This course offers a new approach to the study of pilgrimage, combining history and anthropology to examine western pilgrimage practices from the Middle Ages to the modern day.
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In this introduction to ethics, we shall examine four important ethical theories, applying them to two practical questions: the rights of animals and euthanasia. There will be plenty of opportunity to engage in debate and test your own thinking.
This introductory course will explore the main stylistic and iconographic themes in Islamic art and highlight the diversity of its expressions.
This course introduces key issues in the philosophy of science, including debates about the nature of the scientific method, theories of confirmation, the demarcation of science from non-science, the rationality of theory change, and scientific realism.
Political philosophy contains some of the greatest writings in the Western intellectual tradition. This online course introduces you to the central questions concerning the state, by means of classical and contemporary texts.
Is free will an illusion—one over which we would have no control? If it is real, what does it mean to have it, and who (or what) possesses it? Is free will unique to humans, or might it extend to other animals—or even to artificial systems?
What does Hegel mean by the 'absolute'? And what is 'spirit'? What is the 'dialectic' about? Does Hegel think that history has come to an end? This short course will answer these and other questions about this most difficult but fascinating philosopher.
An introduction to Ludwig Wittgenstein's later thinking, with a focus on mind and meaning. We explore many of Wittgenstein's key ideas and arguments, from family resemblance to the private language argument.
How can we begin to understand the spiritual lives of prehistoric people? When do religious ideologies first appear on the human evolutionary timescale? Using both anthropology and archaeological evidence these and many other questions are examined.
Modern life, we are told, is constantly speeding up. The accelerationist movement urges that we need to move even faster into the future. Others, by contrast, want us to slow down. This course will examine and assess the causes and kinds of acceleration.
An introduction to basic questions and concepts in reproductive ethics and end of life decisions, as well as more general philosophical questions about the value of life and badness of death.
This module will introduce basic questions and concepts in data ethics, as well as more general philosophical questions about the practical ethical issues raised by living in a data centric society.
