Nietzsche on Mind and Nature on iTunes

The following lectures were given at the international conference “Nietzsche on Mind and Nature” held at St. Peter’s College, Oxford, on 11-13 September, 2009, organized by the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford.

• The Genealogy of Guilt – Bernard Reginster
• Who is the ‘Sovereign Individual’? Nietzsche on Freedom – Brian Leiter
• Nietzsche’s Metaphysics – Galen Strawson
• Nietzsche on Soul in Nature – Graham Parks
• Consciousness, Language, and Nature: Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Mind and Nature – Gunter Abel
• Nietzsche’s Value Monism – Saying Yes to Everything – John Richardson
• Nietzsche Source: Scholarly Nietzsche Editions on the Web – Paolo D’lorio

(HT: @philosophybites)

Recent Free Books and Lectures Online

Lots of good audio and text resources are showing up online these days.  Here are a few I’ve recently discovered.

• Three courses by Old Testament scholar John Goldingay (Fuller Seminary) are now available on iTunes.  The courses are The Pentateuch, The Prophets, and Biblical Hermeneutics. (HT Nijay Gupta)

• The Genesis volume of the new Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary (ZIBBCOT) is available on Scribd for the month of October.  According to the Zondervan website “We’ll be posting additional commentaries from ZIBBCOT over the next 5 months.”

• If you enjoy Christian classics or the church fathers, you’ll find numerous free recordings of them here.  A few random titles include  The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis, On the Incarnation by St. Athanasius, The Life of Augustine by St. Possidius, and The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton.

• The Online Christian Library of Virtual Theological Resources offers a plethora of ebooks, articles, reference works, and links to other helpful resources.  The ebook collection, available as PDF documents, is impressive.

Harvard Professor Michael Sandel’s Justice Lectures

Thanks to Open Culture for passing on this interesting resource.

We happened to mention Michael Sandel last week, and then I came across this…
Harvard University and WGBH Boston have posted online Sandel’s very popular course, “Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?” How popular is it? Over 14,000 Harvard students have taken this course over the past 30 years. The course takes a close look at our understanding of justice by exploring important, contemporary moral dilemmas. Is it wrong to torture? Is it always wrong to steal? Is it sometimes wrong to tell the truth?  We have posted the first lecture above, and you can watch the remaining 11 lectures here on Harvard’s YouTube Channel. We have also added this course to our collection of Free University Courses. It’s filed under Philosophy.

Harvard Philosopher on the Today Show

Harvard philosophy professor Michael Sandel appeared on the Today Show this morning, and got four minutes to make the case for philosophy. If you’re not familiar with him, Sandel is a very popular Harvard professor. Some 15,000 students have taken his courses over 30 years, and to get a feel for his teaching, you can watch his 30-minute lecture online. It’s called Justice: A Journey into Moral Reasoning, and it’s one of the very few open lectures that Harvard has put online. (A disappointment, I must say.) The lecture also otherwise appears in our collection of Free University Courses.

(Via Open Culture)