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Güneş Taylor

Leading science communicator

Gunes Taylor is a training fellow at the Francis Crick Institute, the London-based biomedical research centre. Her research predominantly focuses on the the genetic formation of ovaries and testes. Gunes has debated the implications of genome editing in forums such as Fertility Fest, the Festival of Genomics, and Virtual Futures, and is fascinated by our cultural and ideological responses to our genetic makeup.

As a molecular biologist she uses many cutting-edge technologies to understand how reproductive systems are built. Güneş is a highly experienced public speaker, who has interviewed Richard Dawkins, Yuval Harari, Slavoj Zizek, Robert Plomin, Simon Baron-Cohen and Lord Robert Winston.

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The Limits of Logic

Should we embrace the irrational?

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What We Cannot Know

What about the universe is left to discover?

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Julian Baggini,Hilary Lawson,Amie Thomasson,Phillip Collins

The New Enlightenment

Can we reclaim objectivity after relativism?

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Laura Mersini-Houghton,Helen Beebee,David Malone,Gerard 't Hooft

The Laws of the Universe

Are the laws of nature just human constructs?

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Steve Fuller,Jonathan Derbyshire,David Malone,Lewis Wolpert

Hawking vs. Philosophy

Has science killed philosophy?

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Robert Rowland-Smith,Matthew D'Ancona,Hilary Lawson,Hannah Dawson

Post-Truth and Postmodernism

Is truth just a construct?

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Rana Mitter,Hilary Lawson,Hannah Dawson,John Searle

After the End of Truth

Is there such a thing as objective truth?

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Massimo Pigliucci

How To Spot Pseudoscience

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David Malone,Hilary Lawson,Berit Brogaard,Karl Friston

Down the Rabbit Hole

Confronting the limits of perception.

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James Ladyman,Lev Vaidman,Philip Ball,George Ellis

Cause and the Universe

The many-worlds of quantum physics

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Gerard t'Hooft

Beyond Quantum

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Philip Collins,Gita Sahgal,Sebastian Farquhar,David Owens

The Good, the Bad and the Unknown

Is morality independent of outcome?

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Massimo Pigliucci

After the End of Evidence

Massimo Pigliucci on empiricism's end-date

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Rupert Sheldrake,Stephen Law,James Le Fanu

The Limits of Science

Truth and the boundaries of knowledge

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Danielle Sands,Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad,Nivi Manchanda,Timothy Williamson

Decolonising Philosophy

Do we need to wake up to western prejudice?

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After Post-Truth

How do we navigate a world where truth is tribal?

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I Am Not A Brain

Markus Gabriel | 'The mind' is a vague concept

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Joanna Kavenna,Peter Atkins,Tim Lewens,Phillip Dodd

Truth and the Universe

What are the limits of science?

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Piers Corbyn,David Malone,James Ladyman,Nancy Cartwright

Explaining the Inexplicable

Is explanation an illusion?

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The Reality of Feeling

Reason and Emotion

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The Prejudice of Facts

Are there no facts, only interpretations?

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Hilary Lawson,Steve Fuller,Peter Atkins,Rosie Harper

Uncovering the Unknown

Does science uncover the truth?

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Beyond Knowledge

Is truth an illusion?

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Ultimate Proof

Is evidence an illusion?

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Steve Fuller,David Malone,Peter Atkins,Tara Shears

This is Our Church

Science as religion

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Rupert Sheldrake

The Science Delusion

Rupert Sheldrake on the blind spots of science

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Hilary Lawson

Truth, Error & Adventure

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Linda Woodhead,Janet Kourany,Angela Saini,Gina Rippon

Science, Sex and Subjectivity

Is there a feminist way of doing science?

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Angela Breitenbach

The Elegant Truth

Angela Breitenbach investigates elegance

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Poetic Theories

Can scientists learn from poets?

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Revolutions of Knowledge

The future of physics

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Isabel Hilton,Rupert Sheldrake,David Berman,James Wilk

The Eureka Moment

Are mavericks the real innovators in science?

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The Origin of Knowledge

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Science, Magic and the Inexplicable

After the Last Magician

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Blinded by the Light

Metaphors of truth and reality

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Everything We Know Is Wrong

Can science alone uncover the truth?

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Science… Fiction?

The future of science

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Facts and Fantasy

Are facts a fiction?

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The Arc of Life: Roger Penrose

A biography of quantum gravity's founding father

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Leonardo's Vision

What can art teach science?

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The Origin of Everything

Much ado about nothing

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Knowledge and Power

Why science is not enough

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The Persecution of Heretics

How inconvenient science gets shut down

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Rachel Armstrong,Bryan Appleyard,Susan Greenfield,Steve Fuller

Alchemy, Anarchy, and Science

Is science the defining triumph of modernity?

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Peter Atkins

Everything Explained

How science holds all answers

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Rupert Read

The Tyranny of Evidence

Why the absence of proof is not enough

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Angela Saini,John Horgan,Laurie Taylor,Kenneth Cukier

The End of Theory

The rise of big data

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The Comedy of Errors

Scientific errors and new adventures

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Julian Baggini,Richard Coles,Andrew Bowie,Edwina Currie

Being Certain

Are convictions dangerous?

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Athene Donald

Saving Science

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John Parrington

CRISPR's Brave New World

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Andrew Reynolds

Science is based in metaphor

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Kevin Davies

Rewriting the code of life

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Julian Savulescu

The moral case for eugenics?

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Sahotra Sarkar

The false promise of human gene editing

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Peter Stilwell,Sabrina Coninx

A new paradigm to understand pain

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Emily Jackson

Euthanasia isn't a slippery slope

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J. Arvid Ågren

Looking at genes through a human lens

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The mystery and origins of play

Melinda Bonnie Fagan

Biology's Uncertainty Principle

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Denis Noble

The fight for the future of biology

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Victor Kumar,Richmond Cambell

Nature didn't make us human, culture did

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David Haig

From Darwin to Derrida: evolution as interpretation

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Anna Lembke

Too much pleasure causes pain

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Avi Loeb

How science makes politics absurd

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Nick Lane,Omari Edwards

Cracking the creation of life

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Helen Czerski

The ocean is the engine of the Earth

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Rob Dunn

The microorganism that shaped humanity

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David Healy

We risk turning life into an illness

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Lorenzo Servitje,Clare Chandler

The post-antibiotic apocalypse is here

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Darcy Bounsall,Addy Pross

The mystery of living things

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Lee Cronin

A new theory of matter may help explain life

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Camilla Nord

The mind-body problem is ruining our health

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Steve Fuller

Suspended Ethics?

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Nicholas Humphrey

Entering the Soul Niche

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Rupert Sheldrake

A New Science of Life

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David Healy

The Persecution of Heretics

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Sarah Chan

Who First into the Ark?

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An Enemy of The Open Society

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Life, agency, and the evolution of free will

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