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.
Evelyn Fox Keller is both a scientist, a philosopher and a historian of science. In her book The Century of the Gene, she ... more
Industrial fishing developed in tandem with fisheries science. It was scientists who defined the stock and set the allowab... more
Modern scientific society teaches us to distrust our senses, writerDavid Abram says. The real world is not the one we can ... more
When Copernicus showed that the earth revolves around the sun, Galileo said that he had made "reason conquer sense." But w... more
Science and technology lie almost completely outside the realm of political decision. Our civilization, consequently, is c... more
Into 1981 British biologist Rupert Sheldrake published A New Science of Life. The book argued that genes alone were not ... more
In the year 2,000, Wendell Berry published a surprising book called "Life Is A Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstiti... more
The great German poet Goethe died nearly two centuries ago. Arthur Zajonc works at the cutting edge of contemporary quantu... more
Forty years ago, British scientist James Lovelock put forward the first elements of what he would come to call the Gaia th... more
Ulrich Beck talks about the place of science in a risk society. You’ll also hear from another equally influential European... more
