareness (an "inner sense" with content) requires an awareness of an external world by way of "outer sense". Only through awareness of stable elements in the external world is self-consciousness possible.	Dan Robinson	16 March, 2011
The discipline of reason: The paralogisms and Antinomies of Pure Reason.	Lecture 8/8. Reason, properly disciplined, draws permissible inferences from the resulting concepts of the understanding. The outcome is knowledge.	Dan Robinson	16 March, 2011
The "Self" and the Synthetic Unity of Apperception	Lecture 7/8. Kant argues that: "The synthetic unity of consciousness is... an objective condition of all knowledge.	Dan Robinson	16 March, 2011
Concepts, judgement and the Transcendental Deduction of the Categories	Lecture 6/8. Empiricists have no explanation for how we move from "mere forms of thought" to objective concepts. The conditions necessary for the knowledge of an object require a priori categories as the enabling conditions of all human understanding.	Dan Robinson	16 March, 2011
How are a priori synthetic judgements possible?	Lecture 4/8. Kant claims that, "our sense representation is not a representation of things in themselves, but of the way in which they appear to us.	Dan Robinson	16 March, 2011
Space, time and the "Analogies of Experiences"	Lecture 3/8. Kant's so-called "Copernican" revolution in metaphysics begins with the recognition of the observer's contribution to the observation.	Dan Robinson	16 March, 2011
The broader philosophical context	Lecture 2/8. The significant advances in physics in the 17th century stood in vivid contrast to the stagnation of traditional metaphysics, but why should metaphysics be conceived as a "science" in the first place?	Dan Robinson	16 March, 2011
Just what is Kant's "project"?	Lecture 1/8. Both sense and reason are limited. Kant must identify the proper mission and domain of each, as well as the manner in which their separate functions come to be integrated in what is finally the inter-subjectively settled knowledge of science.	Dan Robinson	16 March, 2011
8. Defining Art	James Grant, lecturer in philosophy, University of Oxford gives his eight and final lecture in the Aesthetics series on Defining Art.	James Grant	15 March, 2011
7. Musical Expression	James Grant, lecturer in philosophy, University of Oxford gives his seventh lecture in the Aesthetics series on the expression of emotion in music.	James Grant	15 March, 2011
6. Literary Interpretation	James Grant, lecturer in philosophy, University of Oxford gives his sixth lecture in the Aesthetics series on the interpretation of literature.	James Grant	15 March, 2011
5. Kant's Critique of Judgement: Lecture 2	James Grant, lecturer in philosophy, University of Oxford concludes his discussion of Kant's Critique of Judgement in the fifth lecture of the Aesthetics series.	James Grant	15 March, 2011
4. Kant's Critique of Judgement: Lecture 1	James Grant, lecturer in philosophy, University of Oxford gives his fourth lecture in the Aesthetics series on Kant's Critique of Judgement.	James Grant	15 March, 2011
3. Hume and the Standard of Taste	James Grant, lecturer in philosophy, University of Oxford gives his third lecture in the Aesthetics series on Hume and the Standard of Taste.	James Grant	15 March, 2011
2. Aristotle's Poetics	James Grant, lecturer in philosophy, University of Oxford gives his second lecture in the Aesthetics series on Aristotle's Poetics.	James Grant	15 March, 2011
1. Plato's Philosophy of Art	James Grant, lecturer in philosop-hy, University of Oxford gives his first lecture in the Aesthetics series on Plato's philosophy of Art.	James Grant	15 March, 2011
Aiding the Peace in Southern Sudan: A Multi-donor Evaluation of Support to Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Activities in Southern Sudan 2005-2010	Jon Bennet, Director of Oxford Development Consultants, gives a talk for the Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict Seminar series on 7th March 2011. An Oxford Humanitarian Group Event. Introduced by Urvashi Aneja.	Jon Bennet	14 March, 2011
Core Course: Painting as visual and material culture in Ming China	This lecture is one of a series of eight relating to an optional third year undergraduate course, 'Painting and Culture in Ming China' which can be taken by History of Art and History students.	Craig Clunas	11 March, 2011
