Helen Beebee
Manchester Professor of Philosophy, Beebee is President of the Aristotelian Society as well as the British Society for the Philosophy of Science. She is the author of Hume on Causation and Metaphysics: The Key Concepts. Beebee is also an advocate for better representation of women in philosophy.
Manchester Professor of Philosophy, Beebee is President of the Aristotelian Society as well as the British Society for the Philosophy of Science. She is the author of Hume on Causation and Metaphysics: The Key Concepts. Beebee is also an advocate for better representation of women in philosophy.
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Time, Space and Being
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Thinking Across the World
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Lies and Beauty
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In the Beginning Was the Word
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Why The World Exists
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Limits of Thought: John McWhorter and Stanley Fish
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Beyond Quantum
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The Good, the Bad and the Unknown
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The Poetry of the Universe
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When Time Stands Still
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Time's Arrow
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Limits of Language
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The Next Universe
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Why does the world remain puzzling and strange?
Beyond the Machine
Metaphors of the body
The Limits of Science
Truth and the boundaries of knowledge
Decolonising Philosophy
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After the Higgs Boson
What's next for 21st century physics?
The Universe Code
Is information fundamental?
Heraclitus' Dream
Are particles or processes fundamental?
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?
Into the Unknown
What is the future of space exploration?
Unnatural Laws
Are eternal laws an illusion?
Wittgenstein's Collection of Nonsense
After Relativism
The ways forward from post-modernity
The Stuff of the Universe
Is materialism wrong?
Bang Goes Another Theory of the Universe
Are black holes a fantasy?
The Theory of Everything
Are we close to a final theory of the universe?
The Secrets of the World
Can we have a complete description of reality?
It's an Immaterial World
Do particles exist?
Pythagoras' Dream
Is reality mathematical?
Beyond the Standard Model
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Explaining the Inexplicable
Is explanation an illusion?
Something and Nothing
Is there something rather than nothing?
The Reality of Feeling
Reason and Emotion
Life, the Universe and Everything
Is reality beyond reach?
In a Parallel Universe
Are there many worlds?
A Goldilocks World
Is the universe finely tuned for life?
The Prejudice of Facts
Are there no facts, only interpretations?
Uncovering the Unknown
Does science uncover the truth?
Thinking Differently
Language, gender and sexuality
Beyond Knowledge
Is truth an illusion?
The Mathematics of Thought
How has mathematics changed philosophy?
Ultimate Proof
Is evidence an illusion?
This is Our Church
Science as religion
The Laughing Philosopher
Does comedy hold the key to truth and morality?
Language, Metaphor, and Reality
Methaphors to change the world
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?
Unexplained Events
Does everything have a cause and effect?
It's an Immaterial World
Do particles exist?
Wonders of the Big Bang
Reconstructing the first moments of the universe
Uncovering Reality
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Masters of the World
Is the universe mathematical?
Plato Not Prozac
Philosophy's therapeutic power
Fantasy and Reality
Should we 'get real' or embrace fantasy?
The Sex Lives of Philosophers
And what they tell us about their ideas
Stephen Hawking and the Progress of Physics
Understanding the origin of the universe
Conjuring the Universe
The origins of the laws of nature | Peter Atkins
The Elegant Truth
Angela Breitenbach investigates elegance
Quantum Effects in Gravity
Chiara Marletto | A new theory in physics
Demons Among Us
Are germs as imaginary as demons?
Dreams of the Universe
Is particle physics unscientific?
Poetic Theories
Can scientists learn from poets?
To The Edge of Space
What you didn’t know about the cosmos
Revolutions of Knowledge
The future of physics
The Eureka Moment
Are mavericks the real innovators in science?
Fantasies and Lies
Are myths dangerous?
Are There Really Many Worlds?
The Origin of Knowledge
The End of Ideas
Has celebrity obliterated the intellectual?
