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Download 90 Free Philosophy Courses and Start Living the Examined Life

May 19th, 2013 | in Online Courses, Philosophy

The Philosophy section of our big Free Online Courses collection just went through another update, and it now features 90 courses. Enough to give you a soup-to-nuts introduction to a timeless discipline. You can start with one of several introductory courses.

• Philosophy for Beginners – iTunes – Web Video – Marianne Talbot, Oxford
• Critical Reasoning for Beginners - iTunes Video – iTunes Audio – Web Video – Oxford
• A Romp through Ethics for Complete Beginners - iTunes Video–Web Video – Oxford
• Introduction to Political Philosophy – YouTube – iTunes – Web Video - Steven B. Smith, Yale
• The Art of Living - Web Video – Stanford
• The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps - Multiple Formats– Peter Adamson, King’s College London

Then, once you’ve found your footing, you can head off in some amazing directions. As we mentioned many moons ago, you can access courses and lectures by modern day legends – Michel Foucault, Bertrand Russell, John Searle, Walter Kaufmann, Leo Strauss, Hubert Dreyfus and Michael Sandel. Then you can sit back and let them introduce you to the thinking of Aristotle, Socrates, Plato, Hobbes, Hegel, Heidegger, Kierkegaard, Kant, Nietzsche, Sartre and the rest of the gang. The courses listed here are generally available via YouTube, iTunes, or the web.

Explore our collection of 700 Free Courses to find topics in many other disciplines — History, Literature, Physics, Computer Science and beyond. As we like to say, it’s the most valuable single page on the web.

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Susan Piver - Start Here Now: Beginning a Meditation Practice — A Free Webinar

On April 10 (Wednesday) from 1 pm to 2:15 pm EDT (Show in my Time Zone), Buddhist teacher and author Susan Piver is offering a FREE introduction to Beginning a Meditation Practice. Susan is the author of How Not to Be Afraid of Your Own Life: Opening Your Heart to Confidence, Intimacy, and Joy, The Wisdom of a Broken Heart: How to Turn the Pain of a Breakup into Healing, Insight, and New Love, and many other books.

She is a wonderful, compassionate teacher - if this is a class you can use, sign up now.

START HERE NOW: BEGINNING A MEDITATION PRACTICE — A FREE WEBINAR

I became a Buddhist and started practicing meditation in 1995. 10 years later, I became a meditation teacher. First as a student and now as a teacher, I have seen over and over again how helpful, important, and profound this simple practice is. I feel so strongly about this that in 2011 I started The Open Heart Project, an online meditation community. Currently, around ten thousand people sit down to meditate with me every day. Throughout all of these experiences, I’ve learned what the most common questions are and about the obstacles we all encounter–and their antidotes. I want to share some of this with you during this 75-minute free webinar. I hope to hear your questions and offer helpful answers!

TOPICS

• What is meditation?
• What is it not?
• The most common misconceptions
• The obstacles we all encounter and how to overcome them
• A review of the various styles and how to choose the one that is right for you
• How to begin–where, what, how long, how often?
• Where to go for support
• And whatever you’d like to bring up.

Attendance is actually limited (seriously!) so please sign up now. Many people are interested in meditation but don’t know where to begin, so I expect this will fill up fast. It will be recorded. I hope to see you there!

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The Online Consciousness Conference 2013

It's that time of year again, The Online Consciousness Conference has posted the primary papers from this year's conference. Daniel Dennett is giving the invited talk, "A Phenomenal Confusion About Access and Consciousness."

The program for the Fifth Online Consciousness Conference is (nearly) finalized! The conference will begin on Friday February 15th sometime around noon EST (the names of the papers on this page will turn into links to the sessions once the conference begins). The papers for this year’s conference are available here in order to facilitate discussion at the conference.

Here are the primary papers from this year's conference.

CO5 Papers

The program for CO5 is nearly finalized. The conference will begin on Friday February 15th at which point the sessions will become live (the name of the paper on the program will become a link to the session when the conference begins). Below are the papers (not commentaries) for this year’s participants. So, please read and think about these papers at your leisure and be sure to join us Feb 15-March 1st for the discussion.

