The Frontiers of Knowledge - Part of the Critical Thinking and Ethics 2022 program collection

What do we know about the world, the past, and ourselves? Join us and Professor Grayling as he introduces his new book, The Frontiers of Knowledge.

Very recently, just in the course of the last century and a half, there have been spectacular advances in our enquiries into these matters. Using the most general labels for them we call them science, history and psychology respectively. What has been achieved in them, and where is our new knowledge leading us? These successes are the result of new technologies of enquiry which have vastly extended humanity’s reach backwards in time and across previously inaccessible scales of distance, from the remotest galaxies down to the intricacies of the human brain, and yet further down to the internal structure of matter. Each step in these advances has in its turn raised new questions, questions that beforehand were not possible to ask; and one of…