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Last chance to get in on my April online course! It’s an easy, affordable way to learn directly from a qualified historian (Ph.D., Columbia University) how to think and reason about history and investigate historical claims. You also get to ask me any questions...Join My New Course This April: Thinking Like a Historian: Historical Methods, Practice and Theory
Back by popular demand, I am teaching my online course on historical method this April (just a few weeks away): Thinking Like a Historian: Historical Methods, Practice and Theory. Learn how to question and investigate claims about history. Study not only the logic of...Join My New Course This March: Naturalism as a Worldview
My most popular courses I now offer yearly, and this is one of them. Back by popular demand, I am teaching my online course on naturalism as a philosophy and worldview this March (just a few weeks away): Naturalism as a Worldview: How to Build a Sound Philosophy of...My Online Course on the Bible Starts Tomorrow. 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...Join My New Course This February: Intro to Biblical Scholarship on the New Testament
Starting February 1 (2015) I will be teaching an online course, Introduction to Biblical Scholarship on the New Testament. Click that to register. The required course text (which students should purchase as soon as possible) is my personal anthology Hitler Homer Bible...Join My New Course This January: Critical Thinking in the 21st Century
Starting January 1 (2015) I will be teaching an online course on Critical Thinking in the 21st Century: Essential Skills Everyone Should Master. Click that to register. The required course text (which students should purchase as soon as possible) is Ken Manktelow,...What Will Ryan Bell Decide? Join Our Exciting New Online Course in December
Ryan Bell shall soon be ending his Year Without God. And in a special one month online course, he and I will be debating where he should now go from here: Remain an atheist, or a theist? Join the atheist community and help us move the cause forward, or not? (He may...November Course on Counter-Apologetics: Learn the Best Ways to Refute Arguments for God
This November my online course subject is “Counter-Apologetics: Learning the Best Ways to Refute Arguments for God.” In September I dealt with Boghossian’s one-on-one approach. Now we address a facet of the mass-market approach: how to inoculate...Take My October Class: Moral Reasoning from Theory to Practice (Applying Science and Philosophy in Everyday Life)
This will be a survey of contemporary moral theory and the scientific study of morality, with an aim to improving your own moral decision-making, and encouraging the same in others. Register now. It’s a one-month, online, do-at-your-own-pace course in which you...Take My Course on Boghossian’s Making Atheists!
I will be co-teaching a class with Peter Boghossian on his book A Manual for Creating Atheists. It starts in a week (September 1), lasts a month, and uses his book as a course text. So if you want to take that class and use the print edition, buy it now! The kindle...Offering Classes on Historical Method and the Historicity of Jesus
I am still teaching the science and philosophy of free will this June (that class starts next week; you can register here). But now my courses for July and August are also open for early registration (and there is a limit on how many students I take on per class, so...Join My June Course! On the Science and Philosophy of Free Will
This June begins my online course on the science and philosophy of free will, from a naturalist (atheist) and secular perspective. Please spread the word and let people know, anyone you think might be interested. It will be useful to anyone wanting to understand the...Secular Organizations Can Get Free Course Admission
Are you part of a secular, atheist, humanist, or other organization? Or know someone who is? Let that org’s leadership know that before this July they can get a deal for access to any course this year we are gradually building to teach online at...Online Course on Naturalism in May
Back by popular demand, I am teaching my online course on naturalism as a philosophy and worldview this May (just a few weeks away). Learn about all aspects of naturalism as a philosophy of life, and how to use it in practical ways and improve on it. In the process...May Online Course on Free Will
I will be teaching an online course on the science and philosophy of free will for the Center for Inquiry Institute this May. Anyone can register. Fee varies (from $30 to $70 depending on your status). Details on the course and registration options are provided at the...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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