Holmes Rolston, III

Media in general circulation in Colorado State University Library
(and some other libraries, also some online)

1989.   Rollin-Rolston Debate on Environmental Ethics    DVD, 51 minutes
      Bernard E. Rollin and Holmes Rolston, both in the CSU Department of Philosophy, III debate environmental ethics.   Rollin defends an animal welfare ethic and Rolston defends an ecocentric ethic.   Moderated by David Crocker, CSU Department of Philosophy.   Recorded by CSU Instructional Services on November 29, 1989.

Rollin-Rolston Debate on Environmental Ethics. Online, streaming video, Windows Media, via Ethics Updates, University of San Diego.

Rollin-Rolston Debate on Environmental Ethics. Online, streaming video, Windows Media, via Colorado State University.

2005. Challenges in Environmental Ethics, Online, streaming video, Windows Media,. 12 cases, videoclips and commentary.

2008. Philosopher Gone Wild - Photo-media Biography. Online, streaming video, Windows Media. 43 minutes.

2007.    Down to Earth: Persons in Nature.     DVD format.    Disk 1: 1 hour 15 minutes.    Disk 2: 1 hour, 16 minutes.
Classroom lecture by Holmes Rolston, III, in PHIL 345, Environmental Ethics,  December 4, 2007.
Down to Earth: Persons in Nature, Disk 1, online, streaming video, Windows Media.
     Ethics living in place; Earth as home planet; Aristotle and humans as political animals, living in cities; humans as both citizens of cities and residences on landscapes; correcting Socrates (who thought that nature could not teach him anything); living on Western landscapes with "nature in your face": four priorities on the current world agenda (peace and war, population, development, environment); escalating population; escalating consumption (affluenza).

Down to Earth: Persons in Nature, Disk 2, online, streaming video, Windows Media.
    Humans as earthling overseers; environmental ethics as respect for life; human biography as storied residence on Earth; test for appreciating a resident environment; three role models for living in nature: Arne Naess, Norwegian philosopher; John Muir; Aldo Leopold, founder of the land ethic. Leopold's experience of thinking like a mountain and seeing "green fire" in a dying wolf's eyes; Earth ethics and overview of the blue planet.
Library of Congress Number
GF21.R6673 2007 Disk 1 Disk 2

1997.    Genetic Creativity: Diversity and Complexity in Natural History.   DVD format.  1 hour.
Lecture 1 of the Gifford Lectures, University of Edinburgh, series 1997/1998.  Lecture given November 10, 1997.
Library of Congress Number
QH426.R6573 1997
Genetic Creativity: Diversity and Complexity in Natural History, Online, streaming video, Windows Media

Lecture series published as: Genes, Genesis and God: Values and their Origins in Natural and Human History.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

1997.    Genes, Genesis and God.    DVD format. 1 hour.
Lecture 10 of the Gifford Lectures, University of Edinburgh, series 1997/1998.   Lecture given December 1, 1997.
Library of Congress Number
BJ1311.R652 1997
Genes, Genesis and God, Online, streaming video, Windows Media, 1 hour.

1992.   Living with Nature.   DVD format.  1 hour.
     Interview in Athens, Georgia, April 6, 1992.
Living with Nature, Online, streaming video, Windows Media.
1.  Values in Nature
2.  Following Nature
3.  Nature and Culture
4.  Aesthetics in Nature
5.  Concept of the Sublime
6.  Wilderness
7.  Increasing Environmental Concern
8.  Government and Business
9.  Sustainability
10.  Residence on Landscapes
11.  Forests
12.  Regulation
Library of Congress Number
GE42.R6677 1992