Core Course: Women as Patrons of the Arts in Early Modern Europe	This lecture forms part of series entitled 'Introduction to the History of Art', a core course taught to the first year undergraduate History of Art students.	Geraldine Johnson	11 March, 2011
Core Course: Modernism and Mass Culture	This lecture forms part of series entitled Introduction to the History of Art, a core course taught to the first year undergraduate History of Art students.	Alastair Wright	11 March, 2011
Military Ethics as Professional Ethics: The Limits of the Philosophical Approach	Professor Martin Cook gives a talk for the ELAC seminar series.	Martin Cook	8 March, 2011
The Untold War	Nancy Sherman, University of Glasgow, gives a talk for the Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict Seminar Series, in this, she talks about the philosophical concept of guilt in war. Introduced by Hew Strachan.	Nancy Sherman	8 March, 2011
Know4Go - EBM lecture	Dr Janet Martin, Director of Health Technology Assessment, London Health Services Centre gives a special lecture for EBM entitled; Know4Go: An Instrument for decision-making when resources are limited and demands are relentless.	Janet Martin	24 February, 2011
The Information Revolution	Sir Muir Gray, Chief Knowledge Office, NHS, gives a special guest lecture for the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine.	Sir Muir Gray	24 February, 2011
The Future of Evidence Based Medicine	Professor Paul Glasziou, Director of the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine, gives a special lecture on the future of EBM.	Paul Glasziou	24 February, 2011
Interpreting Results - Stats in Small Doses	Dr Amanda Burls delivers a talk for the Centre for Evidenced Based Medicine.	Amanda Burls	24 February, 2011
Diagnostic Tests	Dr Carl Heneghan delivers a talk for the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine.	Carl Heneghan	24 February, 2011
Appraisal of Clinical Trials	Dr Rafael Perera delivers a talk for the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine.	Rafael Perera	24 February, 2011
Introduction to Evidence Based Medicine	Professor Paul Glasziou gives an introduction to evidence-based medicine and healthcare.	Paul Glasziou	24 February, 2011
Does the Internet Help People Power?	Evgeny Morozov, author of "The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom", delivers a lecture on the political use of the internet, particularly during protests and demonstrations.	Evgeny Morozov, John Lloyd, Timothy Garton Ash	23 February, 2011
The Battlefield from Afar: Independently Operating Systems and their Compatibility with the laws of Armed Conflict	Markus Wagner, Associate Professor of Law, University of Miami Law School, gives a talk for the 2011 Hilary term ELAC/CCW seminar series.	Markus Wagner	21 February, 2011
Being Humanitarian: Personal Morality and Political Project in Today's Wars	Dr Hugo Slim, Visiting Fellow in the department of politics and international relations, gives a talk for the 2011 Hilary term ELAC/CCW seminar series on armed conflict.	Hugo Slim	21 February, 2011
Contemporary Security Challenges (partial)	Dr Paul Cornish (Chatham House) gives a talk for the Hiliary Term 2011 ELAC/CCW seminar series. Please note: this is only a partial recording. we apologise for the inconvenience this may cause.	Paul Cornish	21 February, 2011
Special Responsibilities in World Politics	Professor Ian Clark and Professor Christian Reus-Smit give a talk for the Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict 2011 Hilary Term seminar series.	Ian Clark, Christian Reus-Smit	11 February, 2011
Riding the Perfect Storm: World on the Edge, When will the Big Bubble Burst	Lester Brown, President of the Earth Policy Institute in Washington DC, gives a lecture for the Linacre Lecture Series; Riding the Perfect Storm.	Lester Brown	8 February, 2011
Earth: A Three Act Structure	Relevance of geological ideas to contemporary environmental issues.' Professor Iain Stewart, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth.	Iain Stewart	28 January, 2011
Good Intentions and Political Life: Against Virtue Parsimony: St Cross Special Ethics Seminar	Dr Adrian Walsh delivers a St Cross College Lecture entitled Good Intentions and Political Life: Against Virtue Parsimony.	Adrian Walsh	24 January, 2011
Cosmopolitanism, Self-Determination and National Self-Defence - Why We Fight Conference Lecture 5	Part of the Why we Fight Conference held in Nuffield College October 2010. Lecturer in Law, Monash University, Patrick Emerton gives his paper followed by a discussion.	Patrick Emerton	5 January, 2011
