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Out of control | James Williams, Margaret Heffernan, David Aaranovitch
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Big Bang Creation Myths | Roger Penrose, Sean Carroll, Laura Mersini-Hougton
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Russia China and the New World Order | George Galloway, Rana Mitter, Stephen King
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Why Is Gravity So Elusive? | Frank Wilczek, Erik Verlinde, Laura Mersini-Houghton
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The Ethics of Sex Robots | Full Debate | Kate Devlin, Brooke Magnanti, Shahidha Bari, Alan Winfield
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Does time pass? | Julian Barbour, Tim Maudlin, Emily Thomas
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Being Human and Being Good | Rae Langton, Hilary Lawson, Joel Robbins, Simone Schnall
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The Morality of Immortality | Full Debate | Anders Sandberg, Patricia McCormack, Rowan Pelling
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What is beauty? | Bence Nanay, Justine Kolata, Sam Roddick
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Do Facts Exist? | Barry Barnes, Joanna Kavenna, John Ellis
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Should The Internet Be Censored? | Ella Whelan, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Nigel Inkster
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Tribal Conflicts and Identity | Dawn Butler, David Blunkett, Phillip Blond
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Are Black Holes Real? | Full Debate | Laura Mersini-Houghton, Pedro Ferreira, Michael Rowan-Robinson
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Is Intersectional Feminism Still Possible? | Kimberle Crenshaw, Myriam Francois, Margaret Heffernan
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Should we trust doctors? | Jacob Stegenga, David Healy, Pallavi Bradshaw
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Is Madness a form of Wisdom? | Full Debate | Richard Bentall, Patricia Casey, Robert-Rowland Smith
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What are the limits of logic? | Shahidha Bari, Iain McGilchrist, Beatrix Campbell, Simon Blackburn
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The talk you need to see on decolonisation, imperialism and modern british values | Myriam Francois
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What is the Future of Space Travel? | Martin Rees, Tony Milligan, Elizabeth Seward
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Should Offensive Speech Be Limited? | David Aaranovitch, Yasmin Alibhai- Brown, Joanna Williams
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Why Do We Love Evil? | Terry Eagleton, Susan Neiman, Stephen de Wijze
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The Limits of Western Philosophy | Nivi Manchanda, Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Timothy Williamson
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What is a Post-Truth World? | Homi Bhabha, Rebecca Goldstein, Hilary Lawson
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Nationalism vs Globalism | Full Debate | Yassmin Abdel-Magied, Homi Bhabha, David Miller
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The Plastic Surgery Debate | Heather Peto, Julia Long, Miles Berry
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Neuroscience vs Philosophy | Full Debate | Margaret Boden, Barry Smith, Steven Rose, Roger Bolton
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The Reality Illusion | Donald Hoffman, Maria Baghramian, Hilary Lawson
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The Problem with Morality | Paul Boghossian, Michael Ruse, Naomi Goulder
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What is Reality? | Subir Sarkar, John Dupré, Nancy Cartwright
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The Limits of Language | Stanley Fish, Hilary Lawson, Genia Schonbaumsfeld
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Uncovering Reality | David Tong, Lev Vaidman, Hilary Lawson
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The Future of Socialism | David Aaronovitch, Jon Lansman, Angela Eagle
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The Evidence for Dark Energy | Full Debate | Erik Verlinde, Massimo Pigliucci
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Neuroscience of Consciousness | Raymond Tallis, Markus Gabriel, Susana Martinez Conde
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Oppression and Creativity | Lowkey, Andrew Motion, Joanna Kavenna
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What are the laws of the universe? | Laura Mersini-Houghton, Gerard 't Hooft, Helen Beebee
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Can Universal Basic Income Work? | Deidre McCloskey, Guy Standing
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Full Debate | Can Physics Explain the Nature of Time? | Jim Al-Khalili, Raymond Tallis, Angie Hobbs
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Does the Multiverse Exist? | Cumrun Vafa, Mary Jane Rubenstein, John Ellis
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Are men and women different? | Finn Mackay, Angela Eagle, Patricia MacCormack
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Is Violence Ever Justified? | Steven Pinker, Tariq Ali, Elif Sarican
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How Men and Women Think | Helena Cronin, Gina Rippon, Simon Baron-Cohen
