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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: Noam Chomsky, Mark Lilla, Deirdre McCloskey

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

The Known, The Strange and the New

Why does the world remain puzzling and strange?

Speakers: John Ellis, Robert Rowland Smith, Janne Teller

After Post-Truth

How do we navigate a world where truth is tribal?

Speakers: Homi Bhabha, Rebecca Goldstein, Hilary Lawson

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: Stephen King, Will Kymlicka, Clare Short

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.