How Philosophy Explains Our World, with Julian Baggini (Part One)
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Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet. I'm producer Mia Sorrenti. Today's episode is part one of our recent live event with philosopher and author Julian Pugini, recorded live at Conway Hall. Pagini joined us to explore how philosophy explains our world. What would Aristotle make of Keir Starmer?
Would Plato be a Republican? And what can ancient and modern philosophy? teachers about today's turbulent politics. In this event, Bugini sets out why polarization isn't necessarily a dirty word, what distinguishes conspiracy theories from genuine skeptics, and why philosophical habits such as humility, evidence seeking and thinking for yourself, but not by yourself, matter more than ever. Your host for the evening was broadcaster Richelieu Shah.
Let's join Richler now with more. Thanks so much, Margarita. Now, often at these sort of events, I begin by setting out the broad theme that we're going to be discussing, you know, how do we live with AI, what is the the future for Israel and Gaza. But tonight's a little bit different because actually what we're going to be talking about is thinking itself. about a way to consider the fractious and polarized world that we find ourselves in.
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