Philosophy Audio and Video on the Web – Updated

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Given that it’s a new year, I wanted to bring this list up to date by adding resources and streamlining what was already there.  As I find more, I’ll continue to add to the collection.

If you know of other good audio or video resources in philosophy, especially philosophy of religion, please leave a comment.

(Updated January 2010)

Courses

• Consciousness – MP3s here – Susan Stuart, University of Glasgow
• Death – Download Course – Shelly Kagan, Yale
• Existentialism in Literature & Film – iTunes – Feed – Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
• Heidegger – iTunes – Feed – MP3s – Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
• Heidegger’s Being & Time – Feed – MP3s – Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
• Introduction to Practical Reasoning and Critical Analysis of Argument, iTunes – Daniel Coffeen, UC Berkeley
• Kant’s Epistemology – iTunes – Dr Susan Stuarts, University of Glasgow.
• Man, God and Society in Western Literature – iTunes – Feed – Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
• The Examined Life – iTunes – Greg Reihman, Lehigh University
• Ancient Philosophy – iTunes – Feed – Stream – David Ebrey, UC Berkeley
• Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? – YouTube –  Michael Sandel, Harvard
• Introduction to Political Philosophy - YouTube - iTunes - Download Course, Steven B. Smith, Yale
• Philosophy for Beginners – iTunes – Marianne Talbot, Oxford
• Proust & Philosophy – Feed – Johns Hopkins
• The Examined Life – iTunes – Greg Reihman, Lehigh University

Podcasts

• Philosophy Bites iTunes Feed Web Site
  • A British podcast featuring interviews of top philosophers that delves into some essential philosophical questions — what is the meaning of life? what is the nature of reality? what is evil?, etc.
• Philosophers’ Cafe Feed Web Site
  • Comfortable surroundings for vibrant street level discussions on burning issues of the day. No formal philosophy training required; real life experience desired. Come early, stay late. Presented by Simon Fraser University.

(HT: Open Culture)

Philosophy of Religion and Christian Ethics

Courses

• Paul Copan’s five-session course in philosophy of religion is available free from Reclaiming the Mind Ministries.
• Ron Nash’s History of Philosophy and Christian Thought is available at biblicaltraining.org (which has nearly an entire seminary curriculum on mp3 available to download).
• Ron Nash’s Christian Ethics Course is also available at biblicaltraining.org.

Interviews

• Closer to the Truth has a great collection of video interviews with Christian and non-Christian philosophers on topics in philosophy of religion.  The interviews are streaming video and don’t appear to be available for download.

Podcasts

• Conversations from the Pale Blue Dot (iTunes) is a podcast hosted by Common Sense Atheism and interviews both Christian and non-Christian philosophers on topics in philosophy of religion.

Talks/Lectures

• William Lane Craig’s Reasonable Faith Podcasts (iTunes) contain Dr. Craig’s commentary on issues in philosophy and theology and his answers to questions posted on his Reasonable Faith website.
• The Veritas Forum website contains dozens of talks and debates by Christian scholars and thinkers on topics that range across every academic discipline.  Among the notable speakers are Alvin Plantinga, Dallas Willard, William Lane Craig, and J. P. Moreland.

Apologetics

Podcasts

• Apologetics 315 lists the top 16 apologetics podcasts.
• Unbelievable Radio Program – Weekly debates between top Christian apologists and scholars and leading atheist thinkers. (iTunes)

General Philosophy

Podcasts

• Apologetics 315 Logical Fallacies Podcasts
  • Part One (iTunes)
  • Part Two (iTunes)
• Philosopher’s Zone – Radio interviews with philosophers covering all branches of philosophy.
• In Our Time – This BBC radio program focuses on the history of ideas and often includes discussion of important philosophers and topics in philosophy.
• Oxford University Philosophy Podcasts – Links to the annual John Locke lectures, the “Interviews with Philosophers” series, and Marianne Talbot’s “Philosophy for Beginners” (also linked to above).

Talks/Lectures

• Nietzsche on Mind and Nature – These 7 lectures were given at the international conference “Nietzsche on Mind and Nature” held at St. Peter’s College, Oxford, on 11-13 September, 2009, organized by the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford. (iTunes)

Nietzsche on Mind and Nature on iTunes

The following lectures were given at the international conference “Nietzsche on Mind and Nature” held at St. Peter’s College, Oxford, on 11-13 September, 2009, organized by the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford.