1990.   Dominion over Nature.   DVD.  1 hour 6 minutes.
1.  The Conquerors.  Discussion of advertisement: "The Conquerors."  Discussion of Pioneer plaque greeting others in space.  Human conquest of space, spaceship Earth, dominion over Earth.
2.  Models of Dominion: (1) Subjugation Earth Tyrant. (2) Commander Earth Pilot. (3) Domestication Earth Gardener. (4) Steward Earth Trustee. (5) Paternal Earth Father. (6) Prophets, Priests, Kings. (7) Redemption - Earth Redeemer.
3.  Exploit, Maximize, Optimize
4.  Multiple values versus Multiple Use
5.  Managed/Endangered Planet. God-man-nature hierarchy, Time Magazine: Endangered Earth. Scientific American: Managing Planet Earth.
6. The meek inherit the Earth. Beatitude: "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." Using Earth justly and charitably.
Library of Congress Number
GE42.R6673 1990

1991.   Incompleteness in Evolutionary History.   DVD format.   47 minutes.
.     Evolution as a random walk?  Evolution of biodiversity and biocomplexity.  Evolutionary development generating more out of less.  Life as negentropy.  Information discovered and stored in DNA.
     Origin of life.  Origin of humans.  Selection of the advanced.  Evolutionary history as a genetically-based information search.  Earth as a prolific, pro-life system, a creativity complementary to religious accounts of creation.
     Based on Chapter 3 of Holmes Rolston, III, Science and Religion: A Critical Survey.   New York: Random House, 1987, and various reprints.
Library of Congress Number
B818.R66 1991

1993.  Order and Disorder in Nature, Science, and Religion.     DVD format.  1 hour, 10 minutes.
      Plenary Lecture at Fourth Annual Science, Technology, and Religious Ideas Conference, Institute of Liberal Studies,  Kentucky State University,  April 12, 1993
1.  Order in Physics
2.  Disorder in Physics
3.  Disorder in Biology
4.  Order in Biology
5.  Order and Disorder in Science
6.  Order and Disorder in Religion
Questions and Answers.
     Lecture published as: "Order and Disorder in Nature, Science, and Religion." Pages 1-14 in George W. Shields and Mark Shale, eds., Science, Technology and Religious Ideas.   Proceedings of the Institute for Liberal Studies, vol. 4. Frankfort, KY: Institute for Liberal Studies, Kentucky State University, 1994.
Library of Congress Number
Q175.R544 1993

1998. "Let there be light": Science, Theology, and Aesthetic Experience of Nature,   Carl Howie Lectures, Howie Center for Science, Art, and Theology, Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia.    Three lectures:

Lecture 1.    The Planet Gone Wild.   October 9, 1998. 39 minutes.
     "The Earth produces of itself."  Mark 4.28
1.  Planetary Aesthetics: Earth from Space
2.  The Wild Planet: Biological Beauty
3.  Wildlands and Wonder
4.  The Planet with Promise

Lecture 2.    Animals: Beasts Present in Flesh and Blood.   October 9. 1998.    52 minutes.
    "The young lions roar for their prey, seeking their food from God."    Psalm 104.21
1.  Born Wild and Free
2.  Beauty in Motion
3.  Predators and Prey
4.  Humans: Aesthetic Animals

Lecture 3.    Life: Perpetually Perishing, Perpetually Regenerated.    October 10, 1998.   1 hour, 6 minutes
    "...green pastures ... through the valley of the shadow of death"    Psalm 23
1.  The Struggle for Survival
2.  The Evolution of Pain
3.  Regeneration and Redemption
4.  A Cruciform Creation
Library of Congress Number
BH301.N3
R657 1998
pt. 1     pt. 2     pt. 3

1999.    Genes, Genesis and God.    DVD format.  1 hour.
     Keynote address at Philadelphia Center for Religion and Science, April 19, 1999.
    The genesis of life on Earth is keyed to genes, located in organisms in evolutionary ecosystems.   Molecular genetics is integrated into developing natural history, with spectacular levels of achievement and power, resulting in the myriad values of nature and culture.    But there is remarkable scientific and philosophical debate about order and disorder, randomness and probability, the inevitable and the contingent, actualities and possibilities, as these result in increasing diversity and complexity over the evolutionary epic.
     The DNA in organisms is vital sets of information molecules, dramatically perpetuated and elaborated across species lines, stimulated by Earth's dynamic environments.  This biological information originating over time displays a cumulative creativity that, although described by science, is nowhere an implication of biological theory.
     Such genesis invites an account of God as the Ground of Information.
Library of Congress Number
BJ1311.R652 1999

