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Oliver Adelson is Philosophy Desk Lead and Contributing Editor at the Institute of Art and Ideas. He is also Programme & Speaker Lead for the HowTheLightGetsIn Festival.

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Oliver Adelson is Philosophy Desk Lead and Contributing Editor at the Institute of Art and Ideas. He is also Programme & Speaker Lead for the HowTheLightGetsIn Festival.

Oliver Adelson Articles

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Graham Priest, Oliver Adelson

Wittgenstein and the paradoxes at the limits of language
we need freud s forgotten concept to understand our political crisis
Oliver Adelson, Alenka Zupančič

We need Freud's forgotten concept to understand our political crisis

iain mcgilchrist great discoveries are not made by following
Iain McGilchrist, Oliver Adelson

Iain McGilchrist: "Great discoveries are not made by following the scientific method"
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Oliver Adelson

Thomas Mann and the fall of the West

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Hawking vs. Philosophy
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Rupert Sheldrake

The Science Delusion
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Stephen Law

What Science Can't Tell Us
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Simon Glendinning

Europe's Philosophical Rivalry
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James Ladyman

Acting on Evidence
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Peter Atkins

The Quest for Understanding
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Carlos Frenk

Under the Microscope
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Angie Hobbs

Philosophy and Science: Double Team?
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Lewis Wolpert

One Culture for Science
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Carlo Rovelli

Science is Rebellion
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Philip Ball

Science: The Purity Myth
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Marcus Du Sautoy

What We Cannot Know
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Keith Frankish

How to Read a Mind
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Alister McGrath

Between Knowing and Believing
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Jana Bacevic

Facts, politics and science
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Nicolas Chevassus-au-Louis

Truth and lies
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Steve Fuller

The organised hypocrisy of experts
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Angela Potochnik

Simple solutions, dangerous realities
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Paul Hoyningen-Huene

Beyond Kuhn and Feyerabend
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Sandra Harding

The myth of pure science
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Michael D. Gordin

How Not to Determine Nonsense
Simine Vazire

Science needs a radical overhaul
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Don Fallis

Seeing is not believing
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Michael Epperson

The creative universe
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Steven French

There is no such thing as a scientific theory
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Stephen John

Why science isn’t objective
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Peter Salmon

Jean-Luc Nancy and the myth of the individual
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Martín López Corredoira

The problem with the Nobel Prize
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Massimo Pigliucci

What is this thing called pseudoscience?
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10 questions ignored by philosophy