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Closer to Truth (2000)
Closer to Truth is a continuing television series on PBS & public television originally created, produced and hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn. The first premiere series aired in 2000 for 2 seasons, followed by a second series aired in 2003 for a single season. The current / third series of the program, Closer to Truth: Cosmos. Consciousness. God., launched in 2008, with 12 full seasons to date. Robert Lawrence Kuhn is the creator, executive producer, writer and presenter of the series. Peter Getzels is the co-creator and producer / director. The show is centered on on-camera conversations with leading scientists, philosophers, theologians, and scholars, covering a diverse range of topics or questions from the size and nature of the universe, to the existence and essence of God, to the mystery of consciousness and the notion of free will.
Closer to Truth: Season 1 - 14 Episode s
1x1 - What are the Grand Questions of Science?
May 7, 2000
1x2 - Will the Internet Change Humanity?
May 14, 2000
1x3 - What's Creativity and Who's Creative?
May 21, 2000
A discussion on creativity, where it comes from and how it's applied. Among the panelists: TV producer Stephen J. Cannell, inventor Ray Kurzweil, music educator Robert Freeman, creativity expert Mihaly Csikszentmihaly and corporate-creativity expert John Kao.
1x4 - New Communities for the New Millennium?
May 28, 2000
Topic: the concept of community in political, social, scientific and technological contexts. Panelists include astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bruce Chapman (Discovery Institute), social architect Barbara Marx Hubbard, linguist John McWhorter and Yale Law School student Saru Jayaraman. Host: Robert L. Kuhn.
1x5 - How Did This Universe Begin?
June 4, 2000
A discussion of scientific findings concerning the beginnings of the universe, with Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman, cosmologists Andrei Linde and Wendy Freedman, theologian Nancey Murphy and mathematician Frank Tipler. Host: Robert L. Kuhn.
1x6 - Can We See the Near Future - Year 2025?
June 11, 2000
Experts try to forecast the near future (2025). Guests include creativity expert Edward de Bono, fuzzy-logic expert Bart Kosko, artificial-intelligence expert Edward Feigenbaum, futurist Graham T.T. Molitor and planetary scientist Bruce Murray. Host: Robert L. Kuhn.
1x7 - What Is Consciousness?
June 18, 2000
A discussion of the nature of consciousness. Panelists include philosophy professor John Searle, physicist James Trefil, consciousness expert David Chalmers, anthropologist Marilyn Schlitz and theoretical physicist Fred Alan Wolf. Host: Robert Kuhn.
1x8 - Can You Really Extend Your Life?
June 25, 2000
A discussion of the biology of aging and facts about living longer. The panel includes longevity expert Roy Walford, gene therapist W. French Anderson, Yale professor of surgery Sherwin Nuland, fitness theorist Arthur S. De Vany and biophysicist Gregory Stock. Host: Robert L. Kuhn.
1x9 - Can ESP Affect Our Lives?
July 2, 2000
A discussion of extrasensory perception by physicist James Trefil, parapsychologists Charles Tart and Dean Radin, neuropsychologist Barry Beyerstein and anthropologist Marilyn Schlitz. Host: Robert L. Kuhn.
1x10 - Whatever Happened to Ethics and Civility?
July 9, 2000
A discussion of the waning of ethics and civility in American society. Panelists include Bruce Chapman (Discovery Institute), theologian Richard Mouw, Yale Law School student Saru Jayaraman, linguist John McWhorter and social architect Barbara Marx Hubbard.
1x11 - How Does Technology Transform Thinking?
July 16, 2000
A discussion of how technology transforms thinking, with geopolitical economist Francis Fukuyama, artificial-intelligence expert Marvin Minsky, fuzzy-logic expert Bart Kosko, planetary scientist Bruce Murray and Teledyne co-founder George Kozmetsky. Host: Robert L. Kuhn.
1x12 - Strange Physics of the Mind?
July 23, 2000
1x13 - Can Science Seek the Soul?
July 30, 2000
A discussion of whether the soul exists, with philosophy professor John Searle, theoretical physicist Fred Alan Wolf, neuropsychologist Warren Brown, and parapsychologists Dean Radin and Charles Tart. Host: Robert L. Kuhn.
1x14 - Does Sex Have a Future?
August 6, 2000
A discussion of what happens when technology multiplies sexual options and accelerates sexual shifts, with sex therapists Cliff and Joyce Penner, biophysicist Gregory Stock, human-sexuality authority Paul Abramson and medical historian Vern Bullough. Host: Robert L. Kuhn.
Closer to Truth: 15 Season s
S1: Season 1
14 Episode s
S2: Season 2
14 Episode s
S3: Season 3
15 Episode s
S4: Season 4
0 Episode
S5: Season 5
8 Episode s
S6: Season 6
0 Episode
S7: Season 7
0 Episode
S8: Season 8
8 Episode s
S9: Season 9
13 Episode s
S10: Season 10
12 Episode s
S11: Season 11
12 Episode s
S12: Season 12
13 Episode s
S13: Season 13
11 Episode s
S14: Season 14
11 Episode s
S15: Season 15
0 Episode