Closer to Truth

Closer to Truth (2000)


  • Genre: Documentary, Talk
  • First Air Date: 2000-05-07
  • Last Air Date: 2015-06-19
  • Total Seasons: 15
  • Total Episodes: 131
  • Status: Returning Series
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Network: PBS
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Summary

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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Closer to Truth Seasons

Season 1

First Air Date: 2000-05-07
14 Episodes

Season 2

First Air Date: 2000-09-10
14 Episodes

Season 3

First Air Date: 2003-05-01
15 Episodes

Season 4

First Air Date:
0 Episodes

Season 5

First Air Date:
8 Episodes

Season 6

First Air Date:
0 Episodes

Season 7

First Air Date:
0 Episodes

Season 8

First Air Date: 2010-05-06
8 Episodes

Season 9

First Air Date: 2010-09-30
13 Episodes

Season 10

First Air Date: 2011-01-06
12 Episodes

Season 11

First Air Date: 2011-04-07
12 Episodes

Season 12

First Air Date: 2011-09-29
13 Episodes

Season 13

First Air Date: 2012-04-05
11 Episodes

Season 14

First Air Date: 2012-11-10
11 Episodes

Season 15

First Air Date:
0 Episodes

Closer to Truth Episodes

Title Air Date Duration
Season 1Episode 1What are the Grand Questions of Science?30 min
Season 1Episode 2Will the Internet Change Humanity?30 min
Season 1Episode 3What's Creativity and Who's Creative?30 min
Season 1Episode 4New Communities for the New Millennium?30 min
Season 1Episode 5How Did This Universe Begin?30 min
Season 1Episode 6Can We See the Near Future - Year 2025?30 min
Season 1Episode 7What Is Consciousness?30 min
Season 1Episode 8Can You Really Extend Your Life?30 min
Season 1Episode 9Can ESP Affect Our Lives?30 min
Season 1Episode 10Whatever Happened to Ethics and Civility?30 min
Season 1Episode 11How Does Technology Transform Thinking?30 min
Season 1Episode 12Strange Physics of the Mind?30 min
Season 1Episode 13Can Science Seek the Soul?30 min
Season 1Episode 14Does Sex Have a Future?30 min
Season 2Episode 1Can We Imagine the Far Future - Year 3000?30 min
Season 2Episode 2What Are the Next Breakthroughs in Science?30 min
Season 2Episode 3How Does Creativity Work at Work?30 min
Season 2Episode 4Do Brains Make Minds?30 min
Season 2Episode 5Will Gene Therapy Change the Human Race?30 min
Season 2Episode 6Why Do We Make Music and Art?30 min
Season 2Episode 7Why Is Quantum Physics So Beautiful?30 min
Season 2Episode 8How Did We Think in the Last Millennium?30 min
Season 2Episode 9Who Needs Sex Therapy?30 min
Season 2Episode 10How Does Technology Transform Society?30 min
Season 2Episode 11Can You Learn to Be Creative?30 min
Season 2Episode 12What Is Parapsychology?30 min
Season 2Episode 13Will This Universe Ever End?30 min
Season 2Episode 14Will Intelligence Fill the Universe?30 min
Season 3Episode 1Is Science Fiction Science?30 min
Season 3Episode 2Can We Believe in Both Science and Religion?30 min
Season 3Episode 3How Does the Autistic Brain Work?30 min
Season 3Episode 4How Weird Is the Cosmos?30 min
Season 3Episode 5Microbes - Friend or Foe?30 min
Season 3Episode 6How Does Order Arise in the Universe?30 min
Season 3Episode 7What Makes Music So Significant?30 min
Season 3Episode 8Will Computers Take a Quantum Leap?30 min
Season 3Episode 9Does Psychiatry Have a Split Personality?30 min
Season 3Episode 10How Does Basic Science Defend America?30 min
