Philosophy For Our Times IAI

Join post-realist philosopher Hilary Lawson, professor of logic Michael Potter and philosopher of language John Searle to learn more about the linguistic turn and its implications.

Carol Gilligan, Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, and Richard Wrangham debate the dangers of altruism.

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.