Cosmos: How vast? Fine-tuned? Fake? Consciousness: Mystery? Brain structure? Souls? ESP? Meaning: God make sense? Arguing God’s existence? playlist Season 01 Season 13 videos 5:47:51 Watch
Cosmos: Many universes? Time Travel? Consciousness: Life after death? Mind? Free will? Meaning: Evil disprove God? Time? Arguing Atheism? playlist Season 02 Season 13 videos 5:47:58 Watch
Cosmos: Something/Nothing? Final Theory? Consciousness: Fundamental? Aliens? Meaning: God knows future? Eternal life? Science-religion? playlist Season 03 Season 13 videos 5:47:57 Watch
Cosmos: Expanding universe? Extra dimensions? Laws? Consciousness: All material? Angels/demons? Meaning: God’s judgment? God create evil? playlist Season 04 13 videos 5:47:55 Watch
Cosmos: Far future? Ultimate Questions? Consciousness: Human brains? Mind? Personal identity? Meaning: God a Person? Religion without God? playlist Season 05 Season 13 videos 5:47:56 Watch
Cosmos: Cosmic structure? Quantum strange? Consciousness: ESP spirit? Brain free will? Meaning: God all knowing? Necessary? Agnosticism? playlist Season 06 Season 13 videos 5:47:54 Watch
Cosmos: SpaceTime? Science limits? Consciousness: How brains conscious? Survive death? Meaning: God vs science? Miracles? God & free will? playlist Season 07 Season 13 videos 5:47:55 Watch
Cosmos: Beyond physics? Cosmic purpose? Consciousness: ESP clues? Keep identity? Souls? Meaning: God’s nature? Evil necessary? Immortality? playlist Season 08 Season 13 videos 5:47:51 Watch
Cosmos: Life inevitable? Inflation? Complexity? Consciousness: Alien intelligence? Meaning: Creator God? God all powerful? God fallacies? playlist Season 09 Season 13 videos 5:47:56 Watch
Cosmos: Religiously ambiguous? General principles? Consciousness: Illusion? Dreams? Belief systems? Meaning: What is God? Arguing God? playlist Season 10 Season 13 videos 5:47:56 Watch
Cosmos: What is time? Infinite cosmos? Consciousness: How brains work? Free will illusion? Meaning: Alternative Gods? Resurrection? Hell? playlist Season 11 Season 13 videos 5:47:52 Watch
Cosmos: Beginning? What is Nothing? Why anything? Consciousness: Personal identity persist? Sleep? Human uniqueness? Meaning: New atheism? playlist Season 12 Season 13 videos 5:47:50 Watch
Cosmos: Ever end? Ultimate reality? Consciousness: Death final? Free will for moral responsibility? Meaning: What causes religious belief? playlist Season 13 Season 13 videos 5:48:03 Watch
Cosmos: Information? Truth? Multiverse? Consciousness: Science of consciousness? Mind heal body? Meaning: Blame God for evil? God not free? playlist Season 14 Season 13 videos 5:48:07 Watch
Cosmos: Reason? Implications? Consciousness: ESP mean? ESP work? Dualism? Ultimate reality? Meaning: Speculating about God? God intervenes? playlist Season 15 Season 13 videos 5:48:13 Watch
Cosmos: Doomsday argument? Philosophy & science? Consciousness: Brain alone? Brains go bad? Language? Meaning: How miracles? God fallacies? playlist Season 16 Season 13 videos 5:48:24 Watch
How did the universe begin? What exists? What are the risks of scientific knowledge? Can metaphysics discern God, and what or who is God? playlist Season 17 Season 13 videos 5:48:24 Watch
Are there multiple universes? What is extended mind? What causes consciousness? Challenges of analytic theology? If God, what’s evolution? playlist Season 18 Season 13 videos 5:48:20 Watch
Philosophical inquiries including the anthropic principle; fine-tuning in physics and cosmology; and atonement, salvation, and incarnation. playlist Season 19 Season 13 videos 5:48:24 Watch
Art Seeking Understanding: Art delights us, but how and why? Explore art and cognitive science, philosophy, history, theology, and more. playlist Season 20 Season 10 videos 4:27:50 Watch
Art delights us, but how so, and why? Can art be modes of discovery and creation that enhance understanding? Explore art’s relationship with cognitive science,... video Art Seeking Understanding I: Foundations Episode 01 Season 20 26:47 Watch
What is the nature of art? What makes something “art”, and why should we value it? What are aesthetics and art theory? Can philosophy of art enhance appreciation... video What is Philosophy of Art? Episode 02 Season 20 26:47 Watch
What is happening in our brains when we perceive and appreciate the arts? What are the neural substrates of artistic sensations, feelings and emotions? How do diverse arts... video Can the Brain Explain Art? Episode 03 Season 20 26:47 Watch
What’s the relationship between the mental activity of our minds and the physical actions of our brain? It’s called The Mind-Body Problem. To many, it’s a perennial... video Can Art Clarify The Mind-Body Problem? Episode 04 Season 20 26:47 Watch
