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.
David Cayley concludes his series with guest Nicholas Maxwell, a philosopher, retired from University College London. He's... more
David Cayley talks to Theoretical Physicist Lee Smolin talks about his book "The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String ... more
McGill scientist Dr. Allan Young talks about post-traumatic stress disorder and his book The Harmony of Illusions: Inventi... more
Christopher Norris of the University of Cardiff will talk about what he sees as a drift away from belief in the objective ... more
"Science has spoken... to society for more than half a millenium... In the past half century science has begun to speak ba... more
David Cayley talks to Ruth Hubbard, Harvard's first tenured female professor biology, and one of the first women to raise ... more
Science cannot live without metaphors. The lay person can only form a conception of a gene, or an electron, by translating... more
Many books discuss the theories of physics. Historian Peter Galison approaches the field like an anthropologist interested... more
David Cayley in conversation with historian Steven Shapin. He's one of the authors of "Leviathan and the Air Pump", a book... more
The word gene is a scientific term, but it is now also common currency, popping up all the time in everyday conversation a... more
