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Helen Lederer

Helen Lederer is an English comedian, actress, and writer of many books, including Losing It.

Helen Lederer is an English comedian, actress, and writer of many books, including Losing It.

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Philosophy vs Science

On reason and the search for truth

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The Reality Illusion

Has perception evolved to trick us?

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On Language and Logic

Why language dominates philosophy

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Thinking Dangerously, Living Differently

Can philosophy change how we think?

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The Word and the World

What are the limits of language?

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The Edge of Reality

Where mathematical metaphors meet reality

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The Future of the Post-Truth World

Is the era of objective truth over?

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Stories to Change the World

On rhetoric, meaning and language

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The Laws of the Universe

Are the laws of nature just human constructs?

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Making Sense of Reality

Do we see what they tell us to see?

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Beyond Experience

What is the nature of reality?

Thinking Across the World

Julian Baggini | Non-western philosophy traditions

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Lies and Beauty

Is lying somehow essential to our lives?

Robert Rowland Smith,Hilary Lawson,Michael Potter,John Searle

The Limits of My World

Was philosophy's linguistic turn a mistake?

Hilary Lawson,Joanna Kavenna,Janne Teller,Stephen Neale

In the Beginning Was the Word

Is the world dependent on language?

Christopher Hamilton,Hilary Lawson,Nancy Cartwright,Corine Besson

Language and the World

How does language describe the world?

James Garvey,Rupert Read,Nassim Nicholas Taleb

How do you solve a problem like uncertainty?

A new paradigm of risk

Hannah Dawson,Stanley Fish,John McWhorter

Limits of Thought: John McWhorter and Stanley Fish

Can we think outside of language?

Roger Penrose,Markus Gabriel,Sabine Hossenfelder,David Malone

Truth and Beauty

Do beautiful theories really explain the world?

Phillip Blond,Natalie Bennett,Roger Scruton

Dreaming the Future

Utopia and the Limits of Thought

Hilary Lawson,Joanna Kavenna,Stanley Fish,Genia Schönbaumsfeld

Limits of Language

Can we find the right words for everything?

Rana Mitter,Robert Rowland Smith,John Ellis,Janne Teller

The Known, The Strange and the New

Why does the world remain puzzling and strange?

Joanna Kavenna,Colin Blakemore,David Malone,Rupert Sheldrake

Beyond the Machine

Metaphors of the body

David Malone,Eleanor Knox,Carlo Rovelli,Daniel Stoljar,Huw Price

Heraclitus' Dream

Are particles or processes fundamental?

John Ellis,Rupert Sheldrake,Nancy Cartwright,Alok Jha

Unnatural Laws

Are eternal laws an illusion?

Wittgenstein's Collection of Nonsense

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After Relativism

The ways forward from post-modernity

Rufus Duits,Paul Boghossian,Rupert Sheldrake,Hilary Lawson,Rebecca Roache

The Secrets of the World

Can we have a complete description of reality?

Robert Rowland Smith,Carol Gilligan,Deborah Cameron

Thinking Differently

Language, gender and sexuality

Julian Baggini,Caspar Melville,Katy Brand,John Ó Maoilearca

The Laughing Philosopher

Does comedy hold the key to truth and morality?

Hilary Lawson,Joanna Kavenna,Maurice Glasman,Michael Erard

Language, Metaphor, and Reality

Methaphors to change the world

George Ellis,Nancy Cartwright,Tara Shears,Michael Duff

Unexplained Events

Does everything have a cause and effect?

Plato Not Prozac

Philosophy's therapeutic power

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Fantasy and Reality

Should we 'get real' or embrace fantasy?

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The Sex Lives of Philosophers

And what they tell us about their ideas

Joanna Kavenna,Angie Hobbs,,Hannah Dawson

Fantasies and Lies

Are myths dangerous?

Polly Toynbee,Christopher Hamilton,Peter Hacker,Jonathan Derbyshire

The End of Ideas

Has celebrity obliterated the intellectual?

Hilary Lawson,Giles Fraser,Adrian Moore,James Ladyman

The Ultimate Map of Reality

Could a metaphysical revival be on the agenda?

Robert Rowland Smith,Mark Rowlands,Hannah Dawson,Simon Saunders

Thinking the Unthinkable

The limits of thought

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After Postmodernity

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Beyond Reality

What are the limits of our understanding?

Steve Fuller,Julian Barbour,Nancy Cartwright,Maggie Aderin-Pocock

The Elegant Universe

Is truth always simple?

Andrew Copson,Barry C. Smith,Hilary Lawson,Hilary Rose,Luciano Floridi

Everywhere and Nowhere

Are binary oppositions real?

Barry C. Smith,Robert Rowland Smith,James Williams,Anita Avramides

Beyond Truth and Falsehood

What is real?

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Stranger Than We Think

Do supernatural beliefs reflect the limits of human understanding?

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Dangerously Big Ideas

Do we need grand theories?

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This Debate Has No Title

Solving the self-referential paradox

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God's Map

Charting the universe

Mark Vernon,Penny Rimbaud,Laurie Taylor,Emma Borg

The Call of Silence

The route to understanding

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I Think Therefore Iamb

Poetry gives pleasure, distraction and emotional outlet but can it uncover a greater truth?