Closer To Truth
Closer To Truth presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions in Cosmos, Life, Mind, and Meaning.
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- Paul Davies3 eps
- Lawrence Krauss2 eps
- Robin Collins2 eps
Also: David Chalmers, John Leslie, Max Tegmark, Michael Ruse, Freeman Dyson, Raymond Kurzweil, Frank Tipler, Roman Yampolskiy, Michael James, Rebecca Goldstein, Ian Barbour, John Polkinghorne, Anthony Grayling, Yujin Nagasawa, Alvin Plantinga, John Searle, Raymond Tallis
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- 🇵🇭PH · Education#12616K to 196K
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Est. listeners per new episode within ~30 days
16K to 196K🎙 ~2x weekly·300 episodes·Last published 6d ago - Monthly Reach
Unique listeners across all episodes (30 days)
32K to 392K🇺🇸71%🇵🇭29% - Active Followers
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18K to 216K
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 10/21/26 | Thomas Nagel on What Is It Like to Be a Bat? | Thomas Nagel explains why the subjective character of experience may reveal something fundamental that our current understanding of the physical world leaves out. Subscribe to Closer To Truth: https://www.youtube.com/@CloserToTruthTV Join the Community: Membership (5,000+ videos): https://closertotruth.com/register/Audio Podcast: https://closertotruth.podbean.comSupport the Show: https://closertotruth.com/donate/Official Merchandise: https://www.bonfire.com/store/closertotruth/ Follow Us: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CloserToTruthTV/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/closertotruth/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@closertotruthtvX: https://x.com/CloserToTruth | 1h 53m 03s | ||||||
| 10/14/26 | Roger Walsh on Consciousness, Wisdom, and Meditation | Roger Walsh, Professor of Psychiatry and Philosophy at UC Irvine, and Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Host of "Closer To Truth", talk consciousness, the search for wisdom, the science of meditation, the mystery of the universe and reality, and the merging of Eastern and Western philosophy. Subscribe to Closer To Truth: https://www.youtube.com/@CloserToTruthTV Join the Community: Membership (5,000+ videos): https://closertotruth.com/register/Audio Podcast: https://closertotruth.podbean.comSupport the Show: https://closertotruth.com/donate/Official Merchandise: https://www.bonfire.com/store/closertotruth/ Follow Us: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CloserToTruthTV/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/closertotruth/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@closertotruthtvX: https://x.com/CloserToTruth | 40m 41s | ||||||
| 10/7/26 | Robert Stickgold on Dreams, Their Purpose, and the Science Behind Them | Why do we dream—and do our dreams serve a purpose? Sleep and dream researcher Robert Stickgold joins Robert Lawrence Kuhn to explore the science of dreaming, from the history and content of dreams to what happens in the brain during sleep. They discuss memory processing, emotional regulation, REM sleep, weak associations, nightmares, lucid dreams, creativity, and whether dreams help us explore possibilities and prepare for the future. Subscribe to Closer To Truth: https://www.youtube.com/@CloserToTruthTV Join the Community: Membership (5,000+ videos): https://closertotruth.com/register/Audio Podcast: https://closertotruth.podbean.comSupport the Show: https://closertotruth.com/donate/Official Merchandise: https://www.bonfire.com/store/closertotruth/ Follow Us: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CloserToTruthTV/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/closertotruth/X: https://x.com/CloserToTruth | 1h 06m 32s | ||||||
| 9/30/26 | Acharya Prashant on Is Ego or Consciousness Fundamental? (Part 1) | What is consciousness, and can we understand it without first asking who is conscious? In this extended conversation, Acharya Prashant and Robert Lawrence Kuhn bring Western philosophy of mind into dialogue with Vedantic traditions. They explore consciousness and the ego, physicalism and idealism, self-inquiry, karma and reincarnation, animal and artificial consciousness, free choice, and whether anything about human existence lies beyond the physical. Their approaches converge at some points and sharply diverge at others—especially over what, if anything, is fundamental. Subscribe to Closer To Truth: https://www.youtube.com/@CloserToTruthTV Join the Community: Membership (5,000+ videos): https://closertotruth.com/register/Audio Podcast: https://closertotruth.podbean.comSupport the Show: https://closertotruth.com/donate/Official Merchandise: https://www.bonfire.com/store/closertotruth/ Follow Us: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CloserToTruthTV/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/closertotruth/X: https://x.com/CloserToTruth | 46m 51s | ||||||
