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• A Romp Through Ethics for Complete Beginners - Free iTunes Video - Free Online Video - Free Online Audio - Marianne Talbot, Oxford University
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• Aesthetics & Philosophy of Art - Free iTunes Audio - Free Online Audio - James Grant, Oxford University
• Analytic Philosophy: Wilfrid Sellars - Free Online Audio - Robert Brandom, University of Pittsburgh
• Ancient and Medieval Philosophy - Free iTunes Video - Free Online Video - David O’Connor, Notre Dame
• Ancient Philosophy - Free iTunes Audio - David Ebrey, UC Berkeley
• Ancient Wisdom and Modern Love - Free iTunes Video - Free Online Video - David O’Connor, Notre Dame
• Argument Diagramming - Free Web Course - Carnegie Mellon
• Aristotle: Ethics - Free Online Audio - Leo Strauss, U Chicago
• Aristotle: Rhetoric - Free Online Audio - Leo Strauss, U Chicago
• Aristotle: Politics - Free Online Audio - Leo Strauss, U Chicago
• Authority & the Individual: Six BBC Lectures - Free Online Audio - Bertrand Russell, Cambridge
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• Eight Philosophy Courses by Gilles Deleuze - Free Online Video - Gilles Deleuze, Université Paris-VIII
• Environmental Philosophy - Free iTunes Video - Free Online Video - Kenneth Sayre, Notre Dame
• Existentialism in Literature & Film - Free iTunes Audio - Free Online Audio - Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
• Existentialism in Literature and Film - RSS Feed - Sean Dorrance Kelly, Harvard University
• From Gods and Back - Free Online Audio - Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
• General Philosophy - Free iTunes Video - Free Online 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
• 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 - Richard Dien Winfield, University of Georgia
• Hegel’s Science of Logic - Free Online Audio - Richard Dien Winfield, University of Georgia
• Heidegger: Being and Time - RSS Feed - Web Site - Sean Dorrance Kelly, Harvard
• Heidegger’s Being & Time - Free iTunes Audio - Free Online Audio - Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
• Heideggers Being and Time, Division II - Free iTunes Audio - Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
• History of Political Theory - Free iTunes Audio - Wendy Brown, UC Berkeley
• Hobbes: Leviathan and De Cive (1964) - Free iTunes Audio - Leo Strauss, U Chicago
• Introduction to Indian Philosophy - Free Online Video - Free Video Download - Satya Sundar Sethy, IIT Madras
• Introduction to Philosophy - Free iTunes Video - Free Online Video - Daniel Kaufman, Missouri State
• Introduction to Political Philosophy - Free Online Video - Free iTunes Video - Course Materials, Steven B. Smith, Yale
• Introduction to Theory - Free iTunes Video - Multiple Professors, Wesleyan
• Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? - Free Online Video - Free iTunes Video - Free Video & Course Info - Michael Sandel, Harvard
• Kant - Free Online Audio - Leo Strauss, U Chicago
• Kant: Political Philosophy - 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
• Later Heidegger - Free Online Audio - Sean Dorrance Kelly, Harvard
• Lecture Course in Ethical and Political Philosophy - Free Online Audio - Richard Dien Winfield, University of Georgia
• Lecture Course in Social and Political Philosophy (Economy) - Free Online Audio - Richard Dien Winfield, University of Georgia
• Walter Kaufmann Lectures on Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Sartre - Free Online Audio
• Kant’s Epistemology - Free iTunes Audio - Susan Stuart, University of Glasgow
• Logic and Proofs - Free Web Course - Carnegie Mellon
• Machiavelli - Free Web Audio - Allan Bloom, U. Chicago
• Man, God, and Society in Western Literature - Free iTunes Audio - Free Online Audio - Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
• Marx - Free Online Audio - Leo Strauss, U Chicago
• Medical Ethics - Free Online Audio - David Solomon, Notre Dame
• Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception - Free Online Audio - Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
• Montesquieu’s The Spirit of the Laws (1966) - Free Online Audio - Leo Strauss, U Chicago
• Morality and Modernity - Free Online Video - David Solomon, Notre Dame
• Natural Right - Free Online Video - Leo Strauss, U. Chicago
• 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 Online Audio - Multiple Profs - Oxford
• Philosophical Issues in Brain Science - Free Online Video - Web Site - Pawan Sinha and Alex Byrne, MIT
• Philosophy and Human Values - 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 iTunes Video - Free Online Video - Free Video & Course Info - Irving Singer, MIT
• Philosophy for Beginners - Free iTunes Video - Free Online Video & Audio - Marianne Talbot, Oxford
• Philosophy of Language - Free iTunes Audio - Free Online Audio - John Searle, UC Berkeley
• Philosophy of Love in the Western World - Free iTunes Audio - Free Online Video - Web - Irving Singer, MIT
• Philosophy of Mind - Free iTunes Audio - Free Online Audio - John Searle, UC Berkeley
• Philosophy of Mind - Free iTunes i0s App - Robert Stufflebeam, University of New Orleans
• Philosophy of Religion - Free iTunes Audio - Free Audio Online - T. J. Mawson, Oxford
• Philosophy of Science - Free Audio Online - Richard Dien Winfield, University of Georgia
• Philosophy of Society - Free iTunes Audio - Free Online Audio - John Searle, UC Berkeley
• Plato’s Apology of Socrates - Free Online Video - 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
• Political, Economic and Social Thought - Free iTunes Audio - Free Online Audio - Charles Anderson, UW-Madison
• Proust & Philosophy - Feed - Johns Hopkins
• Social Theory, the Humanities & Philosophy Now - Free Online Video - Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Harvard
• Socrates - Free Online Audio - Allan Bloom, U. Chicago
• The Art of Living - Free Online Video - Team taught, Stanford
• The Central Philosophy of Tibet - Free Online Audio - Robert Thurman, Columbia University
• The Examined Life - Free iTunes Audio - Greg Reihman, Lehigh University
• 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 Self Under Siege - Free Online Video - Rick Roderick, Duke
• The Moral Foundations of Politics - Free Online Video - Free iTunes Video - Free iTunes Audio - Course Materials - Ian Shapiro, Yale
• The Nature of Mind - Free Online Video - Free iTunes Video - Free iTunes Audio - John Joseph Campbell, UC Berkeley
• The Origins of Political Science - Free Online Audio - Leo Strauss, UC Chicago
• The Secular and The Sacred - Free Online Audio - Sean Dorrance Kelly, Harvard
• Theory of Meaning - Free Online Video - Free Video 2 - Free iTunes Video - Free iTunes Audio - John Joseph Campbell, UC Berkeley
• Thucydides - Free Online Audio - Leo Strauss, U Chicago
• Truth & Subjectivity/The Culture Of The Self - Free Online Audio - Michel Foucault, UC Berkeley
• Vico: Seminar in Political Philosophy - Free Online Audio - Leo Strauss, U Chicago
• Xenophon’s Oeconomicus - Free Online Audio - Leo Strauss, U Chicago

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