Philosophy Classes

Read Oscar Wilde's novel through its changing editions, its divided portrait, and the ethical cost of turning a human life into a beautiful performance.

Follow Turritopsis dohrnii as stress sends its adult medusa backward through a cyst-like stage toward a polyp, and learn why biological immortality still has limits.

Use layers, faults, intrusions, and unconformities to reconstruct which geologic events came first, then separate relative order from numerical age.

Read layers, faults, intrusions, and unconformities as evidence, then turn their visible relationships into a cautious relative sequence of geological events.

Chase’s first sentence does not ask how you feel. It says every art, science, action, and moral choice aims at some good — and then asks what a life is for.

Read Plato's Republic as a dramatic investigation of justice: a city built in speech becomes a map of the soul, then a challenge to power, education, and political control.

Read Banfield's Dunk Island memoir as natural history, environmental ethics, and a colonial account that rewards both attention and scrutiny.

In 1869, four Royal Institution lectures turned Socrates, Aristotle, Christianity, and utilitarianism into one question: what does a complete moral life require? Blackie?s sequence is a Victorian Christian classicist?s argument, not a neutr

Market segmentation is the practice of dividing a broad, heterogeneous market into smaller groups of customers who share similar needs, characteristics, or behaviors, so each group can be served with a tailored offer. The core logic is simp

Edge of the Jungle is a book of essays, not a single expedition narrative. Its center is Kartabo, the Tropical Research Station of the New York Zoological Society, at the junction of British Guiana's Cuyuni and Mazaruni Rivers. Beebe's note

Follow Hume from impressions and custom to passion, morality, and the limits of philosophical certainty.

Begin with the preface's mischievous question: “Supposing that Truth is a woman—what then?” Published in 1886, Beyond Good and Evil tests the posture of philosophers who approach truth with “terrible seriousness,” using short sections, reve

Follow Turritopsis dohrnii as it reverses from a swimming medusa to a colony-forming polyp, then test what biological immortality does and does not mean.

Trace James Croll's nineteenth-century battle between a short solar clock and the deep time recorded by rocks, then compare his Impact Theory with modern star formation and fusion.

Follow Aristotle from the good life and practiced character through virtue’s mean, justice, friendship, and the judgment equity demands when rules meet real cases.

Follow Descartes from educational doubt through four rules, provisional ethics, the cogito, and a method aimed at testable questions about nature.

Walk through Pompeii’s streets, markets, eruption, preserved rooms, and modern archaeological choices.

Follow Alice from a summer-day story through manuscript, Tenniel's illustrations, nonsense language, dream logic, and the book's strange critique of authority.

Trace Petra from caravan crossroads and Nabataean capital to its carved facades, water engineering, public spaces, tombs, and living archaeological landscape.

Trace head pain from sensitive structures through shared pathways, then distinguish migraine, tension-type, cluster, and secondary headache logic.

Follow sensors, controllers, operators, sliding and swing paths, safety logic, accessibility, and maintenance through an automatic doorway.

Use balanced equations, mole ratios, limiting reactants, molarity, and yield to solve chemistry problems.

Balance the reaction, convert to moles, use coefficients, find limiting reactants, and report yield with units.

Explore aging through repair, senescence, organ reserve, inflammation, metabolism, and the uneven pace of biological change.

Understand how stress appraisal, adrenaline, motor control, sensory feedback, and context can turn ordinary physiological tremor into visible shaking.

Follow sleep pressure, biological clocks, stage architecture, memory rhythms, body maintenance, and the dangerous mismatch between fatigue and self-awareness.

See how brands become learned treatment cues that shape expectation and pain—without changing chemistry, replacing active drugs, or making approved generics pharmacologically weaker.

Follow familiar cues into mixed emotion, social memory, self-continuity, and the bittersweet logic of valuing an irretrievable past.

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Read Plato's Republic as an argument about justice that moves through the city, the soul, education, political rule, and the dangers of an ideal order.

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Explore how the Dead Sea Scrolls preserve textual variation, organized communal life, and a diverse Second Temple Jewish world—while keeping archaeological and historical claims testable.

Follow ropes, counterweights, sensors, brakes, and control logic through a precise elevator stop.

Preclinical gates, phased clinical trials, ethics review, then ongoing pharmacovigilance after authorization.

Carbon moves among air, life, oceans, and rock — fast biological loops, slow geologic vaults, human imbalance.

The real 1757 war behind Cooper's novel, how he built it, what happens in it, its racial logic, the vanishing-Indian myth it spread, and two centuries of argument.

