Science Tagged Episodes

April 20, 2025

There is consensus among scientists that global warming is real and that it’s caused by…

March 9, 2025

According to a recent survey conducted by the Pew Research Center, the number of Americans…

October 20, 2024

John Dewey is regarded by some as the American philosopher. In the first half of…

July 28, 2024

Karl Popper is a landmark figure in the philosophy of science.  His notion of “falsifiability”…

January 21, 2024

Math is a really useful subject—at least, that’s what your parents and teachers told you.…

October 15, 2023

The Vienna Circle was a group of early twentieth-century philosophers, mathematicians, logicians, and scientists, best…

March 19, 2023

In recent decades, we’ve witnessed intense cultural wars waged on scientifically established phenomena, such as…

June 13, 2021

To an optimist, things are constantly getting better: disease and extreme poverty are down; life…

April 4, 2021

We’ve all heard the phrase, “You can’t argue with science.” Appealing to scientific fact as…

November 1, 2020

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein raises powerful questions about the responsibilities of scientists to consider the impact…

August 23, 2020

When John and Ken began shopping around their idea for a philosophy-on-the-radio show nearly 20…

December 22, 2019

From airplanes flying overhead to the cellular activity inside us, all events that take place…

October 13, 2019

Strange things are said about time: that it’s illusory, that it has no direction. But…

November 18, 2018

Positive psychology is an emerging science that investigates the qualities, attitudes, and practices that enable people…

August 5, 2018

Innovation, be it social, economic, or technological, is often hailed as the panacea for all…

March 4, 2018

The ideal of science is objectivity in the service of advancing knowledge. We tend to…