Free Ancient & Medieval Philosophy Courses

These are the 60 lectures from the Teaching Company course The Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 2nd Edition, featuring principal lecturers Michael Sugrue and Darren Staloff.

This course is a scholarly treatment of the Bible as literature that examines the many literary and cultural themes that originate in the Bible.

Survey of Western philosophical thought in the ancient period from the pre-Socratics, Plato, Aristotle, the Sceptics, Stoics, Epicureans. Particular choices of texts and philosophical ideas may vary.

This series of eight lectures delivered by Dr T. J. Mawson at the University of Oxford in Hilary Term 2011, introduces the main philosophical arguments pertaining to the Western monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

Professor Tamar Gendler dives right in with the first lecture covering some of the fundamental questions of human nature which will be examined in the course.

A general introduction to some of the fundamental questions, texts, and methods of philosophy.

This course explores various ways of understanding the human self and its relation to the world.

The history of ancient philosophy with special emphasis on the Presocratics, Plato, and Aristotle.

Professor Bonevac works mainly in metaphysics, philosophy of mathematics, semantics, and philosophical logic. His book Reduction in the Abstract Sciences received the Johnsonian Prize from The Journal of Philosophy.

Strategies of scientific inquiry: how elementary logic, statistical inference, and experimental design are integrated to evaluate hypotheses in the natural and social sciences.