Many readers will likely be interested in this new documentary featuring the work of the Big Questions in Free Will project, from the series Closer to Truth:
Videos
IAI @philofbrains: “After the End of Truth”
A generation raised on Foucault and Derrida has learned to distrust claims to objective truth. Yet the mantra that ‘there is no truth’ is a paradox. Do we need a new conception of fantasy and reality to free us from the tyranny of truthmakers and the paradoxes of postmodernists alike?
Philosopher John Searle, post-postmodernist Hilary Lawson, and Historian of Ideas at Kings College London Hannah Dawson untangle the truth.
This video was produced by The Institute of Art and Ideas and is republished here with permission. It was filmed at HowTheLightGetsIn 2015 alongside 200 other debates and talks, all available for free at IAI TV. Their new podcast, Philosophy for our times, is available here.
Aristotle was wrong …
… about the number of our senses, according to Barry C. Smith in this new video from Aeon. For a dissenting view with lots of ensuing discussion, look back to our inaugural Mind & Language symposium, on Louise Richardson’s “Flavour, Taste, and Smell”.
Maggie Boden, Hubert Dreyfus, and others on the future of AI
Another video discussion from the Institute for Art and Ideas:
Ted Honderich on the Scope of Consciousness
The Science and Philosophy of Consciousness
Another IAI forum, with Steve Fuller, Iain McGilchrist, and Roger Penrose:
Has physics made philosophy obsolete?
Once again, of course not! (Otherwise we wouldn’t be asking this question, would we?) Still, watch Angie Hobbs and Mary Midgley try to explain to Laurence Krauss why not, in this forum hosted by the Institute for Art and Ideas:
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