752. Robert Lawrence Kuhn – Closer to Truth

Robert Lawrence Kuhn is a public intellectual; he is the creator, writer, host of Closer To Truth , the long-running PBS/public television series and leading digital resource on Cosmos (cosmology/physics, philosophy of science), Life (philosophy of biology), Mind (consciousness, brain/mind, philosophy of mind), and Meaning (theism/atheism/agnosticism, global philosophy of religion, critical thinking). Peter Getzels is Closer To Truth co-creator and producer/director. Kuhn is the author of the comprehensive review article on theories of consciousness – “A Landscape of Consciousness: Toward a Taxonomy of Explanations and Implications” – and editor-in-chief of the expanded, continuously updated Landscape of Consciousness website (with more than 400 theories of consciousness in ten categories), Kuhn has written or edited over 30 books, including The Mystery of Existence: Why is there Anything At All? (with John Leslie); Closer To Truth: Challenging Current Belief ; Closer To Truth: Science, Meaning and the Future ; The Library of Investment Banking ; How China’s Leaders Think (featuring President Xi Jinping); The Man Who Changed China: The Life and Legacy of Jiang Zemin (China’s best-selling book in 2005 and in December 2022); and “ The Origin and Significance of Zero: An Interdisciplinary Perspective ” (with Peter Gobets). Dr. Kuhn is chairman of The Kuhn Foundation . He has a BA in Human Biology (Johns Hopkins), PhD in Anatomy/Brain Research (UCLA), and SM (MBA) in Management (MIT).

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752. Robert Lawrence Kuhn – Closer to Truth is an episode from Buddha at the Gas Pump by Rick Archer.

This episode is 02:12:00 long.

This episode was published on Apr 10, 2026.

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