Research Guides: Philosophy & Religion: Open Educational Resources

Philosophy & Religion OER

This guide can help you find Philosophy and Religion materials from various OER providers.

Please visit the Open Educational Resources Subject Guide to learn more about the following:

Academic Earth
Open courseware on topics in Philosophy
Khan Academy
Videos, articles, and exercises on topics in Philosophy
MIT Open Courseware
Selected lecture notes and assignments from MIT's Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
OER Commons
Open courses on various topics in philosophy
Open Yale Courses
Selected recordings, syllabi, and course materials from courses taught by the Department of Philosophy at Yale

BC Open Textbooks
Textbooks on Intro to Philosophy, Ethics, Logic, Western Philosophy, and Modern Philosophy
MERLOT
Open access textbooks on various topics in philosophy
Milne Open Textbooks
Textbooks on ethics and logic
Open Textbook Library
Open access textbooks on various topics in philosophy
Pressbooks
Open access textbooks on various topics in philosophy

Project Gutenberg contains collections of eBooks in the public domain.

Crash Course: Philosophy
A YouTube series focused on college-level Western Philosophy
Figs in Winter
A YouTube channel featuring Prof. Massimo Pigliucci (the City College of New York) on topic such as Stoicism, philosophy of science, skepticism, and critical thinking

Five Questions
Kieran Setiya asks philosophers five questions about themselves
Hi-Phi Nation
A philosophy podcast that begins with a story, and seeks to extract big ideas, unquestioned assumptions, and unexamined conflicts in those stories
The Partially Examined Life
Each episode, we pick a text and chat about it with some balance between insight and flippancy
Why? Philosophical Discussions About Everyday Life
Monthly philosophical discussions about the most common-place topics
On Being with Krista Tippett
Each week a new discovery about the immensity of our lives

American Philosophical Association
A collection of resources to assist those teaching philosophy from pre-college instruction through doctoral courses
Community of Online Research Assignments
All CORA assignments are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
Teach Philosophy 101
Strategies and resources for faculty members and graduate assistants who teach philosophy courses, especially at the introductory level