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Faith, consciousness and creating meaning in life

Philosophers Daniel Dennett, Philip Goff, podcaster Liz Oldfield & a faith museum curator debate reason and experience and their role in religious belief

I've been Thinking is the title of a memoir from philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel Dennett. Philip Goff is a Professor at Durham University who's written Why ? The Purpose of the Universe. The Bishop Auckland Project is opening a new museum exploring faith and their curator Amina Wright joins them and podcaster and former director of Theos Liz Oldfield for a discussion about finding meaning. The presenter is Chris Harding.

Producer: Luke Mulhall

You can find a collection of programmes exploring Philosophy and looking at Religious Belief on the Free Thinking programme website. All of them are available to download as Arts and Ideas podcasts and on ±«Óãtv Sounds

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