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Full Debate | Is Consciousness Inexplicable? Marcus Gabriel, Ray Brassier, Eva Jablonka
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Brexit Britain's Future? | Claire Fox, Owen Smith, Natalie Bennett
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Is Mental Illness Real? | Richard Bentall, Ann John, Lucy Johnstone
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Hawking vs Philosophy | Lewis Wolpert, Steve Fuller, Jonathon Derbyshire
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The Left, the Right and the Righteous | Full Debate | Sophie Walker, Peter Hitchens, Chris Bryant
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Will There Be Revolution In Brexit Britain? | Aaron Bastani, Vince Cable, Ella Whelan
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The End of Left and Right? | Rory Stewart, Chantal Mouffe, David Goodhart
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Is greed good? | Brian Eno, Izabella Kaminska, Guy Standing, Mark Littlewood
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Should we work less? | Helen Lederer, Susan Neiman, Janne Teller
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Can AI replace doctors? | Natalie Bennet, David Healy, and Anders Sandberg
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Is capitalism broken? | Guy Standing, Izabella Kaminska, Jamie Whyte, and Steven King
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The future of particle physics | Ben Allanach, John Ellis and Catherine Heymans
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Is the future of philosophy Chinese? | Julian Baggini, Jamie Whyte, and Vivienne Shue
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Does free will exist? | Paul Broks, Hannah Dawson, Hilary Lawson & Julian Baggini
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Tech Giants & Democracy | Shoshana Zuboff, Bim Afolami, Angela Eagle, and Joanna Kavenna
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Why is anxiety on the rise? | David Nutt, Mark Salter, Caroline Hickman
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Morality in a Pandemic | Peter Hitchens, Patricia Churchland, and Susan Neiman
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Morality in a Pandemic | Peter Hitchens, Patricia Churchland, and Susan Neiman
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Media, Responsibility and a Good Story | Nick Robinson, Jess Phillips, and David Goodhart
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Risk, rationality and coronavirus | Steven Pinker, Daniel Kahneman and Shami Chakrabarti
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Measuring the risk of coronavirus | Michael Levitt, Anne Johnson, David Alexander and Toby Young
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Risk, Evidence and Lockdown | Sunetra Gupta, Hugh Montgomery, David Spiegelhalter
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Does absolute truth exist? | Steve Fuller, Åsa Wikforss, Peter Pomerantsev and Sacha Golob
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Capitalism and Covid | Paul Krugman, Deirdre McCloskey & Grace Blakeley
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The West's Relationship with China | Malcolm Rifkind, Vince Cable and Isabel Hilton
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Race and Representation | Adjoa Andoh, Kehinde Andrews, Will Self
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What is consciousness? | Bernardo Kastrup, Tim Crane, and Susan Blackmore
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How to resolve scientific disagreement | Patricia Churchland, Carlo Rovelli, Heather Douglas
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Beyond Material | Bernardo Kastrup, Nancy Cartwright, Peter Atkins
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Metaphysics and morality | Raymond Tallis, Joanna Kavenna, Simon Blackburn
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The Future of AI | Martin Rees, Laura Mersini-Houghton, Kate Devlin and Hilary Lawson
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Scientism and scientific progress | Phillip Goff, Henry Gee and Güneş Taylor
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Does the internet satisfy our worst desires? | Meg Rosoff, Soma Ghosh and Joanna Kavenna
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Getting high and being human | David Nutt, Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes and Annemarie Ward
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The ethics of eating animals | Peter Singer, Peter Egan, Christopher Belshaw and Mary Ann Sieghart
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How can we fix inequality? | Joseph Stiglitz, Grace Blakeley, Lisa Nandy
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The crisis of particle physics | Sabine Hossenfelder, John Ellis & Jim Baggott
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The case for political idealism | Grace Blakeley, Rory Stewart and Michael Sandel
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Do we need gender? | Eileen Myles, Bianca Jagger, and Nina Power
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Power to the people | Claire Fox, Julian Baggini, Mathew Taylor
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The known and the unknown | Simon Blackburn, Renata Salecl and Philip Goff
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Can science be objective? | John Ioannidis, Claudia de Rham & Harry Collins
