Intelligent design: In conversation with Derren Brown

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By: Nigel Warburton (The Open University), Derren Brown (Guest)

Psychological illusionist Derren Brown talks to the OU's Nigel Warburton about how personal experiences can be misleading and how people attribute design to objects in the natural world

26 Oct

2010

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Nigel Warburton (The Open University)

Nigel Warburton is a senior lecturer in philosophy at The Open University.

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Derren Brown combines magic, suggestion, psychology, misdirection and showmanship to give the appearance of predicting and controling human behaviour.

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