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• A History of Philosophy – Free Online Course – Arthur Holmes, Wheaton College
• A Romp Through Ethics for Complete Beginners – Free Online Course – Marianne Talbot, Oxford University
• A Romp Through the Philosophy of Mind – Free Online Course – Marianne Talbot, Oxford
• Aesthetics & Philosophy of Art – Free iTunes Audio – Free Online Audio – James Grant, Oxford University
• Ancient and Medieval Philosophy – Free Video – David O’Connor, Notre Dame
• Ancient Philosophy – Free Online Audio – David Ebrey, UC Berkeley
• Ancient Philosophy – Free Online Audio – Richard Dien Winfield, University of Georgia
• Ancient Philosophy: Plato & His Predecessors – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of Pennsylvania
• Ancient Philosophy: Aristotle and His Successors – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of Pennsylvania
• Ancient Wisdom and Modern Love – Internet Archive – David O’Connor, Notre Dame
• Argument Diagramming – Free Web Course – Carnegie Mellon
• Aristotle: Rhetoric – Free Online Audio – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
• Authority & the Individual: Six BBC Lectures – Free Online Audio – Bertrand Russell, Cambridge
• Bioethics: An Introduction – Free iTunes Video – Free iTunes Audio – Free Online Audio + Video – Marianne Talbot, Oxford
• Contemporary Issues in Philosophy of Mind & Cognition – Free Online Video – Multiple Profs, IIT Bombay
• Cosmologies of Capitalism – Free Online Video – Alan Macfarlane, Cambridge
• Critical Reasoning for Beginners – Free Online Course – Marianne Talbot, Oxford
• Critical Thinking – Free Online Video – Gregory Sadler, Fayetteville State University
• Dark Matter of the Mind – Web Video – Daniel Everett, Bentley University
• Death – Free Online Course – Shelly Kagan, Yale
• Deleuze: 8 cours de philosophie (in French) – Free Online Audio – Gilles Deleuze, (Université Paris-VII)
• Deleuze: Sur Spinoza (in French) – Free Online Audio  – Gilles Deleuze, (Université Paris-VIII)
• David Hume’s Central Principles – Free iTunes Video – Free iTunes Audio – Free Online Video – Free Online Audio + Video – Peter Millican, Oxford
• Discourse and Truth – Free Online Audio – Michel Foucault, UC Berkeley
• Effective Altruism – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Peter Singer, Princeton
• Eight Philosophy Courses by Gilles Deleuze – Free Online Video – Gilles Deleuze, Université Paris-VIII
• Environmental Philosophy – Internet Archive – Kenneth Sayre, Notre Dame
• Epictetus’ Enchiridion – Ancient Philosophy & Peace of Mind – Web Site, Gregory Stadler
• Epistemology – Free Online Audio – Richard Dien Winfield, University of Georgia
• Ethics – Free Online Video – Gregory Sadler, Marist College
• Existentialism in Literature & Film – Free Online Audio – Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
• Evidence and Ideology – Free Online Video – Nancy Cartwright, University of Durham
• Fear and Trembling in the 21st Century – Web Video – Clare Carlisle, King’s College London
• Foundations of Modern Social Theory – Free Online Course – Iván Szelényi, Yale
• From Gods and Back – Free Online Audio – Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
• General Philosophy – Free Online Video  – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video + Audio – Peter Millican, Oxford University
• Gödel, Escher, Bach: A Mental Space Odyssey – Free Online Video – Justin Curry & Curran Kelleher, MIT
• Great Big Ideas – Free Online Video – Steven Pinker, Larry Summers, Michio Kaku, etc, Floating University
• Half Hour Hegel: The Complete Phenomenology of Spirit – Free Online Video – Gregory Sadler
• Hegel: The Philosophy of History – Free Online Audio – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
• Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit – Free Online Audio – JM Bernstein, New School
• Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit – Free Online Audio – Richard Dien Winfield, University of Georgia
• Hegel’s Philosophy of Right – Free Online Audio – Syllabus – Richard Dien Winfield, University of Georgia
• Hegel’s Science of Logic – Free Online Audio – Richard Dien Winfield, University of Georgia
• 20th Century Philosophy: Martin Heidegger – Free Online Video – Gregory Sadler
• Heidegger Meets Van Gogh: Art, Freedom and Technology – Web Video – Simon Glendinning, London School of Economics
• Heidegger’s Being & Time – Free Online Audio – Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
• Heidegger’s Being and Time, Division II – Free Online Audio – Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
• History of Ancient Philosophy – Free Online Video – Adam Rosenfeld, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
• History of Christian Philosophy – Free Online Video – Daniel Bonevac, UT Austin
• History of Modern Philosophy – Free Online Video –  John DePoe, Marywood University
• History of Modern Philosophy – Free Online Video –  Adam Rosenfeld, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
• Hobbes: Leviathan and De Cive (1964) – Free Audio – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
• How to Change the World – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Wesleyan University
• Ideas of the 20th Century – Free Online Video – Syllabus – Daniel Bonevac, UT-Austin
• Introduction to Indian Philosophy – Free Online Video – Satya Sundar Sethy, IIT Madras
• Introduction to Logic – Free Online Video – Dr. A.V. Ravishankar Sarma, IIT Kanpur
• Introduction to Philosophy – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of Edinburgh
• Introduction to Philosophy – Free Online Video – Syllabus – Daniel Bonevac, UT-Austin
