Closer to Truth - TV Episode Calendar

19x1
When Brains Go Bad?
Episode overview

How normal brains work; effects of brain damage.

19x2
What Is the Doomsday Argument?
Episode overview

Whether humankind has underestimated the risks of global catastrophe and human extinction.

19x3
How Could God Make Miracles?
Episode overview

If there is a God, how does God make miracles happen; what miracles imply about how God relates to the world.

19x4
How Do Consciousness and Language Relate?
Episode overview

Consciousness, inner experience and language; whether consciousness causes language or vice versa.

19x5
Can God and Science Mix?
Episode overview

Science and religion.

19x6
Religious Faith: Rational or Rationalization?
Episode overview

Whether God or human psychology generates faith.

19x7
Can Brain Alone Explain Consciousness?
Episode overview

Whether physical facts about the brain account for mental experiences of the mind.

19x8
Can Enlarged Materialism Explain Consciousness?
Episode overview

Whether there is more to materialism than the laws of physics.

19x9
Does Consciousness Defeat Materialism?
Episode overview

Whether anything exists beyond the physical world.

19x10
Fallacies in Arguing for God?
Episode overview

Mistakes made by those who argue the existence of God.

19x11
What Is Philosophy of Science?
Episode overview

The essence of science.

19x12
Does Philosophy Help Science?
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Whether there are limits and boundaries to science.

19x13
Marvin Minsky: Like No Other
Episode overview

Cognitive scientist Marvin Minsky's analysis of brains, minds, artificial intelligence, religion and God.