Coming in 2021
Saturday 6 March 2021 | 11am–12pm
Not Suitable for Work
Ödül Bozkurt, Brian O’Connor, and Judy Wajcman discuss whether we’re working too much, making us bad citizens and unhappy humans | More »
Tuesday 9 March 2021 | 6–7.15pm
Histories of Thinking
Philosophy
Julia Ng, Jonathan Rée, and Justin E H Smith interrogate familiar narratives of philosophical history and explore more diverse accounts of philosophical thought. | More »
Monday 15 March 2021 | 6–7.15pm
Histories of Thinking
Logic
Sara Uckelman, Justin Vlasits, and Audrey Yap discuss logic and its history, from Aristotle, through medieval thought, and right up to its role in the so-called culture wars. | More »
Tuesday 22 March 2021 | 6–7.15pm
A Theory of Everything?
Is a general theory uniting the sciences possible? Can science be reduced to physics alone? Philip Ball, Vanessa Seifert, and Jessica Wilson discuss reduction, emergence, and the unity of the sciences.
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Monday 29 March 2021 | 6–7pm
The Human Paradox
For Alan Montefiore, philosophy is a lived practice that entails ‘getting one’s feet wet’. Fiona Hughes and Adrian Moore celebrate Montefiore’s latest book, Philosophy and the Human Paradox.
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Science Fiction & Philosophy
James Burton, Lewis Powell, and Lisa Walters discuss how science fiction and philosophy have influenced one another, putting the ‘phi’ back into ‘sci-fi’.
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Anti-vaxxers & Other Sceptics
Rohin Francis, Katherine Furman, Heidi Larson on the causes of, and cures for, medical scepticism.