• Introduction to Philosophy – Free Online Video – Daniel Kaufman, Missouri State
• Introduction to Philosophy – Free Online Video – John Sanders, Rochester Institute of Technology
• Introduction to Philosophy – Free Online Video – Gregory Sadler, Marist College
• Introduction to Philosophy of Science – Free Online Video – John Sanders, Rochester Institute of Technology
• Introduction to Political Philosophy – Free Online Course – Steven B. Smith, Yale
• Introduction to Political Philosophy – Free Online Audio – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
• Introduction to Political Philosophy: Study of Aristotle’s Politics – Free Online Audio – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
• Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? – Free Online Course – Michael Sandel, Harvard
• Kant – Free Online Audio – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
• Kant’s Critique of Judgment – Free Online Audio– JM Bernstein, New School
• Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason – Free iTunes Video – Free iTunes Audio – Free Online Video + Audio – Dan Robinson, Oxford
• Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason – Free Online Audio – Richard Dien Winfield, University of Georgia
• Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason – Free Online Audio – JM Bernstein, New School
• Know Thyself – The Value and Limits of Self-Knowledge: The Examined Life – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of Edinburgh
• Later Heidegger – Free Online Audio – Sean Dorrance Kelly, Harvard
• Later Heidegger – Free Online Audio – Hebert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
• Lecture Course in Ethical and Political Philosophy – Free Online Audio – Richard Dien Winfield, University of Georgia
• Lecture Course in Plato – Free Online Audio – Richard Dien Winfield, University of Georgia
• Life and Mind in Nature – Free Online Audio – Syllabus – Richard Dien Winfield, University of Georgia
• Kant’s Epistemology – Free iTunes Audio – Susan Stuart, University of Glasgow
• Knowledge and Rationality – Free Online Video – Corine Besson, University of Sussex
• Life, Meaning and Morality – Web video – Christopher Hamilton, King’s College, London
• Logic and Proofs – Free Web Course – Carnegie Mellon
• Machiavelli – Free Web Audio – Allan Bloom, U. Chicago
• Man, God, and Society in Western Literature – Free Online Audio – Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
• Marx’s Kapital: Volumes 1 and 2 – Free Online Course – David Harvey, CUNY
• Marxism – Free Online Video – Raymond Geuss, Cambridge University
• Marx, Nietzsche and Hegel’s Logic of Essence – Free Online Audio – Richard Dien Winfield, University of Georgia
• Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception – Free Online Audio – Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
• Minds, Morality and Agency – Web Video – Mark Rowlands, University of Miami
• Modern Political Philosophy – Free Online Audio – John Rawls, Harvard
• Montesquieu’s The Spirit of the Laws  1 (1966) – Free Online Audio – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
• Montesquieu’s The Spirit of the Laws  2 (1966) – Free Online Audio – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
• Natural Right – Free Online Video – Leo Strauss, U. Chicago
• Nietzsche – Free Online Video – Raymond Geuss, Cambridge University
• Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil – Free Online Audio – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
• Nietzsche and the Postmodern Condition – Free Online Video – Rick Roderick, Duke
• Nietzsche on Mind and Nature – Free iTunes Audio – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Audio & Video – Multiple Profs – Oxford
• On Romantic Love – Web Video – Berit Brogaard, University of Miami
• Philosophy of Mental Illness – Free Online Audio – Richard Dien Winfield, University of Georgia
• Philosophical Problems – Free iTunes Audio – Jack Reynolds – La Trobe University – Australia
• Philosophy of Religion – Free Online Video – Matt McCormick, Philosophy, at California State University, Sacramento.
• Philosophy and Human Values – Free Online Video – Web Site – Rick Roderick, Duke
• Philosophy and the Science of Human Nature – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Audio – Course Materials – Tamar Gendler, Yale
• Philosophy in Film and Other Media – Free Online Video – Irving Singer, MIT
• Philosophy for Beginners – Free Online Course – Marianne Talbot, Oxford
• Philosophy of Language – Free Online Audio – John Searle, UC Berkeley
• Philosophy of Love in the Western World – Free Online Video – Irving Singer, MIT
• Philosophy of Mind – Free Online Audio – John Searle, UC Berkeley
• Philosophy of Nature (Science) – Free Audio Online – Syllabus – Richard Dien Winfield, University of Georgia
• Philosophy of Religion – Free iTunes Audio –  Course Info + Free Online Audio  – T. J. Mawson, Oxford
• Philosophy of Religion – Free iTunes iOS Course – Clarence Mark Phillips, U. of New Orleans
• Philosophy of Society – Free Online Audio – John Searle, UC Berkeley
• Philosophy of Tragedy – Free Online Video – Prof. Michael Davis, Sarah Lawrence College
• Philosophy, Science and Religion: Science and Philosophy – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of Edinburgh
• Plato – Free Online Audio – Richard Dien Winfield, University of Georgia
• Plato’s Apology of Socrates – Free Online Audio – Allan Bloom, UChicago
• Plato Apology/Crito – Free Online Audio – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
• Plato: Gorgias – Free Online Audio – Leo Strauss, U Chicago.
