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How to think about science.
- Title
- How to think about science. Episode 14.
- Publication
- [Toronto] : [CBC Radio One], [2008]
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| Audio | Request in advance | Q175 .K284 2008g | Off-site |
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- Description
- 1 audio disc (54 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in.
- Summary
- Science, according to its first practitioners, was a masculine pursuit. Francis Bacon writing in the early 17th century invited "the sons of knowledge" to pass through "the outer courts of nature" and on into "her inner chambers." Science was male, nature female. And, according to Evelyn Fox Keller, this was no mere figure of speech - it had a shaping influence through the centuries on how science was imagined and how it was done. Evelyn Fox is emeritus professor of the philosophy and history of science at MIT, and a keen observer of the ways in which models and metaphors condition our understandings. In recent years she has been particular critical of the ways in which simplistic models of the all-powerful gene mislead public understanding of genetics and developmental biology. And her proposal with regard to what she calls "gene talk" is the same one she made in her pioneering Reflections on Gender and Science in the 1980's: "change the terms of the discussion." Evelyn Fox Keller shares some of her story and some of her thoughts on how gender, language, model and metaphor have coloured the practice of science.
- Uniform Title
- Ideas (Radio program)
- Subjects
- Note
- Originally broadcast on CBC Radio One's program, Ideas on March 12, 2008.
- Compact disc.
- OCLC
- ocn270710241
- 270710241
- SCSB-5403465
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries