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Institute of Art and Ideas
Formation2008
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Websitewww.iai.tv

The Institute of Art and Ideas (IAI) is a British philosophy organisation founded in 2008. It operates the

HowTheLightGetsIn
philosophy and music festival.

Overview

Covering the fields of philosophy, science, politics and the arts, as of October 2021 the IAI's online platform IAI.tv hosts more than 3000 videos, articles, courses and podcasts from internationally renowned thinkers, with new content updated daily.

HowTheLightGetsIn, the biggest philosophy and music festival in the world[4] aimed at "tackling the dearth of philosophy in daily life", in addition to monthly IAI Live events.[5][6]

The IAI was founded by philosopher

Hay-on-wye.[10][11]

The IAI's festival

A.S. Byatt, Paul Krugman, Jess Phillips, Rory Stewart, Daniel Dennett, Peter Singer, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Bianca Jagger, and Slavoj Žižek, along with musicians Brian Eno, Clean Bandit, Laura Marling, and comedians James Acaster and Robin Ince.[15][16][17][18]

IAI TV

IAI.tv is an online platform publishing articles, videos and courses. It includes three sources of content: IAI Player, IAI News and IAI Academy.[19]

IAI Player

IAI Player is an online channel where the debates and talks curated by the IAI and hosted at the

Owen Jones, Helen Lewis, Diane Abbott and Liz Truss.[24][25][26][27]

IAI News

IAI News is an online magazine of ideas. It publishes philosophical articles on science, politics, and the arts along with core philosophy themes such as metaphysics and language.[28] The IAI website states that the aim of its content is to rescue "philosophy from technical debates about the meaning of words [by] returning them to big ideas and putting them at the centre of culture."[29] Contributors have included Martha Nussbaum, Homi Bhabha, Massimo Pigliucci, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Catherine Hakim, Hew Strachan, Phillip Goff, Huw Davies, and many hundreds of others.[30][31][32][33][34][35][36]

IAI Academy

IAI Academy is an educational platform of online courses in philosophy, politics, art and science.[37]

Philosophy for Our Times

Beginning in September 2016, the IAI has published its weekly podcast, Philosophy for our Times, featuring IAI debates and talks from the

HowTheLightGetsIn festival.[38][39] In 2021 the podcast was ranked as the Best UK Philosophy Podcast by FeedSpot, based on traffic, social media followers, domain authority and freshness.[40]

Notes and references

  1. LSE
    . 7 July 2014. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
  2. ^ "The Institute of Art and Ideas". openDemocracy. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
  3. ^ "IAI.tv". Retrieved 26 September 2021.
  4. ^ Maya Oppenheim (26 October 2021). "HowTheLightGetsIn: The world's largest philosophy and music festival to ask life's big questions". The Independent.
  5. ^ Maya Oppenheim (26 October 2021). "HowTheLightGetsIn: The world's largest philosophy and music festival to ask life's big questions". The Independent.
  6. ^ Paul Pardi (22 October 2020). "Live Debates from the Institute of Art and Ideas". Philosophy News.
  7. ^ "Hilary Lawson". The Independent. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
  8. ^ Maya Oppenheim (26 October 2021). "HowTheLightGetsIn: The world's largest philosophy and music festival to ask life's big questions". The Independent.
  9. ^ Michael Archer (18 November 2009). "Contemporary art is not ephemeral". The Guardian.
  10. ^ Charlotte Cripps (23 October 2011). "Ideas festival: Great minds think and drink alike". The Independent.
  11. ^ "Introducing the IAI". 17 January 2018. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
  12. ^ Harriet Marsden (9 June 2018). "HowTheLightGetsIn festival, Hay-on-Wye, Wales, review: A rare combination of fascination and fun". The Independent.
  13. Yahoo!
    .
  14. ^ Harriet Marsden (9 June 2018). "HowTheLightGetsIn festival, Hay-on-Wye, Wales, review: A rare combination of fascination and fun". The Independent.
  15. ^ Harriet Marsden (9 June 2018). "HowTheLightGetsIn festival, Hay-on-Wye, Wales, review: A rare combination of fascination and fun". The Independent.
  16. ^ Maya Oppenheim (26 October 2021). "HowTheLightGetsIn: The world's largest philosophy and music festival to ask life's big questions". The Independent.
  17. ^ "Speakers". Retrieved 26 September 2021.
  18. ^ Paul Pardi (10 September 2020). "HowTheLightGetsIn Festival with Daniel Dennett and Peter Singer". Philosophy News.
  19. ^ "IAI.tv". Retrieved 26 September 2021.
  20. ^ "HowTheLightGetsIn, the world's largest philosophy and music festival, returns with a bang". Independent. 6 October 2021. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
  21. ^ Caleb Forward (21 September 2021). "The Future and Philosophy - HowTheLightGetsIn 2021". Philosophy Foundation.
  22. ^ "Paul Krugman". Retrieved 5 January 2022.
  23. ^ "Prof. dr. Gerard 't Hooft". Retrieved 5 January 2022.
  24. ^ "Speakers". Retrieved 26 September 2021.
  25. ^ Paul Pardi (13 June 2020). "IAI on Consciousness, Kahneman, Cottingham, and Coronavirus". Philosophy News.
  26. ^ "Dr Nick Lane Origin of Life Debate". University College London. 12 March 2021.
  27. Huffington Post
    .
  28. ^ "IAI News". 21 May 2020. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
  29. ^ "Introducing the IAI". 17 January 2018. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
  30. ^ Steven Pinker and Homi Bhabha (10 September 2018). "Does the Enlightenment Need Defending?".
  31. ^ Martha Nussbaum (2018-08-10). "How To Escape Fear: An Interview With Martha Nussbaum".
  32. ^ "Popular Articles". Philip Goff Philosophy. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
  33. ^ "Issue Archive". Retrieved 27 October 2021.
  34. ^ Catherine Hakim (18 December 2013). "Embracing Erotic Capital" (PDF).
  35. ^ Hew Strachan. "The real reason for leaving Afghanistan: the era of interventionism isn't over". University of St Andrews. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
  36. ISBN 9781000682960
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  37. ^ "IAI Academy Now Offers Free Courses: From "The Meaning of Life" to "A Brief Guide to Everything"". Open Culture. 17 October 2014.
  38. ^ "Philosophy For Our Times". TuneIn. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
  39. ^ Nick Byrd (18 February 2018). "The Institute of Art and Ideas Podcast: Europe's (Superior) Answer to TED". Nick Byrd.
  40. ^ "Best 15 UK Philosophy Podcasts". Feedspot. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
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