sPhil Symposia

Symposia is a philosophy course platform that offers on-demand digital courses, live university-grade seminars, and personalized tuition.

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Symposia is still being actively worked on. We aim to have our first course ready by early 2025. Meanwhile, please consider subscribing to our newsletter and you'll be notified of any updates!

Why Symposia

We dream of a way of doing philosophy that is intense, life-long and free. To be able to rigorously engage with concepts and ideas to their utmost depth without sacrificing either scholarly quality or creativity.. To be able to pursue and hone one's philosophical craft and enjoyment in a way that supports and enriches everyday living. And finally to be thinking deeply about contents of philosophy purely for their own sake. Symposia exists as a companion to sPhil, a collaborative encyclopedia inspired by systematic philosophers and modern open source principles. Symposia is intended to be an additional guide into the philosophical resources we otherwise make freely available at sPhil. Whether you are a novice or a professional, our courses welcome anyone who has a burning desire to examine, philosophically, the wonders of being.

Deepen Your Thinking: Explore Philosophy In-Depth

Dive into the world's greatest ideas with our comprehensive online philosophy courses. Go beyond introductory lectures and engage with challenging concepts in a supportive learning environment.

Choose Your Learning Style: Digital, with Seminars, or 1-on-1 Dialogue

We offer a variety of learning formats to suit your ambition. Take courses entirely on-demand with digital content at your own pace, participate in live interactive seminars with fellow peers, or get personalized guidance with private sessions from our instructors.

Focus on Text: Meet the Greatest Minds of History

Gain insights from renowned philosophers by meeting them on their own ground, namely, their text! Our courses center around primary texts supplemented by secondary literature. We think it is important that you spend time with the philosopher's own text and become equipped to make up your own mind regarding their ideas.

Sharpen Your Critical Thinking: Unleash Your Philosophical Potential

They who do not understand the past cannot comprehend the future. Philsophy is not about the past but the discovery of futures. Learn to think critically, analyze arguments, and form your own well-reasoned opinions - skills valuable in all aspects of life.

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What do our students say about our courses and instructors?

Baris

IT Engineer

"I have been studying with Filip for a while now. We are reading Hegel's Phenomenology where I write short essays and receive detailed feedback. Filip is patient, knowledgeable, and smart among many other positive traits. One of his most helpful approaches is to let me attempt my interpretation before he gives his, that way I have a shot at pushing my understanding and then see where I failed, which is invaluable. It is fascinating when Filip provides deeper insights rooted in his intimate knowledge of Hegel's corpus. With Filip's help, I will be more comfortable reading the Phenomenology in the future with this approach as I can always anchor myself confidently in the text at some level."

Camillo Coccia

Medical Doctor

"Filip has been a mentor for me for the last few years. His ability to make difficult philosophical texts coherent to people with vastly different backgrounds is the socratic spirit of philosophy."

Lennart Oberlies

Architect

"Filip lays the strongest evidence himself for a philosophical life. On entering dialogues and discussions with us students, he attends with everything he impersonates to the real challenge of teaching: letting you find ways to bring something up and forward, to raise a subject or a problem yourself, to broach a topic which may live latent in you. This makes his teaching so really unique in my opinion: he addresses and opens the group for conversing, with careful attention to the specificity of every singular voice."

Drew Lockwood

Jiu Jitsu Instructor

"Amazing course! I did private lessons with Filip, worth every penny! The 'What is Philosophy' course helped kick off my latest creative project. Highly recommend it to anyone interested in philosophy."

Stee

Musician

"My philosophical studies received a jet fuel injection with Filip's teaching. The 'What is Philosophy?' course was beautifully engineered using Collingwood as an anchor text to visit upon several blockbuster philosophical works. Along with weekly videos and materials that brought the themes into sharp focus. Filip allowed us to unpack our thoughts in the seminars and learn at our own pace, guiding us wisely through the seminar discussions and nudging us on our blind spots. I thoroughly enjoyed it and I look forward to seeing my course-mates on another one soon."

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Meet the instructors

Here you can find brief information about our teacher's interests and qualifications.

Filip Niklas, PhD

Filip completed his PhD in philosophy in 2022 under the supervision of Professor Stephen Houlgate at the University of Warwick. The title of his thesis was Hegel's Critique of Determinism: Justifying Unfreedom as a Moment of Freedom. Filip has given papers and organized numerous conferences on philosophy. He has taught extensively both at universiy, at the Halkyon Academy and privately. Filip's main research areas are systematic philosophy, metaphysics, ontology, essence, freedom, determinism, and maintains an otherwise broad interest in all the dimensions of intelligence and reason. Filip is also an incurable fan of the art and poetry of William Blake.

Ahilleas Rokni, PhD

Ahilleas Rokni completed his PhD thesis in philosophy in 2022 under the supervision of Professor Stephen Houlgate at the University of Warwick. His thesis aimed to give an account of the much-debated move from the Science of Logic to the Philosophy of Nature in Hegel's system. Ahilleas's main research concerns are Hegel's logic, philosophy of nature, philosophy of science, and aesthetics.

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