• Plato: Laws – Free Online Audio – Leo Strauss, U Chicago.
• Plato: Meno – Free Online Audio – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
• Plato, Protagoras – Free Online Audio – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
• Plato’s Republic – Free Online Audio – Laurence Bloom, University of Georgia
• Plato’s Theaetetus – Free Online Audio – Daniel Bloom, University of Georgia
• Political Philosophy: Ideas of the 20th Century (2013) – Free Online Video – Syllabus for 2015 version of the course – Daniel Bonevac, University of Texas – Austin
• Political Philosophy: Marx – Free Online Audio – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
• Political Philosophy: Rousseau – Free Online Audio – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
• Practical Reasoning – Free Online Video – Adam Rosenfeld, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
• Professional Ethics – Free Online Video – John Sanders, Rochester Institute of Technology
• Psychology of Will – Free Online Audio – Richard Dien Winfield, University of Georgia
• Realism in Perspective – Free Online Video – Michela Massimi
• Science and the Modern World – Free Online Video – David Harker, East Tennessee State University
• Science vs. Religion – Web Video – Mark Vernon, Journalist/Philosopher
• Skepticism – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Duncan Pritchard, UC Irvine
• Social and Political Philosophy – Free Online Video – John Sanders, Rochester Institute of Technology
• Social and Political Philosophy (Economy) – Free Online Audio – Syllabus – Richard Dien Winfield, University of Georgia
• Social and Political Philosophy (Economy) – Free Online Audio – Syllabus – Richard Dien Winfield, University of Georgia
• Socrates – Free Online Audio – Allan Bloom, U. Chicago
• Søren Kierkegaard – Subjectivity, Irony and the Crisis of Modernity – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Jon B. Stewart, University of Copenhagen
• Soren Kierkegaard – Free Online Video – Jon B. Stewart, University of Copenhagen
• Symbolic Logic – Free Online Video – John Sanders, Rochester Institute of Technology
• The Analytic Tradition – Free Online Video – Daniel Bonevac, UT Austin
• The Black Man in the Cosmos (One lecture) – Free Online Audio – Sun Ra, UC Berkeley
• The Central Philosophy of Tibet – Free Online Audio – Robert Thurman, Columbia University
• The Culture of the Self – Free Online Audio – Michel Foucault, UC Berkeley
• The Examined Life – Free iTunes Audio – Greg Reihman, Lehigh University
• The Great War and Modern Philosophy – Free Online Video – Nicolas de Warren, KU Leuven University
• The Historical Philosophy of W.E.B. Du Bois – Free Online Video – Cornel West, Dartmouth
• The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps – Free Course in Multiple Formats – Peter Adamson, King’s College London
• The History of Western Social Theory – Free Online Video – Alan MacFarlane, Cambridge University
• The Human Compass – Web Video – Janne Teller
• The Meaning of Life – Web Video – Steve Fuller, University of Warwick
• The Modern and the Postmodern (Part 1) – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Wesleyan
• The Modern and the Postmodern (Part 1) – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Wesleyan
• The Moral Foundations of Politics – Free Online Video – Ian Shapiro, Yale
• The Nature of Causation – Free Online Audio – Marianne Talbot, Oxford
• The Rational Mind – Free Online Audio – Richard Dien Winfield, University of Georgia
• The Origins of Political Science – Free Online Audio – Leo Strauss, UC Chicago
• The Philosophy of David Hume – Free Audio – Norva Lo, La Trobe University, Australia
• The Philosophy of Descartes – Free Audio – Andrew Brennan, La Trobe University, Australia
• The Secular and The Sacred – Free Online Audio – Sean Dorrance Kelly, Harvard
• The Self Under Siege – Free Online Video – Rick Roderick, Duke
• The Universe As We Find It – Free Online Video – John Heil, Washington University in St Louis
• Think Again I: How to Understand Arguments – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Dr. Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Ram Neta, Duke
• Think Again II: How to Reason Deductively – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Duke
• Think Again III: How to Reason Inductively – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) -Duke
• Thucydides – Free Online Audio – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
• Truth & Subjectivity – Free Online Audio – Michel Foucault, UC Berkeley
• Unveiling Reality – Free Online Video – Bryan Roberts, London School of Economics
• Vico: Seminar in Political Philosophy – Free Online Audio – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
• Walter Kaufmann’s Lectures on Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Sartre – Free Online Audio
• What Does It Mean to Be Human? An Introduction to the Humanities – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – The University of Newcastle-Australia
• Why the World Does Not Exist – Web video – Markus Gabriel, Freiburg Institute of Advanced Study.
• Xenophon’s Oeconomicus – Free Online Audio – Leo Strauss, U Chicago

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