Argumentation: The Study of Effective Reasoning
PN4181 .Z374 2001 DVD
24 (30 minute) lectures
Course description.
Bill Moyers on Faith & Reason
BL48 .B54 2006 DVD
7 (57 minute) programs
Bill Moyers is joined by some of the world's most provocative writers and thinkers to explore the jagged, mysterious region between rationality and belief. Part 1, Salman Rushdie; part 2, Mary Gordon and Colin McGinn; part 3, Jeanette Winterson and Will Power; part 4, Anne Provoost and David Grossman; part 5, Richard Rodriquez and John Houghton; part 6, Margaret Atwood and Martin Amis; part 7, Pema Chodron.
The Birth of the Modern Mind: The Intellectual History of the 17th and 18th Centuries
B801 .K67 2003 DVD
24 (30 minute) lectures
Course description.
Consciousness and its Implications
BF311 .R635 2007 DVD
12 (30 minute) lectures
Course description.
Derrida
B2430 .D484 D477 2003 DVD
85 minutes; released 2002.
A documentary about French philosopher and author of deconstructionism Jacques Derrida. Directed by Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman.
Dietrich von Hildebrand, a Knight for Truth
BX2350.3 .D54 2008 DVD
19 (30 minute) programs
Alice von Hildebrand and Thomas Howard discuss the book Transformation in Christ, the greatest work of 20th century philosopher Dietrich von Hildebrand.
Eastern Philosophy
B123 .E37 2006 DVD
3 (50 minute) episodes; released 2002.
A brief introduction to various eastern philosophies: Confucianism, Shinto, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, and Islam. Narrated by Trevor Nichols. Directed by Trevor Green.
Emerson, Thoreau, and the Transcendentalist Movement
PS217 .T7 N534 2006 DVD
24 (30 minute) lectures
A Teaching Company course. Course description.
Ethics in the Workplace
HF5387 .J82 2004 DVD
30 minutes
Bill Moyers interviews Joanne Ciulla about the role of ethics in the world of business and the meaning of work in North American culture.
European Thought and Culture in the 19th Century
CB204 .K73 2001 DVD
24 (30 minute) lectures
Course description.
European Thought and Culture in the 20th Century
CB205 .K73 2002 DVD
24 (30 minute) lectures
Course description.
The Examined Life
BD21 .E93 2004 DVD
13 (60 minute) programs; released 1998.
This series offers in-depth analysis of western philosophy from antiquity to the present. Using writings of past philosophers and interviews with more than fifty contemporary thinkers, these episodes underscore how classic questions still reverberate today. Correlated with the book by Manuel Velasquez.
Facing Evil
BJ1401 .F33 2005 DVD
90 minutes
Bill Moyers interviews a panel about their personal confrontations with the force of evil and the discovery that exploring evil leads to revelations about goodness.
Freedom and Authority
BX2350.3 .F744 2006 DVD
approx. 390 minutes
Father Thomas Dubay discusses how the ideas of authority and freedom, which many assume to be in conflict, in fact fit together beautifully.
The Good Code: The Natural Law
K447 .T45 G663 2006 DVD
approx. 390 minutes.
Using Aquinas's proofs of God's existence, Dr. Charles Rice shows how humans can, apart from any reference to God or religion, discern right from wrong. But these evidential laws of right and wrong, says Dr. Rice, fit remarkably well with Christianity, which leads Dr. Rice into his discussion on faith and reason and ultimately to the Church, whose teachings alone can show mankind the path to salvation.
Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition
B72 .G743 2000 DVD
84 (30 minute) lectures
Course description.
Great Philosophical Debates: Free Will and Determinism
BF621 .N534 2008 DVD
24 (30 minute) lectures
Course description.
The History of Freedom
JC585 .F43 2001 DVD
36 (30 minute) lectures
Course description.
How Art Made the World
N5300 .H69 2006 DVD
290 minutes; 5 episodes
A series about how the first big artistic discoveries were made and how they have cascaded down the centuries to define the look of the present day.
