Creative Commons Podcasts

Philosophy for Beginners

7 episodes - Latest episode: about 12 years ago - ★★★★ - 302 ratings
Philosophy has been studied for thousands of years. It involves the use of reason and argument to search for the truth about reality - about the nature of things, ethics, aesthetics, language, the ...

Approaching Shakespeare

32 episodes - Latest episode: over 6 years ago - ★★★★★ - 294 ratings
Each lecture in this series focuses on a single play by Shakespeare, and employs a range of different approaches to try to understand a central critical question about it. Rather than providing ove...

Great Writers Inspire

21 episodes - Latest episode: almost 12 years ago - ★★★ - 166 ratings
PLEASE NOTE: The 'Great Writers Inspire' project has its own website which features much more extensive, diverse and updated content. Please visit https://writersinspires.org From Dickens to Shake...

Quantum Mechanics

27 episodes - Latest episode: about 14 years ago - ★★★★ - 156 ratings
In this series of physics lectures, Professor J.J. Binney explains how probabilities are obtained from quantum amplitudes, why they give rise to quantum interference, the concept of a complete set ...

Surgery 101

574 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★ - 141 ratings
Welcome to Surgery 101, a series of podcasts produced with the help of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. The podcasts are intended to serve as brief introductions or reviews of surgica...

Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art lectures

8 episodes - Latest episode: about 13 years ago - ★★★★ - 72 ratings
Lecture series on Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art. The first part of the series focuses on some of the most important writings on art and beauty in the Western philosophical tradition, coverin...

General Philosophy

41 episodes - Latest episode: over 13 years ago - ★★★★ - 68 ratings
A series of lectures delivered by Peter Millican to first-year philosophy students at the University of Oxford. The lectures comprise of the 8-week General Philosophy course, delivered to first yea...

General Philosophy

41 episodes - Latest episode: over 13 years ago - ★★★★ - 67 ratings
A series of lectures delivered by Peter Millican to first-year philosophy students at the University of Oxford. The lectures comprise of the 8-week General Philosophy course, delivered to first yea...

Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

8 episodes - Latest episode: about 13 years ago - ★★★★ - 67 ratings
A lecture series examining Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. This series looks at German Philosopher Immanuel Kant's seminal philosophical work 'The Critique of Pure Reason'. The lectures aim to outl...

Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre

12 episodes - Latest episode: over 8 years ago - ★★★★★ - 59 ratings
This series of six lectures introduces six plays from the Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre. Once popular and now little-known, they can tell us a lot about what their first audiences enjoyed, aspir...

Philosophy for Beginners

7 episodes - Latest episode: about 12 years ago - ★★★★ - 48 ratings
Philosophy has been studied for thousands of years. It involves the use of reason and argument to search for the truth about reality - about the nature of things, ethics, aesthetics, language, the ...

Coding 101 (Video)

49 episodes - Latest episode: over 8 years ago - ★★★★ - 37 ratings
Join Father Robert Ballecer and Lou Maresca on Coding 101, a weekly instructional, project-oriented programming show with appeal for beginning to intermediate programmers. Using a combination of cl...

Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

8 episodes - Latest episode: about 13 years ago - ★★★★ - 33 ratings
A lecture series examining Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. This series looks at German Philosopher Immanuel Kant's seminal philosophical work 'The Critique of Pure Reason'. The lectures aim to outl...

MSt English Language

5 episodes - Latest episode: over 11 years ago - ★★★★ - 30 ratings
Oxford’s English Faculty will offer students the opportunity to undertake a Master’s in English Language for the first time from October 2012. Learn more about this brand new course and gain an ins...

Lab Out Loud

280 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 28 ratings
Lab Out Loud is a show about science teaching in the classroom and beyond. Lab Out Loud seeks to explore science education through discussions with educators, researchers, leading scientists, scien...

Engineerguy videos & audio

40 episodes - Latest episode: over 9 years ago - ★★★★★ - 25 ratings
Bill Hammack's audio and video work emphasizes the creative role of engineers in designing and creating our world. He's a regular commentator on radio - based at Illinois Public Radio in Urbana he'...

Lawdibles Audio – Lawdibles :: CALI Podcasts

143 episodes - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★ - 24 ratings
Lawdibles: Your Audio Law Professor. A law professor explaining a narrow area of law understandably and accurately in less than ten minutes.

LEAP! with Tina Seelig

8 episodes - Latest episode: about 5 years ago - ★★★★★ - 24 ratings
LEAP! is a podcast series hosted by Tina Seelig, Professor of the Practice in Stanford's Department of Management Science and Engineering. Each episode takes a deep dive into how to launch ...

Rhetoricity

53 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
Rhetoricity is a quasi-academic podcast that draws on rhetoric, theory, weird sound effects, and the insights of a lot of other people. It's something that's a little strange and, with luck, a litt...

Human Restoration Project

195 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
Hosts Nick Covington and Chris McNutt, founders of Human Restoration Project, a nonprofit organization focused on human-centered learning, host guests and share ideas on restoring humanity to educa...

Oscar Wilde

15 episodes - Latest episode: over 10 years ago - ★★★★ - 16 ratings
New lecture series on Oscar Wilde, his life, his works and his philosophy delivered by Dr Sos Eltis, lecturer in English

Literature, Art and Oxford

5 episodes - Latest episode: almost 11 years ago - ★★★★ - 16 ratings
Podcasts exploring the relationship between literary works and the artwork and Oxford. From J.R.R Tolkien to Philip Pullman, authors have been inspired by Oxford; the architecture, history and cult...

Literature and Form

4 episodes - Latest episode: almost 12 years ago - ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Lecture series looking at key concepts in studying Literature; including lectures on the concept of unreliable narrators to theory of comparative literature. This series was filmed in the English F...

Coding 101 (Audio)

49 episodes - Latest episode: over 8 years ago - ★★★★ - 13 ratings
Join Father Robert Ballecer and Lou Maresca on Coding 101, a weekly instructional, project-oriented programming show with appeal for beginning to intermediate programmers. Using a combination of cl...

Bioethics: An Introduction

28 episodes - Latest episode: almost 12 years ago - ★★★★ - 12 ratings
An introductory series by Marianne Talbot exploring bioethical theories and their philosophical foundations. These podcasts will explain key moral theories, common moral arguments, and some backgro...

Moving at the Speed of Creativity Podcasts

219 episodes - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Where media literacy and digital storytelling intersect and change the world

Great Writers Inspire

29 episodes - Latest episode: over 11 years ago - ★★★★ - 11 ratings
PLEASE NOTE: The 'Great Writers Inspire' project has its own website which features much more extensive, diverse and updated content. Please visit https://writersinspires.org From Dickens to Shake...

What is Tragedy?

4 episodes - Latest episode: about 14 years ago - ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Tragedy has been around for over 2500 years, from its earliest manifestations in the huge open-air gathering-places of Athens and other Greek city-states, to the theatres of Renaissance England, Sp...

Challenging the Canon

10 episodes - Latest episode: over 10 years ago - ★★★★ - 10 ratings
This unique mini-series aims to challenge the literary canon by posing the thorny question 'why should we study...?' to experts at the University of Oxford. Beginning with the overarching question ...

Oxford Symposium On The August 2011 Riots: Context And Responses

8 episodes - Latest episode: over 12 years ago - ★★★ - 10 ratings
Academics, community workers and researchers come together to discuss the social and political implications of the August 2011 Riots. Looking at the causes for the riots and discrimination and prej...