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- From the Vaults: Streaming Consciousness
Eimear McBride and Kaye Mitchell discuss what literature and philosophy can tell us about the self
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0 min - From the vaults: Anatomy of a Language
In this episode, we probe the philosophical underpinnings of grammar and how it functions in communication, understanding and humour.
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0 min - From the vaults: Reason and Rhetoric
Political discussion often turns ugly. John Crace, Catarina Dutilh Novaes, William Outhwaite, and Jo Phillips explore whether spin and negative campaigning are an unavoidable, even essential, feature of political life.
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0 min - From the vaults: Bad Language
In this episode, Emma Byrne, John Gallagher and Rebecca Roache navigate the deeper issues around swearing, slurring, and slander.
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0 min - From the vaults: Parallel Universes
Fay Dowker, Eleanor Knox, and Simon Saunders discuss the strange consequences of the ‘many-worlds interpretation’ of quantum mechanics and why it's so controversial.
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0 min - From the vaults: On the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in Science
Eleanor Knox, Bryan Roberts, and Mairi Sakellariadou discuss why is it that abstract pieces of mathematics, like imaginary numbers, often later turn out to be surprisingly effective in describing the natural world
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0 min - From the Vaults: The Trouble with Numbers
How seriously should we take philosophical worries about mathematics? And should mathematical results ever force our philosophical hands? Nicholas Bingham, Tim Button, Mary Leng, and Adam Ostaszewski on the trouble with numbers.
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0 min - From the Vaults: Chaos
Paul Glendinning and Charlotte Werndl discuss the insights gained from chaos research about unpredictability, as well as the evolution of mathematical ideas.
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0 min - From the Vaults: Time Travel
Adam Roberts, Bryan Roberts, and Emily Thomas discuss time travel, and how thinking and writing about it has changed science and philosophy.
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0 min - From the Vaults: Time TravelAdam Roberts/ Bryan Roberts/ Emily Thomas Listen to the recording here or on YouTube Born of science fiction, thinking about time travel has allowed us to visit possible and lost worlds, and rediscover the past through modern eyes. It also raises big puzzles: If you travelled back in time and killed your grandfather when he … Continued0 min
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Science, politics and culture from a philosophical perspective