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Galen Strawson
Professor of Philosophy at Reading and one of the UK’s leading public intellectuals, his original work on free will and the self has been widely influential.
Professor of Philosophy at Reading and one of the UK’s leading public intellectuals, his original work on free will and the self has been widely influential.
Galen Strawson Videos
Life Story
Making sense of the self
Beyond innocence and guilt
Is moral responsibility a mere illusion?
The Mind's Eye
Consciousness and the soul
The return of metaphysics
Should we return to grand stories about reality?
Galen Strawson Articles
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Minds, Machines and Magic
Is human creativity no more than mechanics?
Life Story
Making sense of the self
Story Time
Is objective news an illusion?
The Art of Life
Are biographies fiction?
Philosophy in the Bedroom
Exploring pain and pleasure
The Art of Imagination
Is art the ultimate arbiter of truth?
The Key to Creativity
Do restrictions breed inventiveness?
Imagining Reality
Can we create fantasy worlds?
Authenticity, Reality and Being
What is it to be real?
At the World's Edge
Fantasy, fiction, and desire
The Doubleness of Oscar Wilde
What's behind the gentlemanly facade?
The King's Will
Mystery and death in the House of Tudor
Strange New Worlds
A new vision of reality
A Spider in the Eye
Authenticity is a Con
The problem with 'truthful' politics
Canon Under Fire
Mirror, Mirror
Can plastic surgery make you more authentic?
Conditions for Creativity
Does censorship create great art?
Myths for Modernity
Fictions and fantasies in an age of reason
The Old Gods: England's Mythic Past
How to Rediscover Your Creativity
Why blue sky thinking is essential
Dark Satanic Mills
Do our landscapes determine our selves?
Taking Humour Seriously
Is humour an essential form of subversion?
Imagining the Truth
Can fantasy reveal reality?
Killer Stories
Why do we fall for narratives?
The Arc of Life: Michael Morpurgo
How reading cultivates empathy
In the Moment
The Fantasy of Technology
Is technology the driver of progress?
The Great Escape
Is fantasy fiction a dangerous crutch?
Visions of Apocalypse
Is the end always nigh?
A Field Guide to Reality
Overcoming the tyranny of realism in literature
Death of the Hero
Icons for a new era
Verses for Eternity
The Mirror to Nature
The wonder of the wild vs. our imagination
Writing the End Times
Tales of an Extravagant Stranger
Austen vs Woolf
The female fantasy
Poetry and the Transmission of Errors
The poetical errors that matter
Uncharted Territory
Lust, Love and the Late Madame Picasso
Seduction, suicide and a courtcase. Godfrey Barker sheds light on Picasso’s final years.
Irony, Truth and Reality
Confronting the limits of sincerity
Our Hopeless Future & Other Comedy
Shooting Truth
The Mara Crossing
Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On
Does Shakespeare’s mystery and magic resonate in a rational age?
Rhyme and Punishment
Art for prisons
Dangerous Virtues
When enticing stories sell shady truths
Order out of Chaos
Knowledge v creativity
Should we value one over the other?
When myth becomes reality
The power of misinformation
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Me, myself and others
Knowing what to believe
Free will: an impossible reality
What physicists get wrong about consciousness
The brain doesn't create consciousness
Are you responsible for your unconscious self?
The Dangers of Musk’s Neuralink
Consciousness is the collapse of the wave function
Free will or no free will, punishment is justified
The impotence of reason
Schrödinger and the conscious universe
Why panpsychism is baloney
Imagination, consciousness and animal dreams
The free will debate has real-world consequences
Denis Noble: Free will is not an illusion
Consciousness may not require a brain
Big tech doesn’t want AI to become conscious
Pinker on the power of irrationality
Future AI in the therapist's chair
When are intuitions a good guide to reality?
Nietzsche: ignorance sets us free
Why Steven Pinker is wrong about rationality
Consciousness begins with feeling, not thinking
The absurdity of mind as machine
Is rationality a fiction?
Brain noise doesn't explain consciousness
David Nutt: entropy explains consciousness
Bias doesn't always undermine truth
Brain vs Heart: a false dichotomy
Free will is an invention