Minna Salami, Stanley Fish, Meg Rosoff and Janne Teller discuss whether we can still measure artistic greatness.

The puzzle of artistic greatness | Minna Salami, Stanley Fish, Meg Rosoff, Janne Teller

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Join us as world-leading cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman discusses his cutting-edge research about consciousness and perception, as well as its astonishing implications for the ultimate nature of reality.

Perception as a fantasy | Donald Hoffman

Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams discusses his professional and theological journey and reflects on what he's learned along the way, from climate activism to inter-faith leadership.

Embracing solidarity in our secular age | Interview with Rowan Williams

Two of the most influential thinkers of our time, Peter Singer, Australian philosopher, Princeton professor and author of Animal Liberation, and the late  Mary Midgley, described by the Guardian as "UK's foremost scourge of scientific pretention" go head to head on the future of bio-ethics. Roger Bolton hosts.

On humans and animals | Peter Singer, Mary Midgley

Leading physicists Priyamvada Natarajan, Avshalom Elitzur, and Bernard Carr question the existence of 'energy' as a concept in physics and muse on the mysticism science can bring to.

Does energy really exist? | Priyamvada Natarajan, Avshalom Elitzur, and Bernard Carr on the enigma of energy

Philosopher Michael Della Rocca challenges conventional philosophy's reliance on common sense, interpreting the world instead as a unified whole.

The puzzle of artistic greatness | Minna Salami, Stanley Fish, Meg Rosoff, Janne Teller

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