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Historian of science Simon Schaffer is interested in the purpose of beauty within evolutionary explanations. Taking the ideas of Charles Darwin as his starting point, he wants to know how and why the capacity to see beauty evolved and whether this powerful, fleeting and apparently most useless of attributes can really have an evolutionary explanation. Simon talks to neuroscientist and biologist Stephen Rose and film-maker and anthropologist Chris Wright about whether Darwin really can explain why he finds Mahler's 5th Symphony beautiful. This programme is part of a week of programmes looking at the history of ideas around Freedom.
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A History of Ideas
Neuropsychologist Paul Broks on Wittgenstein
2015-08-07 • 12min
A History of Ideas
Philosopher Clare Carlisle on Reality and Perception
2015-08-06 • 12min
A History of Ideas
Physicist Tara Shears on Falsification
2015-08-05 • 12min
A History of Ideas
Lawyer Harry Potter on Eyewitness Testimony
2015-08-04 • 13min
A History of Ideas
How Can I Know Anything at All?
2015-08-03 • 13min
A History of Ideas
Writer Lisa Appignanesi on the Love of Children
2015-07-31 • 12min
A History of Ideas
Psychotherapist Mark Vernon on Freud
2015-07-30 • 12min
A History of Ideas
Theologian Giles Fraser on Altruism
2015-07-29 • 12min
A History of Ideas
Classicist Edith Hall on Aristophanes in Plato
2015-07-28 • 13min
A History of Ideas
What Is Love?
2015-07-27 • 12min