“Einstein himself saw theories, not as collections of truths, but as heuristic tools for investigating reality.”

Lydia Patton explores the challenges brought upon the General Relativity theory and how they reinforce Einstein’s convictions. iai.tv/articles/black…

From Kant to Locke, we associate the enlightenment with a period of moving from dogmatic thinking to the search for objective truth. But is the enlightenment really that value-free? Kehinde Andrews explores the racist dogmas embedded in our value systems.iai.tv/video/confront…

'Over a century ago the Spanish Flu pandemic gave way to a decade of hedonism, swiftly followed by the Wall Street Crash. Will we now follow the same path once more?

Yaron Brook, Soma Ghosh (she/her) and Steve Taylor debate pleasure and responsibility. iai.tv/video/the-new-…

“If we accept that the application of rationality from leading philosophers in the 18th and 19th century was mistaken, what’s to stop us thinking the same now?” Charlie Barnett explains why reason alone is useless and even a dangerous tool. iai.tv/articles/is-ra…

In times of turmoil, we turn to the media for guidance in understanding the world. But our confidence in the impartiality of the news is declining swiftly.

alan rusbridger and The New European - Think Without Borders's Matt Kelly explore how to reclaim journalistic integrity. iai.tv/video/dangerou…

'Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.' - Immanuel Kant

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“If we take Hare and Socrates seriously, we’re not weak at all when we hit the snooze button. We’re rational beings, acting in harmony with our values.”

Rebecca Roache explain why procrastination does not really exist. iai.tv/articles/there…

“Any path towards a more equal society has to focus on that much bigger inequality, at the outset by democratising the economy,” argues Ben Burgis.

@ThangamMP, Nemone and Ben Burgis explore the undervalued people in our society. iai.tv/video/society-…

“Leaving consciousness out we get contemporary cosmology and physics. Putting consciousness in we get a whole new way of thinking about the universe.' Rupert Sheldrake, Sabine Hossenfelder & Dr Bjørn Ekeberg get to grips with the strangeness of the universe. iai.tv/video/the-stra…

“We should not succumb to the ideal fantasy of democracy as a specific series of endpoints, but understand it as a point of departure.” Zac Gershberg
and Alexis Papazoglou discuss culture, free communication and the inherent threats of democracy. iai.tv/articles/the-p…

Can we have any virtues without the concepts of good and evil? Maria Balaska explains why goodness is a bedrock value.

Watch the full debate on the distinction between good and evil, also featuring Richard Wrangham, Slavoj Žižek, and Rowan Williams: iai.tv/video/the-end-…

'There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.' - Socrates

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The transhumanist dream, the merging of humans with machines, may soon be a reality.

In this talk, Luke Robert Mason glimpses into the possibilities of our technologically enhanced future. iai.tv/video/wave-goo…

“There is no energy source that doesn’t have an environmental burden going with it,” stresses Mike Berners-Lee in debate with Lierre Keith and Chris Huhne on whether renewable energy can be the solution to climate change. iai.tv/video/in-searc…

“We didn’t just make our technology; our technology made us.”

Nigel Shadbolt explores the impact of new technologies and how we can harness their power for a brighter future. iai.tv/video/digital-…

“A death is an end not just of a creature’s biological existence, but to the world of meaning that an individual has built with others.” Theos Think Tank's Paul Bickley on the non-spiritual interpretation of immorality given by technology and transhumanism. iai.tv/articles/the-a…

The multiverse is unscientific nonsense, argues Harvard University's Jacob Barandes: “This point merits reiterating: no experiment has ever actually seen an atom in two places at once, let alone a cat being both alive and dead.” iai.tv/articles/the-m…

'Most people can bear adversity; but if you wish to know what a man really is give him power.' - Robert Green Ingersoll

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We will all, presumably, die one day. That much is certain. But how we die, is at least somewhat, up to us.

Steve Luper turns to Buddha, Socrates, Epicurus, Zeno, and Nietzsche for wisdom and solace on how to deal with our inevitable end. iai.tv/articles/five-…

“The ego is predatory, self-centred and a regrettable necessity in the early phases of psychic development,” argues Dr Iain McGilchrist.

Alongside him, Bence Nanay, Betty Sue Flowers and Anil Ananthaswamy clash views over the idea of self-knowledge. iai.tv/video/catching…