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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