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Dig Deeper: Open Culture - Free Online Philosophy and Ethics Courses

8/2/2015

 
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Open Culture is a site providing links to free courses and tutorials. Their self-professed mission is to bring together the huge range of free online courses (MOOCs) and offer them all in one place. 


The courses are often provided by universities, so at a higher ability than A-level, but they are a great way to stretch yourself and dig deeper. They might be especially useful for those thinking about university courses to get a flavour of them in advance.


This is a link to their page on free Philosophy Courses: http://ope.nr/2Aa


Courses that stood out for me were:
  •  A romp through ethics for complete beginners
  • Critical reasoning for beginners
  • Bio-Ethics: An introduction
  • Environmental Ethics
  • Kant
  • Philosophy for beginners
  • Philosophy of Religion
  • Socrates
  • Science vs. Religion
  • History of Philosophy without any gaps


All of the links seem to work - but clearly the websites they link to are of varying quality - for example I clicked on Plato's Republic and was sent to a website where a student has clearly recorded his lectures at university and just uploaded them; the result being very difficult to listen to! By contrast the link for "History of Philosophy without the gaps" goes to a fantastic website hosted by Kings College London - Here there are hundreds of podcasts to listen to and you can really further your learning done in lessons.

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