Episodes
Wednesday Jun 03, 2020
How Are Brains Structured?
Wednesday Jun 03, 2020
Wednesday Jun 03, 2020
CONSCIOUSNESS - As far as we know, brains are the most highly organized matter in the universe. How they make their magic is just astonishing.
Featuring Arnold B. Scheibel, Carmine D. Clemente, John D. Schlag, Christof Koch, Mike Merzenich, and Rodolfo R. Llinas.
Wednesday May 27, 2020
How Vast is the Cosmos?
Wednesday May 27, 2020
Wednesday May 27, 2020
COSMOS - Everyone knows that the universe is huge, but no one could have imagined how staggeringly immense the universe, or multiple universes, may actually be. It stops your breath.Featuring Martin Rees, Max Tegmark, Alan H. Guth, Andrei Linde, and Paul Davies.
Wednesday May 20, 2020
Arguing God From First Cause
Wednesday May 20, 2020
Wednesday May 20, 2020
MEANING - Does everything need a cause? Everything in the universe surely does. But what about the universe as a whole? And what about God—assuming God exists—does God need a cause?
Featuring William Lane Craig, Quentin Smith, Alister McGrath, David Shatz, Charles L. Harper Jr., and Peter van Inwagen.
Wednesday May 13, 2020
What is Truth?
Wednesday May 13, 2020
Wednesday May 13, 2020
CONSCIOUSNESS - Everyone wants to know ‘Truth’. But what is Truth? People argue about Truth; people fight about Truth—consider politics and religion. But what is the basic meaning of Truth itself?
Featuring Simon Blackburn, Raymond Tallis, John Hawthorne, John Hick, and Michael Shermer.
Monday Mar 09, 2020
Can the Brain Explain Art?
Monday Mar 09, 2020
Monday Mar 09, 2020
CONSCIOUSNESS — What is happening in our brains when we perceive and appreciate the arts? What are the neural substrates of artistic sensations, feelings, and emotions? How do diverse arts affect the brain?
Monday Mar 09, 2020
Why Anything at All? (Part 2)
Monday Mar 09, 2020
Monday Mar 09, 2020
COSMOS — It’s the ultimate puzzle. It’s the haunting question. Why is there “something” rather than “nothing”? It seems impenetrable, uncrackable, unfathomable. But are there ways?
Monday Mar 09, 2020
Can Art Clarify the Mind-Body Problem?
Monday Mar 09, 2020
Monday Mar 09, 2020
CONSCIOUSNESS — Can art inform the classic mind-body problem? While the relationship between mental activity and physical brain continues to baffle (especially consciousness), can the existence and process of art provide insight?
Monday Mar 09, 2020
What is Philosophy of Art?
Monday Mar 09, 2020
Monday Mar 09, 2020
CONSCIOUSNESS — What is the nature of art? What makes something “art”, and why should we value it? What are aesthetics and art theory? Can philosophy of art enhance appreciation and practice of the arts?
Tuesday Jul 30, 2019
What Exists II?
Tuesday Jul 30, 2019
Tuesday Jul 30, 2019
COSMOS - What’s the ultimate stuff of reality? What’s absolutely fundamental and non-reducible — the fewest number of categories within which every specific thing, of every general kind, can be classified?
Wednesday Jul 24, 2019
Salvation - A Philosophical Inquiry
Wednesday Jul 24, 2019
Wednesday Jul 24, 2019
MEANING - It’s intended as ultimate purpose: salvation means eternal life with God. For believers, what actually happens, what kind of life? For non-believers, what can we learn about how religion works?