The Next Universe | Roger Penrose
What if the Big Bang wasn't the beginning?
Life in the Universe
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Science, Magic and the Inexplicable
After the Last Magician
Blinded by the Light
Metaphors of truth and reality
The Ultimate Map of Reality
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Thinking the Unthinkable
The limits of thought
The Hunt for Dark Energy
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After Postmodernity
Everything We Know Is Wrong
Can science alone uncover the truth?
Beyond Reality
What are the limits of our understanding?
Science… Fiction?
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Facts and Fantasy
Are facts a fiction?
The Arc of Life: Roger Penrose
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The Elegant Universe
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Leonardo's Vision
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Everywhere and Nowhere
Are binary oppositions real?
The Origin of Everything
Much ado about nothing
The If Machine
Out of Darkness
Are black holes a myth?
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The Dance of Time
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Knowledge and Power
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The Strangeness of Force
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Universes and Fairy Tales
Is ours the only universe?
The Forecast from CERN
How does the Collider change the way we see the world?
Beyond Truth and Falsehood
What is real?
The Persecution of Heretics
How inconvenient science gets shut down
Stranger Than We Think
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Mysteries of the Multiverse
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This Debate Has No Title
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Everything Explained
How science holds all answers
Lost in Space
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The Tyranny of Evidence
Why the absence of proof is not enough
The End of Theory
The rise of big data
God's Map
Charting the universe
The Call of Silence
The route to understanding
Theories, Mysteries and Mistakes
Contradictions in reality
The Comedy of Errors
Scientific errors and new adventures
I Think Therefore Iamb
Poetry gives pleasure, distraction and emotional outlet but can it uncover a greater truth?
Life and the Universe
Are we alone in the cosmos?
Lucidity, Science, and Acausality Illusions
The mysteries of music, free will, and time.
Beyond Words
Is meaning a human fantasy?
Science Under Siege
Is contemporary cosmology just fantasy?
Being Certain
Are convictions dangerous?
Size and the Mystery of Time
How big is an expanding universe?
Error, Lies, and Adventure
Should we embrace our mistakes?
Saving Science
The Storm and the Butterfly
Can we refine our scientific models?
Quack Policy
The science distorting public policy
The Ultimate Particle
Before the Beginning, After the End
On the Dogmatism Paradox
Is it always wrong to refuse evidence?
Error, Lies and Adventure Part 2
Maps of Mystery
Can art help us catch sight of the ineffable? Or, do we mystify existence at our peril?
Heresy, Truth and the Future
Challenging the status quo
Gods and Monsters
Why we all need Big Ideas
Search for the Higgs Boson
Can the 'God Particle' unlock the secrets of the universe?
Once Upon a Time the End
The True and the Trivial
Can comedy convey profound ideas?
The Illusion of Now
Is time static or fluid?
The Universe That Wasn't There
In Search of Dark Matter and Dark Energy
Cumrun Vafa | In-depth Interview
On string theory, quantum mechanics, and beyond
The Adventure of Space
Why Apollo 11 was a global human achievement
Lies, Damned Lies, and Post Truth
Is there still space for alternative perspectives?
Roger Penrose | In-depth Interview
On Gravity and Quantum Mechanics
Saul Kripke on Wittgenstein
On interpretting Wittgenstein
Donald Hoffman | In-depth Interview
On Reality and Perception
Tim Maudlin | In-depth Interview
On Quantum Theory and where it might take us
Catherine Heymans | In-depth Interview
On dark energy, dark matter and beyond
Massimo Pigliucci | In-depth Interview
On stoicism, scepticism, and pseudoscience
A Crack In Everything
Slavoj Žižek debates whether Paradoxes are here to stay
Julian Barbour | In-depth Interview
On the illusion of time, quantum mechanics and beyond
How to Land on Another Planet
Space experts on the challenges of landing on Mars
John Ellis | In-depth interview
On Supersymmetry, Dark Matter, and beyond
Julian Baggini | In-depth Interview
How can philosophy improve public life?
