2016-12-07

Enlightenment Lectures (at the University of Edinburgh: 2008-2015)

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source: The University of Edinburgh      上次更新日期:2015年12月1日
Global leaders in politics, philosophy, science and economics examine aspects of the Enlightenment's legacy in the context of our own fraught and hectic times.

Julia Marton-Lefèvre - The Promise of 2015: Hopes for a New Environmental Enlightenment 1:17:23
Prof. Sir John Beddington - Legacies of the 20th Century and Challenges for the 21st 1:16:04
Prof. Lord Robert Winston - Medicine, Ethics and Society 1:08:57
Prof. Mary Robinson - Human Rights in the Modern World 1:07:13
Prof. Stefan Collini - From Belles-Lettres to Eng-Lit: Criticism and its Publics 1:16:17
Prof. Aubrey Manning - Population: Can We Begin to Talk Sensibly? 1:25:22
Prof. Amartya Sen - David Hume and the Demands of Ethics 1:25:18
Jon Snow - A changing media in a changing world 1:08:45
Steve Jones Enlightenment Lecture - Is Human Evolution Over?' 1:15:33
Prof. Joseph Stiglitz: Globalisation and the 21st Century Enlightenment 1:07:21
Irene Khan: The War on Terror, A War on Liberty? 59:27
Prof. Daniel Dennett: Is Science Showing That We Don't Have Free Will? 1:23:38