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Saturday 06 March 2010
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The Enlightenment, that great ferment of ideas in eighteenth-century Europe, has its enemies today on both left and right. This week, we hear a talk from the Franco-Bulgarian philosopher Tzvetan Todorov, author of the recently published 'In Defence of the Enlightenment', who argues for an Enlightenment approach to developing and understanding an open and just modern society.
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Saturday 27 February 2010
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You are in a darkened lecture hall looking at a patch of red projected onto a screen in front of you. What's involved in "seeing red"? This week, we meet the philosopher and psychologist Nicholas Humphrey who uses the phenomenon of seeing red as way into the mystery of consciousness.
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Saturday 20 February 2010
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Kurt Gödel was one of the foremost mathematicians and logicians of the 20th century, best known for his famous incompleteness theorem, which tells us that there are mathematical 'blind spots': parts of mathematics that traditional methods of proof cannot access. The theorem has far-reaching consequences for computing and even for our understanding of the nature of the human mind. This week, Mark Colyvan from the University of Sydney introduces us to this strange and paradoxical result.
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Saturday 13 February 2010
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This week, a conversation with writer Alexander McCall Smith. He's best known for his series of novels about Precious Ramotswe and her No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency in Botswana. However, McCall Smith is also the creator of Isabel Dalhousie, a trained philosopher and editor of The Review of Applied Ethics, who solves mysteries in her native Edinburgh and contemplates the ethical problems behind them.
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What I am telling you is false. But if I tell you that what I am saying is false and it is false, then what I am now saying is true, but if it's true then to say that it's false is false. Join us today as we go around in paradoxical circles with Peter Cave, who teaches philosophy in the UK at the Open University and City University, London.
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