David Malone | In-depth interview
On dualism, artifical intelligence and new ideas about consciousness
Ben Allanach | In-depth interview
On supersymmetry, particle physics and beyond
Emily Thomas | In-depth Interview
On travel, time and women in philosophy
Time is running out for supersymmetry and string theory
Are physicists giving up?
Science, Trust and Truth
When to interrogate the data
Learning to love uncertainty
The individual vs alternative facts
After the god particle
The nightmare scenario
Where are we going?
Tackling science's biggest questions
A physicist's approach to problem-solving
The fun to be had in getting it wrong
The Dark Energy Phenomenon
Have we misunderstood the universe?
Calculating reality
How mathematics shapes our world
The madness of quantum
Difficulties in understanding the integral theory
The half-life of Science
Do scientific facts exist?
Beyond material
Should we embrace the immaterial?
Physics doesn't have to be pretty
Shedding light on theoretical physics
The key to progress
Is science dangerous?
Metaphysics, morality and mayhem
Which theories should we prioritise?
Science and discovery
The limits of knowledge
Confronting crisis
Taking emergencies seriously
The crisis of particle physics
The mystery of reality & physics' biggest problem
Physicists need to learn from their mistakes
An interview with Sabine Hossenfelder
Uncovering the universe
Can science really reveal its secrets?
Challenging the scientific dogma
An interview with Rupert Sheldrake
The known and the unknown
Finding our way through the fog of uncertainty
What's wrong with physics
How can we regain its once great reputation?
Our story of the universe
And how it really began
Uncovering black holes
How to listen to the celestial giants
Cosmological mysteries
An interview with Chris Impey
What's eating the universe?
An interview with renowned physicist Paul Davies
Trust in a relative world
An interview with Maria Baghramian
Experimenting with the truth
The importance of objectivity in science
In Conversation with Carlo Rovelli & Jim Al-Khalili
On fundamental physics and the nature of reality
East meets west
Can Buddhism inform science?
Newton's Space
And its enduring impact
Beyond Us: Language
Episode 3: The uses and limitations of language
The breakdown of cosmology
Exploring its biggest problems
Lessons from the universe
An interview with Airbus's Ralph Cordey
The anti-universe
The biggest jump in physics?
Beyond Us: Growth
Episode 4: What is growth for?
The hunt for expertise
The logical labyrinth
Space, the new Wild West
Why space and why now?
The black hole paradox
The universe's unsolved mysteries
The survival paradox
Have we evolved to see the truth about reality?
Time and a new story of the universe
Moving towards a unified physics
Belief, hypocrisy and reason
The difference between opinion and truth
Understanding ourselves
The nature and data of morality
The limits of Western thought
Why non-Western science is paramount
Nothing but the truth
Are all views essentially perspectival?
Philosophy for cynical times
An interview with Slavoj Žižek
The end of physics as we know it
Is it time to throw away the Standard Model?
Beyond time and space
Locking horns over the arrows of time
How to leave the planet
What’s out there?
The stories that make us
How stories shape our understanding of reality
Alive in the universe
Why are we so determined to believe in alien life?
Planck and the consciousness puzzle
Can we see matter as derivative of consciousness?
Language, animals and us
The uniqueness of human language
Cosmology's Biggest Questions
The questions keeping cosmologists up at night
The return of idealism
A re-examination of knowledge, reality and truth
New theories of the universe
Is it time to move past the standard model?
Mind, Maps and Reality
Finding order in our universe
The Trouble with Truth
Embracing a radical alternative to reality
Life in the quantum universe
Quantum mechanics in the natural world
The end of the universe
Can we predict the fate of the universe?
The unsayable
Can language adequately capture reality?
Our place in the cosmos
An exploration into the night sky
The return of metaphysics
Should we return to grand stories about reality?