Violence as Victory - Why we Fight Conference Lecture 7	Part of the Why we Fight Conference held in Nuffield College October 2010. Professor of Law and Jurisprudence at UC Berkeley gives his paper followed by a discussion.	Christopher Kutz	5 January, 2011
Invisible War: The United States and The Iraq Sanctions	Special seminar from the Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC) given by Professor Jay Gordan (Fairfield University with Professor David Miller (Oxford).	Jay Gordan, David Miller	5 January, 2011
An Extraordinary Humanitarian Intervention - Why We Fight Conference lecture 2	Part of the Why we Fight Conference held in Nuffield College October 2010. Dr. Gerhard Overland (Oslo/ Melbourne), gives his paper followed by a discussion.	Gerhard Øverland	5 January, 2011
Just Cause For War: A Contractarian Analysis - Why We Fight Conference lecture 3	Part of the Why we Fight Conference held in Nuffield College October 2010. Professor Yitzhak Benbaji, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, gives his paper followed by a discussion.	Yitzhak Benbaji	5 January, 2011
Global Injustice and Redistributive Wars - Why We Fight Conference lecture 4	Part of the Why we Fight Conference held in Nuffield College October 2010.Professor of Political Science, Aarhus University, Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, gives his paper followed by a discussion.	Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen	5 January, 2011
Is War Evil? - Why We fight Conference Lecture 8	Part of the Why we Fight Conference held in Nuffield College October 2010. Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University Jeff McMahan gives his paper followed by a discussion.	Jeff McMahan	5 January, 2011
Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley - Joint journal entry	Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Shelley and Mary eloped at 4.15 am on 28 July 1814, accompanied by Mary's step-sister Jane Clairmont.	Henry Cockburn	2 December, 2010
Mary Shelley - Letter to Percy Bysshe Shelley	Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Shelley and Mary arrived back in London to face the almost universal disapproval of family and friends, and severe money problems.	Nouran Koriem	2 December, 2010
Harriet Shelley - Letter to Eliza Westbrook, Shelley and her parents	Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Harriet Shelley drowned herself in December 1816, aged twenty-one. Her body was recovered from the Serpentine on 10 December, and an inquest into the death of one 'Harriet Smith' was held the following day.	Hannah Morrell	2 December, 2010
Mary Shelley (with Percy Bysshe Shelley) - Draft of Frankenstein	Mary Shelley drafted Frankenstein in two tall notebooks. The first notebook was probably purchased in Geneva, the second several months later in England.	Christopher Adams	2 December, 2010
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Draft of 'Ozymandias'	Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. 'Ozymandias' is the Greek name for Ramses II, who ruled Egypt for sixty-seven years from 1279 to 1213 BC.	Christopher Adams	2 December, 2010
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Fair copy of Ode to the West Wind	Part of the Shelly's Ghost Exhibition. Shelley's best-known poem was written in Florence in late 1819.	Christopher Adams	2 December, 2010
Percy Bysshe Shelley: Letter to William Godwin	Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Using false names, Shelley sent copies of The Necessity of the Atheism to 'men of thought and learning', including bishops and clergymen.	Henry Cockburn	2 December, 2010
William Godwin: Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman	Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Godwin's memoir of Mary Wollstonecraft has been called the first modern biography. At the time, however, its frankness and emotional candour provoked general outrage.	Henry Cockburn	2 December, 2010
Mary Wollstonecraft - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman	Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. In her most famous work Mary Wollstonecraft argued that if women were educated in the same way as men they would perform as well.	Annabell James	2 December, 2010
