Show overview
Closer To Truth has been publishing since 2015, and across the 11 years since has built a catalogue of 316 episodes. That works out to roughly 190 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a fortnightly cadence.
Episodes typically run twenty to thirty-five minutes — most land between 27 min and 38 min — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Education show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 4 days ago, with 31 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2025, with 54 episodes published.
From the publisher
Closer To Truth presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions in Cosmos, Life, Consciousness, and Meaning. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Seek your own answers.
Latest Episodes
View all 316 episodesWoodenfish Forum on Buddhism, Science & Future — Landscape of Consciousness — Robert Lawrence Kuhn
How do Brains Work?
Celia Deane-Drummond on the Evolution of Wisdom and the Nature of Evil
What Would Multiple Universes Mean?
What is Nothing?
Saleem Ali on Natural Laws and Human Life
Mario Livio on Galileo, Science Denial, and the Future of the Universe
Gregg Caruso on Free Will: Philosophy and Moral Responsibility
Wendy Freedman on the Hubble Constant, Standard Candles, and Cosmology
Michael Ruse on Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, and Philosophy of Biology
Thomas Hertog on the Origin of Time
David Chalmers on Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
Anil Seth on a New Science of Consciousness
Why Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology?
Arnold Zuboff on Why You Are Every Conscious Being
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein on The Mattering Instinct
What Is The Far Future Of Intelligence
Roman Yampolskiy on How Dangerous Is Artificial Intelligence
Michael James on What the World Is According to Sri Ramana
Ep 240Current Arguments for God
Make a donation to Closer To Truth to help us continue exploring the world's deepest questions without the need for paywalls. I like arguments about God, whether based on science, philosophy or personal experience. I like to push and to be pushed, explore the possible existence of a Creator. I must also consider defeaters of God. Featuring interviews with Rebecca Goldstein, Ian Barbour, John Polkinghorne, Robin Collins, Anthony Grayling, Yujin Nagasawa, and Alvin Plantinga.