SCI PHI Podcast

By Sci Phi

SCI PHI is a weekly philosophy of science podcast featuring interviews with prominent and up-and-coming philosophers of science who engage with scientists in interesting ways.... more

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How many episodes does SCI PHI Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 101 episodes available.

SCI PHI Podcast episodes:

October 07, 2022 Episode 81: John Norton
On Episode 81, Nick chats with John Norton, Distinguished Professor in the
History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, about
the story of his work on Einstein, how probabilistic inferences can lead to
fallacies (e.g. thinking we’re living in a computer simulation), how not
to do philosophy of science, and his latest book “The Material Theory of
Induction” in the new, Open Access Series BSPS Open.
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1h 35min
May 04, 2022 Episode 80: Kevin Elliot
On Episode 80, Nick chats with Kevin Elliot, Professor of Philosophy at
Michigan State University, about the role of values in science, starting
with his own introduction to the field, a brief history of the values in
science literature, the four general approaches to working on values in
science, and the need for philosophers of science to do more ground work in
values in science in socially engaged projects.
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56min
April 15, 2022 Episode 79: Till Grüne-Yanoff
On Episode 79, Nick chats with Till Grüne-Yanoff, professor of philosophy
at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden, about his
early career as a television reporter in Post-Soviet Moscow, preferences in
decision theory, “boosting” versus “nudging,” teaching philosophy of
science as method choice with exemplars, and making philosophy of science
relevant to science.
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1h 46min
April 01, 2022 Episode 78: Catherine Kendig
On Episode 78, Nick chats with Catherine Kendig, Associate Professor of
Philosophy at Michigan State University, about her path to studying
classification in scientific practice, non-dichotomous ways of thinking,
socially-engaged philosophy of agriculture, and dealing with
“demarcationist” tendencies in philosophy of science.
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1h 17min
March 16, 2022 Episode 77 - Deepanwita Dasgupta
On Episode 77, Nick chats with Deepanwita Dasgupta, Associate Professor of
Philosophy at the University of Texas at El Paso about why there is no
philosophy of science in India, non-Western contexts of scientific
practice, and her vision for 21st-century science both as a cognitively
diverse and wisdom-producing practice.
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1h 52min
March 08, 2022 Episode 76 - Miriam Solomon
On Episode 76, Nick chats with Miriam Solomon, Professor of Philosophy at
Temple University, about succeeding in philosophy despite an abusive PhD
advisor at Harvard, cognitive biases in scientists thinking and what they
mean for the rationality of science, scientific consensus conferences or
GOBSATs (Good Old Boys Sitting Around Tables), and her recent Guggenheim
fellowship on science and values in the DSM.
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1h 23min
February 25, 2022 Episode 75: Sarah Richardson
On Episode 75, Nick chats with Sarah Richardson, Professor of the History
of Science and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard
University about her interdisciplinary work at Stanford on race and
genomics, her approach to studying the social dimensions of science, her
current work with Harvard’s GenderSci Lab generating feminist concepts,
methods and theories for scientific research on sex and gender, and the
importance for philosophers of science to better represent the world.
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57min
February 17, 2022 Episode 74: Emily Parke
On Episode 74, Nick chats with Emily Parke, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
at the University of Auckland, about her first job creating life from the
bottom-up at the academic-run synthetic biology company Protolife,
challenging the idea that there’s some epistemic privilege experiments have
over models, the trade-offs and causual issues of using microbiome-based
explanations to explain every element of human health, and how
philosophical debates on the origin of life might actually matter to
science.
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57min
February 08, 2022 Episode 73: Dan Hicks
On Episode 73, Nick chats with Dan Hicks, philosopher at University of
California Merced about Dan’s science and values research on the aims of
science, working in science policy at the AAAS and NSF, and learning to
incorporate methods from statistics and data science with a conceptual
philosophy of science framework to understand how science operates.
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1h 56min
October 30, 2021 Episode 72 - Karen Kovaka
On Episode 72, Nick chats with Karen Kovaka, assistant professor in
philosophy at Virginia Tech about the upcoming Philosophy of Science
Association conference, philosophical implications of meta-analysis, the
presumption against intervention in restoration ecology, and how to advise
philosophy of science students to achieve success outside of academia.
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1h 9min

FAQs about SCI PHI Podcast:

How many episodes does SCI PHI Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 101 episodes available.