Mary Wollstonecraft Three notes to William Godwin	Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Even after their marriage Godwin and Wollstonecraft preferred to live independently during the day, and communicate by correspondence.	Hannah Morrell	2 December, 2010
8.4 Persons, Humans and Brains	Part 8.4. The final part of this series. Explores the distinction between mind and body and whether this makes a difference to the idea of personal identity.	Peter Millican	1 December, 2010
8.3 Problems for Locke's View of Personal Identity	Part 8.3. Criticisms of Locke's view of personal identity; if personal identity is dependent on memory then how does forgetting personal history and the concept of false memory change Locke's view of personal identity.	Peter Millican	1 December, 2010
8.2 John Locke on Personal Identity	Part 8.2. Looks at John Locke's view of personal identity; how consciousness and 'personal history' distinguish personal identity and the idea of memory as crucial for personal identity.	Peter Millican	1 December, 2010
8.1 Introduction to Personal Identity	Part 8.1. Introduces the concept of personal identity, what is it to be a person, whether someone is the same person over time and Leibniz's law of sameness.	Peter Millican	1 December, 2010
7.4 Making Sense of Free Will and Moral Responsibility	Part 7.4. A brief explanation of Hume's argument for sentimentalism and Robert Kane's views on free will and determinism.	Peter Millican	1 December, 2010
7.3 Hume on Liberty and Necessity	Part 7.3. Looks at Hume's views on liberty and its relationship to causal necessity; that we have free will but it is causally determined.	Peter Millican	1 December, 2010
7.2 Different Concepts of Freedom	Part 7.2. Looks at Hobbes' and Hume's views of free will and the three concepts of freedom, and considers the idea of moral responsibility as dependent on free will.	Peter Millican	1 December, 2010
7.1 Free Will, Determinism and Choice	Part 7.1. Explores the problem of free will and the ideas of moral responsibility, determinism and choice; the need for a concept of freedom to allow free choice, the problems associated with this and asking whether we really have freedom of choice.	Peter Millican	1 December, 2010
6.4 Making Sense of Perception	Part 6.4. A brief overview of contemporary accounts of perception; including phenomenalism (that objects are logical constructions from sense data) and direct realism (that we perceive objects and the external world directly).	Peter Millican	30 November, 2010
6.3 Abstraction and Idealism	Part 6.3. Criticisms of the resemblance theory of perception and an introduction to idealism - that perceptions of the external world are all within the mind as ideas.	Peter Millican	30 November, 2010
6.2 Problems with Resemblance	Part 6.2. Explores Berkeley's and Locke's arguments concerning the resemblance of qualities and objects; that the perceived qualities of objects exist only in the mind or whether secondary qualities are intrinsically part of the object.	Peter Millican	30 November, 2010
6.1 Introduction to Primary and Secondary Qualities	Part 6.1. Introduces the problem of perception (and the distinction between the world and what we perceive), along with the concepts of primary and secondary qualities.	Peter Millican	30 November, 2010
5.4 Scepticism, Externalism and the Ethics of Belief	Part 5.4. Looks at the role the concept of knowledge plays in life, the different levels of knowledge we require in certain contexts and the return of scepticism over knowledge.	Peter Millican	29 November, 2010
5.3 Gettier and Other Complications	Part 5.3. The difference between internalist and externalist accounts of knowledge; whether we need external factors to justify knowledge or whether internal accounts are sufficient, and the Gettier cases.	Peter Millican	29 November, 2010
5.2 The Traditional Analysis of Knowledge	Part 5.2. Explores the idea of conscious and unconscious knowledge (should a person know that they know something or does it not matter?) and the theory of justification of propositions and beliefs.	Peter Millican	29 November, 2010
5.1 Introduction to Knowledge	Part 5.1. Looks at the problem of knowledge; how can we know what we know, three types of knowledge and A J Ayer's two conditions for knowledge.	Peter Millican	29 November, 2010
Research Seminar: Michelangelo: A Life on Paper	In this lecture recorded as a part of the University of Oxford History of Art Department's Research Seminar series, Professor Leonard Barkan (Princeton University) discusses the theme "Michelangelo: A Life on Paper". Recording date - 4th November 2010.	Leonard Barkan	26 November, 2010
