Top Coursera Philosophy Courses by Reddit Upvotes
Reddit is a social media and news aggregation website that ranks content based on a voting system. People worldwide post content (usually links, but also original content), and other users can “upvote” or “downvote” posts, pushing the most interesting content to the top.
It’s a place where you can find groups of like-minded people. Reddit calls these groups subreddits, and they cover different topics, including niche interests, politics, hobbies, and thousands of other topics people want to talk about.
Since its launch in 2005, the site has become one of the most popular social media sites with millions of monthly active users.
We've conducted analyses to find the best of Coursera from the depths of Reddit. This analysis has been conducted over 2.7 million Reddit upvotes.
Table of Contents
Top Philosophy courses
Introduction to Philosophy This course will introduce you to some of the main areas of research in contemporary philosophy The University of Edinburgh | 3 reddit posts 78 mentions |
Søren Kierkegaard - Subjectivity, Irony and the Crisis of Modernity It is often claimed that relativism, subjectivism and nihilism are typically modern philosophical University of Copenhagen | 4 reddit posts 25 mentions |
Effective Altruism Effective altruism is built on the simple but unsettling idea that living a fully ethical life involves Princeton University | 3 reddit posts 14 mentions |
The Modern and the Postmodern (Part 1) This course examines how the idea of "the modern" develops at the end of the 18th century in European Wesleyan University | 0 reddit posts 10 mentions |
Ancient Philosophy What is philosophy? How does it differ from science, religion, and other modes of human discourse? University of Pennsylvania | 0 reddit posts 26 mentions |
Philosophy and the Sciences What is the origin of our universe? What are dark matter and dark energy? This is the first part of The University of Edinburgh | 1 reddit posts 5 mentions |
Ancient Philosophy What is philosophy? How does it differ from science, religion, and other modes of human discourse? University of Pennsylvania | 0 reddit posts 19 mentions |
Greek and Roman Mythology Myths are traditional stories that have endured over a long time University of Pennsylvania | 8 reddit posts 16 mentions |
Philosophy, Science and Religion Philosophy, Science and Religion mark three of the most fundamental modes of thinking about the The University of Edinburgh | 0 reddit posts 8 mentions |
Reason and Persuasion In this course we study the ancient, Socratic art of blowing up your beliefs as you go, to make National University of Singapore | 0 reddit posts 15 mentions |
Intellectual Humility We live in a polarised world where all too often people talk past each other The University of Edinburgh | 1 reddit posts 3 mentions |
Philosophy, Science and Religion Philosophy, Science and Religion mark three of the most fundamental modes of thinking about the The University of Edinburgh | 0 reddit posts 3 mentions |
Pensamiento científico ¿El pensamiento científico es sólo para científicos? Su utilidad va mucho más allá, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México | 0 reddit posts 5 mentions |
Luther and the West In this course we will discuss the history of some ideas that have been hugely influential in the modern Northwestern University | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
Intellectual Humility Faced with difficult questions people often tend to dismiss and marginalize dissent The University of Edinburgh | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
Intellectual Humility It’s clear that the world needs more intellectual humility The University of Edinburgh | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
Reasoning Across the Disciplines Critical reasoning skills are a key success factor for students entering their The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 0 reddit posts 3 mentions |
Philosophy and the Sciences Course Description What is our role in the universe as human agents capable of knowledge? What The University of Edinburgh | 0 reddit posts 2 mentions |
Revolutionary Ideas What is the purpose of government? Why should we have a State? What kind of State Rutgers the State University of New Jersey | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
Revolutionary Ideas What is the purpose of government? Why should we have a State? What kind of State Rutgers the State University of New Jersey | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
Science & Religion 101 This course examines the nature of both science and religion and attempts to explore the possible University of Alberta | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
Le Bien, le Juste, l'Utile. Introduction aux éthiques philosophiques Course in French with English and Chinese subtitles Ce cours présente les principaux courants qui marquent University of Geneva | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
Skepticism Skepticism is about doubt, and doubt is everywhere in the world around us today University of California, Irvine | 0 reddit posts 2 mentions |
Our methodology
We conducted this analysis by "ranking things based on social signals"
It's the result of mining Reddit posts and comments. The analysis looked at all (url-based) posts and comment mentions of Coursera courses on Reddit, ranking each course based on Reddit score, and showing each course with its top Reddit mentions.
Course Score is calculated with a slightly modified version of a simple popularity / age calculation.
course_score = sum(mention_scores) / course_age
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