Academic videos

... are seen and discussed every Thursday, 8:00 - 9:30 p.m. (unless noted), at the home of Flora & Hilton Brown in Mountain View. Click HERE or phone 650-941-3146 for directions.

These videos often come from the Teaching Company. For more info from/about the Teaching Company, visit their website. Once there, for specific courses, click Courses in their top "navigation bar"; then click the first letter (example S); then find and click the full title (example Science Wars: What Scientists Know and How They Know It ).

Consciousness and its Implications / Daniel N. Robinson, PhD
Feb 4: 01. Zombies
and02. Self-Consciousness
Feb 11: 03. The "Problem" of Consciousness
and04. The Explanatory Gap
Feb 18: 05. Mental Causation
and06. Other Minds
 
Feb 25: 07. Physicalism Redefined
and08. Consciousness and Physics
Mar 4: 09. Qualia and the "Mary" Problem
and10. Do Computers Play Chess?
Mar 11: 11. Autism, Obsession, and Compulsion
and12. Consciousness and the End of Mental Life

and then:
Science and Religion / Lawrence M Principe, PhD
Mar 18: 01. Science and Religion
and02. The Warfare Thesis
Mar 25: 03. Faith and Reason—Scripture and Nature
and04. God and Nature—Miracles and Demons
Apr 1: 05. Church, Copernicus, and Galileo
and06. Galileo's Trial
 
Apr 8: 07. God the Watchmaker
and08. Natural Theology and Arguments from Design
Apr 15: 09. Geology, Cosmology, and Biblical Chronology
and10. Darwin and Responses to Evolution
Apr 22: 11. Fundamentalism and Creationism
and12. Past, Present, and Future
. . . previous series: . . .
2009 Oct - 2010 Jan:Understanding Genetics: DNA,Genes, and their Real-World Apps / David Sadava, PhD (24 DVD)
2009 Jun - 2009 Oct:The History of the Supreme Court / Peter Irons, PhD (36 DVD)
2009 Apr - 2009 Jun:Understanding the Fundamentals of Music / Robert Greenberg, PhD (16 DVD, 45 min)
2008 Nov - 2009 May:Understanding Linguistics: The Science of Language / John McWhorter, PhD (36 DVD)
2008 May - 2008 Nov:The Great Ideas of Philosophy / Daniel N. Robinson, PhD (50 tape)
2008 Jan - 2008 May:Psychology of Human Behavior / David W. Martin, PhD (36 DVD)
2007 Sep - 2008 Jan:Great Scientific Ideas that Changed the World / Steven L. Goldman, PhD (36 DVD)
2007 August (3 wks):Jonathan Miller’s Brief History of Disbelief (3 tape)
2007 May - 2007 Aug:Passions: Philosophy and the Intelligence of Emotions / Robert C Solomon, PhD (24 DVD)
2007 Jan - 2007 May:The Story of Human Language / John McWhorter, PhD (36 DVD)
2006 Sep - 2006 Nov:Science Wars: What Scientists Know and How They Know It / Steven L. Goldman, PhD (24 DVD)