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- Atmosphere, Ocean and Environmental Change with Ron Smith · 36 videos
- Essentials of Global Health · 36 videos
- Understanding Medical Research: Your Facebook Friend is Wrong · 32 videos
- Frontiers/Controversies in Astrophysics with Charles Bailyn · 29 videos
- America's Unwritten Constitution with Akhil Reed Amar · 28 videos
- The Civil War and Reconstruction with David Blight · 27 videos
- America's Written Constitution with Akhil Reed Amar · 27 videos
- New Testament History and Literature with Dale B. Martin · 26 videos
- Philosophy and the Science of Human Nature w/ Tamar Gendler · 26 videos
- Introduction to Theory of Literature with Paul H. Fry · 26 videos
- The American Novel Since 1945 with Amy Hungerford · 26 videos
- Financial Theory with John Geanakoplos · 26 videos
- Power and Politics in Today’s World · 26 videos
- America at 250: A History · 26 videos
- Frontiers of Biomedical Engineering with W. Mark Saltzman · 25 videos
- The Moral Foundations of Politics with Ian Shapiro · 25 videos
- Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600 with Frank Snowden · 25 videos
- Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner with Wai Chee Dimock · 25 videos
- Fundamentals of Physics II with Ramamurti Shankar · 25 videos
- The American Revolution with Joanne B. Freeman · 25 videos
- Foundations of Modern Social Theory with Iván Szelényi · 25 videos
- Modern Poetry with Langdon Hammer (ENGL 310) · 25 videos
- Can It Happen Here Again? Yale, Slavery, and Legacies: 2024 DeVane Lecture Series · 25 videos
- American History: From Emancipation to the Present · 25 videos
- European Intellectual History since Nietzsche · 25 videos
- Introduction to Ancient Greek History with Donald Kagan · 24 videos
- Early Modern England with Keith E. Wrightson · 24 videos
- Milton with John Rogers · 24 videos
- Capitalism: Success, Crisis and Reform with Douglas W. Rae · 24 videos
- European Civiliization (1648-1945) with John Merriman · 24 videos
- Cervantes' Don Quixote with Roberto González Echevarría · 24 videos
- Game Theory with Ben Polak · 24 videos
- Environmental Politics and Law with John Wargo · 24 videos
- Introduction to Political Philosophy with Steven B. Smith · 24 videos
- Dante in Translation with Giuseppe Mazzotta · 24 videos
- Global Problems of Population Growth with Robert Wyman · 24 videos
- France Since 1871 with John Merriman · 24 videos
- Fundamentals of Physics with Ramamurti Shankar · 24 videos
- Introduction to the Old Testament With Christine Hayes · 24 videos
- Financial Markets (2008) with Robert Shiller · 23 videos
- Roman Architecture with Diana E. E. Kleiner · 23 videos
- Death with Shelly Kagan · 23 videos
- Timothy Snyder: The Making of Modern Ukraine · 23 videos
- The Psychology, Biology and Politics of Food · 23 videos
- Listening to Music with Craig Wright · 23 videos
- The Early Middle Ages, 284--1000 with Paul Freedman · 22 videos
- Rocket Science for Everyone · 22 videos
- A Law Student's Toolkit · 22 videos
37:061. Introduction: What is Political Philosophy?
1.25M viewsSteven B. Smith on what political philosophy is and why reading the great texts matters for citizenship.
46:04Death with Shelly Kagan: Course Introduction 1
2.46M viewsShelly Kagan introduces his course on death: what we'll ask about souls, personal identity and whether death is bad.
42:51Philosophy and the Science of Human Nature w/ Tamar Gendler: 1. Introduction
340K viewsTamar Gendler introduces a course pairing classic philosophy with contemporary psychology, starting with Plato's question of how to live.
39:29Introduction to Theory of Literature with Paul H. Fry: 1. Introduction
1.61M viewsPaul Fry introduces literary theory: what 'theory' is, why it emerged and how the course will survey it.
40:121. Introduction: Why Study the New Testament?
813K viewsDale Martin on why to study the New Testament historically, and the methods of the course.
51:4310. Deconstruction I
474K viewsDeconstruction I: Derrida's critique of structuralism and the idea of différance.
49:5010. Personal identity, Part I: Identity across space and time and the soul theory
160K viewsWhat makes you the same person over time? Kagan sets up the soul, body and personality theories of personal identity.
45:2912. The Sovereign State: Hobbes' Leviathan
313K viewsHobbes' Leviathan: the state of nature, fear of violent death and the case for an absolute sovereign.
