How to Think about Science

Last Edited: 05-Apr-2019
A Global British Comedy Collaborative document. Edited by John Lucas
Broadcast source is BBC Radio Four unless otherwise indicated. Recording quality is considered good unless otherwise indicated.

Date Title Cast Parameters
CBC R1 IDEAS
14-Nov-2007
How to Think about Science - Simon Schaffer and
Leviathan and the AirPump
David Cayley 
52:34, 49289, S
CBC R1 IDEAS
21-Nov-2007
How to Think about Science - Lorraine Daston and
Wonders and the Order of Nature
David Cayley 
52:10, 48907, S
CBC R1 IDEAS
28-Nov-2007
How to Think about Science - Margaret Lock and 
Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and  the Reinvention of Death
David Cayley 
52:01, 48780, S
CBC R1 IDEAS
05-Dec-2007
How to Think about Science - Ian Hacking and Andrew
Pickering - experimental philosophy
David Cayley 
52:40, 49376, S
CBC R1 IDEAS
12-Dec-2007
How to Think about Science - Ulrich Beck and Bruno
Latour - the place of science in a risk society
David Cayley 
52:20, 49137, S
CBC R1 IDEAS
02-Jan-2008
How to Think about Science - James Lovelock -- Gaia Theory
David Cayley 
52:42, 49412, S
CBC R1 IDEAS
09-Jan-2008
How to Think about Science - Arthur Zajonc  - quantum
physics and contemplation in science
David Cayley 
52:44, 49443, S
CBC R1 IDEAS
16-Jan-2008
How to Think about Science - Wendell Berry and Life Is A
Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition
David Cayley 
52:28, 49327, S
CBC R1 IDEAS
23-Jan-2008
How to Think about Science - Rupert Sheldrake and A
New Science of Life
David Cayley 
52:27, 49182, S
CBC R1 IDEAS
30-Jan-2008
How to Think about Science - Brian Wynne and the
relations between politics
and scientific knowledge
David Cayley 
52:28, 49501, S
CBC R1 IDEAS
21-Feb-2008
How to Think about Science - Sajay Samuel - science
and common sense
David Cayley 
52:41, 49396, S
CBC R1 IDEAS
27-Feb-2008
How to Think about Science - David Abram and The Spell
of the Sensuous
David Cayley 
52:25, 49157, S
CBC R1 IDEAS
05-Mar-2008
How to Think about Science - Dean Bavington  - moratorium
on the fishing of northern cod
David Cayley 
53:08, 49820, S
CBC R1 IDEAS
12-Mar-2008
How to Think about Science - Evelyn Fox Keller - how
gender, language, model and metaphor
have coloured the practice of science
David Cayley 
54:10, 50787, S
CBC R1 IDEAS
19-Mar-2008
How to Think about Science - Barbara Duden and Silya
Samerski - the gene in popular culture
David Cayley 
54:08, 50762, S
CBC R1 IDEAS
09-Apr-2008
How to Think about Science - Steven Shapin - the sociology
of scientific knowledge
David Cayley 
53:24, 50071, S
CBC R1 IDEAS
16-Apr-2008
How to Think about Science - Peter Galison - how the
different subcultures of science
find ways of getting along
David Cayley 
53:33, 50208, S
CBC R1 IDEAS
23-Apr-2008
How to Think about Science - Richard Lewontin - the 
ideology of biology
David Cayley 
53:24, 50072, S
CBC R1 IDEAS
30-Apr-2008
How to Think about Science - Ruth Hubbard - the politics
of science
David Cayley 
52:44, 49446. S
CBC R1 IDEAS
07-May-2008
How to Think about Science - Michael Gibbons, Peter Scott,
and Janet Atkinson Grosjean
David Cayley 
53:23, 50063, S
CBC R1 IDEAS
28-May-2008
How to Think about Science - Christopher Norris and
Mary Midgley
David Cayley 
53:17, 49958, S
CBC R1 IDEAS
04-Jun-2008
How to Think about Science - Allan Young - how a scientific
object, like a psychiatric  diagnosis, comes into existence
David Cayley 
53:30, 50166, S
CBC R1 IDEAS
11-Jun-2008
How to Think about Science - Lee Smolin - string theory
David Cayley 
53:16, 49952, S
CBC R1 IDEAS
18-Jun-2008
How to Think about Science - Nicholas Maxwell and
From Knowledge to Wisdom
David Cayley 
54:07, 50749, S