Philosophy For Our Times IAI

Physicist and philosopher Avshalom Elitzur dissects science's limited understanding of consciousness and proposes a more philosophical, almost mystical, interpretation of it.

Cognitive scientist Daniel Kahneman, psychologist Ellen Langer, and philosopher Hilary Lawson try to get to the bottom of how humans perceive, and if we can ever know truth or the world around us.

American science writer Michael Shermer elucidates the reasons people tend to be drawn to conspiracy theories and what to do about it.

Suchitra Sebastian is a renowned scientist and a condensed matter physicist. She is based at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge where she is a Professor of Physics.

Philip Goff is a leading philosopher of Consciousness in his field and a defender of panpsychism, the controversial proposal that everything contains consciousness, as the solution to the hard problem of consciousness.

Hilary Lawson is a philosopher and long-standing critic of realism, best known for his theory of closure.

Jack Symes hosts.

Join Myriam François as she hosts this panel of distinguished guests as they discuss the idea of universal moral principles. Taking part in this debate are Daniel Markovits is an American legal scholar and Professor of Law at the Yale Law School; Carol Gilligan, a celebrated feminist, ethicist and psychologist; and finally, Peter Singer, one of the world's foremost public philosophers and a prominent figure in contemporary ethics.

Well-known scholar Dan Ariely discusses the main elements of his recent book 'Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things', sympathetically dissecting the character of conspiracy theorists.