Episodes
Is it possible to persuade people to change their beliefs by force? John Locke thought not. Narrated by Aidan Turner.
Published 07/29/15
Published 07/29/15
How did Descartes come to the conclusion of certainty when surrounded by uncertainty and doubt? Narrated by Stephen Fry.
Published 04/17/15
Do we have a true self or are we endlessly performing? Narrated by Stephen Fry.
Published 04/16/15
According to Jean-Paul Sartre, every choice reveals what we think a human being should be.
Published 04/15/15
Habeas Corpus protects individual freedom and ensures that no one is held without charge.Narrated by Stephen Fry.
Published 04/10/15
A just society has fair laws. But most societies aren’t like that. So what can you do? Narrated by Stephen Fry.
Published 04/09/15
John Rawls argued it might be more just to construct a blueprint for a just society from behind a 'veil of ignorance'. Narrated by Stephen Fry.
Published 04/08/15
An eye for an eye might sound like brutal retribution but its roots were in encouraging a sense of proportion. Narrated by Stephen Fry.
Published 04/07/15
Does our inescapable suffering stem from our own greed and ignorance? Buddha thought so. Narrated by Stephen Fry.
Published 04/02/15
Ayn Rand believed we have a duty to be selfish and any other behaviour is irrational. Narrated by Stephen Fry.
Published 04/02/15
How does religion fit with the world of business? Perhaps more closely than you think. Narrated by Stephen Fry.
Published 04/01/15
How to live a good life? Aristotle’s answer was live virtuously: do what a virtuous person would do.
Published 03/31/15
How did a strange lump of bronze and decayed wood discovered in a shipwreck reveal the first ever computer? Narrated by Gillian Anderson.
Published 01/30/15
Is the form by which you receive a message as significant as the message itself? Gillian Anderson investigates.
Published 01/29/15
Does the Fourth Revolution signify that it's no longer possible to hold to the view that humans are better at thinking than everything else.
Published 01/28/15
Do you worry that screen-based devices are rewiring your brain? Perhaps you should, because they certainly are. Gillian Anderson explains.
Published 01/27/15
How do we learn to think and write in language so quickly? Gillian Anderson has a clue.
Published 01/23/15
Is language structure hard-wired into our brain? Noam Chomsky thinks so.
Published 01/22/15
Marx believed work is what makes us human, but a factory labourer under capitalism is no more than a cog in a gigantic machine. Gillian Anderson explains.
Published 01/21/15
How cultural transmission across time and space keeps us well ahead of other species. Gillian Anderson explains.
Published 01/20/15
Do the complexities of the universe prove it had a designer? Gillian Anderson explains why William Paley thought so.
Published 01/16/15
Gillian Anderson explains St. Thomas Aquinas' First Mover argument for God as the first cause of everything.
Published 01/15/15
What happened 13.8 billion years ago? The Big Bang. Perhaps. Gillian Anderson explains.
Published 01/14/15
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