Individualized Interactive Online Philosophy Classes with Dr. Daniel Fincke, PhD
Brand new students attend their first session FREE as a no-commitment trial!

I earned my PhD in Philosophy from Fordham University. I wrote my dissertation on ethics and the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. Over 11 years I taught 2,500 university students spread across 93 classes from 7 universities.

Now I offer self-motivated independent learners around the world the chance to take small group or 1-on-1 classes. My small group online classes involve live, interactive class discussions with me and your fellow students held over videoconference (using Google Hangout, which downloads in just seconds). All my classes involve personalized attention to your own ideas and questions. Course content winds up tailored to your interests as lively and rigorous class discussions determine where exactly we go. Classes are flexible enough to meet the needs of both beginners and students with existing philosophical background.

My classes require no outside reading or homework or grades--only a once weekly 2 hour commitment that fits the schedules of busy people. There are no penalties for absences. Even if you can only attend a couple times a month, you're always welcome. Students attending one of my class sessions for the first time can do so for FREE. Periodically there are now special example sessions of my classes on pre-announced topics in philosophy. Anyone can attend their first of these sessions for free.

If none of my classes' existing times suit you, just let me know. I regularly build my new classes' times around prospective student's schedules. Just e-mail me at camelswithhammers@gmail.com letting me know what class you want to take and when you would be able to attend and I will schedule a new class section around you and publicize it.

Classes are paid for by a weekly subscription. Once you subscribe, you're self-enrolled in the class and automatically billed by PayPal for $39.99 weekly until whenever you want to cancel. Any time I cancel class or you are absent (for whatever reason) you are refunded your weekly payment. Unlike with your gym membership, you will never get stuck paying for time you don't use. And when you're ready to cancel your subscription you can self-cancel with PayPal directly or ask me to unsubscribe you myself. When you're satisfied with a particular class, you can either switch to another class or cancel your subscription at that time.

People who live together are permitted to take a class together for no extra cost, if they share the same camera. Scholarships are also available for students who cannot afford the classes. Please write me at camelswithhammers@gmail.com to be put on the list of potential scholarship recipients.

My classes are university quality but I offer no university credit whatsoever. New classes start up all the time and you can join existing groups of students if you want and stay long enough to get a full and thorough complement of classes on your topic. 1-on-1 classes can be arranged by appointment if you write me at camelswithhammers@gmail.com.

At student request, special "close reading" versions of classes are becoming available for students who want to go deeper into philosophical texts in a particular topic. Unless specifically designated as a "close reading" class, the average class features general overviews of the course topics with self contained lectures each week so novices can join us at any time.

I also offer one-on-one confidential philosophical advisement services online for those who struggle with problems in their lives that need to be worked out not with psychological treatment but with the help of someone who can provide them with some philosophical clarity. As a philosopher, teacher, and certified philosophical practitioner, I have the skills to help you sort out your ethical dilemmas, your philosophical and personal challenges as you transition into atheism, your major life decisions, your religious doubts, your existential questions, your struggles in your relationships, your value priorities in life, your irrational habits of thinking and behaving that hold you back in life, and many other kinds of problems that can be helped through critical analyses of the logic and coherency of one's concepts and values. If you are interested in learning more, please write me at camelswithhammers@gmail.com for more information with "Philosophical Advice" in the subject line of the e-mail.
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ETHICS *
This class will run all year in 2014, with a different topic or topics scheduled for each two hour session. The topics will run the full gamut of philosophical ethics, regularly alternating between highly relevant immediate impact issues in applied ethics to more abstract philosophical questions about the very nature of morality and whether there is any hope for rational and objective answers about ethical questions. Without any prior knowledge in philosophy necessary, a student will be able to start his or her participation in a minimum of 20 sessions by joining the ongoing year long sequence of sessions at any point in the year and cover a satisfying range of subjects that will successfully orient him or her to the basics of moral philosophy. And students who want to keep going beyond just 20 weeks will continue to cover fresh material as they pay session by session, with no minimum required commitment, and attend at whatever frequency they prefer.
NIETZSCHE *
A textual and systematic study of Nietzsche. Weekly we read aloud together selections from Nietzsche's work. No prior or outside reading is necessary as we will read together. I give my interpretations of what Nietzsche is saying in each selection and suggest ways that we might see his larger philosophical vision unfolding through each selection. Students participate by offering their own thoughts inspired by the text read together. Throughout the year, we will read together different selections, reading huge chunks of many of his major works section by section at every meeting without repetition. Throughout the course of the full calendar year, we will read through a significant number of sections of most of his books. Students signing up commit to participate in a minimum of 20 sessions (a total of 40 hours). Afterwards they may continue by paying for individual sessions as they attend them and may attend at whatever frequencies they prefer.
PHILOSOPHY FOR ATHEISTS *
This course is a hybrid between an atheistic philosophy of religion/counter-apologetics course, an introduction to philosophical topics course, and a history of philosophy overview. Essentially this course focuses on the major topics and figures in philosophy while also relating each to their relevance to answering the philosophical challenges that religious people typically raise in arguments. Some special emphasis is placed on familiarizing students with a few great atheistic philosophers from history (e.g., Nietzsche, Feuerbach, Hume, Spinoza, etc.) and helping atheists who have only recently left faith behind work out their constructive post-theistic worldview. Students can start their 20 week commitment at any given week of the year and cover a full course's scope of topics. Then students may continue to participate at will, indefinitely, paying only for those weeks they wish from then on out.
HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY, PLATO TO PRESENT DAY *
A philosopher-by-philosopher study of the history of philosophy. When I run this course I try to make it a thorough year long experience with students committed to going from the Plato to the present day with me, starting in one month and running for 12 total. Students can also come in midway and/or drop off after any 40 hour segment of the course.
HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY, ENLIGHTENMENT TO CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY *
A philosopher-by-philosopher study of the history of philosophy starting in the modern era (17th Century) and going up to the present day.
PHILOSOPHY BOOK OF THE MONTH CLUB *
If there is interest, once a month I will read a philosophy book new to me (and likely from the last 15 years) and meet once weekly for the month with interested participants to discuss the book. Students need only commit to books of the month by the month, as interested. Participating in any given month's book of the month club would cost $150.
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