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Philip Pullman Meets Iain McGilchrist - The Meaning of Life

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The Synthesis of Science and Philosophy

Philip Pullman: I offer a new synthesis of philosophy and science. Why are they such sort of opposites otherwise? He says the way in which universities work is partly to blame. And there's also a sort of snobbism of philosophers that somehow they can't learn anything from science, he adds.

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