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.
Philosophers of science tended, until quite recently, to treat science as a mainly theoretical activity. Experiment - scie... more
In 1993, medical anthropologist Margaret Lock published "Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and Nort... more
The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science houses approximately a hundred scholars whose research extends from me... more
How to Think About Science begins with a conversation with Simon Schaffer, co-author of Leviathan and the Air Pump, subtit... more
