Episode 75: Sarah Richardson

02/25/22 • -1 min

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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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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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.