Man's Machinations
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The Search for a Meta-Narrative
Biologist Edward O. Wilsons book Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, written in 1998, provides the background to this episode, which considers the differences between the Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Hard Sciences, and whether they can
Living in a Mythopoeia: Part II
Anthropologist Bruno Latours article Why Has Critique Run Out Of Steam? (originally published in Critical Inquiry, 2004), is the focus of this episode, and its background is the Science Wars which began when scientists criticized the work of certain
Living in a Mythopoeia: Part I
In our first two episodes, Living in a Mythopoeia Part I and II, we discuss foundational principles: how can we understand the world, and where has modern philosophy gone wrong? What is the relationship between culture, including a set of shared myths,...