Philosophy: Free Courses




Get free Philosophy courses from the world’s leading universities. You can download these audio & video courses straight to your computer or mp3 player. For more online courses, visit our complete collection of Free Courses.

  • A Romp through Ethics for Complete Beginners - iTunes Video –Web Video – Web Audio – Marianne Talbot, Oxford University
  • Aesthetics & Philosophy of Art – iTunes – Web – James Grant, Oxford University
  • Analytic Philosophy: Wilfrid Sellars – Web – Robert Brandom, University of Pittsburgh
  • Ancient and Medieval Philosophy iTunes Video - Web Video – David O’Connor, Notre Dame
  • Ancient Philosophy – iTunes – David Ebrey, UC Berkeley
  • Ancient Wisdom and Modern Love - iTunes Video - Web Video – Professor David O’Connor, Notre Dame
  • Argument Diagramming Web – Carnegie Mellon
  • Aristotle: Ethics – Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
  • Aristotle: Rhetoric – Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
  • Aristotle: Politics - Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
  • Authority & the Individual: Six BBC Lectures Web Site – Bertrand Russell, Cambridge
  • Bioethics: An Introduction – Web - iTunes Video – iTunes Audio- Marianne Talbot, Oxford
  • Critical Reasoning for Beginners - iTunes Video – iTunes Audio –Web Video & Audio - Marianne Talbot, Oxford
  • Death – YouTube – iTunes Audio – iTunes Video –  Download Course – Shelly Kagan, Yale
  • Eight Philosophy Courses by Gilles Deleuze YouTube - Gilles Deleuze, Université Paris-VIII
  • Environmental Philosophy – iTunes Video - Web Video – Kenneth Sayre, Notre Dame
  • Existentialism in Literature & Film – iTunes – Web – Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
  • Existentialism in Literature and Film - RSS Feed - Sean Dorrance Kelly, Harvard University
  • From Gods and Back Web - Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
  • General Philosophy – iTunes – Web – Peter Millican, Oxford University
  • Gödel, Escher, Bach: A Mental Space Odyssey – Web - Justin Curry & Curran Kelleher, MIT
  • Hegel: The Philosophy of History – Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
  • Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit Web Site - JM Bernstein, New School
  • Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit – Web Site - Richard Dien Winfield, University of Georgia
  • Hegel’s Science of Logic – Web Site – Richard Dien Winfield, University of Georgia
  • Heidegger: Being and Time RSS Feed - Web Site - Sean Dorrance Kelly, Harvard
  • Heidegger’s Being & Time – iTunes – Web – Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
  • Heideggers Being and Time, Division II – iTunes - Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
  • History of Political Theory iTunes – Wendy Brown, UC Berkeley
  • Hobbes: Leviathan and De Cive (1964) Web Site - Leo Strauss, U Chicago
  • Introduction to Indian Philosophy – Web Site –  Satya Sundar Sethy, IIT Madras
  • Introduction to Political Philosophy – YouTube – iTunes –Download Course, Steven B. Smith, Yale
  • Introduction to Theory – iTunes Video – Multiple Professors, Wesleyan
  • Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? – YouTube – iTunes Video - Web Site - Michael Sandel, Harvard
  • Kant – Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
  • Kant’s Critique of Judgment – Web Site – JM Bernstein, New School
  • Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason – iTunes Video – iTunes AudioVideo/Audio on Web – Dan Robinson, Oxford
  • Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason – Web Site – Richard Dien Winfield, University of Georgia
  • Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason – Web Site – JM Bernstein, New School
  • Later Heidegger – Web Site – Sean Dorrance Kelly, Harvard
  • Walter Kaufmann Lectures on Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Sartre Web Site
  • Kant’s Epistemology – iTunes – Dr Susan Stuarts, University of Glasgow
  • Logic and Proofs – Web – Carnegie Mellon
  • Machiavelli – Web 12345, – Allan Bloom, U. Chicago
  • Man, God, and Society in Western Literature - iTunes Audio –Web – Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
  • Marx – Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
  • Medical Ethics – Web Audio – David Solomon, Notre Dame
  • Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception - Web - Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
  • Montesquieu’s The Spirit of the Laws (1966) - Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
  • Morality and Modernity Web Video – David Solomon, Notre Dame
  • Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
  • Nietzsche and the Postmodern Condition – Web Site – Rick Roderick, Duke
  • Philosophy and Human Values – Web Site – Rick Roderick, Duke
  • Philosophy and the Science of Human Nature – YouTube - iTunes Audio - Web Site – Tamar Gendler, Yale
  • Philosophy in Film and Other Media iTunes – YouTube – Web – Irving Singer, MIT
  • Philosophy for Beginners – iTunes – Video/Audio on the Web – Marianne Talbot, Oxford
  • Philosophy of Language – iTunes – Web – John Searle, UC Berkeley
  • Philosophy of Love in the Western World – iTunes – YouTube –Web – Irving Singer, MIT
  • Philosophy of Mind iTunes – YouTube – John Searle, UC Berkeley
  • Philosophy of Religion - iTunes - Web - T. J. Mawson, Oxford
  • Philosophy of Society – iTunes – Web – John Searle, UC Berkeley
  • Plato’s Apology of Socrates – YouTube – Allan Bloom, UChicago
  • Plato Apology/Crito Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
  • Plato: Gorgias – Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago.
  • Plato: Laws – Web Site - Leo Strauss, U Chicago.
  • Plato: Meno Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
  • Plato, Protagoras  -Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
  • Plato’s Republic – Web Site – Laurence Bloom, University of Georgia
  • Political, Economic and Social Thought – iTunes – Charles Anderson, UW-Madison
  • Proust & Philosophy – Feed – Johns Hopkins
  • Social Theory, the Humanities & Philosophy Now - Web Video- Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Harvard
  • The Art of Living - Web Site – Team taught, Stanford
  • The Central Philosophy of Tibet Web Audio – Robert Thurman, Columbia University
  • The Examined Life – iTunes – Greg Reihman, Lehigh University
  • The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps Multiple Formats– Peter Adamson, King’s College London
  • The History of Western Social Theory – YouTube - Alan MacFarlane, Cambridge University
  • The Self Under Siege - Web Site - Rick Roderick, Duke
  • The Moral Foundations of Politics – YouTube - iTunes VideoiTunes Audio - Web Site – Professor Ian Shapiro, Yale
  • The Nature of Mind – YouTube – iTunes Video – iTunes Audio - Web– John Joseph Campbell, UC Berkeley
  • The Origins of Political Science – Web Site – Leo Strauss, UC Chicago
  • The Secular and The Sacred – Web Site – Sean Dorrance Kelly, Harvard
  • Theory of Meaning YouTube - iTunes Video - iTunes Audio - Web – John Joseph Campbell, UC Berkeley
  • Thucydides – Web Site - Leo Strauss, U Chicago
  • Truth & Subjectivity/The Culture Of The Self – Web Site – Michel Foucault, UC Berkeley
  • Vico: Seminar in Political Philosophy – Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
  • Xenophon’s Oeconomicus Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago

For a full lineup of online courses, please visit our complete collection of Free Courses.

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