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.
On Episode 90, Nick chats with Jonathan Fuller, Assistant Professor in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, about his experience as both a clinician and a philosopher in an MD/PhD training program, philosophy in medicine, and his upcoming book The New Modern Medicine that analyzes distinctive problems in scientific medicine around the turn of the twenty-first century.
On Episode 89, Nick chats with Jamee Elder, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Black Hole Initiative (BHI) at Harvard University, about the methodology and epistemology of large astrophysical experiments, especially those—including LIGO-Virgo and the EHT—that involve "observing" black holes.
On Episode 88, Nick chats with Eleanor Knox, Reader in Philosophy of Physics ​at King's College London, about her view she calls Spacetime Functionalism, which she thinks solves problems in classical theories as well as dealing with the challenges to standard accounts raised by emergent spacetime structure in theories of quantum gravity.
On Episode 87, Nick chats with Cameron Buckner, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Houston, about his work in the philosophy of deep neural networks, a type of machine learning that is currently the most widespread and successful technology in artificial intelligence.
On Episode 86, Nick chats with Sarah Robins, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kansas, about her work on the concept of the memory trace, or engram, and the role it plays in both everyday and scientific thinking about remembering.
On Episode 85, Nick chats with Manuela Fernández Pinto, Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Center for Applied Ethics at Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia), about her work in agnotology—the study of ignorance—and the epistemic and social consequences of commercially-driven scientific research.
On Episode 84 Nick chats with Adrian Currie, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Philosophy, and Anthropology at Exeter, about his research on the 'historical' sciences: paleontology, archaeology, geology and so forth, and how both philosophers and methodologically reflective scientists have underestimated the epistemic resources available for uncovering the deep past.
On Episode 83, Nick chats with Sarah Arnaud, Postdoctoral Associate at the Rotman Institute of Philosophy at Western University, about how first person perspectives can provide important and necessary knowledge in psychiatry.
On Episode 82, Nick chats with Philip Kitcher, the John Dewey Professor Emeritus of philosophy at Columbia University, about the the ways in which science interfaces with the world, the new demarcation problem, and scientific progress.
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.
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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