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The Word and the World


The power of words is a wonder, and language perhaps our greatest skill. Yet the gap between the sound of a bell and its description is huge. So what is language? Are the limits of language so profound that the big questions of science and philosophy are beyond us? Or can everything be said if we try hard enough?
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The Chemistry of Freedom

Is free will an illusion?

Speakers: George Ellis, Patrick Haggard, Jennifer Hornsby
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The Mystery of Music

Explaining the transcendental

Speakers: Eric Clarke, Lydia Goehr, Marc Robinson, Rhian Samuel
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Myself and Others

Are we more alive when we are alone?

Speakers: Kate Williams, Ed Stafford, Simon Glendinning
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The World in Our Hands

Rationality and climate change

Speakers: Bjorn Lomborg, Polly Higgins, Crispin Tickell, Nigel Lawson
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Strange New Worlds

A new vision of reality

Speakers: Terry Eagleton, Joanne Harris, Paul Boghossian
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Belief and the Gods

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Speakers: John Milbank, Madawi Al-Rasheed, Stephen Law

Biography

Executive Comment Editor at the Financial Times, Jonathan Derbyshire has written for the New Statesman, The Philosophers’ Magazine and New Humanist. The Guardian describes him as ‘an atheist people of faith can engage with’.

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