Martin McQuillan
Literary theorist, cultural critic, author of Deconstructing Disney.
Dean of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, McQuillan’s books include Deconstruction After 9/11and Roland Barthes, or the Profession of Cultural Studies.
Dean of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, McQuillan’s books include Deconstruction After 9/11and Roland Barthes, or the Profession of Cultural Studies.
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Philosophy vs Science
On reason and the search for truth
The Reality Illusion
Has perception evolved to trick us?
On Language and Logic
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Thinking Dangerously, Living Differently
Can philosophy change how we think?
The Word and the World
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The Edge of Reality
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The Future of the Post-Truth World
Is the era of objective truth over?
Stories to Change the World
On rhetoric, meaning and language
The Laws of the Universe
Are the laws of nature just human constructs?
Making Sense of Reality
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Beyond Experience
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Thinking Across the World
Julian Baggini | Non-western philosophy traditions
Lies and Beauty
Is lying somehow essential to our lives?
The Limits of My World
Was philosophy's linguistic turn a mistake?
In the Beginning Was the Word
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Language and the World
How does language describe the world?
How do you solve a problem like uncertainty?
A new paradigm of risk
Limits of Thought: John McWhorter and Stanley Fish
Can we think outside of language?
Truth and Beauty
Do beautiful theories really explain the world?
Dreaming the Future
Utopia and the Limits of Thought
Limits of Language
Can we find the right words for everything?
The Known, The Strange and the New
Why does the world remain puzzling and strange?
Beyond the Machine
Metaphors of the body
Heraclitus' Dream
Are particles or processes fundamental?
Unnatural Laws
Are eternal laws an illusion?
Wittgenstein's Collection of Nonsense
After Relativism
The ways forward from post-modernity
The Secrets of the World
Can we have a complete description of reality?
Thinking Differently
Language, gender and sexuality
The Laughing Philosopher
Does comedy hold the key to truth and morality?
Language, Metaphor, and Reality
Methaphors to change the world
Unexplained Events
Does everything have a cause and effect?
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
Fantasies and Lies
Are myths dangerous?
The End of Ideas
Has celebrity obliterated the intellectual?
The Ultimate Map of Reality
Could a metaphysical revival be on the agenda?
Thinking the Unthinkable
The limits of thought
After Postmodernity
Beyond Reality
What are the limits of our understanding?
The Elegant Universe
Is truth always simple?
Everywhere and Nowhere
Are binary oppositions real?
Beyond Truth and Falsehood
What is real?
Stranger Than We Think
Do supernatural beliefs reflect the limits of human understanding?
Dangerously Big Ideas
Do we need grand theories?
This Debate Has No Title
Solving the self-referential paradox
God's Map
Charting the universe
The Call of Silence
The route to understanding
I Think Therefore Iamb
Poetry gives pleasure, distraction and emotional outlet but can it uncover a greater truth?
Beyond Words
Is meaning a human fantasy?
Error, Lies, and Adventure
Should we embrace our mistakes?
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
Why we all need Big Ideas
Once Upon a Time the End
Lost in language
Is analytic philosophy's fixation on language holding us back?
Metaphysics, morality and mayhem
Which theories should we prioritise?
Fragments and reality
Is the world really made of separate parts?
Nothing but the truth
Are all views essentially perspectival?
The world that disappeared
Can we be sure there is a physical reality?
The life and philosophy of Slavoj Žižek
Celebrity philosopher reflects on his life's work
How I changed my mind about truth
An interview with philosopher Simon Blackburn
The return of metaphysics
Should we return to grand stories about reality?
Lies, Damned Lies, and Post Truth
Is there still space for alternative perspectives?
The world after reality
Reality is dead
Confronting crisis
Taking emergencies seriously
The matrix, myths, and metaphysics
Is metaphysics still relevant?
Language, animals and us
The uniqueness of human language
A matter of facts
The value of truth in contemporary society
Julian Baggini | In-depth Interview
How can philosophy improve public life?
Why we should question everything
An interview with Michael Della Rocca
Asking ultimate questions
Enquiring into the nature of reality
The best and worst of all possible worlds
Are there alternate realities to ours?
The one true story
Is philosophy the disinterested pursuit of truth?
Beyond Us: Language
Episode 3: The uses and limitations of language
The return of idealism
A re-examination of knowledge, reality and truth
Language and power
Is language capable of communicating experience?
David Malone | In-depth interview
On dualism, artifical intelligence and new ideas about consciousness
Dostoevsky vs Nietzsche
The fundamental threat to humanity
Life, the universe, and everything else
Has science rendered philosophy redundant?
In Conversation: Iain McGilchrist and Hilary Lawson
Can we make sense of the cosmos?
The making of reality
An interview with Hilary Lawson
Beyond Us: Growth
Episode 4: What is growth for?
Mind, Maps and Reality
Finding order in our universe
Postmodernism in the dock
Are we right to abandon objective truth?
Learning to love uncertainty
The individual vs alternative facts
Hilary Lawson on Closure
The world is not made of things
An interview with Iain McGilchrist
Rhetoric and reality
Why is language no guide to reality?
Saul Kripke on Wittgenstein
On interpretting Wittgenstein
Getting everything, losing everything
The dawn of a new reality?
The survival paradox
Have we evolved to see the truth about reality?
The Trouble with Truth
Embracing a radical alternative to reality
On the nature of reality
The limits of materialism
Calculating reality
How mathematics shapes our world
Perception as a fantasy
Reality as illusion
From the matrix to the metaverse
Finding meaning in a virtual world
Explaining away truth
An interview with Paul Horwich