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  1. Bertrand Russell Discusses Philosophy (1960)

    Subject
    Philosophy

    In an interview with Woodrow Wyatt, Lord Russell envisions an organised and static world. He also points out humanity’s capability, through education and self-knowledge, to abolish war, poverty and...

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  2. Life After Death (2012)

    Subject
    Philosophy; Religious studies; Science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 52 minutes), £49.00 (DVD), £20.00 (1 Year Digital Licence), £49.00 (3 Year Digital Licence)

    Ideas about the soul and the afterlife, of sin and God’s purpose have shaped human thinking for thousands of years. Religious rituals remain embedded in the major events of our lives. In this...

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  3. Slavoj Zizek: Towards a Materialist Theory of Subjectivity (2014)

    Subject
    Philosophy

    Audio recording of lecture given by Slavoj Zizek at Birkbeck College on 22 May 2014 [112 minutes].

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  4. Why the Enlightenment Still Matters Today (2012)

    Subject
    History

    Video recording of the 2012 Joint Royal Historical Society/Gresham College Annual Lecture in which Professor Justin Champion argues why we would be wise to go back to explore some of the more radical...

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  5. Appearance and Reality (1972)

    Director
    Michael Chanan
    Producer
    Noel Chanan
    Subject
    Philosophy
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Professor Sir Alfred Ayer and Professor Bernard Williams discuss philosophy and science. (60 minutes)

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  6. Mike Marshall’s Daily Controversy: Is It Possible to Be a Scientist and Religious? (2006)

    Subject
    Philosophy; Religious studies; Science

    Video recording of a debate held at the BA Festival of Science 2006 in which Michael Marshall asks whether it is possible to be a scientist and religious? He was joined by Dr Denis Alexander and Professor...

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  7. George Ellis: Science, Complexity and the Nature of Existence (2004)

    Subject
    Philosophy; Physics

    A recording of a public lecture by George Ellis of the University of Cape Town and winner of the 2004 Templeton Prize, delivered at the Royal Society on 9 December 2004. The complexity of life and the human...

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  8. Ahead of Their Time (2005)

    Subject
    Philosophy; Science

    This 30-minute programme Peter Evans investigates how science deals with new ideas and asks whether a conservative establishment is stifling creative research and science is merely a consensus of what the...

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  9. The Uses of Infinity: A Philosopher Looks at Emergent Phenomena in Physics (2007)

    Subject
    Philosophy; Physics; Science

    Audio recording of the Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Prize Lecture given by philosopher Dr Jeremy Butterfield on emergent phenomena at the Royal Society on 7/11/2007. Emergence, and its contrary reduction, are...

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  10. Truth Behind Angels and Demons, The (2006)

    Subject
    Philosophy; Religious studies; Science

    Dan Brown’s best-selling novel Angels and Demons delves into some of the big questions of cosmology and gets into issues about the history of the debate between science and religion. Where did the world...

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