Paleoart — the reconstruction of extinct life — looks like fantasy but is one of the most disciplined kinds of drawing there is. Every stroke has to be defended: from the bones, from the closest livin

You already do philosophy every time you write 'the model understands' or file a 'hallucination' bug — this course makes you do it on purpose. A practitioner-facing tour of the philosophy of mind and

Deep time, taught as a book you learn to read: the rock record is a diary written bottom-to-top, and the geologic timescale is its table of contents — assembled first from the order of layers and thei

How do we know what we know? From Aristotle to the replication crisis, this is the story of a fallible, human practice learning to catch its own mistakes — and why that, not any magic method, is what

You cannot control your child — only how you meet them. This is the one Stoic idea, worked all the way through the hardest job there is: the tantrum, the teenager, the sleepless fear, the judging play

Two civilizations ended long ago — so how do we know them, and why do they still shape your day? Piece together Greek and Roman life from coins, ruins, and writers; meet Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, an

A guided tour of the places that define wine. Building on the fundamentals, learn the Old World vs New World logic, decode the French AOC idea, and walk Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne, Italy, Spain, Ge

A flavor map of the planet — the logic of why cuisines differ, not a list of dishes. You'll learn the 'flavor principle', how geography sets the pantry, why preservation created half the world's belov

Compare the great launchers side by side and see how design philosophy changed from Apollo to reusable boosters. You'll understand what each vehicle traded away — cost, cargo, crew safety — to do its

Learn how wrecks are located with sonar, documented by ROVs, and sometimes raised whole. You'll understand what the sea does to a hull, how salvage law works, and why some wrecks are archaeological si

Master the logic of finding yourself on a featureless ocean: dead reckoning, celestial fixes, radio beacons, and finally GPS. You'll be able to read a nautical chart and explain how each era's navigat

Not a parade of opinions — a chain of wreckage. Each thinker inherits a specific unsolved problem from the last and is forced into their position. Follow the argument from Thales to Kant, and watch th

Learn to prove things rigorously. You'll master direct, contradiction, and induction proofs and build the reasoning habits that make higher math possible.

Work through the logic that keeps trains apart: blocks, interlockings, and the failsafe principle that everything defaults to stop. You'll be able to follow a route through a junction and explain how

Learn the practical philosophy that has guided people for two thousand years. You'll understand what is and isn't in your control and turn Stoic ideas into daily habits.

Understand how language moves people — taught so you can see the technique while it's being used on you. You'll learn Aristotle's three appeals, why framing flips decisions without hiding anything, ho

The king died, and then the queen died of grief. Two words turn a list into a plot. Forster, Hitchcock, and Aristotle on the engine every story runs on.

Examine how we decide what is right. You'll compare the major ethical frameworks and apply them to real dilemmas in work, technology, and daily life.

Explore the math behind computing and logic. You'll work with sets, proofs, graphs, and counting arguments that underpin algorithms and cryptography.

Learn to explain any city's location in one look at the map. You'll understand the classic site logics — fords, falls, harbors, passes, oases — why some cities outgrow their reason for existing, and w

The most thoroughly engineered river on Earth, where every metre was chosen — and the choices compound. You'll learn the hydrological accident that made it Europe's freight artery, why forty castles s

Understand the biggest geological cross-section on Earth. You'll learn how the Colorado River cut a mile deep, how to read the rock layers like a book, and the human story from ancestral Puebloans to

Sharpen how you reason and argue. You'll tell good arguments from bad, spot common fallacies, and evaluate evidence and claims with a clearer, calmer mind.

Study reasoning as a precise system. You'll work with propositions, truth tables, and valid inference and understand the logic that underlies math and computing

Move from circuits to the components that make electronics smart. You'll understand diodes, transistors, and op-amps and how they build amplifiers and logic.

Rows, boxes, and the logic techniques that crack any grid

How a machine that only knows on and off becomes a computer — binary, logic gates, the CPU cycle, memory, software, operating systems, the internet, and the real people and inventions that made it all happen.

A fifteen-minute tour of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland — its 1862 origin, its dizzy plot, its logic games, and why it changed children's books forever.

How a Scottish philosopher's 1776 book — with its pin factory, its invisible hand, and its case for free trade — founded the modern study of economics.

A fast tour of the private notebook where a Roman emperor coached himself in Stoic calm, duty, and clear sight.

A chapter-by-chapter deep dive into Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) — its Oxford origins, hidden logic games, Victorian parodies, Tenniel's images, and its enduring legacy.

Stoic philosophy, Marcus Aurelius, and practical wisdom from Meditations

A guided 2-hour journey through Plato’s Republic — justice, the soul, the ideal city, philosopher-kings, and the Allegory of the Cave — told with real, public-domain art.

Persuade, connect, and calm the nerves using Aristotle's playbook.

From Socrates to Sartre: the ideas that reshaped how we think.

Spot the reasoning traps that fool smart people every single day.

Ancient discipline, modern calm: master what you can control.

Argue with logic, evidence, and confidence, not just volume.

Think clearly: build strong arguments and spot bad ones.

The big questions: knowledge, reality, right, and wrong.

How a rocky peninsula gave the world democracy, philosophy, and the Olympics.

How 118 elements line up to reveal the hidden logic of matter.