Christopher Norris and Mary Midgley
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.
Christopher Norris of the University of Cardiff will talk about what he sees as a drift away from belief in the objective validity of scientific knowledge, and why he thinks this new relativism presents a threat that is moral and political as well as scientific. And then Mary Midgley will argue her view that science is always embedded in some myth or orienting story that expresses it deepest aims. 
