Learn the Science & Philosophy of Moral Reasoning: Take My May Course!
Come join my online course on moral reasoning! It starts next month. It lasts a month. Study and participate at your own pace and on your own time. We don’t just cover the philosophy of morality and moral reasoning, and why be moral and how to get better at moral...Learn the Foundations of Humanism: Take My Course on What’s True in Philosophy if There Is No God
Why be moral? What is moral? Does atheism have a rational foundation? If we are just atoms in motion, how can anything be right or wrong? How can rationality even exist? Christians and Muslims have been challenging atheists with these questions lately even more than...February Course: How to Critically Assess Claims about History!
I shall again be teaching my online course on historical methods in the coming month (February 2015): Thinking Like a Historian: Historical Methods, Practice and Theory. Why not join in! Or recommend it to anyone you know who might be interested. Learn how to question...January Counter-Apologetics Course: Now Including Islam!
Next month I’ll be teaching my popular course Counter-Apologetics: The Best Ways to Refute Arguments for God. And this time I am including material on how to counteract Islamic apologetics. The required course text is still Murray’s comprehensive yet...Celebrate the Holidays with My Class on the Historicity of the Baby Jesus!
I’ll be teaching my one month online course on the historicity of Jesus this December: the best arguments pro and con, the cultural and historical background, the competing theories of the origins of Christianity, and more. We’ll go through my book chapter...New & Improved Critical Thinking Course
I’ll be teaching critical thinking skills online this November. With a new, easier, lower priced textbook: Logically Fallacious: The Ultimate Collection of Over 300 Logical Fallacies, the new Academic Edition, by Bo Bennett of The Humanist Hour. Get your copy...My Online Course on the Bible Starts Next Week. Join in. Learn Cool Stuff!
How screwed up are the manuscripts of the New Testament? What aren’t Christian preachers and apologists telling the public? How can you know when they are trying to pull the wool over your eyes about what’s in the Bible…or if they even know they are...Learn the Basics of New Testament Scholarship & How to Make Good Use of It
By popular demand! I am teaching again my online course, Introduction to Biblical Scholarship on the New Testament. This is for anyone who wants to be better equipped to debate the Bible or understand the Bible. You will learn in it a lot of useful and surprising...Moral Reasoning Course + Bonus Option!
Not only can you join my science & philosophy of moral reasoning course this week (and if you haven’t already, check it out and give it a shot! … or please spread the word to anyone else who might be interested!), but there is now a bonus option you...Moral Reasoning Course: Learn the Science & Philosophy of Being a Better Person
Written from Puerto Rico today, as a tropical storm bears down on us: Come join my online course on moral reasoning! It starts next week. It goes a month. Study and participate at your own pace and on your own time. We don’t just cover the basic philosophy of...The Question of Free Will Is a Gateway to Philosophy & Social Justice
Preparing to teach my online course on the science & philosophy of free will in a couple days reminded me, as I looked over the reading materials and thought-provoking questions I’ve prepared: this is my favorite class. Anyone who joins in will find in it a...Study the Science & Philosophy of Free Will with Me!
Join an affordable one-month online course in August, where I’ll teach and discuss the philosophy of free will, including the scientific facts relating to it, the legal evidence relating to it, the medical ethics relating to it, and more. Let others know, too!...Reminder: Learn How to Question or Defend the Historicity of Jesus
Hey! Want to know how to defend the historicity of Jesus against naysayers? This class is for you. Want to know how to be the most irrefutable naysayer? This class is also for you. Join now. Ask all the questions you want for a month. Offer all the challenges you...New Course This June on the Historicity of Jesus!
I have updated my course on Questioning or Defending the Historicity of Jesus to account for the reception it’s had this past year. And now I’m offering it again over the course of June, which means this new class starts under two weeks from now (details...Debate Course Starts Tomorrow!
Join us for May in learning from Jeff Lowder and myself how to improve your capabilities in debate (at the podium, and online). Learn all the tricks and how to defeat them. Learn how to be effective and educational. Learn what not to do. And what to try for. Details...Get Dr. Carrier’s Latest!
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Richard Carrier is the author of many books and numerous articles online and in print. His avid readers span the world from Hong Kong to Poland. With a Ph.D. in ancient history from Columbia University, he specializes in the modern philosophy of naturalism and humanism, and the origins of Christianity and the intellectual history of Greece and Rome, with particular expertise in ancient philosophy, science and technology. He is also a noted defender of scientific and moral realism, Bayesian reasoning, and historical methods.
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