- -: Bringing Wisdom of Socrates to Modern Dialogue - Karen Armstrong
August 26, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/08/14/Karen_Armstrong_Charter_for_Compassion Author, scholar and journalist Karen Armstrong discusses the need to apply Socratic philosophy to the counterproductive fierceness of modern debate. "Real philosophical debate...that is conducted in the spirit of...
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- -: Seeing Is Believing: How the Brain Interprets Vision
November 6, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/06/24/Seeing_Myself_See_The_Ecology_of_Mind R. Beau Lotto, head of Lottolab Studio in London, explains that the human eye is not capable of seeing actual objects, only light reflecting off of those objects. "The patterns of light that fall onto your eye are...
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- -: From Poison to Cow Dung: A History of Philosophers' Deaths
November 7, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/09/Simon_Critchley_To_Philosophize_is_to_Learn_How_to_Die From suicide by a love potion to suffocating in cow dung, Simon Critchley gives a brief history of the deaths of famous philosophers -- stories he describes as "weirdness, madness, suicide, murde...
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- -: The Religion of Science? - David Sloan Wilson
February 19, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/11/17/Great_Issues_Forum_What_Is_Religion Evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson presents the notion of science as a religion. "Science is just like a religion, but its god is the truth." ----- The Forum's year-long exploration of religion launches wit...
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- -: Plato vs the Arts: Does Fiction Have a Practical Purpose? - Rebecca Goldstein
March 16, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/03/05/Pinker_and_Goldstein_Reason_Fiction__Faith Rebecca Goldstein, philosopher and author of 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction, discusses her love of Plato and laments his distaste for the narrative arts. She defends fiction as power...
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- -: Moon Landing Hoax? How Faith Blocks Reason
May 17, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/04/24/Dr_Eugenie_C_Scott_Science_and_Skepticism Dr. Eugenie Scott, Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education, distinguishes between empirically based knowledge and "revealed knowledge," or knowledge gathered from a higher power. She us...
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- -: Mathematics: The Music of Reason?
December 7, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/11/06/Wonderfest_2010_Is_Mathematics_More_Art_Than_Science Is mathematics more like an art form than a science? NPR's 'The Math Guy' Keith Devlin examines how, despite the apparent distance between the two fields, math is sometimes described as a bridge bet...
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- -: Neuromagic: Exploiting Choice Blindness
March 22, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/11/06/Wonderfest_2010_Neuromagic_with_Luigi_Anzivino Luigi Anzivino, Scientific Content Developer at San Francisco's Exploratorium, discusses an experiment that relied on sleight of hand to demonstrate an effect he calls "choice blindness." He explains that...
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- -: Hitchens on Compelling Arguments for the Existence of God
April 8, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/series/92y_arts_entertainment Author and atheist Christopher Hitchens remains unconvinced of the value of religion. Hitchens mockingly describes his favorite pro-religion argument saying, "The big bang is so amazing it must have been God after all." The ...
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- -: Evolutionary Ethics: Reconciling Reason and Intuition
June 2, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/02/09/Does_Understanding_Evolution_Help_Us_Understand_Ethics Princeton ethicist Peter Singer addresses what he regards as the evolutionary urge to make ethical decisions intuitively, rather than rationally. "The fact that we have one of these intuitions sho...
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