An Introduction to Greek Philosophy
B108 .R66 2002 DVD
24 (30 minute) lectures
Course description.
Introduction to the Study of Religion
BL41 .J664 2007 DVD
12 (30 minute) lectures
Course description.
Masters of Greek Thought: Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle
B175 .B378 2008 DVD
36 (30 minute) lectures
Course description.
The Moral Implications of Scientific Advances
R724 .M66 2004 DVD
53 minutes
Bill Moyers interviews Leon R. Kass, a physician and philosopher who believes that scientific discoveries have raised questions which scientific reasoning can't answer.
The More You Watch, the Less you Know: A Talk by Danny Schechter
P90 .M637 2000 DVD
64 minutes; released 2000.
Danny Schechter recounts with humor and style the ins-and-outs of mainstream media organization, culture, and practice, and then discusses possibilities for organizing from within mainstream media.
Natural Law and Human Nature
K460 .K68 2002 DVD
24 (30 minute) lectures
Course description.
No Excuses: Existentialism and the Meaning of Life
B819 .S55 2000 DVD
24 (30 minute) lectures
Course description.
The Passions: Philosophy and the Intelligence of Emotions
B105 .E46 S256 2006 DVD
24 (30 minute) lectures
Course description.
Peter Singer, A Dangerous Mind
B5704 .S554 S55 2004 DVD
56 minutes
A dcoumentary about philosopher Peter Singer and his controversial views on euthanasia, abortion, and infanticide.
Philosophy and Religion in the West
B56 .C36 1999 DVD
32 (30 minute) lectures
Course description.
Philosophy as a Guide to Living
B805 .E753 2006 DVD
24 (30 minute) lectures
Course description.
Philosophy of Mind: Brains, Consciousness, and Thinking Machines
BD418.3 .S43 2008 DVD
24 (30 minute) lectures
Course description.
Philosophy of Religion
BL51 .H35 2003 DVD
36 (30 minute) lectures
Course description.
Philosophy of Science
Q125 .K3 2006 DVD
36 (30 minute) lectures
A Teaching Company course. Course description.
Philosophy, Religion, and the Meaning of Life
BD431 .A53 2009 DVD
36 (30 minute) lectures
Course description.
Plato's Republic
PA4279 .R4 2005 DVD
24 (30 minute) lectures
Course description.
Power over People: Classical and Modern Political Theory
JA71 .D35 1991 DVD
16 (45 minute) lectures
Course description.
Practical Philosophy: The Greco-Roman Moralists
B111 .J64 2002 DVD
12 (30 minute) lectures
Course description.
The Psychology of Lying
JA79 .S57 2006 DVD
30 minutes
Bill Moyers interviews philosopher Sissela Bok about the psychology of lying, the consequences of deception, and the perils of keeping secrets.
Questions of Value
BJ37 .G756 2005 DVD
24 (30 minute) lectures
Course description.
Reason and Faith
B721 .R437 2007 DVD
24 (30 minute) lectures
Course description.
The Rights of Man: Great Thinkers and Great Movements
JC571 .R544 2008 DVD
24 (30 minute) lectures
Course description.
Tools of Thinking: Understanding the World through Experience and Reason
LB1590.3 .H14 2005 DVD
24 (30 minute) lectures
Course description.
Western Philosophy
B72 .W4825 2006 DVD
3 (50 minute) epidsodes; released 2002.
The highlights of western philosophy: the ancient Greeks, the Middle Ages, the age of reason, the British Empiricists, and the twentieth century. Narrated by Trevor Nichols. Directed by Trevor Green.
Will to Power: The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
B3317 .S656 1999 DVD
24 (30 minute) lectures
Course description.
Your Mythic Journey
BF697.5 .S43 K44 2005 DVD
57 minutes
Bill Moyers talks with Sam Keen about the importance of "personal storytelling" - a way of looking back at life to make sense of where you are today.
Žižek!
B4870 .Z594 Z58 2006 DVD
71 minutes; released 2005.
A documentary about the eccentric Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek as he travels around the world lecturing.
English and Slovene dialogue; English subtitles.
