Science Tagged Episodes

January 3, 2016

A new year offers an opportunity to reflect on the significant events of the previous…

September 6, 2015

Modern science has made astounding progress in our understanding of ourselves and the universe. Physics,…

April 19, 2015

With the recent global economic crisis, many people wonder if our economic policies are built…

January 4, 2015

The unexamined year is not worth reviewing. But what ideas and events that took shape…

June 8, 2014

What philosophers, philosophies, or philosophical issues would you like to read up on over the…

November 17, 2013

Quantum physics is regarded by many as the most powerful predictive theory science has produced. …

October 27, 2013

Science aims tell us something about nearly everything, from the atoms in our cells to…

June 9, 2013

The world disclosed by the physical sciences can seem depressing. Modern physics, for example, has…

October 17, 2010

What makes an idea or work of art creative?  Can creativity be measured?  Can a…

August 2, 2009

Does faith obscure reason? Does reason obscure faith? Or perhaps their subject matters are different.…

March 22, 2009

Science is, on the one hand, a huge enterprise funded to a great extent by…

July 20, 2008

Some have argued that there aren’t any good arguments for believing in God. Is belief…

July 15, 2007

Is philosophy the queen of the sciences, with the job of synthesizing, interpreting and evaluating…

October 15, 2006

Quantum mechanics is an astoundly successful, mathematically elegant, explanatorily deep, even beautiful scientific theory.  Yet…

July 12, 2005

Time is the most familiar thing in the world, and yet philosophically one of the…

July 5, 2005

Is there such a thing as absolute truth, independent of who is doing the thinking,…