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Closer to Truth is a television series on public television [1] originally created, produced, and hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn.The original series aired in 2000 for two seasons, followed by a second series aired in 2003 for a single season.
Beauty: The collective knowledge of philosophers and mathematicians of the past, as well as modern day artists, scientists, models and musicians form the basis for considering what people find beautiful and why. Bridges; Cars; Caves: Take a journey into the darkness, deep below the Earth's surface. Discover how caves were formed, learn who has ...
The Partially Examined Life is a podcast and downloadable audio series about philosophy. [1] It is self described at the beginning of many episodes as "A philosophy podcast by some guys who were at one point set on doing philosophy for a living, but then thought better of it."
Peter Carruthers (philosopher) Héctor-Neri Castañeda; Michel de Certeau; Monima Chadha; David Chalmers; C. T. K. Chari; Kah Kyung Cho; Patricia Churchland; Paul Churchland; Emil Cioran; Étienne Bonnot de Condillac; Anne Conway (philosopher) Manuel Curado
In Our Time is a radio discussion programme exploring a wide variety of historical, scientific, cultural, religious and philosophical topics, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the United Kingdom since 1998 and hosted by Melvyn Bragg.
Horizon is a current and long-running BBC popular science and philosophy documentary programme. Series one was broadcast in 1964 and as of July 2020 it is in its 56th series. Over 1,250 episodes have been broadcast (including specials) with an average of 23 episodes per series during the 56-year run. 1964–1969 – 135 episodes
It was first proposed by the philosopher John Searle in 1980 and is defined by two main theses: 1) all mental phenomena, ranging from pains, tickles, and itches to the most abstruse thoughts, are caused by lower-level neurobiological processes in the brain; and 2) mental phenomena are higher-level features of the brain.
Some philosophers entirely reject any notion of localization of function and thus believe fMRI studies to be profoundly misguided. [15] These philosophers maintain that brain processing acts holistically, that large sections of the brain are involved in processing most cognitive tasks (see holism in neurology and the modularity section below).