Truth, beauty and other misconceptions | Lisa Randall
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The world after liberalism | Maurice Glasman & Sohrab Amari
Is this the end of liberalism, or just another temporary crisis? If it is the end, what will follow it? And where did it all go wrong? Since...
Why artists shouldn't fear AI | Jaron Lanier
What does originality mean in the age of AI? Why should artists resist the temptation to fear AI? What role will human creativity play in th...
Copying consciousness: the future of mind uploading | Anders Sandberg
What makes you 'you'? If scientists made a digital replica of your mind, would this new 'you' be conscious? And what does this all mean for...
The return of idealism | James Tartaglia
Is materialism mistaken in its understanding of consciousness? How can dividing experience into the phenomenal and the transcendent provide...
Reimagining the right | Richard Tice
Is this the end of Britain's two-party system? How has Reform brought together seemingly contradictory left- and right-wing ideas? Why do th...
Is philosophy becoming irrelevant? | Mary Midgley
Does philosophy still matter in today's world? If so, why are students less and less interested in studying in it? In a special episode from...
Who's afraid of gender? | Judith Butler
Why has gender identity become such a controversial talking point in modern politics? Judith Butler, pioneering gender theorist whose change...
Human perception is imagination | Nadine Dijkstra
Nadine Dijkstra is a Principal Investigator at the Institute of Neurology at UCL. Her research in Imaging Neuroscience explores how the brai...
The brain filters consciousness | Alex Gomez-Marin
Is the brain actually productive? Or is it instead permissive, simply acting as a filter through which consciousness passes? Can near death...
Overcoming evolution | Subrina Smith, Keith Frankish, Simon Baron-Cohen
Is evolutionary psychology merely a way of excusing outdated behaviours? Is it instead culture which really defines how we behave? As with t...
Slavoj Žižek on quantum history and the end of the past
Does the past even exist anymore? Quantum mechanics has long unsettled our understanding of matter and measurement. But what if its implicat...
How they ruined philosophy | Babette Babich, Genia Schönbaumsfeld, and Christoph Schuringa
Did analytic philosophy ruin the entire discipline? For more than a century there has been a divide in Western philosophy between two distin...
A new theory of ethics | Martha Nussbaum
Do we need a moral reawakening? Is animal suffering simply a fact of life or can it be avoided? How did the US Navy break whale protection l...
Crisis in the academy | Yaron Brook, Eric Kaufmann, Catherine Liu
Universities, long celebrated as sanctuaries of free thought and intellectual rigour, have for centuries been regarded as the best way to ed...
Why the neoclassical philosophy of economics is fundamentally flawed | Abby Innes
What do the Soviet Union and the current British economy have in common? What can studying the philosophy of science reveal about our econom...
On the nature of reality | Rowan Williams and Iain McGilchrist
Who are we? Why are we here? Does life have a meaning beyond itself? Join former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, and groundbreakin...
Neighbours before strangers | Alain de Botton, Seyla Benhabib and Tommy Curry
Should everyone be treated equally? Many see populism with its focus on immigration and nationalism as not only politically dangerous but mo...
The strange search for knowledge in the age of post-truth | Steve Fuller
How do we acquire knowledge? We tend to think that knowledge is produced by experts through established institutions, progressing over time...
The philosophy of performance | Michelle Terry
How can taking on the role of someone else help us to understand ourselves? Does the hermit know himself better than the socialite? And wher...