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Co-founder and editor of The Philosophers’ Magazine, author of The Duck That Won The Lottery

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Love Incorporated


As Romeo and Juliet showed, love is a wild and unpredictable force even when faced with reason and control. But we join online dating sites to increase our probability of finding it. Are emotions and intimacy rational choices that can be measured and explained, or is this the sort of reductionist thinking that love seeks to escape?
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Why We Are Who We Are

The epigenetic revolution

Speakers: Adrian Bird, Caroline Relton, Steven Rose
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After Evolution

Is culture beyond genetics?

Speakers: Daniel Everett, Janet Radcliffe-Richards, Oliver Scott Curry
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The Prejudice of Intellectuals

Beauty, intellect, and power

Speakers: Jim Crace, Hannah Dawson, Catherine Hakim
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An Age of Transparency

Does WikiLeaks represent democracy?

Speakers: Annie Machon, Douglas Murray, Nigel Warburton
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Beyond Good and Evil

Carol Diethe, Anthony O'Hear, Simon May. Julian Baggini chairs. Gone are the ass...

Speakers: Carol Diethe, Simon May, Anthony O'Hear
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Generation Wars

Our age idolises youth. But as lifespans extend what will come of our cult of y...

Speakers: Aubrey de Grey, Anthony O'Hear, Laurie Penny

Biography

Co-founder and editor of The Philosophers’ Magazine, also writes and broadcasts for The Guardian and the BBC. Baggini is the author of Freedom Regained: The Possibility of Free Will, The Ego Trick:  and The Duck That Won The Lottery.

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