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  • From the vaults: Black Holes

    Stephen Baxter, Amelie Saintonge, and Karim Thébault discuss the science, philosophy, and science fiction of black holes

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  • From the vaults: Black Holes
    Stephen Baxter/ Amelie Saintonge/ Karim Thébault Listen to the recording here or on YouTube What are black holes, why are physicists so sure they exist, and how did we come to know about them? Can we know, or at least imagine, what happens inside a black hole? The science of black holes has long inspired science fiction … Continued
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  • From the vaults: Prejudice

    are we more or less prejudiced than at other points in our history? And is prejudice always wrong, or even avoidable? If it is avoidable, how can this be achieved? We put these questions to Marco Cinnirella, Katharine Jenkins, Joe Mulhall, and Amir Saeed.

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  • From the vaults: Prejudice
    Marco Cinnirella/ Katharine Jenkins/ Joe Mulhall/ Amir Saeed Listen to the recording here or on YouTube With recent political events and a spike in the reporting of hate crime, the concept of prejudice has become prominent once more. But are we more or less prejudiced than at other points in our history? And is prejudice always … Continued
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  • From the vaults: Unrequited Love

    Ulrika Carlsson, Stephen Grosz, and Erin Plunkett explore responses to unrequited love in philosophy, psychoanalysis and art. Should we mourn or celebrate it? What can it teach us about ourselves?

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  • From the vaults: Unrequited Love
    Ulrika Carlsson/ Stephen Grosz/ Erin Plunkett Listen to the recording here or YouTube The history of art and literature is a history of unrequited love, which reminds us both of the tragic nature of human experience and of the extraordinary human capacity to transform suffering into beauty. Should we mourn or celebrate unrequited love? What can it teach … Continued
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  • From the vaults: Shame

    Shame is often depicted as playing only a negative role, but might it have have an important, positive role, for individuals and societies? Phil Hutchinson, Vasudevi Reddy, and Jonathan Webber on the nature and development of shame.

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  • From the vaults: Shame
    Phil Hutchinson/ Vasudevi Reddy/ Jonathan Webber Listen to the recording here Shame is often depicted as playing a socially negative role. But might it also play an important positive role in our moral psychology, and for a flourishing political community? Is shame a source of self-knowledge and a spur to transformative action, as Sartre and Beauvoir suggest? … Continued
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