Janna Levin is the Claire Tow Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Barnard College of Columbia University. She is also the Chair and Founding Director of the Science Studios at Pioneer Works. A Guggenheim Fellow, Levin has contributed to an understanding of black holes, the cosmology of extra dimensions, and gravitational waves in the shape…

Richard Swinburne discusses the core ideas of his popular book, Faith and Reason, Christian philosophical theology, the Trinity, incarnation, and more.

Richard Swinburne discusses his approach to free will and why the concept is so vexing to so many philosophers, as well as his views on substance dualism and the mind-body problem and other theories of consciousness.

Richard Swinburne’s seminal book, The Existence of God, thoroughly examines the probability of God’s existence. No other work has made a more powerful case for the probability of the existence of God. In this interview, Swinburne argues compellingly that the existence of the universe, its law-governed nature and fine-tuning, human consciousness and moral awareness, and…

What is God like? Is God truly omniscient and omnipotent? What is God’s relationship to time? Philosopher Richard Swinburne explores these questions and more in this virtual interview.

Professor Susan Schneider discusses the rise of AI chatbots like ChatGPT and others, transhumanism, and the future of artificial intelligence. Dr. Susan Schneider is a philosopher and artificial intelligence (AI) expert. She is the founding director of the Center for the Future Mind at Florida Atlantic University where she also holds the William F. Dietrich…

Closer To Truth’s Robert Lawrence Kuhn recently published an extensive new article titled “A Landscape of Consciousness: Toward a taxonomy of explanations and implications”. The paper covers the field of consciousness studies in its entirety as well as the consequences of consciousness including artificial intelligence (AI), life after death, and virtual immortality. Read Kuhn’s article…

On July 23, 2024, Closer To Truth host Robert Lawrence Kuhn gave the keynote address at an event at the University of Latvia in Riga. The event celebrated the launch of the book he co-edited with Peter Gobets, “The Origin and Significance of Zero”. Kuhn spoke online about the concept of Nothing as well as…

How do conscious states relate to the rest of reality? Do all animals deserve moral consideration? Can AI be conscious? Philosopher David Papineau discusses the nature of consciousness, the mind-body problem, physicalism versus materialism, and much more. David Papineau is a British academic philosopher, born in Como, Italy. He works as Professor of Philosophy of…

Professor Brian Swimme discusses cosmogenesis, our cultural evolution, human consciousness, the Noosphere, and more. Brian Thomas Swimme is a professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco where he teaches evolutionary cosmology to graduate students in the philosophy, cosmology, and consciousness program. His upcoming book, The Story of the Noosphere, will be…

Creative thinker and media visionary Robert Wright discusses a fascinating variety of topics including social media’s effect on society, sexual psychology and monogamy, the concept of non-zero, biological and cultural evolution, and more. Bob Wright is an author and journalist known for his wide-ranging interests in philosophy, society, science (especially evolutionary psychology), history, politics, international…