Nicholas Maxwell
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.
Nicholas Maxwell
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 the author of "Is Science Neurotic?" and "From Knowledge to Wisdom." His theory is that science misunderstands itself, portraying itself an empirical, just-the-facts-m'aam enterprise, when it actually rests on all sorts of presuppositions, both social and metaphysical. 
