Closer to Truth

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Closer to Truth: Science, Meaning and the Future is a continuing television series on American public television, created, produced, and hosted by Dr. Robert Lawrence Kuhn. The show is sponsored by the Kuhn Foundation.

The purpose of the series is to bring together leading scientists, scholars, and artists to discuss new developments and discoveries, and the fundamental issues of our times. Topics for the show are clustered in four main categories : brain & mind; biology & medicine; cosmos & universe; and science & our world.

A new season of Closer To Truth, estimated to present approximately 60 shows, is in production. The theme, energized by critical thinking, is cosmology / fundamental physics, the philosophy of cosmology, the philosophy of religion, philosophical theology, and the relationship between science and religion. Featured are leading scientists and philosophers.


Contents

[edit] Episodes

Episodes are listed below by season, episode number, and title.

[edit] Season one

  • 101: "What are the Grand Questions of Science?"
  • 102: "Will the Internet Change Humanity?"
  • 103: "What’s Creativity and Who’s Creative?"
  • 104: "New Communities for the New Millennium"
  • 105: "How Did This Universe Begin?"
  • 106: "Can We See the Near Future — Year 2025?"
  • 107: "What is Consciousness?"
  • 108: "Can You Really Extend Your Life?"
  • 109: "Can ESP Affect Your Life?"
  • 110: "Whatever Happened to Ethics and Civility?"
  • 111: "How Does Technology Transform Thinking?"
  • 112: "Strange Physics of the Mind?"
  • 113: "Can Science Seek the Soul?"
  • 114: "Does Sex Have a Future?"

[edit] Season two

  • 201: "Can We Imagine the Far Future—Year 3000?"
  • 202: "How Do Breakthroughs Change Science?"
  • 203: "How Does Creativity Work at Work?"
  • 204: "Do Brains Make Minds?"
  • 205: "Will Gene Therapy Change the Human Race?"
  • 206: "Why are Music and Art So Exhilarating?"
  • 207: "Why is Quantum Physics So Beautiful?"
  • 208: "How Did We Think in the Last Millennium?"
  • 209: "Who Needs Sex Therapy?"
  • 210: "Can Technology Transform Society?"
  • 211: "Can You Learn to Be Creative?"
  • 212: "What is Parapsychology?"
  • 213: "When Will This Universe End?"
  • 214: "Will Intelligence Fill This Universe?"

[edit] Season Three

  • 301: "Is Science Fiction Science?"
  • 302: "Can We Believe in Both Science and Religion?"
  • 303: "How Does the Autistic Brain Work?"
  • 304: "How Weird is the Cosmos?"
  • 305: "Microbes — Friend or Foe?"
  • 306: "How Does Order Arise in the Universe?"
  • 307: "Why is Music So Significant?"
  • 308: "Will Computers Take a Quantum Leap?"
  • 309: "Does Psychiatry Have a Split Personality?"
  • 310: "How Does Basic Science Defend America?"
  • 311: "Who Gets to Validate Alternative Medicine?"
  • 312: "Is Consciousness Definable?"
  • 313: "Is the Universe Full of Life?"
  • 314: "Can Religion Withstand Technology?"
  • 315: "Testing New Drugs: Are People Guinea Pigs?"

[edit] External links

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