• The Genealogy of Guilt – Bernard Reginster
• Who is the ‘Sovereign Individual’? Nietzsche on Freedom – Brian Leiter
• Nietzsche’s Metaphysics – Galen Strawson
• Nietzsche on Soul in Nature – Graham Parks
• Consciousness, Language, and Nature: Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Mind and Nature – Gunter Abel
• Nietzsche’s Value Monism – Saying Yes to Everything – John Richardson
• Nietzsche Source: Scholarly Nietzsche Editions on the Web – Paolo D’lorio

(HT: @philosophybites)

Modern Physics: The Theoretical Minimum

Open Culture gives an update on the rollout of these courses, taught by Leonard Susskind.

For the past two years, Stanford has been rolling out a series of courses (collectively called Modern Physics: The Theoretical Minimum) that gives you a baseline knowledge for thinking intelligently about modern physics. The sequence, which moves from Isaac Newton, to Albert Einstein’s work on the general and special theories of relativity, to black holes and string theory, comes out of Stanford’s Continuing Studies program (my day job). And the courses are all taught by Leonard Susskind, an important physicist who has engaged in a long running “Black Hole War” with Stephen Hawking. The final course, Statistical Mechanics, has now been posted on YouTube, and you can also find it on iTunes in video. (Continue for links to all the courses.)

Learn a New Language in 2010

Courtesy of Open Culture:

We can’t help you get fit (at least physically) in the new year. But we can help you learn a new language. Our collection of Free Language Lessons covers 37 languages, and we have now developed sections dedicated to commonly sought after languages. (See below.) Please keep in mind that the collection also features less frequently spoken languages–Maori, Luxembourgish, Tagalog, Yiddish and beyond. For all languages, please visit the full collection of Free Language Lessons.

• Arabic
• Chinese (mostly Mandarin)
• English
• French
• German
• Italian
• Japanese
• Russian
• Spanish

New Open Courses from Yale

Open Culture lists several new Yale courses available for download.  See the Open Culture Free Online Courses & Lectures page for a comprehensive listing of courses in dozens of subjects.

• Dante in Translation – iTunes – YouTube – Download Course – Giuseppe Mazzotta
• European Civilization, 1648-1945 – iTunes – YouTube – Download Course - Professor John Merriman
• Freshman Organic Chemistry – iTunes – YouTube – Download Course – Professor J. Michael McBride
• Global Problems of Population Growth – iTunes – YouTube – Download Course - Professor Robert Wyman
• Introduction to New Testament History and Literature – iTunes – YouTube – Download Course – Professor Dale B. Martin
• Introduction to Theory of Literature – iTunes – YouTube – Download Course – Professor Paul H. Fry
• Listening to Music – Download Course – Professor Craig Wright
• Principles of Evolution, Ecology and Behavior – iTunes – YouTube – Download Course – Professor Stephen C. Stearns
• The Psychology, Biology and Politics of Food – Download Course – Professor Kelly D. Brownell
• Roman Architecture – iTunes – YouTube – Download Course – Diana E. E. Kleiner

Harvard Professor Michael Sandel’s Justice Lectures

Thanks to Open Culture for passing on this interesting resource.

We happened to mention Michael Sandel last week, and then I came across this…
Harvard University and WGBH Boston have posted online Sandel’s very popular course, “Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?” How popular is it? Over 14,000 Harvard students have taken this course over the past 30 years. The course takes a close look at our understanding of justice by exploring important, contemporary moral dilemmas. Is it wrong to torture? Is it always wrong to steal? Is it sometimes wrong to tell the truth?  We have posted the first lecture above, and you can watch the remaining 11 lectures here on Harvard’s YouTube Channel. We have also added this course to our collection of Free University Courses. It’s filed under Philosophy.

Intelligent Video, Now Organized

If you regularly visit Open Culture, then you’re probably familiar with TED Talks — the series of 15 minute “riveting talks by remarkable people” that TED produces and makes free to the world. We’ve included TED in our collection, Intelligent Video: The Top Cultural & Educational Video Sites, and it’s one of the best sources of intelligent video out there. Having said that, I was pleased to find this Google spreadsheet of every TED Talk ever posted online. Although TED hosts many videos on its web site (and on its iTunes and YouTube channels), these platforms don’t give you clean access to the entire TED catalogue. Meanwhile, this simple and sortable spreadsheet does. So enjoy, and use it well.

(Via Open Culture)