Featured Speakers: HowtheLightGetsIn Festival 2023

Closer To Truth is proud to be a partner of this year’s HowtheLightGetsIn Festival, the world’s largest philosophy and music festival, May 26-29. This playlist, featuring interviews with Closer To Truth contributors who will be presenting at the festival, will help your prepare for the full experience at Hay-on-Wye this spring. Get 20% off festival tickets with code CTT23.

Science is humankind’s magnificent achievement, the way of thinking to discern facts and truths and to reject errors and myths. But how to understand the scientific...

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Daniel Dennett

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Daniel Dennett discusses the philosophy of biology, evolutionary causation, the importance of evolution, and why there is anything at all.

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Daniel Dennett on Philosophy of Biology

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We think we understand the physical world but we do not. For example, some features of the world are derived from others, which makes the latter more fundamental and the...

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Daniel Dennett

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Mathematics describes the real world of atoms and acorns, stars and stairs, with remarkable precision. So is mathematics invented by humans just like chisels and hammers and...

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Roger Penrose

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Sir Roger Penrose shares his thoughts on mathematics and world reflections. He discusses his “three worlds and three deep mysteries” theory, pure mathematics, the...

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Roger Penrose on Mathematics, Physics, and the World

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Dig down to the deepest level of reality, the smallest things that exist, the building blocks of everything else. What do we find? What’s there at the very bottom?...

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Roger Penrose

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10:28

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The great challenge is explain consciousness—the inner experiences of sense, thought, intent, feelings. It’s what David Chalmers calls ‘The Hard Problem’...

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Christof Koch

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The mind consists of sensations, thoughts, cogitations, intentions, feelings. How could these inner mental capacities, these felt experiences, be produced by the three pounds...

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Christof Koch

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The laws of nature or physics are assumed to be everywhere the same, on the far side of the universe as sure as on the far side of your house. Otherwise science itself could...

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Rupert Sheldrake

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11:27

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Closer To Truth is proud to be a partner of this year's HowtheLightGetsIn Festival, the world's largest philosophy and music festival, May 26-29. This playlist, featuring...

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Rupert Sheldrake

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English philosopher Hilary Lawson discusses his book, Closure: A Story of Everything, a text that develops a comprehensive system of non-realist metaphysics.Hilary Lawson is...

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Hilary Lawson on Closure

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Lots of things exist. But what is so absolutely fundamental in that it cannot be further reduced into anything more fundamental, but other things that exist can be reduced to...

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George Ellis

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The world works at different levels — fundamental physics, physics, chemistry, biology, psychology, sociology — with each level having its own rules and regularities. ...

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George Ellis

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What are anti-realists and why do they deny objective reality? What we know of the world must come through our senses and be processed by our brains. Both can be unreliable;...

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Simon Blackburn

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10:36

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Defining ‘truth’ is an ancient question that in the age of science should find resolution and agreement. But this is not so. Even today, truth remains elusive....

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Simon Blackburn

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Defining ‘truth’ is an ancient question that in the age of science should find resolution and agreement. But this is not so. Even today, truth remains elusive....

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Michael Shermer

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7:21

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Why do people believe the things they do? We like to think that we are rational, that what we believe is true. But often we come to our beliefs, unknowingly, as a product of...

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Michael Shermer

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