Closer to Truth

Closer to Truth

Continuing First aired 07/May/2000 English 15 season(s) 131 episode(s)
Closer to Truth is a continuing television series on PBS & public television originally created, produced and hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn. The first premiere series aired in 2000 for 2 seasons, followed by a second series aired in 2003 for a single season.

The current / third series of the program, Closer to Truth: Cosmos. Consciousness. God., launched in 2008, with 12 full seasons to date. Robert Lawrence Kuhn is the creator, executive producer, writer and presenter of the series. Peter Getzels is the co-creator and producer / director.

The show is centered on on-camera conversations with leading scientists, philosophers, theologians, and scholars, covering a diverse range of topics or questions from the size and nature of the universe, to the existence and essence of God, to the mystery of consciousness and the notion of free will.

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Season 14 · Season 14
11 episode(s) · Air date: 10/Nov/2012
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11 episode(s) · Air date: 05/Apr/2012
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Season 12 · Season 12
13 episode(s) · Air date: 29/Sep/2011
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12 episode(s) · Air date: 07/Apr/2011
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8 episode(s) · Air date: 06/May/2010
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15 episode(s) · Air date: 01/May/2003
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Season 2 · Season 2
14 episode(s) · Air date: 10/Sep/2000
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Season 1 · Season 1
14 episode(s) · Air date: 07/May/2000
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S1E14
Does Sex Have a Future?
Air date: 06/Aug/2000 · Runtime: 30 min
Summary

A discussion of what happens when technology multiplies sexual options and accelerates sexual shifts, with sex therapists Cliff and Joyce Penner, biophysicist Gregory Stock, human-sexuality authority Paul Abramson and medical historian Vern Bullough. Host: Robert L. Kuhn.

Summary

A discussion of what happens when technology multiplies sexual options and accelerates sexual shifts, with sex therapists Cliff and Joyce Penner, biophysicist Gregory Stock, human-sexuality authority Paul Abramson and medical historian Vern Bullough. Host: Robert L. Kuhn.

S1E13
Can Science Seek the Soul?
Air date: 30/Jul/2000 · Runtime: 30 min
Summary

A discussion of whether the soul exists, with philosophy professor John Searle, theoretical physicist Fred Alan Wolf, neuropsychologist Warren Brown, and parapsychologists Dean Radin and Charles Tart. Host: Robert L. Kuhn.

Summary

A discussion of whether the soul exists, with philosophy professor John Searle, theoretical physicist Fred Alan Wolf, neuropsychologist Warren Brown, and parapsychologists Dean Radin and Charles Tart. Host: Robert L. Kuhn.

S1E11
How Does Technology Transform Thinking?
Air date: 16/Jul/2000 · Runtime: 30 min
Summary

A discussion of how technology transforms thinking, with geopolitical economist Francis Fukuyama, artificial-intelligence expert Marvin Minsky, fuzzy-logic expert Bart Kosko, planetary scientist Bruce Murray and Teledyne co-founder George Kozmetsky. Host: Robert L. Kuhn.

Summary

A discussion of how technology transforms thinking, with geopolitical economist Francis Fukuyama, artificial-intelligence expert Marvin Minsky, fuzzy-logic expert Bart Kosko, planetary scientist Bruce Murray and Teledyne co-founder George Kozmetsky. Host: Robert L. Kuhn.

S1E10
Whatever Happened to Ethics and Civility?
Air date: 09/Jul/2000 · Runtime: 30 min
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A discussion of the waning of ethics and civility in American society. Panelists include Bruce Chapman (Discovery Institute), theologian Richard Mouw, Yale Law School student Saru Jayaraman, linguist John McWhorter and social architect Barbara Marx Hubbard.

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A discussion of the waning of ethics and civility in American society. Panelists include Bruce Chapman (Discovery Institute), theologian Richard Mouw, Yale Law School student Saru Jayaraman, linguist John McWhorter and social architect Barbara Marx Hubbard.

S1E9
Can ESP Affect Our Lives?
Air date: 02/Jul/2000 · Runtime: 30 min
Summary

A discussion of extrasensory perception by physicist James Trefil, parapsychologists Charles Tart and Dean Radin, neuropsychologist Barry Beyerstein and anthropologist Marilyn Schlitz. Host: Robert L. Kuhn.

