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Presenter, writer, professor of the History and Politics of Modern China at Oxford

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Philosophy vs Science

Angie Hobbs, Lawrence Krauss, Mary Midgley. Rana Mitter hosts.

From neuroscience to cosmology, Hawking to Dawkins, many argue science can do away with philosophy. Yet science is replete with philosophical puzzles. Should we see science as one metaphysics amongst others? Or is this to swap the megalomania of science with that of philosophy?

After the End of Truth

Is there such a thing as objective truth?

Speakers: Hannah Dawson, Hilary Lawson, John Searle

Reason and The Decline of Violence

Steven Pinker's Theory Explored

Speakers: Roger Bolton, Andrew Copson, Judith Marquand, Steven Pinker

Empire Strikes Back

Will the nation state survive?

Speakers: David Aaronovitch, Phillip Blond, David Marquand, Zoe Williams

The Known, The Strange and the New

Why does the world remain puzzling and strange?

Speakers: John Ellis, Robert Rowland Smith, Janne Teller

Taking Over the Asylum

From ADHD to binge eating, celebrity worship syndrome to sex addiction, new typ...

Speakers: Richard Bentall, Molly Meacher, Mark Salter

Life's Secret

Purpose and the Pursuit of Happiness

Speakers: Pascal Bruckner, Nicholas Humphrey, AL Kennedy

Biography

Regular presenter of Night Waves and writer for the Financial Times, History Today, and the London Review of Books, Rana Mitter is Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China at Oxford.