Hilary Lawson
Post-postmodern Philosopher
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. Find out more at https://www.hilarylawson.com.
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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. Find out more at https://www.hilarylawson.com.
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What Machines Can't Do
Will computers ever match human intelligence?
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The trouble with language
Does language describe reality?
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The Reality Illusion
Has perception evolved to trick us?
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Reality after realism
Embracing the death of language
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The Illusion of Sense
Do our senses radically limit our understanding?
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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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Post-Truth and Postmodernism
Is truth just a construct?
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Beyond Experience
What is the nature of reality?
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After the End of Truth
Is there such a thing as objective truth?
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The Strangeness of Things
Are things a necessary foundation of reality?
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The Limits of My World
Was philosophy's linguistic turn a mistake?
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In the Beginning Was the Word
Is the world dependent on language?
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Language and the World
How does language describe the world?
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Down the Rabbit Hole
Confronting the limits of perception.
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Story Time
Is objective news an illusion?
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Limits of Language
Can we find the right words for everything?
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After Post-Truth
How do we navigate a world where truth is tribal?
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After Relativism
The ways forward from post-modernity
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The Stuff of the Universe
Is materialism wrong?
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The Secrets of the World
Can we have a complete description of reality?
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It's an Immaterial World
Do particles exist?
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Pythagoras' Dream
Is reality mathematical?
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The Secrets of the Uncanny
What does our sense of the uncanny say about us?
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Beyond Knowledge
Is truth an illusion?
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Language, Metaphor, and Reality
Methaphors to change the world
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Truth, Error & Adventure
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Uncovering Reality
Physics, truth and metaphor
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The Ultimate Map of Reality
Could a metaphysical revival be on the agenda?
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After Postmodernity
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Beyond Reality
What are the limits of our understanding?
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Facts and Fantasy
Are facts a fiction?
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Everywhere and Nowhere
Are binary oppositions real?
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The Strangeness of Force
Do forces really exist?
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True to Myself
Morality, virtues & consequences
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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
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Theories, Mysteries and Mistakes
Contradictions in reality
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Sensuality and Deception
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The Screen Age
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Beyond Words
Is meaning a human fantasy?
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A Wonder Full World
Is the sublime real?
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The Mirror to Nature
The wonder of the wild vs. our imagination
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Michael Eavis and the Paradise Hunters
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The Ultimate Particle
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Irony, Truth and Reality
Confronting the limits of sincerity
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Error, Lies and Adventure Part 2
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Maps of Mystery
Can art help us catch sight of the ineffable? Or, do we mystify existence at our peril?
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Shooting Truth
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Rise of the Machines
AI: a science fiction fantasy?
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The perception bias
Is bias at the heart of how we see the world?
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The AI illusion
What does the future really have in store?
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Beyond time and space
Locking horns over the arrows of time
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A world by any other name
Can we crack our relationship to language?
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In search of freedom
Do we choose to follow the rules?
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Postmodernism in the dock
Are we right to abandon objective truth?
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The matrix, myths, and metaphysics
Is metaphysics still relevant?
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Uncovering the universe
Can science really reveal its secrets?
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Mind, Maps and Reality
Finding order in our universe
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Philosophy at war
A battle at the heart of philosophy
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Consciousness and the world
The relationship between experience and reality
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The search for certainty
Should we give up the dream of certainty?
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Being good and being bad
Morality in the modern world
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The Trouble with Truth
Embracing a radical alternative to reality
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The unsayable
Can language adequately capture reality?
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In Conversation: Iain McGilchrist and Hilary Lawson
Can we make sense of the cosmos?
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Belief, hypocrisy and reason
The difference between opinion and truth
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The oldest gods
Should we return to the gods of nature?
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Lost in language
Is analytic philosophy's fixation on language holding us back?
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Reality after realism
Embracing the death of language
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Virtue and vice
Is our belief in morality a dangerous fantasy?
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The return of metaphysics
Should we return to grand stories about reality?
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Hilary Lawson on Closure
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Nothing but the truth
Are all views essentially perspectival?
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The world after reality
Reality is dead
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The trouble with language
Does language describe reality?
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Memes all the way down
Is Dawkins' concept useful?
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Necessity and lies
Is it ever right to lie? Is honesty ever wrong?
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The making of reality
An interview with Hilary Lawson
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New gods and lost rituals
Should religion play a role in modern life?
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The mystery of emergence
Is complexity a cop-out?
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Tribal Truths and New Wisdoms
In a 'post-truth' world, what can we believe in?
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The theory to end all theories
Is a theory of everything possible?
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A Crack In Everything
Slavoj Žižek debates whether Paradoxes are here to stay
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Reality, fantasy and metaphor
Are scientific metaphors a real description of reality?