Matthew D'Ancona
Columnist for the Guardian. He was previously editor of the Spectator and was the Sunday Telegraph's political columnist for 19 years. He is a visiting research fellow at Queen Mary University of London, and author of several books including In It Together: The Inside Story of the Coalition.
Columnist for the Guardian. He was previously editor of the Spectator and was the Sunday Telegraph's political columnist for 19 years. He is a visiting research fellow at Queen Mary University of London, and author of several books including In It Together: The Inside Story of the Coalition.
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Uncovering the Unknown
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Beyond Knowledge
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Ultimate Proof
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This is Our Church
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The Science Delusion
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Science, Sex and Subjectivity
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The Elegant Truth
Angela Breitenbach investigates elegance
Poetic Theories
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Revolutions of Knowledge
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The Eureka Moment
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The Origin of Knowledge
Science, Magic and the Inexplicable
After the Last Magician
Blinded by the Light
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Everything We Know Is Wrong
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Science… Fiction?
The future of science
Facts and Fantasy
Are facts a fiction?
The Arc of Life: Roger Penrose
A biography of quantum gravity's founding father
Leonardo's Vision
What can art teach science?
The Origin of Everything
Much ado about nothing
Knowledge and Power
Why science is not enough
The Persecution of Heretics
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Is science the defining triumph of modernity?
Everything Explained
How science holds all answers
The Tyranny of Evidence
Why the absence of proof is not enough
The End of Theory
The rise of big data
The Comedy of Errors
Scientific errors and new adventures
Being Certain
Are convictions dangerous?
Saving Science
The Storm and the Butterfly
Can we refine our scientific models?
Quack Policy
The science distorting public policy
On the Dogmatism Paradox
Is it always wrong to refuse evidence?
Gods and Monsters
Challenging the scientific dogma
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The limits of Western thought
Why non-Western science is paramount
Conspiracy and belief
An interview with Michael Shermer
Science, Trust and Truth
When to interrogate the data
After knowledge
The limits of knowledge
Science and the prejudice of the West
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The known and the unknown
Finding our way through the fog of uncertainty
How philosophy occupies the everyday
An interview with Timothy Williamson
Jimena Canales Interview
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Do scientific facts exist?
On the edges of knowledge
How do we assess claims to scientific knowledge?
How Occam's Razor changed the world
The value of simplicity in a complex world
Trust in a relative world
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Science needs philosophy
An interview with Sabine Hossenfelder
Donald Hoffman | In-depth Interview
On Reality and Perception
Beyond material
Should we embrace the immaterial?
The new Renaissance
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Head to Head: Philosophy vs Science
Does science need philosophy?
Experimenting with the truth
The importance of objectivity in science
Reality, fantasy and metaphor
Are scientific metaphors a real description of reality?
Tim Maudlin | In-depth Interview
On Quantum Theory and where it might take us
The key to progress
Is science dangerous?
Dreams, delusions and data
Is Big Data just marketing hype?
The ignorance of experts
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Massimo Pigliucci | In-depth Interview
On stoicism, scepticism, and pseudoscience
The hunt for expertise
The logical labyrinth
The search for certainty
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Science and discovery
The limits of knowledge
The mystery of emergence
Is complexity a cop-out?
Emily Thomas | In-depth Interview
On travel, time and women in philosophy
Philosophy at war
A battle at the heart of philosophy
A Crack In Everything
Slavoj Žižek debates whether Paradoxes are here to stay
Understanding ourselves
The nature and data of morality
The trauma of everyday
Have mundane setbacks become catastrophic?