Season 3Episode 11Who Gets to Validate Alternative Medicine?30 min
Season 3Episode 12Is Consciousness Definable?30 min
Season 3Episode 13Is the Universe Full of Life?30 min
Season 3Episode 14Can Religion Withstand Technology?30 min
Season 3Episode 15Testing New Drugs: Are People Guinea Pigs?30 min
Season 8Episode 6How Is God the Creator?30 min
Season 8Episode 7What Would Multiple Universes Mean?30 min
Season 8Episode 8What Things Are Conscious?30 min
Season 8Episode 9Can Religion Be Explained Without God?30 min
Season 8Episode 10What's Real About Time?30 min
Season 8Episode 11How Do People Maintain Their Identity?30 min
Season 8Episode 12Is God a Person?30 min
Season 8Episode 13Asking Ultimate Questions30 min
Season 9Episode 1Arguing God From Natural Theology30 min
Season 9Episode 2What Is the Grand Structure of the Universe?30 min
Season 9Episode 3Could ESP Reveal Spirit Existence?30 min
Season 9Episode 4Is God All Knowing?30 min
Season 9Episode 5Why Is the Quantum So Strange?30 min
Season 9Episode 6Can Metaphysics Reveal Surprises?30 min
Season 9Episode 7Is God Necessary?30 min
Season 9Episode 8Would Multiple Universes Undermine God?30 min
Season 9Episode 9Do Human Brains Have Free Will?30 min
Season 9Episode 10Arguing for Agnosticism?30 min
Season 9Episode 11Are Science and Religion at War?30 min
Season 9Episode 12Why Explore Consciousness and Cosmos?30 min
Season 9Episode 13A New Heaven and a New Earth?30 min
Season 10Episode 2Why Is the Universe Breathtaking?30 min
Season 10Episode 3Does Consciousness Have Meaning?30 min
Season 10Episode 4Arguing God From Miracles?30 min
Season 10Episode 5Marvels of Space-Time?30 min
Season 10Episode 6What Makes Brains Conscious?30 min
Season 10Episode 7Is God Perfect?30 min
Season 10Episode 8What Are the Scope and Limits of Science?30 min
Season 10Episode 9Is Human Consciousness Special?30 min
Season 10Episode 10If God Knows the Future, What Is Free Will?30 min
Season 10Episode 11Can Science Talk God?30 min
Season 10Episode 12Do Persons Survive Death?30 min
Season 10Episode 13Is Theism Coherent?30 min
Season 11Episode 2What's Beyond Physics?30 min
Season 11Episode 3Can ESP Reveal a New Reality?30 min
Season 11Episode 4Arguing God From Consciousness?30 min
Season 11Episode 5Does the Cosmos Provide Meaning?30 min
Season 11Episode 6What Maintains Personal Identity?30 min
Season 11Episode 7Arguing God From Being?30 min
Season 11Episode 8Can Science and Theology Find Deep Reality?30 min
Season 11Episode 9What's Wrong With Immortal Souls?30 min
Season 11Episode 10Does God Have a Nature?30 min
Season 11Episode 11Are There Things Not Physical?30 min
Season 11Episode 12How Free Is God?30 min
Season 11Episode 13Immortality and Eternal Life30 min
Season 12Episode 1Fallacies in Proving God Exists30 min
Season 12Episode 2Is Life and Mind Inevitable in the Universe?30 min
Season 12Episode 3Arguing God With Analytic Philosophy30 min
Season 12Episode 4What Would Intelligent Aliens Mean?30 min
Season 12Episode 5Does a Creator God Work?30 min
Season 12Episode 6Mysteries of Cosmic Inflation30 min
Season 12Episode 7How Is God All Powerful?30 min
Season 12Episode 8Does Metaphysics Reveal Reality?30 min
Season 12Episode 9Complexity From Simplicity?30 min
Season 12Episode 10Do Humans Have Free Will?30 min
Season 12Episode 11What Is God About?30 min
Season 12Episode 12Does Consciousness Point to God?30 min
