Khaled Malachi examines the limits of English empiricism, explaining the triumph of Marx and Engels in using dialectics to elevate materialism onto a higher plane. In doing so, they uncovered the laws of historical development and the contradictions of capitalism itself.

Dialectical materialism, the philosophy of Marxism, did not fall from the sky. Nor was it just a ‘good idea’ that Marx came up with one afternoon. In this talk, Nye Shaw explains the philosophers who laid the basis for Marx and Engels.

Ben Curry looks at how the philosophical thought of an age impinges on science, and why a clear philosophy is necessary to relate our finite observations to the infinite cosmos, and the little sliver of time we are able to study to the whole eternity that stretches behind us and ahead of us.