"Modern societies have tended to take science for granted as a way of knowing, ordering and controlling the world. Everything was subject to science, but science itself largely escaped scrutiny. This situation has changed dramatically 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."
How to Think About Science is a 24-part series from CBC Radio's
Ideas, featuring interviews with
Steven Shapin,
Ian Hacking,
Bruno Latour, and others. The streaming audio links on the show's website seem to be out of commission, but direct links to all of the episodes can be found
here.
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on Nov 27, 2009 -
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