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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-…
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…
“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…
“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-…
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…
“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…
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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…