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...
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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Is evolutionary psychology merely a way of excusing outdated behaviours?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...
The end of materialism | Àlex Gómez-Marín
Alex Gómez-Marín is a controversial figure in contemporary neuroscience, known for challenging the materialist framework that dominates scie...
The relationship between mind and matter | Slavoj Žižek, Alenka Zupančič and Carlo Rovelli
The self and the world We tend to think of ourselves as observers of the world and experience as something different from the material stuff...
Freedom and Fate
An individual "is responsible for everything he does," claimed Sartre. And from criminal justice to creative expression, free will and respo...
The search for higher states of consciousness | Philosopher Jessica Frazier
Are we living in the moment? Are we really free? How can we transcend the constant anxieties of our mind? Throughout history, certain people...
Should we be transgressive? The limits and potential of transgressiveness | Catherine Liu, Rowan Williams, Josh Cohen
The good, the bad, and the transgressive Is the transgression of norms and rules what brings history forward and allows for creativity and c...
Perversity and the limits of rational | Psychologist Paul Bloom
What is rationality? Why is it or is it not important? And where does perversity fit in? Join psychologist Paul Bloom in this interview wher...
Why liberalism has failed | John Gray on civilisation, morality, and the illusion of progress
Why is the world moving away from liberalism and towards conservatism? One of Britain’s most provocative thinkers, John Gray is a political...
Analytic or Continental philosophy | Christoph Schuringa, Genia Schönbaumsfeld, Babette Babich
The future of European thought What is analytic philosophy and what is continental philosophy? And, perhaps most importantly, does this dist...
How Words Warp Reality | Nick Enfield
Language shapes how we think, remember, and reason. But does it help us to uncover the fundamental nature of reality? Join the author of Lan...