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
How did the human mind, with all its faculties and capacities, develop during the long evolution of human beings? ‘Evolutionary psychology’ is the field that hypothesizes... playlist Does Evolutionary Psychology Explain Mind? (Part II) Topic Series 5 videos Watch
While evolution is how life on earth came to be, where does the evolution occur? At what level of the hierarchy of life—from genes to individuals to groups to... playlist Philosophy of Units / Levels of Natural Selection (Part II) Topic Series 5 videos 40:19 Watch
What is “human” nature? While human beings are animals, we believe we are special, radically different from other animals. Why? What traits are unique to humans? Are we... playlist Philosophy of Human Nature & Uniqueness (Part II) Topic Series 55:38 Watch
What is the extended evolutionary synthesis (EES) and why better? Includes multilevel selection, transgenerational epigenetic inheritance, niche construction, evolvability,... playlist Philosophy of Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (Part II) Topic Series 6 videos 47:48 Watch
Can an evolutionary perspective help explain culture and various social behaviors? Is it proper to use “culture” for non-human animals? If so, what is “animal... playlist Philosophy of Evolutionary Culture & Social Behavior (Part II) Topic Series 6 videos 52:25 Watch
Can biology be explained entirely in terms of chemistry and then physics? If so, that’s “reductionism.” Or are there “emergent” properties at higher levels of the... playlist Philosophy of Reductionism & Emergence (Part III) Topic Series 5 videos 41:47 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
Astrobiologist and theoretical physicist Sara Imari Walker shares an intriguing new scientific theory that explains what life is and how it emerges. What is life? This is... 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
Distinguished Philosopher Ned Block discusses perception, cognition, consciousness, and more. video Ned Block on Perception, Cognition, and Consciousness Authors Series, CTT Chat 1:18:14 Watch
Professor Brian Swimme discusses cosmogenesis, our cultural evolution, human consciousness, the Noosphere, and more. Brian Thomas Swimme is a professor at the California... video Brian Swimme on Consciousness, Cultural Evolution, and the Noosphere Classic Chats, CTT Chat 42:36 Watch
Why is matter solid? Why is there antimatter? Where do the sizes of atoms come from? Theoretical physicist and philosopher Sean Carroll cuts to the bare mathematical essence... video Sean Carroll on Physics, the Multiverse, and Quantum Mechanics Authors Series, CTT Chat 57:54 Watch
To celebrate Closer To Truth's partnership with this year's HowtheLightGetsIn Hay festival, host Robert Lawrence Kuhn and IAI founder Hilary Lawson sat down for a... video Hilary Lawson & Robert Lawrence Kuhn: Answering Fan Questions on AI, Consciousness, & More CTT Chat, Other 21:09 Watch
Is there any truth to the idea that creativity originates from the right side of the brain? What is the link between mental illness and creativity? What role can psychedelics... video Anna Abraham on the Neuroscience of the Creative Brain Authors Series, CTT Chat 1:12:35 Watch
Creative thinker and media visionary Robert Wright discusses a fascinating variety of topics including social media’s effect on society, sexual psychology and monogamy,... video Robert Wright on Evolution and the Future of Humanity Classic Chats, CTT Chat 57:34 Watch
Philosopher Nick Bostrom discusses his new book, Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World, where he asks: In the face of incredible technological advances, what is the... video Nick Bostrom on Superintelligence and the Future of AI Authors Series, CTT Chat 1:11:26 Watch
How do animals and smart machines measure up to human intelligence? Can fish feel pain and do dogs get jealous? Paul Thagard—a philosopher and cognitive... video Paul Thagard on AI, Animal Consciousness, and Human Intelligence Authors Series, CTT Chat 1:08:58 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