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A discussion of extrasensory perception by physicist James Trefil, parapsychologists Charles Tart and Dean Radin, neuropsychologist Barry Beyerstein and anthropologist Marilyn Schlitz. Host: Robert L. Kuhn.

S1E8
Can You Really Extend Your Life?
Air date: 25/Jun/2000 · Runtime: 30 min
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A discussion of the biology of aging and facts about living longer. The panel includes longevity expert Roy Walford, gene therapist W. French Anderson, Yale professor of surgery Sherwin Nuland, fitness theorist Arthur S. De Vany and biophysicist Gregory Stock. Host: Robert L. Kuhn.

Summary

A discussion of the biology of aging and facts about living longer. The panel includes longevity expert Roy Walford, gene therapist W. French Anderson, Yale professor of surgery Sherwin Nuland, fitness theorist Arthur S. De Vany and biophysicist Gregory Stock. Host: Robert L. Kuhn.

S1E7
What Is Consciousness?
Air date: 18/Jun/2000 · Runtime: 30 min
Summary

A discussion of the nature of consciousness. Panelists include philosophy professor John Searle, physicist James Trefil, consciousness expert David Chalmers, anthropologist Marilyn Schlitz and theoretical physicist Fred Alan Wolf. Host: Robert Kuhn.

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A discussion of the nature of consciousness. Panelists include philosophy professor John Searle, physicist James Trefil, consciousness expert David Chalmers, anthropologist Marilyn Schlitz and theoretical physicist Fred Alan Wolf. Host: Robert Kuhn.

S1E6
Can We See the Near Future - Year 2025?
Air date: 11/Jun/2000 · Runtime: 30 min
Summary

Experts try to forecast the near future (2025). Guests include creativity expert Edward de Bono, fuzzy-logic expert Bart Kosko, artificial-intelligence expert Edward Feigenbaum, futurist Graham T.T. Molitor and planetary scientist Bruce Murray. Host: Robert L. Kuhn.

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Experts try to forecast the near future (2025). Guests include creativity expert Edward de Bono, fuzzy-logic expert Bart Kosko, artificial-intelligence expert Edward Feigenbaum, futurist Graham T.T. Molitor and planetary scientist Bruce Murray. Host: Robert L. Kuhn.

S1E5
How Did This Universe Begin?
Air date: 04/Jun/2000 · Runtime: 30 min
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A discussion of scientific findings concerning the beginnings of the universe, with Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman, cosmologists Andrei Linde and Wendy Freedman, theologian Nancey Murphy and mathematician Frank Tipler. Host: Robert L. Kuhn.

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A discussion of scientific findings concerning the beginnings of the universe, with Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman, cosmologists Andrei Linde and Wendy Freedman, theologian Nancey Murphy and mathematician Frank Tipler. Host: Robert L. Kuhn.

S1E4
New Communities for the New Millennium?
Air date: 28/May/2000 · Runtime: 30 min
Summary

Topic: the concept of community in political, social, scientific and technological contexts. Panelists include astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bruce Chapman (Discovery Institute), social architect Barbara Marx Hubbard, linguist John McWhorter and Yale Law School student Saru Jayaraman. Host: Robert L. Kuhn.

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Topic: the concept of community in political, social, scientific and technological contexts. Panelists include astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bruce Chapman (Discovery Institute), social architect Barbara Marx Hubbard, linguist John McWhorter and Yale Law School student Saru Jayaraman. Host: Robert L. Kuhn.

S1E3
What's Creativity and Who's Creative?
Air date: 21/May/2000 · Runtime: 30 min
Summary

A discussion on creativity, where it comes from and how it's applied. Among the panelists: TV producer Stephen J. Cannell, inventor Ray Kurzweil, music educator Robert Freeman, creativity expert Mihaly Csikszentmihaly and corporate-creativity expert John Kao.

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A discussion on creativity, where it comes from and how it's applied. Among the panelists: TV producer Stephen J. Cannell, inventor Ray Kurzweil, music educator Robert Freeman, creativity expert Mihaly Csikszentmihaly and corporate-creativity expert John Kao.

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