Philosophy Today
by From The University of Alabama College of Arts and Sciences Department of Philosophy
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Description
With support from Dean Robert Olin and the College of Arts and Sciences, Scott Hestevold established the Philosophy Today Speaker Series in 2007. This series of public talks reflects a commitment by the Department of Philosophy to make contemporary philosophical work accessible to those outside the discipline and to provide forums for addressing controversial or provocative problems. In addition to delivering a public talk, each Philosophy Today speaker conducts a professional colloquium for UA’s philosophy faculty and majors, and most also teach a class giving advanced seminar students the opportunity to address questions and objections to a prominent philosopher whose work they have studied. In 2008, Louis W. Perry of La Jolla CA inspired the Department to record and podcast the Philosophy Today public lectures. Mr. Perry’s ongoing support for the series has made possible the recording of all public lectures beginning with Ernest Sosa’s address in April, 2008. With a degree in physics from UA, Mr. Perry worked at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory and then with the General Atomic Company. He is now a lecturer at Revelle College, University of California, San Diego, and is the author of Jefferson’s Scissors: Conflicts of Religion with Science and Democracy (2006).
| Name | Description | Released | Price | ||
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| 1 | VideoDo tables and chairs really exist? | Metaphysical Debates and Problems. | 5/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoFraming Anti-Intellectualism | Framing Anti-Intellectualism | 5/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | Video"The Rabbit in the Garden: A Skeptical Theist's Tale" | "The Rabbit in the Garden: A Skeptical Theist's Tale" | 5/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | VideoDarwin and Logic | Darwin and His Critics | 5/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | VideoThe Problem of Lesser Aggression | Unjust Aggression | 5/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | VideoIs There A Right To Immigrate? | Immigration Rights and Arguments | 5/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Philosophy Today:Knowledge and Democracy | Knowledge and Democracy - How Social Epistemology Bears on the Success of Our Democracy | 5/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | VideoPhilosophy Today: Knowledge and Democracy | Knowledge and Democracy - How Social Epistemology Bears on the Success of Our Democracy | 5/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | VideoIn Defense of Genetically Modified Food | UA’s 2010-2011 Philosophy Today lecture series that features four experts discussing controversial and provocative philosophical topics | 3/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | VideoMeaning in Life and the Illusion of Free Will | The talk continues UA’s 2010-2011 Philosophy Today lecture series that features four experts discussing controversial and provocative philosophical topics. | 11/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | VideoThe State of Epistemology | -- | 6/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | VideoThe Clone Wars: What's Wrong With Human Cloning? | -- | 6/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | VideoMind and Brain: Philosophy of Mind in the Twenty-First Century | -- | 6/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | VideoImagining Evil | -- | 6/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 15 | VideoFour Points about Drug Criminalization | -- | 6/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 16 | VideoDescartes’ Epistemology | -- | 6/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 17 | VideoFaith in Reason | -- | 6/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 17 Episodes |
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