Jan 5, 2019 05:29 AM
Laws of the Universe - Are the laws of nature just human constructs?
VIDEO: https://iai.tv/assets/videos/linked/HTLG...RSE.SD.mp4
INTRO: Since Newton, we have assumed that the universe is governed by unchanging laws, and Stephen Hawking once even argued that we were close to uncovering them in their entirety. But are these laws really eternal features of the universe? If so, how do they emerge and how do they act? Or are they merely human ways of codifying the world, which remains somehow unknowable and inexplicable?
The Panel: Nobel Prize-winning physicist Gerard 't Hooft joins Helen Beebee, Manchester's Samuel Hall Professor of Philosophy and President of the Aristotelian Society, and UNC-Chapel Hill cosmologist and professor of physics Laura Mersini-Houghton explore the laws of nature.
PAGE: https://iai.tv/video/the-laws-of-the-universe
After the End of Evidence - Massimo Pigliucci on empiricism's end-date
VIDEO: https://iai.tv/assets/videos/linked/HTLG...nce_SD.mp4
INTRO: Has modern physics outgrown the need for evidence? New York philosopher Massimo Pigliucci argues for a new age of explanation.
PAGE: https://iai.tv/video/after-the-end-of-evidence
The New Enlightenment - Can we reclaim objectivity after relativism?
VIDEO: https://iai.tv/assets/videos/linked/HTLG...ent_SD.mp4
INTRO: 'Dare to know' was the radical rallying cry of the Enlightenment. Since then philosophers from Nietzsche to Derrida have argued there are limits to knowledge so profound that truth is an impossible goal. Have relativism and postmodernism made the Enlightenment dream irrelevant? Or can we forge a New Enlightenment that provides us with direction and is equally radical and exciting as the original?
The Panel: Editor of The Philosophers' Magazine Julian Baggini, Dartmouth University philosophy professor Amie Thomasson and post-postmodern philosopher Hilary Lawson investigate the Enlightenment.
PAGE: https://iai.tv/video/the-new-enlightenment
VIDEO: https://iai.tv/assets/videos/linked/HTLG...RSE.SD.mp4
INTRO: Since Newton, we have assumed that the universe is governed by unchanging laws, and Stephen Hawking once even argued that we were close to uncovering them in their entirety. But are these laws really eternal features of the universe? If so, how do they emerge and how do they act? Or are they merely human ways of codifying the world, which remains somehow unknowable and inexplicable?
The Panel: Nobel Prize-winning physicist Gerard 't Hooft joins Helen Beebee, Manchester's Samuel Hall Professor of Philosophy and President of the Aristotelian Society, and UNC-Chapel Hill cosmologist and professor of physics Laura Mersini-Houghton explore the laws of nature.
PAGE: https://iai.tv/video/the-laws-of-the-universe
After the End of Evidence - Massimo Pigliucci on empiricism's end-date
VIDEO: https://iai.tv/assets/videos/linked/HTLG...nce_SD.mp4
INTRO: Has modern physics outgrown the need for evidence? New York philosopher Massimo Pigliucci argues for a new age of explanation.
PAGE: https://iai.tv/video/after-the-end-of-evidence
The New Enlightenment - Can we reclaim objectivity after relativism?
VIDEO: https://iai.tv/assets/videos/linked/HTLG...ent_SD.mp4
INTRO: 'Dare to know' was the radical rallying cry of the Enlightenment. Since then philosophers from Nietzsche to Derrida have argued there are limits to knowledge so profound that truth is an impossible goal. Have relativism and postmodernism made the Enlightenment dream irrelevant? Or can we forge a New Enlightenment that provides us with direction and is equally radical and exciting as the original?
The Panel: Editor of The Philosophers' Magazine Julian Baggini, Dartmouth University philosophy professor Amie Thomasson and post-postmodern philosopher Hilary Lawson investigate the Enlightenment.
PAGE: https://iai.tv/video/the-new-enlightenment