對一般年輕學子們而言，哲學問題對他們多半是抽象、遙遠而疏離的。如何能令其在哲學的課程中增加學習興趣，進而參與討論與獨立思考，除了教師的授課方式之外，能夠有貼近學生日常經驗並引起興趣的輔助工具，則更能使如此課程提高教學成效。電影，對現今的學生們而言，是一項日常容易取得、並樂於接觸的媒體，無論是透過電視或電影院；它更是一項能與學生生活經驗相近、提供主題場景觀摩、誘發思考與討論、引發學生興趣的絕佳教學材料。本文將由電影的特質與意義的討論著手，再進一步探討在哲學教學中，電影應用的可行性與優缺點，再加上以一知識論課程單元簡介為示例，做為課程理論與教學實務應用中的問題檢討。

For most young students, philosophy is abstract and distant. It is not easy to promote and further their discussion and critical thinking in the classroom. The application of something that is close to students' daily experience and is able to induce their interest can really help to improve this kind of situation, and advance teaching and learning effect. Films, or movies, are very modem popular media with easy accessibility for students. By organizing each course around a theme, the teacher can apply film clips to illuminate and/or critique philosophical positions, and by discussing the film, students will develop analytical and interpretive skills important for rigorous philosophical discipline as well as for other spheres of learning. The aim of this thesis is to explain the possibility and the ways of designing and teaching a course by using feature films to examine philosophical theses. In this thesis, I will try to elaborate justifications of using contemporary films in the philosophy classroom, with a study on the nature of the film, a form of art and an important media in popular culture at modern time, as a beginning, and then on perspectives of philosophy on films. What follows will be the discussion of how films can be applied in courses of philosophy, and the presentation of some approaches and hints for integrating film into class lectures.