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Race, identity and justice | George the Poet, Glenn Loury and Dawn Butler
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Promiscuity in feminism | Shazia Mirza, Emma Sayle and Myriam François
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Extinction and Renewal | David Pearce, Natalie Bennett, Henry Gee
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How we became who we are | Robert Plomin, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Matt Ridley
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Fundamental physics and reality | Carlo Rovelli & Jim Al-Khalili
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The Rational Animal | Dan Ariely, Patty Kostkova, Paul Bloom
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Are Enlightenment values still relevant? | Kehinde Andrews, Myriam Francois, Raymond Tallis
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Land of the Free | Jon Sopel, Jason Brennan and Sarah Elliott
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The existence of antimatter | Lee Smolin, Sabine Hossenfelder and Tara Shears
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How did life evolve? | Daniel Dennett, Nick Lane, Sara Walker
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For your own good | Henry Marsh, Natasha Vita-More, Sarah Wootton
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The struggle for global power | Malcolm Rifkind, Melissa Chan, Cindy Yu and Michael Pembroke
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The future of class-based politics | P. J. O'Rourke, Jesse Norman & Dawn Butler
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How should we treat animals? | Raymond Tallis, Kay Peggs, Melanie Challenger and Jamie Blackett
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Is technology good or bad? | Anders Sandberg, Priyadarshini Karve & Silkie Carlo
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Is eugenics returning? | Kári Stefánsson, Jacob Appel, Rebecca Bennett and Simon Baron-Cohen
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Leadership, hypocrisy and power | Natalie Bennett, Joseph J. Ellis and Chris Hirst
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Do we have to accept this post-truth world?! | Graham Harman, Anandi Hattiangadi, Hilary Lawson
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Scientific objectivity | Bret Weinstein, Terence Kealey and Tara Shears
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Liberation through porn? | Sally Phillips, Peter Tatchell, Victoria Brooks, Kate Devlin
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Can we escape reality? | Sophie Fiennes, Betty Sue Flowers, Noël Carroll
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Finding Life in Outer Space | Avi Loeb, Nick Lane and Jocelyn Bell Burnell
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The lie of living in the present moment | Sarah Jaffe, John Paetsch, Ron Purser
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Risk-taking in a pandemic | Beverly Taylor, Ella Whelan and Lawrence Phillips
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The pitfalls of social freedom | Yassmin Abdel-Magied, Deirdre McCloskey, John Milbank
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Does reality exist? | Anil Seth, Sabine Hossenfelder, Massimo Pigliucci & Anders Sandberg
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Is moral absolutism hypocritical? | Ece Temelkuran, David Chandler and Julian Baggini
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Is Democracy Divided? | Peter Mandelson, Ella whelan, Peter Lilley and Paul Mason
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Where is physics going? | Sabine Hossenfelder, Bjørn Ekeberg and Sam Henry
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Knowledge and creativity | Lisa Feldman Barrett, Jesse Norman and Shreepali Patel | IAI
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Can language truly describe reality? | Ray Tallis, Joanna Kavenna & Hilary Lawson | IAI
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Debating the next environmental crisis | Judith Curry, Thomas Sterner, Martin Rees | IAI
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The making of us | Robert Plomin, Simon Baron Cohen, Güneş Taylor, Angela Saini | IAI
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Are we too easily outraged today? | Roger Bolton, Toby Young, Myriam François
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On the quest for the theory of everything | Sabine Hossenfelder, Eric Weinstein, Brian Greene...
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Should gene editing be regulated? | Natalie Kofler, Angela Saini, Steve Fuller
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Trash, trends and the transcendent | Rupert Sheldrake, Olivia Fane, Minna Salami & Joanna Kavenna
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Can mindfulness offer a solution to the misery of humankind? | Peter Doran, Meg Rosoff, Alex Nunn
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Should we stop searching for ultimate truth? | Patricia Churchland and Hilary Lawson debate.
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Life, the universe and everything else | Julian Baggini, Philip Goff, Peter Atkins, Güneş Taylor
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Cracking the 'girl code' | Nina Power, Maya Oppenheim and Hannah Dawson debate feminism
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Are scientific concepts a metaphorical fantasy? | Rupert Sheldrake, Güneş Taylor, Peter Atkins...
