Western Philosophy Courses and Certifications

Philosophy of History (Live Online)

33 ratings at CourseHorse

Explore how leading thinkers from Kant to Foucault have shaped our understanding of history’s meaning, direction, and purpose.

• CourseHorse
• 12 hours
• Self-Paced
• $335.00

Alain Badiou: Being and Event (Live Online)

33 ratings at CourseHorse

Explore the bold revival of universality, truth, and subjectivity through a close reading of Alain Badiou’s Being and Event.

• CourseHorse
• 12 hours
• Self-Paced
• $335.00

Wittgenstein’s Tractatus: Philosophy, Fact, and Silence (Live Online)

31 ratings at CourseHorse

Dive into the complexities of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, a groundbreaking yet enigmatic philosophical work.

• CourseHorse
• 12 hours
• Self-Paced
• $335.00

David Hume

7 ratings at OpenLearn

This free course, David Hume, examines Hume's reasons for being complacent in the face of death, as these are laid out in his suppressed essay of 1755, 'Of the immortality of the soul'. More ...

• OpenLearn
• 16 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

The Modern Intellectual Tradition: From Descartes to Derrida

132 ratings at The Great Courses Plus

Get an introduction to the contemporary Western approaches to the philosophies of both reality and knowledge, led by an author and award-winning professor, as you explore the ideas behind modern philosophy's most important movements.

• The Great Courses Plus
• 18 hours 51 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

The Great War and Modern Philosophy

1 rating

Learn how philosophers responded to the First World War and how the war changed philosophical reflection.

• edX
• 8 weeks, 6-7 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

St. Augustine's Confessions

96 ratings at The Great Courses Plus

Analyze one of the foundational texts of both Christianity and Western philosophy in this course that covers St. Augustine's most impactful work.

• The Great Courses Plus
• 12 hours 4 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Why Evil Exists

Why do humans do evil? Is evil a spiritual or a cosmic problem? Why, in the end, does evil exist? Discover the answer to these and other provocative questions in <strong>Why Evil Exists</strong>.

• The Great Courses Plus
• 19 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Jeffrey Kaplan

René Descartes - Meditation - A Cosmological Proof of God's Existence

A close reading of Descartes’ Third Meditation and his cosmological proof that the idea of an infinitely perfect God requires God’s existence.

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

Jeffrey Kaplan

Bertrand Russell's Theory of Descriptions

Explores Russell’s theory of definite descriptions and how it analyzes meaningful sentences through their underlying logical form.

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

Jeffrey Kaplan

The One True Philosophical Theory of Names - Evans's Causal Theory

A concise lecture on Gareth Evans’s theory of proper names and its challenge to descriptivist and causal accounts.

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

Plato, Socrates, and the Birth of Western Philosophy | 西方哲学精神探源

1 rating

Explore the works of Plato, Aristotle, Heraclitus and other originators of Western philosophy in an immersive study of ancient Greek and Roman philosophers. This course explores the origins of the spi

• edX
• 16 weeks, 1-3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Philosophy of the Humanities

1 rating

Explores how thinkers from Popper and Kuhn to Nietzsche and Derrida challenge foundations of knowledge, history, and interpretation.

• YouTube
• 4 hours 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Idealismo filosófico y cosmovisiones: cómo hacer mundos con ideas

4 ratings

Aprende cómo el idealismo filosófico y la cosmovisióninfluyen en tuperspectiva del mundo actualpara así mejorar tu vida.

• edX
• 5 weeks, 3-5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Beijing Forestry University

西方哲学——从古希腊哲学到晚近欧陆哲学

以问题史为线索，梳理从古希腊到近现代欧洲哲学的思想演变、代表人物与核心命题。

• XuetangX
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course