Hilary Lawson
Philosopher, broadcaster, and IAI Founder
Hilary Lawson is a post-postmodern philosopher and a renowned critic of philosophical realism. He is best known for his work on reflexivity and his theory of Closure, which puts forward a non-realist metaphysics arguing that we close the openness of the world with our thought and language.
Hilary Lawson is a post-postmodern philosopher and a renowned critic of philosophical realism. He is best known for his work on reflexivity and his theory of Closure, which puts forward a non-realist metaphysics arguing that we close the openness of the world with our thought and language.
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What Machines Can't Do
Will computers ever match human intelligence?
Necessity and lies
Is it ever right to lie? Is honesty ever wrong?
The Reality Illusion
Has perception evolved to trick us?
Hilary Lawson on Closure
The Illusion of Sense
Do our senses radically limit our understanding?
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The Edge of Reality
Where mathematical metaphors meet reality
The Future of the Post-Truth World
Is the era of objective truth over?
Post-Truth and Postmodernism
Is truth just a construct?
Beyond Experience
What is the nature of reality?
After the End of Truth
Is there such a thing as objective truth?
The Strangeness of Things
Are things a necessary foundation of reality?
The Limits of My World
Was philosophy's linguistic turn a mistake?
In the Beginning Was the Word
Is the world dependent on language?
Language and the World
How does language describe the world?
Down the Rabbit Hole
Confronting the limits of perception.
Story Time
Is objective news an illusion?
Limits of Language
Can we find the right words for everything?
After Post-Truth
How do we navigate a world where truth is tribal?
After Relativism
The ways forward from post-modernity
The Stuff of the Universe
Is materialism wrong?
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?
The Secrets of the Uncanny
What does our sense of the uncanny say about us?
Beyond Knowledge
Is truth an illusion?
Language, Metaphor, and Reality
Methaphors to change the world
Truth, Error & Adventure
Uncovering Reality
Physics, truth and metaphor
The Ultimate Map of Reality
Could a metaphysical revival be on the agenda?
After Postmodernity
Beyond Reality
What are the limits of our understanding?
Facts and Fantasy
Are facts a fiction?
Everywhere and Nowhere
Are binary oppositions real?
The Strangeness of Force
Do forces really exist?
True to Myself
Morality, virtues & consequences
Dangerously Big Ideas
Do we need grand theories?
This Debate Has No Title
Solving the self-referential paradox
God's Map
Charting the universe
Theories, Mysteries and Mistakes
Contradictions in reality
Sensuality and Deception
The Screen Age
Beyond Words
Is meaning a human fantasy?
A Wonder Full World
Is the sublime real?
The Mirror to Nature
The wonder of the wild vs. our imagination
Michael Eavis and the Paradise Hunters
The Ultimate Particle
Irony, Truth and Reality
Confronting the limits of sincerity
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?
Shooting Truth
Rise of the Machines
AI: a science fiction fantasy?
A Crack In Everything
Slavoj Žižek debates whether Paradoxes are here to stay
In search of freedom
Do we choose to follow the rules?
Consciousness and the world
The relationship between experience and reality
Belief, hypocrisy and reason
The difference between opinion and truth
Nothing but the truth
Are all views essentially perspectival?
Beyond time and space
Locking horns over the arrows of time
Mind, Maps and Reality
Finding order in our universe
The unsayable
Can language adequately capture reality?
The return of metaphysics
Should we return to grand stories about reality?
Memes all the way down
Is Dawkins' concept useful?
New gods and lost rituals
Should religion play a role in modern life?
Reality, fantasy and metaphor
Are scientific metaphors a real description of reality?
Postmodernism in the dock
Are we right to abandon objective truth?
The search for certainty
Should we give up the dream of certainty?
Lost in language
Is analytic philosophy's fixation on language holding us back?
The world after reality
Reality is dead
The making of reality
An interview with Hilary Lawson
The theory to end all theories
Is a theory of everything possible?
A world by any other name
Can we crack our relationship to language?
Philosophy at war
A battle at the heart of philosophy
In Conversation: Iain McGilchrist and Hilary Lawson
Can we make sense of the cosmos?
Hilary Lawson on Closure
Necessity and lies
Is it ever right to lie? Is honesty ever wrong?
The oldest gods
Should we return to the gods of nature?
Tribal Truths and New Wisdoms
In a 'post-truth' world, what can we believe in?
The AI illusion
What does the future really have in store?
Uncovering the universe
Can science really reveal its secrets?
The Trouble with Truth
Embracing a radical alternative to reality
Virtue and vice
Is our belief in morality a dangerous fantasy?