Can art inform topics in philosophy of religion? Can the existence and varieties of art address or affect theological questions about God, faith, belief, worship? video Can Art Engage Philosophy of Religion? Episode 05 Season 20 26:47 Watch
If God is the creator of human beings and art reflects human sentience, then can examining the arts discern reflections of God? Can one infer from various aspects of art... video Can Art Reveal God’s Traits? Episode 06 Season 20 26:47 Watch
Can art go beyond the pleasures of experience to convey knowledge or even understanding? If so, what could be the kinds of knowledge or understanding made manifest by art?... video Can Art and Knowledge Enhance Each Other? Episode 07 Season 20 26:47 Watch
Did art and religion co-evolve in parallel as archaeology and anthropology suggest, and if so, what would be the significance? What do art and religion have in common that... video Did Art and Religion Co-Evolve? Episode 08 Season 20 26:47 Watch
Creativity generates art. How to discern the creative process in order to inform the nature of art? Conversely, how to discern art in order to inform the nature of the... video Can Art Probe Creativity? Episode 09 Season 20 26:47 Watch
Art brings pleasure, but is art also more? Can the arts be sources of understanding? What is art’s potential? Will art become a subset of science? Or can art see what... video Art Seeking Understanding II: Meaning Episode 10 Season 20 26:47 Watch
Quantum mechanics, the best theory of the very small, and general relativity, the best theory of the very large, are deeply incompatible. One way to compare and contrast the... playlist Events in Quantum Mechanics and Relativity (Part II) Topic Series 5 videos 30:41 Watch
Quantum theory is very strange. No act is wholly sure. Everything works by probabilities, described by a wave function. But what is a wavefunction? One theory is that every... playlist Many Worlds of Quantum Theory (Part II) Topic Series 5 videos 32:25 Watch
Quantum theory may be weird—superposition and entanglement of particles that in our normal world would make no sense—but quantum theory is truly how the microworld works.... playlist What does Quantum Theory Mean? (Part II) Topic Series 6 videos 52:51 Watch
Art Seeking Understanding (ASU): Closer To Truth tracks on-going ASU projects seeking modes of discovery and ways to deepen understanding. We focus on each project’s... playlist ASU Project Hypothesis & Theory: Progress & Challenges (Part I) Topic Series 1:13:55 Watch
Art Seeking Understanding (ASU): Closer To Truth tracks on-going ASU projects seeking modes of discovery and ways to deepen understanding. We focus on each project’s... playlist ASU Project Hypothesis & Theory: Progress & Challenges (Part II) Topic Series 1:14:51 Watch
What is the relationship between consciousness and the nature of ultimate reality? Some say there is no relationship; consciousness is a late, contingent product of... playlist Consciousness and Deep Ontology (Part II) Topic Series Watch
Asteroid Day (as observed annually on June 30) is the United Nations sanctioned day of public awareness of the risks of asteroid impacts. In honor of this day—co-founded by... playlist Asteroid Day 2024 Curated 11 videos 4:34:50 Watch
This playlist is part of Closer To Truth's series on The Noosphere at 100: The Future of Human Consciousness. playlist The Noosphere at 100 Curated 4 videos 3:36:13 Watch
In honor of NASA's "Black Hole Week" (May 6-10, 2024), Closer To Truth has curated a special playlist that explores these mysterious cosmic objects. Watch interviews with... playlist Inside a Black Hole Curated 11 videos 3:39:35 Watch
Closer To Truth is excited to partner with HowtheLightGetsIn for another year of their annual Hay festival. This playlist features speakers who will appear at Hay between May... playlist HowtheLightGetsIn Hay 2024: Featured Speakers Curated 11 videos 3:04:13 Watch
The new Barbie movie explores the difficulties and terrors of being human, parallel universes, and questions of life after death. Here, we examine the same big questions of... playlist The Philosophy of the Barbie Universe Curated 9 videos 1:14:52 Watch
In anticipation of Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer movie premiere, Closer To Truth has curated this video playlist featuring discussions related to the life and work of... playlist Contemplating Oppenheimer Curated 9 videos 1:34:09 Watch
