Ontology Course
The Ontology Course helps humanities professionals map key concepts like substance, mind, personhood, and abstract objects, connect them to classic texts, and build clear, defensible arguments for research, teaching, and critical analysis.

flexible workload from 4 to 360h
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
This short Ontology Course offers a practical path to mastering core categories like substance, event, possibility, personhood, and abstract objects, while introducing key figures from Aristotle and Aquinas to Kant and Heidegger. You will learn to map ontologies, analyze concepts, read primary texts closely, engage secondary literature, and design a focused research project with clear, defensible arguments.
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Develop skills
- Build ontological maps: clarify entities, levels, and dependence relations fast.
- Design research plans: link historical texts to sharp, tractable questions.
- Master core ontological categories: substance, event, modality, and universals.
- Analyze classic ontologists: Aristotle to Kant, Aquinas, phenomenology, analytics.
- Defend an ontology: handle objections, compare rival views, and argue rigorously.
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