Asking ultimate questions
Enquiring into the nature of reality
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
Life, the universe, and everything else
Has science rendered philosophy redundant?
Determinism is a superstition
An interview with James Tartaglia
Reality, fantasy and metaphor
Are scientific metaphors a real description of reality?
The quest for a final theory
Can we find a theory of everything?
The universe, fixity and flux
Exploring the laws of the universe
Untangling space and time
Framing the fundamental laws with Tim Maudlin
The world is not made of things
An interview with Iain McGilchrist
From the matrix to the metaverse
Finding meaning in a virtual world
The world that disappeared
Can we be sure there is a physical reality?
A matter of facts
The value of truth in contemporary society
Seeing how it is
Can empirical observation lead us to the truth?
Language and power
Is language capable of communicating experience?
The life and philosophy of Martin Rees
An interview with Martin Rees
Postmodernism in the dock
Are we right to abandon objective truth?
On the nature of reality
The limits of materialism
The search for certainty
Should we give up the dream of certainty?
The trauma of everyday
Have mundane setbacks become catastrophic?
The mystery of the multiverse
Should we abandon the multiverse theory?
Science and the prejudice of the West
Why we need to decolonise science
What the world is made of
What is the fundamental nature of reality?
Solving the dark matter mystery
Exploring the dark side of physics
Lost in language
Is analytic philosophy's fixation on language holding us back?
The edge of the universe
Is the idea of infinity nonsense or a key insight?
The world after reality
Reality is dead
From one universe to the next
An interview with Roger Penrose
Finding an ultimate theory of everything
Eric Weinstein and Michael Shermer in conversation
Cosmology and the big bust
Should we abandon the Big Bang theory?
The one true story
Is philosophy the disinterested pursuit of truth?
The code to the cosmos
Is maths the language of the universe?
Cosmology needs philosophy
An interview with Bjørn Ekeberg
How Occam's Razor changed the world
The value of simplicity in a complex world
The making of reality
An interview with Hilary Lawson
Science fact or science fiction?
Are some scientific theories fictional speculation?
Gravitational waves: a new frontier?
Black holes, gravity and the future of cosmology
The future of cosmology with Roger Penrose
Is the universe reborn in cycles?
The theory to end all theories
Is a theory of everything possible?
Head to Head: Philosophy vs Science
Does science need philosophy?
The ignorance of experts
Can we rely on science for the answers?
The science of uncertainty with Tim Palmer
Uncertainty as the essence of understanding
Beyond the Darkness
Dark Matter: A Baseless Hypothesis?
How philosophy got lost
An interview with philosopher Slavoj Žižek
The strangeness of the universe
A weird and wonderful world
The demons of thermodynamics
Seeing the world through the geometry of chaos
Getting everything, losing everything
The dawn of a new reality?
A world by any other name
Can we crack our relationship to language?
The secrets of the universe
The Higgs boson, dark matter and other mysteries
How I changed my mind about truth
An interview with philosopher Simon Blackburn
The dark matter myth
An interview with astrophysicist Pavel Kroupa
Beyond the big bang
How to reimagine our cosmological model
The trouble with string theory
Is string theory doomed?
The end of everything
Is a theory of everything just around the corner?
The best and worst of all possible worlds
Are there alternate realities to ours?
The reality beyond spacetime
Is spacetime doomed?
Philosophy at war
A battle at the heart of philosophy
In Conversation: Iain McGilchrist and Hilary Lawson
Can we make sense of the cosmos?
After knowledge
The limits of knowledge
Stephon Alexander on the Fear of a Black Universe
What are Breakthroughs in Science?
Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered?
Are There Other Dimensions?
Why Is There Anything At All?
Rhetoric and reality
Why is language no guide to reality?
Fantasy, faith, and physics
The hidden motivations of physicists
Reality, models, and mayhem
Can science provide a complete account of reality?
Data needs theory
Exploring the mysteries of the universe
