CBC Radio's Ideas: How to Think About Science

CBC Radio's Ideas: How to Think About Science

In recent years, historians, sociologists, philosophers and sometimes scientists themselves have begun to ask fundamental questions about how the institution of science is structured and how it knows what it knows. David Cayley talks to some of the leading lights of this new field of study in this special series for CBC Radio's Ideas.

Wed Jun 18 20:00:00 EDT 2008

David Cayley concludes his series with guest Nicholas Maxwell, a philosopher, retired from University College London. He's... more

Wed May 07 20:00:00 EDT 2008

"Science has spoken... to society for more than half a millenium... In the past half century science has begun to speak ba... more

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