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Closer To Truth 1600s
Producer: The Kuhn Foundation
Rights: Unlimited, 5/13/16 to 5/12/19
13 x 30
High Definition
SD letterbox versions available from EPS
Free Series
Closer To Truth is the definitive series on Cosmos, Consciousness and God, a global journey in search of the vital ideas of existence. It is the most complete, compelling, and accessible series on Cosmos, Consciousness and God ever produced for television.
Closer To Truth explores fundamental issues of universe, brain/mind, religion, meaning and purpose through intimate, candid conversations with leading scientists, philosophers, scholars, theologians and creative thinkers of all kinds. The shows are a rich visual experience, shot entirely on location in high definition with multiple cameras generating film-like production values. The visual lushness of the high definition, on-location productions, combined with the intriguing titles of the shows, builds audiences already interested in such perennial topics.
Each 30-minute episode features four to seven of the world’s foremost thinkers. The series as a whole features 128 such authorities in what is the most comprehensive and definitive treatment of these topics ever presented in visual or electronic media. An invaluable record of today’s best thinking, this new edition of Closer To Truth includes, in addition to the television series (available in high-definition also), an extensive internet site, and resource materials for educators and informal learners.
Episode Descriptions:
1601. When Brains Go Bad?
What does brain damage do to people? By observing strange behaviors in brain impaired patients, scientists discern how normal brains works For example, what happens to “the self”?
1602. What is the Doomsday Argument?
Have we underestimated the risks of global catastrophe and human extinction? There is an odd argument that claims to justify end-of-the-world worries with raw statistics.
1603. How Could God Make Miracles?
Where do miracles fit in belief systems that center on God? If God exists, how could God make miracles happen, and what would miracles imply about the way God relates to the world?
1604. How do Consciousness and Language Relate?
Why the tension between consciousness, my inner experience, and language, enabling thought and culture? Does consciousness cause language? Or language cause consciousness?
1605. Can God and Science Mix?
Science and religion each claims dominion over deep reality. But science and religion are not parallel. All should believe science, humanity’s common language, while religion has many skeptics.
1606. Religious Faith: Rational or Rationalization?
There is strain between faith and reason, yet many people proclaim their faith. Why? What generates faith? God? Or human psychology? Should we want to have faith?
1607. Can Brain Alone Explain Consciousness?
Can physical facts about the brain account for mental experiences of the mind?
Has philosophy of mind made progress? We take a 15-year journey with John Searle and David Chalmers.
1608. Can Enlarged Materialism Explain Consciousness?
Materialism is the belief that only physical things are real. But physical things seem so utterly different from mental things. Could there be more to materialism than the known laws of physics?
1609. Does Consciousness Defeat Materialism?
Does anything exist beyond the physical world? If yes, could consciousness undermine materialism? If no, could consciousness confirm materialism? It’s the big test.
1610. Fallacies in Arguing for God?
When believers argue that God exists, what mistakes do they make? What are their errors in logic as well as in fact? Whoever wants to believe in God must not use arguments that do not work.
1611. What is Philosophy of Science?
Can science discover all truths? Or are there truths beyond science? What is science? A process? A way of thinking? How to get at the essence of science, discern how it really works?
1612. Does Philosophy Help Science?
What constitutes good science? Are there limits to science? If so, what are the boundaries? How deep can science dig into the foundations of the world?
1613. Marvin Minsky: Like No Other
One of artificial intelligence’s legendary pioneers, Marvin Minsky, recently died. With this tribute, we celebrate his penetrating analysis of brains, minds, AI, religion and God.
Feeddate/Time: Friday beginning May 13, 2016 @ 0830-0900ET/HD04
*Feed-for-Record*
I’ll Have It My Way with Hattie Bryant
“The medicalization of American life from birth to death is killing our souls.”
– Hattie Bryant
As much as we all want to believe we can live forever, we all know deep down that it simply can’t be true.
From this program viewers learn that there are things each of us can do to live fully, all the way to the end. Anyone who is willing to take four simple steps now, while healthy, can minimize if not avoid entirely, the pain, suffering, confusion and disagreements that can arise when end-of-life healthcare wishes are not clearly spelled out.
Americans need this information because 70% say they want to die peacefully surrounded by friends and family … while actually 70% are dying in institutions surrounded by strangers.
Few people choose to contemplate critical illness or the inevitability of death until their time comes. Because possibilities are rarely discussed, many people are unprepared or unable to make critical end-of-life decisions and spend their last days in over-medicalized and unnecessarily painful and protracted situations.
Breaking through the taboo of discussing death, Hattie Bryant shows that we have choices.
Theater Talk 1100 series
EPS Series Theater Talk Wins 2017 EMMY Award for Best NYC Interview/Discussion Program! Theater Talk, the series devoted to the world of the stage, won a New York Regional Emmy Award for the Best Interview/Discussion Program on May 6, 2017 at the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences/New York Chapter’s Ceremony. Accepting the award was Executive Producer/co-host Susan Haskins-Doloff.
THEATER TALK focuses on the most exciting stars and other artists coming to the new Broadway season, is back for 2017 to 2018!
Broadway is always fresh and exciting, much of its success fueled by out-of-town audiences who join with New Yorkers in their collective anticipation of each new season’s plays and musicals. Tapping into, and even influencing, this enthusiasm is Theater Talk.
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