Free Thinking: Common Sense

In 1925 the philosopher GE Moore wrote a Defence of Common Sense, which argued against philosophical idealism on the grounds that it seemed to deny a set of propositions that he claimed were indisputably true. How should society understand common sense now - does man have a 'common' understanding? Matthew Sweet is joined by the philosopher Dr Rachel Wiseman, the former politician Ann Widdecombe, the historian of emotion Dr Tiffany Watt Smith and the journalist and lecturer on postcolonial culture Dr Sarah Jilani to discuss the issue