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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?

Darkness, Authority and Dreams

Chomsky debates libertarians and future liberals

Speakers: Deirdre McCloskey, Mark Lilla, Noam Chomsky

After the End of Truth

Is there such a thing as objective truth?

Speakers: Hilary Lawson, Hannah Dawson, John Searle

Reason and The Decline of Violence

Steven Pinker's Theory Explored

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

The Known, The Strange and the New

Why does the world remain puzzling and strange?

Speakers: Janne Teller, John Ellis, Robert Rowland Smith

After Post-Truth

How do we navigate a world where truth is tribal?

Speakers: Hilary Lawson, Rebecca Goldstein, Homi Bhabha

The Crisis of the West: Is the age of the west at an end?

The End of the West

Should we worry about the fall of Western power?

Speakers: Clare Short, Stephen King, Will Kymlicka

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.