Most of us think that different languages refer to the same stuff "out there" in the world. But have we been confusing the realistic with the real? | https://bit.ly/3WjxX15
Join Sandra Laugier as she makes the case that there is no core of meaning shared among languages.
How can we build new ideas and frameworks in the face of war and economic inequality? | https://bit.ly/46JX8zH
Nayef Al-Rodhan argues that to address conflict and economic equality, we need to shift our focus towards a decisive and neglected factor: human dignity.
Does the existence of the self and the nature of reality depend on our philosophical outlook, or is there a fact of the matter that we might uncover? | https://bit.ly/40dYi2z
Tap here to watch Jan Westerhoff, Karl Friston, and Susan Schneider debate the endlessly divisive topic of consciousness.
โOur universe was reborn from the death of the universe before it.โ | https://bit.ly/4cvg9tm
We think of the Big Bang as the beginning of time and space itself. But Sam Woolfe proposes a cyclic model that suggests our Big Bang was not a unique event.
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AI is erasing the line between civilian and military life. | https://bit.ly/4sLCPdN
Thomas Christian Bรคchle and Jascha Bareis argue that todayโs AI is not simply โdual useโ: it is inherently violent in design, and increasingly fuses daily life with geopolitics.
Journalist Inaya Folarin Iman argues that Trump won the 2024 election by building a new base of multiracial populist support. | https://bit.ly/4cmSfQA
In this video, she proposes this strategy will have a transformative impact on our relations with each other for the next decade.
For millennia, truth served as humanity's foundation; a way to establish facts and build knowledge. | https://bit.ly/4u4o5YV
But as the prophets of certainty now wage their wars in our fractured age, a radical new approach from Manuel Delaflor shows us how to dance with the uncertain.
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte says those who think Europe doesnโt need the US to defend it should "keep on dreaming." | https://bit.ly/4b2tBm5
But Rajan Menon argues Europe is capable of defending itself, and that overcoming their chosen dependence on the US is both possible and necessary.
We tend to think that depression and other mental illnesses are medical conditions caused by problems in the brain. | https://bit.ly/4sqrzTS
However, @joannamoncrieff.bsky.social argues that medicalising mental distress can actually undermine hope of recovery, and distract us from real solutions.
Many assume they understand what is real and what is true. | https://bit.ly/4cD7pkJ
In this probing discussion, Slavoj ลฝiลพek and Hilary Lawson confront the foundations of truth, challenge our assumptions about reality, and question the invisible frameworks that shape contemporary thought.
For centuries, humans have divided the world into tidy pairs: good and evil, male and female, gay and straight. | https://bit.ly/4b6DFuj
But Kevin Richardson argues that our need to draw such sharp lines tells us more about ourselves than it does about reality.
We often treat moral identity as a hidden core of inner values. | https://bit.ly/4skJ9Zp
But philosopher Marya Schechtman argues who we are morally is nothing more than an ongoing narrative we live out over time, and that our moral agency fails when our life stories stop making sense.
Can democracy prevent the concentration of power without itself becoming tyrannical? |
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Join @kenroth.bsky.social, Hรฉlรจne Landemore @landemore.bsky.social, and James Bacchus to question whether it is democratic governments or unelected organisations that truly have control.
Should we see reality as a whole, or the sum of individual parts? | https://bit.ly/4aTCmP3
At the turn of the 20th century Russell rejected Hegel's idealism in favour of realism. Fraser MacBride argues this friction critique continues to haunt analytic philosophy today.
We think we form beliefs in pursuit of the truth. But what if belief-formation is rooted in peer pressure, not accuracy? | https://bit.ly/4sfLOnb
Join former BBC Presenter Andrew Gold as he argues that same the psychology of belief exploited by cult leaders also affects mainstream organisations.
The standard cosmological model, critics argue, is built on unobserved phenomena like dark matter. | https://bit.ly/3MY8A3T
However, physicist Martรญn Lรณpez-Corredoira argues that there is no elusive dark matter particle waiting to be found that would explain the Big Bang.
Donโt miss your chance to join four brilliant speakers for our IAI Live Event โThe end of ideologyโ where theyโll explore the rapidly shifting state of geopolitics on Monday 2nd March. https://iai.tv/live/the-end-of-ideology
Join now with a Premium Live subscription or pay-per-view ticket.
The idea of 'nothing' is central to the universe, existence and experience as a whole. But the nature of 'nothing' is even more bewildering than we might first imagine. | https://bit.ly/4tUXQE3
Join philosopher Peter van Inwagen in this talk as he explores the metaphysics of 'nothing'.
Why, despite being at the richest point in human history, do most people feel like they're getting poorer? | https://iai.tv/video/why-youre-probably-getting-poorer
Join Cahal Moran as he argues that the economy is set up to fail and we need to free economics from its self-imposed straightjacket.
Is the unknown answer to the why of life the very thing that gives life its edge, its meaning and its value? | https://iai.tv/video/journey-in-search-of-a-destination
Join Sandra Laugier, Babette Babich, Frank Tallis, and Jonathan Webber to debate the purpose of life.
"The unconscious is structured like a language,โ argued psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. | https://bit.ly/3LQbK9t
With the rise of AI-generated video, Lacan's thinking has taken an unexpected twist.
Join Alenka Zupanฤiฤ, as she argues that AI shows the unconscious is structured like an LLM.
The famous image of Earth from space looks neutralโbut it was quietly turned to put the north on top. | https://bit.ly/4kVSi88
@ellekeboehmer.bsky.social argues this small adjustment captures a much larger habit of mind, and that it is impossible to view the world from an objective perspective.
We're living in a period of dramatic transformation. The age of global neoliberalism is over. | https://iai.tv/live/the-end-of-ideology
In this monthโs IAI Live event on Monday 2nd March, leading economist Branko Milanoviฤ looks at the scale and impact of the transformation now underway.
Does realism limit art and storytelling? | https://iai.tv/video/stories-of-unreality?_auid=2020
In this debate, filmmaker Martha Fiennes, literature academic Josh Cohen, and novelist Joanna Kavenna come together to share their thoughts on the past and future of realism in art.
One of Galileiโs key insights was that the laws of physics inside a non-accelerating system are unaffected by its uniform motion relative to anything outside it.| https://bit.ly/3ZRQnYH
Sebastiรกn Murgueitio Ramรญrez argues that Einstein's later readings blur this distinction.
The ideal of the โsovereign individualโ who bends reality to their will is growing. | https://bit.ly/4rGHNIy
But James I. Porter argues this vision misunderstands the nature of the self: individuality and meaningful experiences are forged only by the friction of contesting with others.
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Despite climate change being an ever more present threat, there is no guarantee in a liberal democracy we will act accordingly. | https://bit.ly/3ZW5Ois
Join climate scientist @mikebernerslee.bsky.social to explore how to reconcile the scientific with the political.
Work is more than just a means of survival. | https://bit.ly/3MYEq0m
Drawing on Heideggerโs metaphysics, philosopher @bs-rousse.bsky.social argues work is our main way of connecting with the world beyond our own minds.
Are we witnessing the end of ideology, and a shift to a political system shaped by power and geography? | https://bit.ly/4qzQOl4
Tap this link to sign up for this IAI Live Event with talks and debates by Glenn Greenwald, Seyla Benhabib, Roger Hearing, Sam Kiley, and Branko Milanoviฤ.
Science fiction like Star Wars repeatedly turns to Buddhism to imagine humanityโs future in space. | https://bit.ly/46JKUXR
Ben Van Overmeire @zenmirrors.bsky.social argues that Buddhism offers a ready-made cosmology for thinking about alien life and a decentred universe.
