Movies and Clips

Nothing was found.

Here are some video clips you might find helpful. You can log in with the same username and password you use to download articles. Let me know if there are problems.

Movies

  • The Prestige. Directed by Christopher Nolan. Touchstone Pictures (2006). Explore the relationship between explanations in science and magic, and consider the implications for questions of personal identity.
  • Blade Runner. Dir. Ridley Scott. Warner Home Video, 1982. (Final Cut edition, 2007.)
  • Total Recall. Dir. Paul Verhoeven. TriStar Pictures, 1990.
  • I. Robot. I, Robot. Dir. Alex Proyas. Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2004.
  • Being John Malkovich. Here's a clip.
  • Crimes and Misdemeanors Woody Allan's film about justice and the basis of morality. What if there is no God? What if there is no moral structure? (NKU password required).
  • The Minority Report. Does the fact that the police know what a person will do in the future negate the possibility of that person's free will?

Selected Clips and Documentaries

  • Scene from The Matrix. This clip raises the question about how we can tell appearance from reality. How is this scene related to Descartes' hypothesis of an evil deceiver?
  • Scene from A.I. In this scene the question arises as to whether a robot could love, or feel pain, or become conscious.
  • The Chinese Room John Searle explains his famous thought experiment designed to challenge the Computational Theory of Mind.
  • Free Will From The Examined Life series. Several well-known philosophers discuss the problem of free will.
  • Louis Levy scenes from Crimes and Misdemeanors. In this collection of scenes from Crimes and Misdemeanors we hear Louis Levy explain his existentialist views about value.
  • Split brain patients have had their corpus collosum severed, detaching the left and right hemispheres. Alan Alda looks at the phenomena associated with split brain patients with neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga in this segment from Scientific American Frontiers.
  • The trolley problem. Alan Alda talks with Joshua Greene about the brain and the trolley problem.
  • The chaplain scenes from A Clockwork Orange. How does religion modify our behavior, beliefs and values?


NOTICE: These video clips contains material that is included under the Fair Use Exemption of the U.S. Copyright Law and is presented according to educational multimedia fair use guidelines. Only students enrolled in Professor Garns’s Philosophy class are intended users. The making of copies may be subject to copyright law. Violation of copyright law can subject the violator to civil and criminal penalties for copyright infringement.

092/media.txt · Last modified: 2010/08/12 17:21 by garns
Recent changes RSS feed Creative Commons License Donate Driven by DokuWiki