Professor A.C. Grayling is one of the most prolific philosophers and public intellectuals. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, the Master of the New College of the Humanities and a Supernumerary Fellow of St. Anne’s College, Oxford. He made important contributions to Analytic Philosophy, primarily in Epistemology, Metaphysics and Philosophical Logic. Prof. Grayling wrote more than 40 books, including The God Argument, The History of Philosophy and The Frontiers of Knowledge.
Conversation Outline:
00:00 Introduction 00:46 How did you get into Philosophy? 03:23 What was your PhD Thesis on? Thoughts on Skepticism and Knowledge 08:11 What are the interesting epistemological advancements (and problems) of our time? 12:27 On interdisciplinarity and higher education 15:10 Different models of education and advice for high-school students that want to go to university 19:04 STEM, Arts and public perception 21:45 Traditional epistemology and why certainty and absolute truth are not essential 27:44 Is the situation different for Mathematics? What about Theology? 35:02 Why do people take Religion to be a source of certain truths? 41:00 New Atheism 46:50 Discussing some of the main theistic arguments 59:30 God and Morality
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