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Joanna Kavenna

Winner of the Orange First Novel prize for Inglorious.

Winner of the Orange First Novel prize, Joanna Kavenna’s works include A Field Guide to Reality, The Ice Museum and Inglorious. Her journalism has appeared in the London Review of Books, The Guardian, and the New York Times.

Winner of the Orange First Novel prize, Joanna Kavenna’s works include A Field Guide to Reality, The Ice Museum and Inglorious. Her journalism has appeared in the London Review of Books, The Guardian, and the New York Times.

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Joanna Kavenna,Eva Jablonka,Ray Brassier,Markus Gabriel

Matter and Mind

Is consciousness inexplicable?

Steve Fuller,Richard Bentall,Yasmin Alibhai-Brown,Joanna Kavenna

Who We Have Been and Who We Are

Is memory a recollection or a construction?

Hilary Lawson,Joanna Kavenna,Stanley Fish,Genia Schönbaumsfeld

Limits of Language

Can we find the right words for everything?

Roger Penrose,Iain McGilchrist,Joanna Kavenna,Nicholas Humphrey

Secrets of the Mind

Can science explain consciousness?

Hilary Lawson,Joanna Kavenna,Michela Massimi,Ray Brassier

Beyond Knowledge

Is truth an illusion?

Hilary Lawson,Joanna Kavenna,Maurice Glasman,Michael Erard

Language, Metaphor, and Reality

Methaphors to change the world

Mike Figgis,Joanna Kavenna,Sean Holmes,Robert Eaglestone

The Nature of Evil

Can art vanquish evil?

Joanna Kavenna,Steve Taylor,Jack Symes,Frank Tallis,Anneli Jefferson

The real me

Understanding our inner voices

Joanna Kavenna,Janne Teller,Bence Nanay,Hannah Sullivan

The obscure, the banal, and the magical

Has poetry lost its vision?

Renata Salecl,Simon Blackburn,Philip Goff,Joanna Kavenna

The known and the unknown

Finding our way through the fog of uncertainty

Hilary Lawson,Joanna Kavenna,Rupert Sheldrake,Peter Atkins,Güneş Taylor

Reality, fantasy and metaphor

Are scientific metaphors a real description of reality?

Frank Furedi,Joanna Kavenna,Isabel Millar,John Vervaeke

In search of oneself

The risk of self reflection

Joanna Kavenna,Rupert Sheldrake,Tommy J. Curry,Suchitra Sebastian

After knowledge

The limits of knowledge

Mark Salter,Joanna Kavenna,Lucy Johnstone,Sarah Garfinkel

Heaven is other people

Is mental wellbeing a purely social issue?

Joanna Kavenna,Timothy Morton,Marijam Didžgalvytė,Freya India

Caught in time

Should we stop recording and recounting our lives?

Joanna Kavenna,Slavoj Žižek

The life and philosophy of Slavoj Žižek

Celebrity philosopher reflects on his life's work

Joanna Kavenna,Galen Strawson,Massimo Pigliucci,Sarah Garfinkel

Beyond innocence and guilt

Is moral responsibility a mere illusion?

Joanna Kavenna,Aaron Bastani,Simon Wessely,Praveetha Patalay

Power, politics, and mental health

Rewriting mental health

Joanna Kavenna,Janne Teller,Paul Muldoon,James Tartaglia,Isy Suttie

Infinity in the palm of your hand

Can art uncover the essence of the world?

Stanley Fish,Joanna Kavenna,Martin Puchner,Claire Hynes

The crisis of the new

Is the idea of the new a fantasy?

Brian Eno,Joanna Kavenna,Sophie Fiennes,Claire van Kampen,Ammar Kalia

The tyranny of the new

Is innovation unstoppable?

Hilary Lawson,Joanna Kavenna,Eric Weinstein,Becky Parker

The matrix, myths, and metaphysics

Is metaphysics still relevant?

Joanna Kavenna,Donald Hoffman,Same Coleman,Hannah Critchlow

The key to consciousness

Is materialism a fundamental mistake?

Julian Barbour,Tim Maudlin,Emily Thomas,Joanna Kavenna

The Illusion of Now

Is time static or fluid?

Adjoa Andoh,Joanna Kavenna,Kehinde Andrews,Will Self

The end of the whitewash

Colourblind casting and historical accuracy

Hilary Lawson,Joanna Kavenna,Tim Maudlin

The trouble with language

Does language describe reality?

Hilary Lawson,Joanna Kavenna,Arif Ahmed,Ruth Kempson

A world by any other name

Can we crack our relationship to language?

Sacha Golob,Åsa Wikforss,Steve Fuller,Peter Pomeranstev,Joanna Kavenna

Lies, Damned Lies, and Post Truth

Is there still space for alternative perspectives?

Joanna Kavenna,Anders Sandberg,Dan Zahavi,Lisa Bortolotti

Are you an illusion?

Reshaping the self