48:3514. The Trolley Problem
44.4K viewsThe trolley problem: the philosophical cases, the doctrine of double effect and what experiments reveal about intuitions.
1:01:1715. A Person in the World of People: Morality
323K viewsThe psychology of morality: moral intuitions, disgust, empathy and the development of moral judgement.
51:3717. The badness of death, Part II: The deprivation account
81K viewsThe deprivation account: death is bad because it deprives us of the goods of life — and Epicurus' challenge.
45:352. Socratic Citizenship: Plato's Apology
455K viewsPlato's Apology: Socrates on trial and the tension between philosophy and the city.
42:302. The Ring of Gyges: Morality and Hypocrisy
191K viewsThe Ring of Gyges from Plato's Republic and psychological research on moral hypocrisy: would you be good if no one could see?
56:313. Foundations: Freud
1.45M viewsPaul Bloom on Freud: his theories of the unconscious and development, what survived and what didn't.
1:15:073. Inferno I, II, III, IV
323K viewsGiuseppe Mazzotta reads the opening cantos of Dante's Inferno: the dark wood, Virgil and the structure of Hell.
48:585. What Is It Like to Be a Baby: The Development of Thought
586K viewsWhat is it like to be a baby? Piaget and modern infant-cognition research on how thought develops.
51:318. Semiotics and Structuralism
481K viewsSaussure's semiotics and structuralism: signifier and signified, langue and parole, and their use in criticism.
45:46Lecture 1. The Parts of the Whole
1.19M viewsChristine Hayes introduces the Hebrew Bible as an anthology of texts and the academic approach to studying it.
52:53Lecture 20. Responses to Suffering and Evil: Lamentations and Wisdom Literature
142K viewsBiblical responses to suffering and evil: Lamentations, Job and Ecclesiastes.
47:53Lecture 4. Doublets and Contradictions, Seams and Sources
409K viewsDoublets and contradictions in Genesis and the documentary hypothesis (J, E, P, D sources).
48:3702. The Crisis of the Third Century and the Diocletianic Reforms
948K viewsYale Early Middle Ages, lecture 2: The third-century crisis of the Roman Empire and Diocletian's administrative and military reforms.
45:1703. Constantine and the Early Church
847K viewsYale Early Middle Ages, lecture 3: Constantine's conversion and the rise of the Church within the empire.
47:5604. The Christian Roman Empire
704K viewsYale Early Middle Ages, lecture 4: The Christian Roman Empire of the fourth century: emperors, bishops and heresy.
46:2305. St. Augustine's Confessions
838K viewsYale Early Middle Ages, lecture 5: St Augustine's Confessions as a window on late-Roman religion and the self.
49:2206. Transformation of the Roman Empire
745K viewsYale Early Middle Ages, lecture 6: Whether Rome 'fell' or transformed, and the debate between those views.
49:1507. Barbarian Kingdoms
615K viewsYale Early Middle Ages, lecture 7: The barbarian kingdoms that replaced Roman rule in the West.
47:1008. Survival in the East
426K viewsYale Early Middle Ages, lecture 8: Why the eastern empire survived when the West did not.
48:4709. The Reign of Justinian
444K viewsYale Early Middle Ages, lecture 9: Justinian's reign: law, reconquest, Hagia Sophia and plague.
1:11:5710. Accessing Afterlife: Tombs of Roman Aristocrats, Freedmen, and Slaves
37.9K viewsYale Roman Architecture, lecture 10: Roman tombs and what they reveal about aristocrats, freedmen and slaves.
46:5510. Clovis and the Franks
436K viewsYale Early Middle Ages, lecture 10: Clovis and the founding of the Frankish kingdom.
51:0110. The Election of 1860 and the Secession Crisis
183K viewsYale Civil War and Reconstruction, lecture 10: The election of 1860 and the secession crisis.
51:4310. The Elizabethan Confessional State: Conformity, Papists and Puritans
86.2K viewsYale Early Modern England, lecture 10: The Elizabethan church settlement, Catholics and Puritans.
1:11:3910. The Rise of Athens
199K viewsYale Ancient Greek History, lecture 10: The rise of Athens from Draco and Solon.
50:0111. Frankish Society
380K viewsYale Early Middle Ages, lecture 11: Frankish society, law and the Merovingian church.
44:1411. The Elizabethan "Monarchical Republic": Political Participation
70.9K viewsYale Early Modern England, lecture 11: Political participation in the Elizabethan 'monarchical republic'.
1:13:0111. The Rise of Athens (cont.)
156K viewsYale Ancient Greek History, lecture 11: Athens continued: Peisistratus and Cleisthenes' democratic reforms.










