The limits of knowledge | Rupert Sheldrake, S...

What do the Soviet Union and the current British economy have in common? What can studying the philosophy of science reveal about our economic systems? Is the depoliticisation of economics a dangerous pipe dream?Join political economist Abby Innes as she argues that treating soci ...  Show more

Who are we? Why are we here? Does life have a meaning beyond itself? Join former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, and groundbreaking psychiatrist, literary scholar and author of 'The Matter with Things', Iain McGilchrist, to explore the nature of meaning, and why we shou ...  Show more

On this episode of the podcast, we discuss Kant’s views on the limits of human knowledge. First, we ask ourselves why we seek knowledge at all and whether there will ever be an endpoint to our search for it. Next, we discuss our human experience of the world in contrast to the wo ...  Show more

"أنا أفكر إذًا أنا موجود"~ René Descartesالشك لا يمكن أن يكون أساس المعرفة يناقش وسيم ورفيق رغبة البشر في "اليقينية"، متناولين👇- فلسفة ديكارت في المعرفة وتأثيرها عبر العصور المختلفة- التمييز بين الإثبات والدليلالإثبات👈 في مجال الرياضيات والمنطق المُجرد فقط - تثبت نظرية بما لا ي ...  Show more

Sam Harris revisits the central argument he made in his book, The Moral Landscape, about the reality of moral truth. He discusses the way concepts like "good" and "evil" can be thought about objectively, the primacy of our intuiti ...

Sam Harris speaks with Robert Sapolsky about the widespread belief in free will. They discuss the limits of intuition, the views of Dan Dennett, complexity and emergence, downward causation, abstraction, epigenetics, predictability, fatalism, Benjamin Libet, the primacy of luc ...