Common Values and Federalism in Europe	David Hannay, Peter Sutherland and Peter Luff participate in a discussion on Common Values and Federalism in Europe. Part of the Europaeum Conference recorded at St Anthony's College in September 2010.	Peter Sutherland, Peter Luff, David Hannay	22 November, 2010
The Winter's Tale	How we can make sense of a play that veers from tragedy to comedy and stretches credulity in its conclusion? That's the topic for this fifth Approaching Shakespeare lecture on The Winter's Tale.	Emma Smith	9 November, 2010
Macbeth	In this fourth Approaching Shakespeare lecture the question is one of agency: who or what makes happen the things that happen in Macbeth?	Emma Smith	2 November, 2010
Measure for Measure	The third Approaching Shakespeare lecture, on Measure for Measure, focuses on the vexed question of this uncomic comedy's genre.	Emma Smith	26 October, 2010
Henry V	The second lecture in the Approaching Shakespeare series looks at King Henry V, and asks whether his presentation in the play is entirely positive.	Emma Smith	20 October, 2010
Othello	First in Emma Smith's Approaching Shakespeare lecture series; looking at the central question of race and its significance in the play.	Emma Smith	18 October, 2010
British EU Policy After The Election	Recorded on 15th June 2010, the European Studies Centre, St Antony's College presents The Chancellor of the University of Oxford Lord Patten of Barnes in conversation with Lord Hannay and Sir Stephen Wall. Convenor: Professor Jane Caplan.	David Hannay, Stephen Wall, Chris Patten, Jane Caplan	19 July, 2010
Wellbeing and Inequality in Post-Industrial Society	The Annual Ralf Dahrendorf Memorial Lecture is delivered by a leading thinker on a subject related to Ralf Dahrendorf's concerns. This inaugural (2010) Ralf Dahrendorf Memorial Lecture was delivered by Lord (Adair) Turner.	Adair Turner, Timothy Garton Ash, Michael Göring, Robert Skidelsky, Paul Collier	6 July, 2010
Oxford Literary Festival 2010 By Seven Firs and Goldenstone - An account of the Legend of Alderley	Alan Garner gives an illustrated lecture on the Legend of Alderley. This version of the myth of the Sleeping Hero is rooted to places on Alderley Edge in Cheshire, where Alan Garner grew up.	Alan Garner	21 June, 2010
Oxford Literary Festival 2010 Pieces of Places Discussion The Weirdstone of Brisingamen	Alan Garner, Mark Edmonds and Robert Powell take part in a discussion on the subject of pieces of places, objects and artefacts found and what they mean for writing fiction and for archeology in general.	Alan Garner, Mark Edmonds, Robert Powell	21 June, 2010
Oxford Literary Festival 2010 Pieces of Places - Reading of Alan Garner's Work	The 50th anniversary of the publication of Alan Garner's first novel, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen. A talk examining the importance of place in Alan Garner's work. Robert Powell gives a reading of The Stone Book, from The Stone Book Quartet.	Robert Powell, Alan Garner	21 June, 2010
4.3 Cartesian Dualism	Part 4.3. Introduces Descartes' idea of dualism, that there is a separation between the mind and the body, as well as some of the philosophical issues surrounding this idea.	Peter Millican	8 April, 2010
4.4 The Mind-Body Problem	Part 4.4. Looks at some of the modern responses to Cartesian Dualism including Gilbert Ryle's and G. Strawson's responses to the idea.	Peter Millican	8 April, 2010
4.2 Possible Answers to External World Scepticism	Part 4.2. Investigates some of the possible solutions to Descartes' sceptical problem of the external world, looking at G.E Moore's response, among others, to the problem.	Peter Millican	8 April, 2010
3.2 Responses to Hume's Famous Argument	Part 3.2. Responses to and justifications of Hume's argument concerning the problem of induction.	Peter Millican	8 April, 2010
3.1 Hume's Argument Concerning Induction	Part 3.1. Briefly introduces the problem of induction: that is, the problem that it is difficult to justify claims to knowledge of the world through pure reason, i.e. without experience.	Peter Millican	8 April, 2010
2.7 Overview: Kant and Modern Science	Part 2.7. Concludes a historical survey of philosophy with Immanuel Kant, who thought Hume was wrong in his idea of human nature and how we gain knowledge of the world.	Peter Millican	8 April, 2010