• Farid Masrour - Space Perception, Visual Dissonance and the Fate of Standard Representationalism
• Matteo Grasso - Integrated Information Theory and the Metaphysics of Consciousness
• Eric Schwitzgebel - If Materialism is True, The United States is Probably Conscious
• Chad Kidd - The Idols of Inner-Awareness: Towards Disjunctive Self-Representationalism
• Miguel Sebastian - What Panpsychists Should Reject: On the Incompatibility of Panpsychism and Organizational Invariantism
• Cheryl Abbate - Nonhuman Animals: Not, Necessarily, Saints or Sinners
• Bence Nanay - Perceptual Content and the Content of Mental Imagery
• Joel Smith - Alienation and Self-Presentation
• Peter Langland-Hassan - Craniopagus Twins and the Possibility of Introspective Misidentification
• Katja Crone - Self-Consciousness, Interaction, and Understanding Others
• Daniel Morgan - A Demonstrative Model of First-Person Thought (coming soon)

65 Massive Open Online Courses Launch in January

Very cool.

65 MOOCs/Certificate Courses Getting Started in January 

January 7th, 2013

January — it’s a time for New Year’s resolutions and for university courses to get started again. It’s happening on campuses. And it’s happening online. Right now, the biggest batch of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) are getting underway: 65 courses in total, across seven different online platforms. Below, we’ve highlighted a sampling of courses, but you can scan through the complete list of January courses right here, and keep tabs on all future MOOCs here. Please keep in mind that many MOOCs offer “Certificates” or “Statements of Accomplishment.” The key on this page indicates the kind of credential offered by each course. It goes without saying that these courses are free. The video above introduces the course The Modern World: Global History Since 1760.

• ThinkTank – Ideal City of the 21st Century – Leuphana Digital School – January 9 (15 weeks)
• Introduction to Infographics and Data Visualization - Knight Center at UT-Austin - January 12 (6 weeks)
• The Modern World: Global History Since 1760 – University of Virginia on Coursera- January 14 (15 weeks)
• Introduction to Databases – Stanford on Class2Go – January 15 (9 weeks)
• Improving Your Spanish Pronunciation – University of Utah on Canvas – January 21 (6 weeks)
• Introduction to Philosophy – University of Edinburgh on Coursera – January 28 (7 weeks)
• Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Human Mind, Our Modern World – U Michigan on Coursera – January 28 (10 weeks)
• Emancipation Proclamation – University of Illinois-Springfield on Course Sites – January 28 (8 weeks)
• Introduction to Statistics – UC Berkeley on edX – January 30 (TBD weeks)
• HTML5 Game Development – Udacity – February 4

There are some good courses starting in February, as well.

February 2013

• Introduction to Sociology (NC) – Princeton on Coursera – February (7 weeks)
• Analytic Combinatorics, Part I (NC) – Princeton on Coursera - February (5 weeks)
• Leading Strategic Innovation in Organizations (NI) – Vanderbilt on Coursera - February (8 weeks)
• The Modern and the Postmodern (CC) - Wesleyan on Coursera - February 4 (13 weeks)
• Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Computation (NI) - Berkeley on edX – February (TBD weeks)
• Natural Language Processing (SA) - Columbia on Coursera - February 11 (10 weeks)
• Clinical Problem Solving (CC) – UCSF on Coursera – February 11 (6 weeks)
• Women and the Civil Rights Movement (NI) – U Maryland on Coursera - February 25 (12 weeks)
• Introductory Human Physiology (CC) – Duke on Coursera - February 25 (12 weeks)

24EQ - World's First "Truly Global" Emotional Intelligence Conference

Looks cool - and it's free. There are some big names involved here, including Daniel Goleman, Marco Iacoboni, Dan Siegel, and David Rock.

24EQ

In the world's first "truly global" emotional intelligence conference, top experts from around the globe will be at your desk showing you how to leverage emotional intelligence at work, school, home, and in the community.  Starting at 00:00 GMT and continuing around the world for 24 hours, learn how and why emotional intelligence is resource for transformation.

24EQ: Salovey & Freedman - Why, What, How EQ? 7/5/12 5PM - 5:50PM

24EQ Conference presents Peter Salovey & Joshua Freedman... How was “emotional intelligence” discovered? What does it mean for academia –...

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24EQ: How We All Can Become CEOs (Chief Emotions Officers) 7/5/12 6PM - 6:50PM

The 24EQ Conference presents Chip Conley...  How We All Can Become CEOs (Chief Emotions Officers) Practical Applications for...

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24EQ: Enhance Your Coaching Practice With Emotional Intelligence 7/5/12 7PM

The 24EQ Conference presents Marilynn Jorgensen...  What does it mean to be an EQ coach? How can emotional intelligence accelerate change...

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24EQ: Being Emotionally Intelligent with Social Media 7/5/12 9PM - 9:50PM

The 24EQ Conference presents Glen Gatin... Being Emotionally Intelligent with Social Media How does emotional intelligence improve talent...

