Elizabeth
Frazer’s Teaching
All my teaching stuff is now on a Weblearn Site. To download
lecture presentations, and to participate in forums, go to: https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/portal/hierarchy/socsci/politics/tutors/frazer_l/
Michaelmas Term
2009
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to Complete List of Publications
Weeks 2-7; Philosophy of
the Social Sciences
There is a now a Weblearn Site
for this course (including the classes that are compulsory for certain students
in Hilary Term). To download handouts,
and to participate in a forum, go to: https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/portal/hierarchy/socsci/politics/tutors/frazer_l/
(for first year MPhil, MSc and
PRS politics and international relations students: anyone else is also welcome)
Friday 9.15 - 10.45, Lecture
Theatre, Social Studies Building, Manor Road
Week 2, Lecture 1 Explanation I Covering Law Models of Explanation
Week 3, Lecture 2 Explanation II Realist and Anti-Realist Critiques of
Covering Law Models
Week 4, Lecture 3 Explanation
III Interpretive Critiques of Causal
Explanation
Week 5, Lecture 4 Scientific Theory
I What makes a theory scientific? (as opposed to pseudo-scientific)
Week 6, Lecure 5 Scientific Theory
II What makes a scientific theory? (as opposed to a scientific observation
or fact)
Week 7, Lecture 6 Structure Agency and
the Explanation of Human Action
Weeks 1-8; Co-convenor with
Eddie Keene: Introduction
to the Advanced Study of Political Science and International Relations (compulsory
course for first year MPhil, PRS and MSc politics and international relations
students)
There is a now a Weblearn Site
for this course (including the classes that are compulsory for certain students
in Hilary Term). To download handouts,
and to participate in a forum, go to: https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/portal/hierarchy/socsci/politics/tutors/frazer_l/
(for first year MPhil, MSc and
PRS politics and international relations students: anyone else is also welcome)
Thursday 2.00 to 3.30 p.m. Lecture Theatre, Social Studies Building,
Manor Road.
Week 1: Eddie Keene
Week 2: Jennifer Welsh
Week 3: Rana Mitter
Week 4: David Soskice
Week 5: Dan McDermott
Week 6: No lecture this week
Week 7: Ray Duch
Week 8: Discussion
Weeks 1-8
Philosophy Politics and
Economics Preliminary Examination
Introduction to Politics:
Theorising the Democratic State: Themes
There is a now a Weblearn Site
for this course of lectures. To download lecture presentations, and to
participate in a forum, go to: https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/portal/hierarchy/socsci/politics/tutors/frazer_l/
Tuesday
10.00 Examination Schools
Lecture
1: Models of Democracy I: Democracy and
Freedom
Lecture
2: Models of Democracy II: Majorities and
Representation
Lecture
3: Models of Democracy III: Deliberation
Lecture
4: State and Power - who rules? I: Elitism
Lecture
5: State and Power - who rules? II: Popular
Sovereignty
Lecture
6: State and Power -
who rules? III: Associational Life
Lecture
7: Political Theory and Justification
Hilary Term 2009
Philosophy of the Social
Sciences, classes for graduate students:
Weeks 1&3 Group 1; Weeks
2&4 Group 2; Weeks 5&7 Group 3; Weeks 6&8 Group 4 – here for which
group you are in
If you have any questions please go to the Weblearn public
space at http://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/site/users/efrazer/public/
- it is very helpful for questions and answers to be available to everyone in
the group. (this weblearn space is no longer available - Oct 2009. )
Michaelmas Term
2008
Weeks 1-8
Philosophy Politics and
Economics Preliminary Examination
Introduction to Politics: Theorising
the Democratic State: Themes
Tuesday 10.00 Examination
Schools
Weeks 2-7
Philosophy of the Social
Sciences (Masters Research Training)
Lecture Course outline here
Friday, 9.15-10.45 (one hour
lecture, half hour discussion for those who wish to stay)
Examination Schools
Lecture 1: Explanation I
Lecture 2: Explanation II
Lecture 3: Explanation III
Lecture 4: Theory I
Lecture 5: Theory II
Lecture 6: Structure and Agency
If you wish to ask me a question about the content of the
lectures, or the course, go here, to a Weblearn public space, where
you can post questions (and read questions others have posted, and my answers
to them). I will answer them as soon as
I can.
Back to complete list of
publications etc
Trinity Term
2008:
Weeks 1-4
Focus Group Research: workshop
Interview
Analysis: workshop
History
of Political Thought: Plato to Rousseau
continued Thursdays 10.00 a.m.
Lecture 9: Political
Allegiance
Lecture 10: Natural, Divine
and Positive Law
Lecture 11: Man and Citizen,
Nature and Corruption
Lecture 12: Civitas:
Enlightenment, Virtue and Civil Society
Hilary Term 2008:
Thursdays, 10.00 a.m. Manor
Road, Sem Rm A:
History
of Political Thought: Plato to Rousseau
Lecture 1: Problems of
Politics
Lecture 2: Politeia:
Philosophy Against Politics
Lecture 3: Polity: Politics
and Friendship
Lecture 4: The Christian
Prince
Lecture 5: The Political
Prince
Lecture 6: Artifical Man and
Abstract State
Lecture 7: Contract, Consent
and Trust
Lecture 8: Polity to Sovereignty
Mondays, 11.00 a.m. Weeks 5-8,
Manor Road (with Alan Ryan)
Philosophy of the Social
Sciences - classes
Michaelmas Term
2007:
Fridays, 4.00 p.m., Weeks
2-7. Examination Schools:
Philosophy of the Social
Sciences:
Trinity Term
2007:
Thursday, 10.00, Manor Road:
History of Political Thought,
Plato to Rousseau, contd:
Friday, 2.15 p.m. New College,
Conduit Room, with Mark Philp:
Virtues, Vices
and Politics, Research Seminar
Hilary Term 2007:
Classical Political Thought Core
Lectures
History of Political Thought:
Bentham to Weber
Lecture 1: Individual and
Community, History and Social Change
Lecture 2: Weber, Ethics and
Politics
Lecture 3: Durkheim, Ethics and
Politics
Lecture 4: State, Society and
Family
Previous terms’
lectures:
Trinity Term 2006
Classical
Political Thought Core Lectures continued
Hilary Term 2006
Classical
Political Thought Core Lectures
Hilary Term 2003
Political Theory Core
Lectures
Lecture 1: Freedom and Equality I
Lecture 2: Freedom and Equality II
Lecture 3: Authority and Obligation I
Lecture 4: Authority and Obligation II
Michaelmas Term 2002
Philosophy of the Social
Sciences: Lectures