Beatrix Campbell
Socialist and feminist activist and writer, who has written for the Guardian, New Statesman and Red Rag. Author of nine books including 2014's The End of Equality.
Socialist and feminist activist and writer, Beatrix Campbell has written for the Guardian, New Statesman and Red Rag, as well as nine books including this year's The End of Equality.
Socialist and feminist activist and writer, Beatrix Campbell has written for the Guardian, New Statesman and Red Rag, as well as nine books including this year's The End of Equality.
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The Limits of Logic
Should we embrace the irrational?
Women and Conquest
Is modern sexual culture liberating?
After Equality
Where is feminism going?
After Equality
Where is feminism going?
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In Search Of Ourselves
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What We Cannot Know
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The Limits of Reason
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Post-Truth and Postmodernism
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The Mind and the World
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The Secrets of Consciousness
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The Story of I
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Cause and the Universe
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Mind and the Universe
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Truth, Lies and Self-Deception
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Secrets of the Mind
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The Mind's Eye
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Decolonising Philosophy
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Are our bodies our property?
Being Conscious
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After Post-Truth
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I Am Not A Brain
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Truth and the Universe
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On Having a Mind, Having a Body, and Being a Person
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?
The Fragility of the Human Personality
Ultimate Proof
Is evidence an illusion?
This is Our Church
Science as religion
The Science Delusion
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Truth, Error & Adventure
Science, Sex and Subjectivity
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Dangerous Convictions
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Actual Consciousness
The Limits of Human Consciousness and Thought
Stories of Desire
Can desire help us make sense of the world?
At One With Ourselves
Are meditation and mindfulness just myths?
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?
Mind in the 21st Century
The Tyranny of Freedom
Do we have too much choice?
The Origin of Knowledge
Science, Magic and the Inexplicable
After the Last Magician
The Evolution of Consciousness
The transformative ideas of Owen Barfield
Blinded by the Light
Metaphors of truth and reality
The Edge of Reason
Beyond the limits of rationality
Metaphors of the Mind
Does metaphor hold the key to consciousness?
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
The Road to the Good Life
Is reason the key to a better world?
Knowledge and Power
Why science is not enough
Are Selves Unreal?
Debunking the establishment's attack on the Self
The Persecution of Heretics
How inconvenient science gets shut down
Animal Reason
Is consciousness unique to humans?
Inside the Mind’s Eye
Alchemy, Anarchy, and Science
Is science the defining triumph of modernity?
Catching Sight of Ourselves
Who looks back in the mirror?
The Philosopher’s Guide to Style
Why appearance matters
Everything Explained
How science holds all answers
The Ego Trick
Is the self an illusion?
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
Sensuality and Deception
Who Looks Back in the Mirror
Are we any closer to understanding the self, and what makes each one of us who we are?
Outrageous Fortune
Fate in modern society
The Architecture of Being
Navigating our relationships
Being Certain
Are convictions dangerous?
Saving Science
The Storm and the Butterfly
Can we refine our scientific models?
Entering the Unknown
What can we know of ourselves and the world?
Thinking Afresh
Is consistency consistent?
Quack Policy
The science distorting public policy
On the Dogmatism Paradox
Is it always wrong to refuse evidence?
The View From Outside
Gods and Monsters
Is Descartes Irrelevant?
Should we focus on modern philosophy?
Entering the Soul Niche
How a belief in it has kept humanity going
Rebecca Goldstein | In-depth Interview
On the role of intuiton in Philosophy
Paul Boghossian | In-depth Interview
On truth, intuition and beyond
Timothy Williamson | In-depth Interview
How can philosophy help us think more clearly?
How to Change Your Habits of Thought
Understanding the patterning instinct
The Self Around the World
Why the East/West Distinction is Wrong
In search of freedom
Do we choose to follow the rules?
A History of the Conscious World
Panpsychism's roots in ancient Indian philosophy
The Right Way to Think
Can we trust our reason?
Illusions and Dreams
The philosophy of perception
The miracle of mind
Will there ever be consensus on consciousness?
The consciousness puzzle
Is panpsychism the solution?
The truth about free will
Is choice an illusion?
The freedom paradox
Does free will exist?
The path to the future
Susan Schneider on AI
How to fathom timelessness via psychedelics
What should time mean to us?
The continuity of the self
An interview with Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad
The different places of the self
The problem with individualism
Consciousness and the world
The relationship between experience and reality
Beyond Us: Knowledge
Episode 1: What is knowledge and what is it for?
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Reshaping the self
Arc of life: Daniel Dennett
An interview with the world-renowned philosopher
The rational animal
Are we any good at making decisions?
How to die before you die
Discovering psychedelics in the Ancient world
Beyond Us: Bonus Review
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Ideas, identity and influence
An interview with Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah
The necessity and danger of belief
Does faith undermine knowledge?
Lost in the Matrix
Are we living in a computer simulation?
Hallucinating reality
Anil Seth's radical new theory of the self
Philosophy, psychoanalysis and the wisdom of youth
An interview with Maria Balaska
Free will is a necessary illusion
An interview with the acclaimed Galen Strawson
Consciousness and Fundamental Physics
Is consciousness fundamental to reality?
In conversation with Rupert Sheldrake
An exploration of the mind
Rethinking reason
Is rationality a delusion?
How to lose your head
Exploring the headless way
The dawn of consciousness
Did consciousness evolve?
The new science of consciousness
Will science crack the mystery of consciousness?
Where sceptics fail
An interview with CosmicSkeptic
Catching sight of our self
Is it possible to know ourselves?
Why you can't pay attention
Living in the age of the attention economy
Breaking through the consciousness stalemate
An interview with Philip Goff
How to be a sceptic
Using scepticism in the search for truth
Consciousness in the machine
Could AI ever be conscious?
The passion of reason
Does emotion rule over reason?
A tale of truth with Simon Blackburn
The case against relativism
The future of freedom
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The key to consciousness
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Truth, delusion and psychedelic reality
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AI consciousness cannot exist
Why a mind will never exist in a machine
Taking leave of reason
Is rationality as vital as we thought?
Consciousness and ChatGPT
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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
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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