| 9/16/26 | Alex O'Connor on God, Faith and Philosophy | What do we mean when we talk about God—and how far can philosophy take us in answering the deepest questions of religion? In this wide-ranging conversation, Alex O’Connor joins Robert Lawrence Kuhn to explore competing conceptions of God, the ground of being, religious experience and faith, the problem of evil, divine omniscience and free will, morality, the philosophical challenges of the Trinity, and the diversity of religious traditions. Along the way, O’Connor reflects on how his own thinking about God has evolved, why he doubts philosophical arguments alone could make him a religious believer, and why questions about consciousness and the fundamental nature of reality remain especially significant to him. Subscribe to Closer To Truth: https://www.youtube.com/@CloserToTruthTV Join the Community: Membership (5,000+ videos): https://closertotruth.com/register/Audio Podcast: https://closertotruth.podbean.comSupport the Show: https://closertotruth.com/donate/Official Merchandise: https://www.bonfire.com/store/closertotruth/ Follow Us: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CloserToTruthTV/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/closertotruth/X: https://x.com/CloserToTruth | 2h 34m 52s | ||||||
| 9/9/26 | dark mattercosmology+5 | George Smoot | Closer To Truth | — | dark mattercosmology+5 | — | 51m 06s | ||
| 9/2/26 | future of humanityartificial intelligence+5 | David Brin | Closer To Truth | — | humanityfuturism+5 | — | 1h 05m 45s | ||
| 8/26/26 | theory of everythingstring theory+5 | Michio Kaku | The God EquationThe God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything | — | theory of everythingMichio Kaku+5 | — | 1h 09m 18s | ||
| 8/19/26 | consciousnessphilosophy+4 | — | Woodenfish FoundationA Landscape of Consciousness: Toward a Taxonomy of Explanations and Implications | Taipei | consciousnessphilosophy+5 | — | 1h 03m 17s | ||
| 8/12/26 | brain functionreality perception+3 | Christopher EvansKelsey Martin+3 | — | — | brainreality+5 | — | 27m 17s | ||
| 8/5/26 | evolution of wisdomnature of evil+3 | Celia Deane-Drummond | Closer To TruthShadow Sophia | — | wisdomevil+5 | — | 1h 10m 02s | ||
| 7/29/26 | multiple universescosmology+3 | Max TegmarkAnthony Aguirre+3 | Closer To Truth | — | universescosmology+3 | — | 27m 16s | ||
| 7/22/26 | nothingnessphilosophy+4 | Richard SwinburneSimon Blackburn+8 | — | — | nothingexistence+5 | — | 27m 16s | ||
| 7/15/26 | natural lawshuman societies+4 | Saleem H. Ali | University of Delaware | — | natural lawshuman life+5 | — | 1h 21m 11s | ||
| 7/8/26 | sciencetruth+5 | Mario Livio | Hubble Space TelescopeSpace Telescope Science Institute+1 | — | Galileoscience denial+5 | — | 1h 06m 26s | ||
| 7/1/26 | free willmoral responsibility+4 | Gregg Caruso | SUNY CorningMacquarie University | — | free willmoral responsibility+5 | — | 1h 18m 49s | ||
| 6/24/26 | Hubble constantcosmology+4 | Wendy Freedman | Carnegie Observatories | Pasadena, CaliforniaLas Campanas, Chile | Hubble constantcosmology+5 | — | 49m 47s | ||
| 6/17/26 | evolutionhuman nature+4 | Michael Ruse | Florida State UniversityA Philosopher Looks at Human Beings | — | evolutionhuman exceptionalism+5 | — | 1h 10m 38s | ||
| 6/10/26 | cosmologyquantum cosmology+4 | Thomas Hertog | University of LeuvenOn the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking’s Final Theory | — | universelaws of physics+4 | — | 1h 13m 55s | ||
| 6/3/26 | virtual realitysimulation theory+3 | David Chalmers | New York UniversityCenter for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness+1 | — | virtual worldssimulation theory+3 | — | 1h 14m 50s | ||
| 5/27/26 | consciousnessneuroscience+4 | Anil Seth | University of SussexSackler Centre for Consciousness Science+1 | — | consciousnessneuroscience+3 | — | 1h 02m 22s | ||
| 5/13/26 | philosophy of evolutionary biologynatural selection+4 | Elliott SoberRichard Dawkins+4 | — | — | evolutionphilosophy+6 | — | 27m 02s | ||
| 5/6/26 | consciousnesspersonal identity+4 | Arnold Zuboff | University College LondonPrinceton | — | consciousnessuniversalism+4 | — | 32m 59s | ||
| 4/29/26 | philosophyhuman significance+3 | Rebecca Newberger Goldstein | Princeton UniversityYale+9 | — | mattering instincthuman drive+3 | — | 34m 47s | ||
| 4/22/26 | future of intelligencecosmic timescales+3 | Freeman DysonLawrence Krauss+4 | Closer To Truth | — | intelligencefuture+5 | — | 27m 01s | ||
| 4/15/26 | artificial intelligenceAI safety+3 | Roman Yampolskiy | University of LouisvilleAI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable | — | artificial intelligenceAI safety+3 | — | 47m 03s | ||
| 4/8/26 | philosophyself+4 | Michael James | Atma-Vidya: The Science of Knowing Oneself | — | Sri Ramana MaharshiMichael James+5 | — | 34m 40s | ||
| 4/1/26 | arguments for Godscience and religion+3 | Rebecca GoldsteinIan Barbour+5 | — | — | GodCreator+4 | — | 27m 13s | ||
| 3/25/26 | consciousnessphilosophy of mind+3 | John SearleDavid Chalmers | — | — | consciousnessbrain+4 | — | 27m 10s | ||
| 3/18/26 | ultimate questionsexistence+4 | Lawrence KraussJohn Leslie+2 | — | — | ultimate questionsexistence+8 | — | 27m 16s | ||
| 3/11/26 | consciousnesstheories of consciousness+5 | — | Closer To TruthLandscape of Consciousness | — | consciousnessmaterialism+5 | — | 26m 46s | ||
| 3/8/26 | afterlifereligion+4 | — | What Life Might Come After Death? | — | afterlifesoul+6 | — | 26m 46s | ||
| 2/25/26 | consciousnesslife after death+3 | — | Could Theories of Consciousness Affect Life After Death? | — | consciousnesslife after death+3 | — | 27m 10s | ||
| 2/18/26 | explicitnessmystery of human beings+4 | Raymond Tallis | Circling Round Explicitness: The Heart of the Mystery of Human Being | — | explicitnessmystery+5 | — | 25m 18s | ||
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Chart history for Closer To Truth
Peaked at #126 in PH, currently #126 in PH.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
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| PH | — | #126 | #126 | — |
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1 placement across 1 market.
Chart Positions
1 placement across 1 market.