2004. The Science and Religion Dialogue: Why It Matters.    DVD format.   1 hours, 30 minutes.
     Public event sponsored by the International Society for Science and Religion, Sheraton Boston Hotel, August 19, 2004. Three Templeton Prize Laureates in an exchange across the common borders of science and theology.
    (1)   George F. R. Ellis, 2004 Templeton laureate, theoretical cosmologist
    (2)   Holmes Rolston, III, philosopher, Colorado State University.
    (3)   John C. Polkinghorne, Mathematical Physicist, Cambridge University, and Anglican priest.
Moderated by Owen Gingerich, Astronomy, Harvard University. Question and answer session at the end.
Library of Congress Number
BL241.E55 2004

2005.   Challenges in Environmental Ethics.   DVD format.   55 minutes.
    Videoclips, Commentary, Holmes Rolston, III.   Shot at Tamasag, CSU facility near Bellvue, Colorado, February 18, 2005.
    Cases discussed:
1.   Antelope Fence, Red Rim, Wyoming
2.  Hunter's Ethic, Colorado
3.  Bear Hunting
4.  Drowning Whales in Alaska
5.  Drowning Bison in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
6.  Elephant Calf Euthanized, Botswana
7.  Wawona Tree, Yosemite National Park, California
8.  Tree Spiking
9.  San Clemente Goats, San Clemente Island, California
10.  Old Growth Forest, Pacific Northwest, USA
11.  Yellowstone Fires, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
12.  Home Planet: Earth
Library of Congress Number
GE42.R667 2005

2006.    Challenges in Environmental Ethics.    DVD format.    1 hour.
    Richard J. Burke Lecture, Oakland University, Rochester, MI.    March 14, 2006.
Library of Congress Number.
GE42.R667 2006

2006.    Genes, Genesis, and God.     DVD format. 1 hour.
    Richard J. Burke Lecture, Oakland University, Rochester, MI.    March 13, 2006.
    The scientific and philosophical debate about order and disorder, randomness and probability, actualities and possibilities, as they result in increasing diversity and complexity over the evolutionary epic.
Library of Congress Number
BJ1311.R652 2006

2006.    Generating Life: Six Looming Questions in Evolutionary Biology.    DVD format.   1 hour.
     University of Montana, Missoula, MT.   July 28, 2006.   Sponsored by the Center for Ethics, University of Montana, Missoula, MT.
Boxed with panel discussion, Science, Religion, and the Environment, held on July 27, 2006.
Library of Congress Number
GE42.R6675 2006 disk 1-2

2006.    Generating Life on Earth: Six Looming Questions.    DVD format.    1 hour.
     Lecture at The Ohio State University, November 2, 2006.
1.  Creating information.
2.  Inevitable vs. contingent creativity.
3.  Possibilities: Omnipresent vs. emerging.
4.  Co-option generating novel possibilities.
5.  Anthropic biology?
6.  Human uniqueness: Intelligent spirit.
Library of Congress Number.
GE42.R66752 2006
      A version of this lecture is published as:
"Generating Life on Earth: Five Looming Questions." Pages 195-223 in F. LeRon Schults, ed. The Evolution of Rationality. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2006.
     An abbreviated earlier version (which appeared in print later) is:
"Originating Life: Six Big Questions." With questions and commentary. Pages 13-21
in Connie Bertka, Nancy Roth, and Matthew Shindell, eds., Workshop Report: Philosophical, Ethical, and Theological Implications of Astrobiology. Washington, DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2007.