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24EQ: Vital Signs for Organizational Performance 7/6/12 6AM

The 24EQ Conference presents Jay Grant.... What drives people performance?  How do we "take the pulse" and communicate about these...

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24EQ: COACHING CHANGE - How Coaches Can Transform Organizations 7/6/12 10AM - 10:50AM

24EQ Conference presents Joshua Freedman... 70% of organizational change efforts fail. How do coaches make sure their clients are in the...

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24EQ: Your Brain at Work 7/6/12 10AM

The 24EQ Conference presents David Rock... Your Brain at Work:   Would you like to know your brain and transform your performance? If...

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24EQ: Feeling for the Planet - Leveraging EQ for Sustainability 7/6/12 11AM - 11:50AM

The 24EQ Conference presents Daniel Goleman and panel... Is it possible to shift to a sustainable track? How do we use emotional...

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24EQ: Mindsight and Neural Integration 7/6/12 11AM

The 24EQ Conference presents Dan Siegel... Mindsight and Neural Integration:   How our relationships and embodied brains shape who we...

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24EQ: Supercharging Your Talent Management Program with EQ 7/6/12 11AM - 11:50AM

The 24EQ Conference presents Gihan Hussein... What Creates an Engaged Workforce? How does emotional intelligence improve talent...

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24EQ: 情商领导力（中文） EQ Leadership (in Chinese) 7/6/12 11AM - 11:50AM

The 24EQ...

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24EQ: Heart-Brain Communication 7/6/12 12PM - 12:50PM

The 24EQ Conference presents Deborah Rozman & Jeff Goelitz... Heart-Brain Communication The surprising role of the heart in cognition,...

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24EQ: Japan’s EQ Now! 7/6/12 2PM - 2:50PM

24EQ Conference presents Yasuhiro Tanabe... Now is the Era of EQ 3.0 in Japan! How has "EQ" been diffused in business field in...

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24EQ: Bringing SEL to Scale with Technology 7/6/12 3PM - 3:50PM

The 24EQ Conference presents Alice Ray... What technology can - and can’t - do to personalize and scale SEL training How does virtual...

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24EQ: EQ3.0の時代 7/6/12 3PM - 3:50PM

24EQ Conference 提示 田辺　康広... EQ3.0の時代...

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24EQ: Mastering EQ for High Impact Selling 7/6/12 4PM - 4:50PM

The 24EQ Conference presents Ray Phoon... How Does EQ Drive Sales Success? How can emotional intelligence become a practical sales...

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24EQ: The RULER Approach to Building Emotionally Literate Schools 7/6/12 4PM - 4:50PM

The 24EQ Conference presents Marc Brackett... A skill-based, sustainable approach to building emotionally literate schools How can...

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24EQ: Stress and Wellness - The EQ Perspective 7/6/12 4PM - 4:50PM

The 24EQ Conference presents Liz Moseley...  Stress and Wellness: The EQ Perspective Leveraging EQ competencies to enhance well...

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24EQ: Social Emotional Learning - A Sustained Approach to Prevent Bullying 7/6/12 5PM - 5:50PM

The 24EQ Conference presents Susan Stillman, Lauren Hyman Kaplan, and Stephanie Orr... What can we teach to resolve bullying? How...

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24EQ: EQ Development in China - Why and How? 7/6/12 5PM - 5:50PM

The 24EQ Conference presents Wendy Wu & Natalie Roitman... EQ in China Why is emotional intelligence catching on in China?  How does it...

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24EQ: Change Your Thoughts & Feelings, Change Your Life 7/6/12 6PM - 6:50PM

24EQ Conference presents Granville D'Souza...   How do you choose to lead your own life? What are the practical skills you can learn to...

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24EQ: Iacoboni & Ghini - Immaginare il cambiamento 7/6/12 6PM - 6:50PM

24EQ Conference presents Marco Iacobini & Massimiliano Ghini... Che cosa ci insegnano le neuroscienze sul cambiamento? Come...

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24EQ: Fazendo Coaching com sua Inteligência Emocional 7/6/12 6PM - 6:50PM

The 24EQ Conference presents... Fazendo Coaching com sua Inteligência Emocional O como, quando e o porque do Coaching com IE   Coaching...

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24EQ: EQ Untuk Bangsa 7/6/12 7PM - 7:50PM

The 24EQ Conference presents Anthony Dio Martin... Mentransformasi Bangsa dengan Pendekatan EQ Six Seconds Emotional Intelligence in...

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24EQ: Real Customer Care - Leading Exceptional Service with EQ 7/6/12 8PM - 8:50PM

The 24EQ Conference presents Jonathan Low... How do you lead REAL service? How does emotional intelligence work in customer...

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