A Compendium for Multimedia Philosophy Resources on the Web

A philosopher ought to have a wide-ranging curiousity and strive to be informed. :)

What are websites having video archives of philosophically/intellectually important materials, e.g. interviews, conversations, lectures, debates, documentaries, etc, that are free and open to the public?


For ease of reference format contributions:

Name of Program or Institute
Web Address
Brief content description



*I am particularly interested in webcast archives of courses and events at universities (the educational bent is useful for informing philosophical positions).

Conversations With History
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/chron.html

Interviews with academics and thinkers including Noam Chomsky, John Searle, Stanley Cavell, Joseph Tussman. Political and economic content.

Closer to Truth
http://www.closertotruth.com/videoarchive/index.html

PBS Series where Robert Lawrence Kuhn mediates panel discussions with eminent thinkers on the large questions of our time. Francis Fukuyama, John Searle, David Chalmers, Patricia Churchland, Marvin Minsky, Ray Kurzweil, and others.

Multi-University/Research Laboratory
http://murl.microsoft.com/ContentMap.asp
(2)http://murl.microsoft.com/LectureDetails.asp?1035

Research seminars. Material on human-computer interaction and some mind/brain questions. Technological content. Link (2) is to a talk "The Extended Mind: Recent Experimental Evidence" given by Rupert Sheldrake.

Terrence McKenna MP3 Archive
http://mckenna.psychedelic-library.org/

Audio archive, Terrence McKenna material. Of interest to kooks and people interested in problems of consciousness and McKenna's perspectives on the relation of drugs and ethnopharmacology to consciousness.

Sheldrake Online
http://www.sheldrake.org/realaudio/

Audio/video archive, Rupert Sheldrake Material. Of interest to people interested in evolutionary psychology, tranhumanism/extropianism, parapsychological claims, emergent systems, philosophy of mind. Kind of kooky but contains moments of gold in the dross.

UCTV Video On Demand Archive
http://www.uctv.tv/library.asp

Video archive of programming from the University of California. Issues of philosophical concern in the humanities section and in also buried in the humanities sidebar. Range of topics through arts and humanities.

Berkeley WebCast Archive
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/

Webcasts of UC Berkeley courses and events. In "/events" link there is material relating to science, politics, and humanities.

Harvard at Home
http://athome.harvard.edu/

Harvard's video archive of events at Harvard. Materials relevant to science, politics, mathematics, and humanities.

Yale Center for Media Initiative
http://cmi.yale.edu/html/case_astronomy.html

Yale streaming video archive. Biotech, cosmology, economics, among other topics.

UCLA Webcast
http://www.webcast.ucla.edu/

UCLA streaming video archive. Stuff, like all the other university webcast sites.

Columbia News Video Forum Archive
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/vforum/03/index.html

This is actually a bunch of news. Useful to discussions to inform legal and political philosophy.

Kurzweil
http://singularity.manilasites.com/2001/10/08

Some videos in the "Interview and Presentations" section. Topics of interest for cyborg philosophy, philosophy of mind (cognition), extropianism, human-computer action.

PBS: NOVA Online
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/teachers/video.html

Online episodes of NOVA.