Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMichael Devitt, "Biological Essentialism" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 334
What makes a species a species? Aristotle answered the species question by positing unchanging essences, properties that all and only members of a sp…
2 years, 4 months ago
How the Hypothesis Means
Episode 153
Listen to Episode No.6 of All We Mean, a Special Focus of this podcast. All We Mean is an ongoing discussion and debate about how we mean and why. Th…
2 years, 4 months ago
Use of Bacteriophages as Natural Antimicrobials to Manage Bacterial Pathogens in Aquaculture in Vietnam and Australia
Episode 91
Aquaculture is the fastest-growing protein production industry globally, with Vietnam one of the top producers and exporters of seafood products. In …
2 years, 4 months ago
Science Is a Creative Human Enterprise: A Discussion with Natalie Aviles
Episode 152
Listen to this interview of Natalie Aviles, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia. We talk about how organizations shape people, a…
2 years, 4 months ago
Ludovic Slimak, "The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature" (Pegasus Books, 2023)
Episode 279
What do we really know about our cousins, the Neanderthals?
For over a century we saw Neanderthals as inferior to Homo Sapiens. More recently, the pen…
2 years, 5 months ago
The Future of Images of Human Evolution
Episode 94
We are all familiar with the “march of progress” image - the representation of evolution that depicts a series of apelike creatures becoming progress…
2 years, 5 months ago
Harry van der Hulst, "A Mind for Language: An Introduction to the Innateness Debate" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 118
How does human language arise in the mind? To what extent is it innate, or something that is learned? How do these factors interact? The questions su…
2 years, 5 months ago
Free to Investigate: Dr. Scott Atlas on the Freedom in the Sciences
Episode 94
Can we have science without freedom of speech? Dr. Scott Atlas's professional work and personal experiences bring to light an important and often und…
2 years, 5 months ago
Thom van Dooren, "The Wake of Crows: Living and Dying in Shared Worlds" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Episode 3
Crows can be found almost everywhere that people are, from tropical islands to deserts and arctic forests, from densely populated cities to suburbs a…
2 years, 5 months ago
Lee McIntyre, "The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience" (MIT Press, 2019)
Episode 108
What can explain the success of science as an endeavor for getting closer to truth? Does science simply represent a successful methodology, or is it …
2 years, 5 months ago