The Examined Life is an international co-production created by INTELECOM Intelligent Telecommunications, the Educational Broadcasting Corporation TELEAC/NOT (The Netherlands), and Swedish Educational Broadcasting (Utbildnigsradion). Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired. Narrator, Franchelle Dorn.
Summary:
Explores the conflict between Thomas Hobbes's materialism and George Berkeley's idealism and the 20th century conflict between the realists and the anti-realists. Philosophers include John Searle, Hilary Putnam and Richard Rorty.
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