# Materialism and its Discontents

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Professor Keith Ward DD FBA
- Year: 2008
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Philosophy, Religion
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/materialism-and-its-discontents)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Religion and Philosophy. The problem of verification and the nature of religious language. The problem of consciousness, and the unexpected revival of Platonism in mathematical physics. Is consciousness an illusion? Or is matter a myth? Is God philosophically respectable again?

## Lectures

1. [Materialism and its Discontents](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/materialism-and-its-discontents/ff0e75106017) (YouTube)