Closer to Truth

Closer to Truth

24

Seasons

2000

8.7

TV-PG

Closer To Truth is a public television series featuring scientists, philosophers, theologians and scholars exploring the deepest questions of Cosmos, Consciousness and Meaning-the structure of the universe, the nature of the mind and the search for ultimate reality.

Episode List

What Are the Grand Questions of Science?

S1 • E1

What Are the Grand Questions of Science?

To discern whether God really exists, one should understand diverse views of God. Closer to Truth asks leading philosophers what they think about God.

Will the Internet Change Humanity?

S1 • E2

Will the Internet Change Humanity?

What's Creativity and Who's Creative?

S1 • E3

What's Creativity and Who's Creative?

New Communities for the New Millennium?

S1 • E4

New Communities for the New Millennium?

How Did This Universe Begin?

S1 • E5

How Did This Universe Begin?

Can We See the Near Future: Year 2025?

S1 • E6

Can We See the Near Future: Year 2025?

What Is Consciousness?

S1 • E7

What Is Consciousness?

Consciousness is what we know best and can explain least. What does it feel like inside to see the color red, smell pungent garlic or hear glorious Beethoven? Closer to Truth explores why consciousness is baffling.

Can You Really Extend Your Life?

S1 • E8

Can You Really Extend Your Life?

Can ESP Affect Our Lives?

S1 • E9

Can ESP Affect Our Lives?

Whatever Happened to Ethics and Civility?

S1 • E10

Whatever Happened to Ethics and Civility?

How Does Technology Transform Thinking?

S1 • E11

How Does Technology Transform Thinking?

Strange Physics of the Mind?

S1 • E12

Strange Physics of the Mind?

Can Science Seek the Soul?

S1 • E13

Can Science Seek the Soul?

Does Sex Have a Future?

S1 • E14

Does Sex Have a Future?

Can We Imagine the Far Future: Year 3000?

S1 • E15

Can We Imagine the Far Future: Year 3000?

What Are the Next Breakthroughs in Science?

S1 • E16

What Are the Next Breakthroughs in Science?

How Does Creativity Work at Work?

S1 • E17

How Does Creativity Work at Work?

Do Brains Make Minds?

S1 • E18

Do Brains Make Minds?

Will Gene Therapy Change the Human Race?

S1 • E19

Will Gene Therapy Change the Human Race?

Why Do We Make Music and Art?

S1 • E20

Why Do We Make Music and Art?

Why Is Quantum Physics So Beautiful?

S1 • E21

Why Is Quantum Physics So Beautiful?

How Did We Think in the Last Millennium?

S1 • E22

How Did We Think in the Last Millennium?

Who Needs Sex Therapy?

S1 • E23

Who Needs Sex Therapy?

How Does Technology Transform Society?

S1 • E24

How Does Technology Transform Society?

Can You Learn to Be Creative?

S1 • E25

Can You Learn to Be Creative?

What Is Parapsychology?

S1 • E26

What Is Parapsychology?

Will This Universe Ever End?

S1 • E27

Will This Universe Ever End?

Will Intelligence Fill the Universe?

S1 • E28

Will Intelligence Fill the Universe?

Is Science Fiction Science?

S1 • E29

Is Science Fiction Science?

Does science fiction have anything to add to our understanding of science.

Can We Believe in Both Science and Religion?

S1 • E30

Can We Believe in Both Science and Religion?

How Does the Autistic Brain Work?

S1 • E31

How Does the Autistic Brain Work?

How Weird Is the Cosmos?

S1 • E32

How Weird Is the Cosmos?

Microbes: Friend or Foe?

S1 • E33

Microbes: Friend or Foe?

How Does Order Arise in the Universe?

S1 • E34

How Does Order Arise in the Universe?

Why Is Music So Significant?

S1 • E35

Why Is Music So Significant?

Will Computers Take a Quantum Leap?

S1 • E36

Will Computers Take a Quantum Leap?

Does Psychiatry Have a Split Personality?

S1 • E37

Does Psychiatry Have a Split Personality?

How Does Basic Science Defend America?

S1 • E38

How Does Basic Science Defend America?

Who Gets to Validate Alternative Medicine?

S1 • E39

Who Gets to Validate Alternative Medicine?

Is Consciousness Definable?

S1 • E40

Is Consciousness Definable?

Is the Universe Full of Life?

S1 • E41

Is the Universe Full of Life?

Can Religion Withstand Technology?

S1 • E42

Can Religion Withstand Technology?

Testing New Drugs: Are People Guinea Pigs?

S1 • E43

Testing New Drugs: Are People Guinea Pigs?

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Cast

Robert Lawrence Kuhn

Self - Host

Varadaraja V. Raman

Self

Douglas Vakoch

Douglas Vakoch

Self

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Self

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Self

Jill Tarter

Jill Tarter

Self

Steve Koonin

Steve Koonin

Self

Alvin Plantinga

Self

Richard Swinburne

Self

Keith Ward

Self

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