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Philosophy for Freedom and Flourishing

If you want to live your life to the fullest, OSI is for you. It’s about the basic means to that end: rational, practical philosophy.

Our courses, podcasts, and conferences will sharpen your mind and transform your life.

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Your Path to a Career in Writing and Speaking

Help spread the ideas on which personal happiness, social harmony, and political freedom depend.

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OSI’s conferences sharpen your mind, fuel your soul, and connect you with others who live to thrive

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Keeping ideas connected to reality so they can serve our lives in reality.

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Courses

How to Love Literature Even More Through Philosophy

with Angelica Walker-Werth, Carrie-Ann Biondi, Tim White, Luc Travers, and Timothy Sandefur

7.5 hours total | 5 sessions
beginning May 21, 2025

Enhance your love of literature by viewing it through a philosophic lens.

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Atheism: The Case Against God Reading Group

with Maddox Locher

10.5 hours total | 7 sessions
beginning May 30, 2025

Examine and discuss George H. Smith’s arguments against the existence of God and the validity of religion—and see whether they make sense.

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