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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. World of Buckminster Fuller, The (1971)

    Director
    Robert Snyder
    Subject
    Environmental science; Philosophy; Science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 80 minutes), £16.99

    Architect, engineer, geometrician, cartographer, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous geodesic dome and one of the most brilliant thinkers of his time. Fuller was renowned for his comprehensive...

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  4. David Bohm (1989 Video)

    Subject
    Philosophy
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION IN UK, Videocassette. VHS. col. 58 min.

    David Bohm, quantum physicist and philosopher of science, brought together a radical view of physics, a deeply spiritual understanding and a prfound humanity. In his ground-breaking theory of wholeness and...

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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. Shakey: An Experiment in Robot Planning and Learning (197 Film)

    Producer
    Peter Hart; Nils Nilsson
    Subject
    Information technology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shows the progress of an experiment in getting a robot to plan how to achieve a new task in terms of its existing abilities. The plan, which in this case is to push a wooden cube in front of a doorway to...

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  8. 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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  9. Modern Philosophy

    Subject
    Philosophy
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 42 minutes), £133.36 [Institutional rate]

    During the 16th century, a new breed of thinker arose, equal parts philosopher and scientist. In this programme, Paul Guyer, of the University of Pennsylvania; Rutgers University’s Colin McGinn; and...

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  10. Squares: Ideas from Plato’s Republic (2014)

    Subject
    Mathematics; Philosophy
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 31 minutes), £15.00

    This film introduces the (so-called) ‘two worlds’ aspect of the theory of forms, and the mathematical route to understanding the forms; it considers in what way democracy may be said to be irrational; it...

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