Explore our vast universe: its size, scope, beginning, expansion, ending. How did it all happen? How does it all work? Where is it all going? We target the mysteries. playlist Best of Cosmology Curated 10 videos 4:27:45 Watch
Our partners at The Institute of Art and Ideas (IAI) aim to rescue philosophy from technical debates about the meaning of words and return it to big ideas and putting them at... playlist Featured Videos from IAI.tv Curated 4:04:51 Watch
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... playlist Featured Speakers: HowtheLightGetsIn Festival 2023 Curated 17 videos 4:43:45 Watch
Closer To Truth is highlighting remarkable women in philosophy of religion. playlist Women in Philosophy of Religion Curated, Topic Series 12 videos 1:39:30 Watch
Closer To Truth is highlighting remarkable women advancing philosophy and neuro/cognitive science. playlist Women in Philosophy and Neuro/Cognitive Science Curated, Topic Series 12 videos 1:48:35 Watch
Explore more philosophical questions that seek insights into the fundamental features of existence including the limits of science, the existence of God, discerning the deep... playlist Philosophical Questions II Curated 13 videos 5:48:10 Watch
In the second part of our extensive interview with Annaka Harris, we trace the arc of her new documentary’s journey by going through each chapter and exploring the... video Annaka Harris: Conversations on Consciousness Authors Series, CTT Chat 41:18 Watch
In a follow-up to her seminal book, Conscious, Annaka Harris’ new audio original documentary offers beginners and experts alike a chance to unravel some of... video Annaka Harris Explores Consciousness and the Cosmos Authors Series, CTT Chat 34:08 Watch
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... video Susan Schneider on AI, Chatbots, and Consciousness Classic Chats, CTT Chat 21:05 Watch
video Philip Goff & Helen De Cruz on Finding (and Losing) Their Religion Classic Chats, CTT Chat 1:15:01 Watch
Evolutionary biologist Nathan Lents argues that many of our supposedly modern ideas about gender and human sexuality are, in fact, deeply rooted in our animal ancestors. In... video Nathan Lents on The Sexual Evolution Authors Series, CTT Chat 1:29:59 Watch
Robert Lawrence Kuhn sits down with esteemed philosophy Richard Swinburne to discuss how the problem of evil may provide a strong argument against theism, the theory of the... video Richard Swinburne on Evidence Against God: The Problem of Evil Classic Chats, CTT Chat 33:06 Watch
Robert Lawrence Kuhn discusses his extensive new article, "A Landscape of Consciousness". video Robert Lawrence Kuhn on “A Landscape of Consciousness” Classic Chats, CTT Chat Watch
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... video Robert Lawrence Kuhn: Levels of Nothing Classic Chats, CTT Chat 34:41 Watch
Sara Imari Walker shares an intriguing new scientific theory that explains what life is and how it emerges. video Sara Imari Walker on Physics, Emergence, and Life on Other Planets Authors Series, CTT Chat 1:23:10 Watch
Greg Epstein—Humanist chaplain at MIT and Harvard University—explores how technology has evolved into a dominant cultural force, often resembling a religion in its... video Greg Epstein on Technology, Morality, and Non-Religion Authors Series, CTT Chat 1:05:50 Watch
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... video David Papineau on Consciousness, Physics, & the Mind-Body Problem Classic Chats, CTT Chat 1:13:47 Watch
Astrophysicist Or Graur offers a brief and fascinating overview of the history, physics, and astrophysical uses of galaxies. Starting with the history of the last two... video Or Graur on the Big Bang and the Physics of Galaxies Authors Series, CTT Chat 1:03:42 Watch
The Global Philosophy of Religion Project, in partnership with the University of Birmingham, aims to make the philosophy of religion a truly global field by promoting the... playlist The Global Philosophy of Religion Project Project 24 videos 22:46:58 Watch
Grand questions of science? Consciousness? What’s creativity? Universe begin? Extend life? Physics of mind? ESP? Soul? Future of sex? playlist Roundtables – Series 01 Roundtable 14 videos 6:21:35 Watch
Far future 3000? Breakthroughs? Brains make minds? Learn creativity? Parapsychology? Sex therapy? Quantum physics beautiful? Universe end? playlist Roundtables – Series 02 Roundtable 14 videos 6:22:20 Watch
Science fiction? Science-religion? Austistic brain? Weird cosmos? Order? Music? Alternative medicine? Quantum computers. Psychiatry split? playlist Roundtables – Series 03 Roundtable 15 videos 6:33:03 Watch
