Philosophy Courses and Certifications

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Korean Philosophy Electives

12 ratings at Coursera

Explore Korean philosophy across five topics: the aesthetics and moral cultivation of Korean music, Seongho Yi Ik on the emotions, Korean political thought, and Zhu Xi versus Jeong Yak-yong.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 5 courses

BESC-131: Education: Concept, Nature and Perspectives

Explore education’s concept, nature, scope, and operations through philosophical, sociological, and socio-psychological perspectives.

• Swayam
• 16 weeks
• Available until Nov 15, 2026
• Free Online Course

EKP1: Modernity and the Emergence of Korean Philosophy

Trace how Korean thought became "philosophy": concept clusters rooted in the Korean language, cross-cultural incommensurability, Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucianism, and the Seong-li-hak idea of Human as Heaven.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

University of Hyderabad;  NPTEL

Posthumanism: An Introduction

An introduction to posthumanism examining its origins, concepts, and philosophical consequences through literature, popular culture, robot ethics, care, and the Anthropocene.

• Swayam
• 8 weeks
• Available until Oct 9, 2026
• Free Online Course

Logic In Philosophy: Logical Fallacies And Common Mistakes

Spot fallacies such as ad hominem, begging the question, red herring, hasty generalization and false dilemma, and use inductive and deductive reasoning in everyday decisions.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Philosophy 102: Ethics in America

Survey moral theories and their application to contemporary issues in medicine, justice, business, technology, war, relationships, and the environment.

• Study.com
• 13 hours 44 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Philosophy 103: Ethics - Theory & Practice

An introductory survey of ethical theories and moral concepts, applying them to health care, business, employment, death and dying, and environmental issues.

• Study.com
• 12 hours
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Human in History and Cultures

Explores the human condition—body and mind, passion, anxiety, death, laughter, silence, and boredom—through philosophy, art, literature, film, and history.

• XuetangX
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Philosophy of Film

A seminar on how film’s formal techniques create meaning through philosophical questions about appearance, reality, and technology.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Philosophy of Love in the Western World

A seminar examining love and sex through philosophical readings and classic literary myths.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

The Badness of Death - Dying Alone and Value Theory - Lecture 16

Examines whether everyone dies alone, then asks whether death is bad and whether its primary harm falls on the dying or the bereaved.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Hamad Bin Khalifa University

Islamic Bioethics

15 ratings

This course provides an introductory, accessible but also in-depth overview of the emerging and promising field of Islamic Bioethics. It is developed and taught by one of the world’s leading scholars

• edX
• 10 weeks, 1-3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Søren Kierkegaard - Subjectivity, Irony and the Crisis of Modernity

12 ratings

Trace how Kierkegaard used Socrates as his model: read The Concept of Irony, Either/Or and Fear and Trembling against Hegel, Romantic irony and modern nihilism.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Philosophy and the Science of Human Nature - Introduction

1 rating

An interdisciplinary introduction to human nature through philosophy, psychology, behavioral economics, and literature, framed around happiness, morality, and political philosophy.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Royal Institution

The Physics and Philosophy of Time

A journey through how physics unsettles everyday ideas of time, from Boltzmann and Einstein to quantum gravity, alongside philosophical and artistic interpretations.

• YouTube
• 55 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video