The World That Disappeared | Peter Atkins, James Ladyman, Joanna Kavenna

Philosophy For Our Times

English - March 24, 2020 13:35 - 43 minutes - 40.1 MB - ★★★★ - 249 ratings
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No-one who has ever stepped on a Lego brick could doubt the reality of physical objects. Yet from Heraclitus to George Berkeley, many philosophers claimed to have disproven the existence of things. Could the world truly be made up of fields and processes, rather than physical stuff? Are the everyday objects that surround us an illusion?

To help us discuss the existence of things we are joined by three leading thinkers: chemist Peter Atkins, philosopher of science, James Ladyman and novelist Joanna Kavenna.

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