Season 12Episode 13The Mystery of Existence?30 min
Season 13Episode 2Is Consciousness an Illusion?30 min
Season 13Episode 3What Is God?30 min
Season 13Episode 4Do General Principles Govern All Science?30 min
Season 13Episode 6Diverse Argument for God30 min
Season 13Episode 7Why Science and Religion Think Differently30 min
Season 13Episode 8What Are Dreams About?30 min
Season 13Episode 9Can God Face Up Evil?30 min
Season 13Episode 10How Belief Systems Work30 min
Season 13Episode 11Do Religions Complement or Contradict?30 min
Season 13Episode 12What's in a Resurrection?30 min
Season 13Episode 13Time at Sea30 min
Season 14Episode 1Time at Sea30 min
Season 14Episode 2What Is Time?30 min
Season 14Episode 3Why Believe in God?30 min
Season 14Episode 4Alternative Concepts of God?30 min
Season 14Episode 5Pantheism: Is the World God?30 min
Season 14Episode 6How Do Brains Work?30 min
Season 14Episode 7What Would an Infinite Cosmos Mean?30 min
Season 14Episode 8What Is God's Eternity?30 min
Season 14Episode 9Why Is Free Will a Big Question?30 min
Season 14Episode 10Is Free Will an Illusion?30 min
Season 14Episode 11What's in a Resurrection?30 min
Season 14Episode 12Does Hell Reveal God?30 min
Season 14Episode 13Confronting Consciousness30 min
Season 15Episode 1Did the Universe Have a Beginning?30 min
Season 15Episode 2How Do Humans Differ From Other Animals?30 min
Season 15Episode 3What Would It Feel Like to Be God?30 min
Season 15Episode 4What's the New Atheism?30 min
Season 15Episode 5How Does Personal Identity Persist Through Time?30 min
Season 15Episode 6Can Philosophy of Religion Find God?30 min
Season 15Episode 7Why Do We Sleep?30 min
Season 15Episode 8Does Cosmic Fine Tuning Demand Explanation?30 min
Season 15Episode 9Why Obsess About Free Will?30 min
Season 15Episode 10Why Seek an Alternative God?30 min
Season 15Episode 11Panentheism: Is the World in God?30 min
Season 15Episode 12What Is Nothing?30 min
Season 15Episode 13Why Anything at All?30 min
Season 16Episode 1What Is Ultimate Reality?30 min
Season 16Episode 2What Is Consciousness?30 min
Season 16Episode 3Is This God?30 min
Season 16Episode 4Will the Universe Ever End?30 min
Season 16Episode 5Can the Divine Be a Person?30 min
Season 16Episode 6Is Death Final?30 min
Season 16Episode 7What Causes Religious Belief?30 min
Season 16Episode 8What Things Are Real?30 min
Season 16Episode 9Does Moral Responsibility Require Free Will?30 min
Season 16Episode 10What Can We Learn From Alternative Gods?30 min
Season 16Episode 11Why God, Not Nothing?30 min
Season 16Episode 12Does God's Knowledge Ruin Free Will?30 min
Season 16Episode 13Is God Totally Free?30 min
Season 17Episode 1Can the Mind Heal the Body?30 min
Season 17Episode 2Is God Responsible for Evil?30 min
Season 17Episode 3What Is Information?30 min
Season 17Episode 4Can Design Point to God?30 min
Season 17Episode 5What Is Truth?30 min
Season 17Episode 6Does Information Create the Cosmos?30 min
Season 17Episode 7Why a Body in a Resurrection?30 min
Season 17Episode 8Must Multiple Universes Exist?30 min
Season 17Episode 9Toward a Science of Consciousness30 min
Season 17Episode 10Big Questions in Free Will Part I30 min
Season 17Episode 11Big Questions in Free Will Part II30 min
Season 17Episode 12Can Free Will Survive God's Fore-knowledge?30 min
Season 17Episode 13How Can God Not Be Free?30 min

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