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Shahidha Bari hosts

BBC broadcaster and academic, Shahidha Bari is the author of Dressed: A Philosophy of Clothes.

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The Limits of Logic

Iain McGilchrist, Beatrix Campbell. Shahidha Bari hosts.

Logicians don't rule the world or get the most done. Could it be that a consistent world view is neither desirable nor achievable? If we abandon the straightjacket of rationality might this lead to a more powerful and exciting future, or is it a heresy that leads to madness?

Thinking Dangerously, Living Differently

Can philosophy change how we think?

Speakers: Mark Vernon, Angie Hobbs, Adrian Moore

Love Me Tinder

What does love look like in the digital age?

Speakers: Anders Sandberg, Christopher Hamilton, Steve Carter

Is Religion Dangerous?

Faith - The Problem or The Solution

Speakers: Julian Baggini, Rupert Sheldrake, Nicholas Humphrey, Richard Harries

Sex Robots and Love Machines

Are sex robots a threat to human relationships?

Speakers: Brooke Magnanti, Kate Devlin, Alan Winfield

The Key to Creativity

Do restrictions breed inventiveness?

Speakers: Joanna Kavenna, Andrew Motion, Lowkey

After Relativism

The ways forward from post-modernity

Speakers: Hilary Lawson, Michela Massimi

Biography

Shahidha Bari is Senior Lecturer in Romanticism at Queen Mary University of London and Fellow of the Forum for European Philosophy at the LSE. She was one of the first ever BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinkers in 2011. She writes for the TLS, Times Higher, Guardian and Financial Times. She features regularly on BBC Radio 4's Saturday Review, Front Row & Woman's Hour, and she is an occasional presenter of BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking.