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The stuff of conspiracy theories makes for great, entertaining stories in movies, books, and television. And there is no shortage of subjects: from who really killed JFK to the truth behind 9/11...

The Philosopher’s Toolkit: How to Be the Most Rational Person in Any Room arms you against the perils of bad thinking and supplies you with an arsenal of strategies to help you be more creative, logical, inventive, realistic, and rational in all aspects of your daily life....

Published in six volumes between 1776 and 1781, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - for all its renown - can be intimidating....

Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince puts forth unsettling questions, whose answers redefined centuries of political wisdom. But what does it really mean to be Machiavellian? Find out....

With these 24 accessible lectures, enjoy an adventurous exploration of one of the world's most important philosophical texts....

Join Plato, St. Anselm, Descartes, Locke, Hume, Kant, Mill, Smith, Marx, Rawls, and many others in an exploration of fundamental questions. Get ready to think big....

No subject is bigger than reality itself, and nothing is more challenging to understand, since what counts as reality is undergoing continual revision and has been for centuries....

In these 24 lectures, Professor Armstrong leads you on an enthralling journey into the lives of the seminal thinkers of the Middle Ages....

Without even realizing it, we all use the fruits of political philosophy....

This mind-bending tour of metaphysics applies philosophy to the forefront of today's knowledge....

While the lectures cover an enormous range of key thinkers and ideas, they always focus on the most important ideas....

It offers a rigorous and wide-ranging exploration of what various spiritual, religious, and philosophical traditions from both the East and West have contributed....

These 24 engaging lectures teach you how to reason, how to persuade others that what you think is right, and how to judge and answer the arguments of others.

These 12 illuminating lectures paint a rich and detailed portrait of the life, works, and ideas of this remarkable figure, whose own search for God has profoundly shaped all of Western Christianity....

In this personal reflection on history, Professor Fears has taken on the challenge of extracting the past's lessons in ways that speak to us today....

You'll explore the ideas behind modern philosophy's most important movements and thinkers....

More than a half-century after it burst upon the intellectual scene, Existentialism's quest to answer the most fundamental questions has continued to exert a profound attraction....

Over the course of 24 spirited lectures, Professor Cook leads you on an engaging and energetic discussion on Tocqueville....

Father Koterski asks whether modern evolutionary biology can claim to have discovered truths about human nature that render natural law theory unintelligible....

The concept of freedom has long been the driving force of Western civilization and may be the most influential intellectual force the world has ever known....