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Will science ever replace religion? | Slavoj Žižek, Rupert Sheldrake and Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
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Is it time to give up alcohol? | Anna Waldstein, David Nutt, Joanna Kavenna
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Heaven is other people | Sarah Garfinkel, Mark Salter, Lucy Johnstone
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Sex, relationships and the future | Julie Bindel, John Milbank and Olivia Fane
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Does suffering really matter? | Anders Sandberg, Susie Orbach, Havi Carel
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Is nature our new god? | Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes, Tim Palmer, Melanie Challenger
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Is language capable of communicating experience? | John McWhorter, L.A. Paul, Kehinde Andrews
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What is the point of goods once we have enough? | Bhaskar Sunkar, Peter Tatchell, Deirdre McCloskey
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Will we ever uncover deep metaphysical truth about reality? | Galen Strawson, Patricia Churchland..
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Big tech and lost promises | Anders Sandberg, Damian Tambini, Polly Mackenzie, Thangam Debbonaire
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Should we move away from postmodernism? | Minna Salami, Julian Baggini, Julie Bindel, Hilary Lawson
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Should the West give land back? | Eric Kaufmann, Minna Salami, Rana Mitter
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If something is right, is it true? | Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Santiago Zabala, Corine Besson
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Can the world still look at the West to shape its future? | Cindy Yu, Peter Tatchell, Phil Collins
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Do we carry no responsibility for our actions? | Massimo Pigliucci, Galen Strawson, Sarah Garfinkel
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Should democracies wrest back control from corporations? | Daron Acemoglu, Nick Gillespie
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Why we are fascinated with crisis | Elise Valmorbida, Meg Rosoff, Nick Zangwill
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Can science crack the mystery of consciousness? | Bernardo Kastrup, Carlo Rovelli, and more
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Is our society too divisive? | Ella Whelan, Paul Dolan, Myriam François
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Is the West's unity in danger? | Theodore Dalrymple, Nigel Inkster, Tulip Siddiq
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Is the idea of infinity nonsense or a key insight? | David Deutsch, Sara Walker, George Ellis
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What would a world without death look like? | Henry Marsh, Anna Kent, Anders Sandberg
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Richard Dawkins and long-time rival Denis Noble go head to head on the selfish gene | Who is right?
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The wealth paradox | Guy Standing
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Is love a drug? | Anders Sandberg, Ella Whelan, Rupert Sheldrake
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Do we really need codes for living? | Sophie Grace Chappell, Massimo Pigliucci, Simon Baron-Cohen
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Consciousness in the machine PART 2 | Donald Hoffman, Bernardo Kastrup, Susan Schneider
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Is it moral to trade with the devil? | John Kay, Andrew Adonis, Janne Teller
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Can we make ultimate moral judgements? | Tommy J. Curry, Joanna Kavenna, Massimo Pigliucci
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Do we unfairly privilege the unelected? | Ben Burgis, Thangam Debbonaire and Nemone Metaxas
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Does beauty deceive physics? | Michio Kaku, Sabine Hossenfelder, Max Tegmark, Juan Maldacena
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Can science support life after death? | Lisa Miller, Nick Lane, Paul Bickley | Beyond the boundary
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The dawn of a new reality? | Massimo Pigliucci, Mazviita Chirimuuta and Anders Sandberg debate VR
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Rupert Sheldrake v. Michael Shermer | On the edges of knowledge | Full discussion
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Marxism vs Capitalism | Aaron Bastani and Matthew Lesh
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Steven Pinker vs John Mearsheimer debate the enlightenment | Part 1 of FULL DEBATE
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Gravity and the universe | Sabine Hossenfelder, Erik Verlinde, Priyamvada Natarajan [FULL DEBATE]
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Can the media ever be impartial? | Philip Collins, Matthew Goodwin, Sophie Scott-Brown
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Are we ready for a psychedelic revolution? | Shayla Love, Kevin Sabet, Matthew Johnson
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The AI Apocalypse | Leading thinkers Liv Boeree, Michael Wooldridge, Timothy Nguyen
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Scientists disagree on the origin of #life | Addy Pross, Chrisantha Fernando, Kate Adamala
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What is progress? | Rory Sutherland, Angus Deaton, Arlie Hochschild | The tears of the West
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The Indian Century? | S.Y. Quraishi, Alpa Shah and Kate Sullivan de Estrada
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Are we in the age of singledom? | Asexual activist Yasmin Benoit, Edward Davies,Aline Laurent-Mayard
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Can violence EVER be justified? Gaza and beyond | Ghada Karmi, Peter Singer, Uriel Abulof
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Physics is still defined by mystery | Avshalom Elitzur, Claudia de Rham, Harry Cliff
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