By Mathew Goldstein
David K. Johnson is a professor of philosophy at Kings College in Pennsylvania who produced a Great Courses series of videos titled The Big Questions of Philosophy that sells for about $70 dollars (less for audio, more for DVD). Some county government library systems have contracted with a company that sponsors a web site, and also an app, called kanopy. Kanopy makes many videos available for free to people with library cards. At least some, if not most, of those videos do not appear to be very good. But among the many hundreds of free videos on kanopy is the entire set of 36 half hour lectures of the aforementioned course.
David K. Johnson is a professor of philosophy at Kings College in Pennsylvania who produced a Great Courses series of videos titled The Big Questions of Philosophy that sells for about $70 dollars (less for audio, more for DVD). Some county government library systems have contracted with a company that sponsors a web site, and also an app, called kanopy. Kanopy makes many videos available for free to people with library cards. At least some, if not most, of those videos do not appear to be very good. But among the many hundreds of free videos on kanopy is the entire set of 36 half hour lectures of the aforementioned course.
He is probably not as rich, nor as famous, as George Soros whose book features five of his philosophy lectures. After watching Professor Johnson's first five lectures, and excerpts from a few other lectures, I will take a chance on him and recommend his videos. This is the philosophy 101 course that should be included with everyone's basic education but not everyone receives.
