Take Free Philosophy Courses from The Institute of Art and Ideas: From “The Meaning of Life” to “Heidegger Meets Van Gogh”

Back in 2014, we told you about how The Insti­tute of Art and Ideas (IAI) launched IAI Acad­e­my — an online edu­ca­tion­al plat­form that fea­tures free cours­es from world-lead­ing schol­ars “on the ideas that mat­ter.” They have since put online a num­ber of phi­los­o­phy cours­es, many striv­ing to address ques­tions that affect our lives today. We’ve list­ed a num­ber of them below, and added them to our list of 150+ Free Online Phi­los­o­phy cours­es. For a com­plete list of IAI Acad­e­my cours­es, vis­it this page.

• Hei­deg­ger Meets Van Gogh: Art, Free­dom and Tech­nol­o­gy — Web video — Simon Glendin­ning, Lon­don School of Eco­nom­ics
• Dark Mat­ter of the Mind — Web video — Daniel Everett, Bent­ley Uni­ver­si­ty
• Fear and Trem­bling in the 21st Cen­tu­ry — Web video — Clare Carlisle, King’s Col­lege Lon­don
• Knowl­edge and Ratio­nal­i­ty — Web Video — Corine Besson, Uni­ver­si­ty of Sus­sex
• Life, Mean­ing and Moral­i­ty — Web video — Christo­pher Hamil­ton, King’s Col­lege, Lon­don
• Minds, Moral­i­ty and Agency — Web video — Mark Row­lands, Uni­ver­si­ty of Mia­mi
• On Roman­tic Love — Web video — Berit Bro­gaard, Uni­ver­si­ty of Mia­mi
• The Human Com­pass — Web video — Janne Teller
• The Mean­ing of Life — Web video — Steve Fuller, Uni­ver­si­ty of War­wick
• The Uni­verse As We Find It — Web video — John Heil, Wash­ing­ton Uni­ver­si­ty in St Louis
• Unveil­ing Real­i­ty — Web video — Bryan Roberts, Lon­don School of Eco­nom­ics
• Why the World Does Not Exist — Web video — Markus Gabriel, Freiburg Insti­tute of Advanced Study.

Note: The cours­es are all free. How­ev­er, to take a course you will need to cre­ate a user account.

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