Sebastian Farquhar
Farquhar was head of the Centre for Effective Altruism, and is director of the Global Priorities Project at Oxford and author of 80,000 Hours.
Farquhar was head of the Centre for Effective Altruism, and is director of the Global Priorities Project at Oxford and author of 80,000 Hours.
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The Limits of Logic
Should we embrace the irrational?
What We Cannot Know
What about the universe is left to discover?
The New Enlightenment
Can we reclaim objectivity after relativism?
The Laws of the Universe
Are the laws of nature just human constructs?
Hawking vs. Philosophy
Has science killed philosophy?
Post-Truth and Postmodernism
Is truth just a construct?
After the End of Truth
Is there such a thing as objective truth?
How To Spot Pseudoscience
Separating Fact From Fiction | Massimo Pigliucci
Down the Rabbit Hole
Confronting the limits of perception.
Cause and the Universe
The many-worlds of quantum physics
Beyond Quantum
Is quantum physics wrong? | Gerard 't Hooft
The Good, the Bad and the Unknown
Is morality independent of outcome?
After the End of Evidence
Massimo Pigliucci on empiricism's end-date
The Limits of Science
Truth and the boundaries of knowledge
Decolonising Philosophy
Do we need to wake up to western prejudice?
After Post-Truth
How do we navigate a world where truth is tribal?
I Am Not A Brain
Markus Gabriel | 'The mind' is a vague concept
Truth and the Universe
What are the limits of science?
Explaining the Inexplicable
Is explanation an illusion?
The Reality of Feeling
Reason and Emotion
The Prejudice of Facts
Are there no facts, only interpretations?
Uncovering the Unknown
Does science uncover the truth?
Beyond Knowledge
Is truth an illusion?
Ultimate Proof
Is evidence an illusion?
This is Our Church
Science as religion
The Science Delusion
Rupert Sheldrake on the blind spots of science
Truth, Error & Adventure
Science, Sex and Subjectivity
Is there a feminist way of doing science?
The Elegant Truth
Angela Breitenbach investigates elegance
Poetic Theories
Can scientists learn from poets?
Revolutions of Knowledge
The future of physics
The Eureka Moment
Are mavericks the real innovators in science?
The Origin of Knowledge
Science, Magic and the Inexplicable
After the Last Magician
Blinded by the Light
Metaphors of truth and reality
Everything We Know Is Wrong
Can science alone uncover the truth?
Science… Fiction?
The future of science
Facts and Fantasy
Are facts a fiction?
The Arc of Life: Roger Penrose
A biography of quantum gravity's founding father
Leonardo's Vision
What can art teach science?
The Origin of Everything
Much ado about nothing
Knowledge and Power
Why science is not enough
The Persecution of Heretics
How inconvenient science gets shut down
Alchemy, Anarchy, and Science
Is science the defining triumph of modernity?
Everything Explained
How science holds all answers
The Tyranny of Evidence
Why the absence of proof is not enough
The End of Theory
The rise of big data
The Comedy of Errors
Scientific errors and new adventures
Being Certain
Are convictions dangerous?
Saving Science
The Storm and the Butterfly
Can we refine our scientific models?
Quack Policy
The science distorting public policy
On the Dogmatism Paradox
Is it always wrong to refuse evidence?
Gods and Monsters
Donald Hoffman | In-depth Interview
On Reality and Perception
Tim Maudlin | In-depth Interview
On Quantum Theory and where it might take us
Massimo Pigliucci | In-depth Interview
On stoicism, scepticism, and pseudoscience
A Crack In Everything
Slavoj Žižek debates whether Paradoxes are here to stay
Emily Thomas | In-depth Interview
On travel, time and women in philosophy
Science, Trust and Truth
When to interrogate the data
The half-life of Science
Do scientific facts exist?
Beyond material
Should we embrace the immaterial?
The key to progress
Is science dangerous?
Science and discovery
The limits of knowledge
Challenging the scientific dogma
An interview with Rupert Sheldrake
The known and the unknown
Finding our way through the fog of uncertainty
Trust in a relative world
An interview with Maria Baghramian
Experimenting with the truth
The importance of objectivity in science
The hunt for expertise
The logical labyrinth
Understanding ourselves
The nature and data of morality
The limits of Western thought
Why non-Western science is paramount
How philosophy occupies the everyday
An interview with Timothy Williamson
Dangerous data
Is unwavering trust in science a dangerous move?
Science needs philosophy
An interview with Sabine Hossenfelder
Reality, fantasy and metaphor
Are scientific metaphors a real description of reality?
The search for certainty
Should we give up the dream of certainty?
The trauma of everyday
Have mundane setbacks become catastrophic?
Science and the prejudice of the West
Why we need to decolonise science
How Occam's Razor changed the world
The value of simplicity in a complex world
Head to Head: Philosophy vs Science
Does science need philosophy?
The ignorance of experts
Can we rely on science for the answers?
Philosophy at war
A battle at the heart of philosophy
After knowledge
The limits of knowledge
On the edges of knowledge
How do we assess claims to scientific knowledge?
