Podcast Episodes featuring Stuart Firestein

7: Scientific Epistemology and Ignorance with Stuart Firestein

Naked Humanity - November 25, 2018 05:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 71 ratings
Usually we think of ignorance as a bad thing--but what if appreciating and cultivating ignorance is the key to our success? Stefani chats with Columbia neurobiologist and best-selling author Stuart Firestein about our cultural obsession with facts and why that’s so limiting. Professor Firestein...

150 Stuart Firestein - Why Science Needs to Fail

Inquiring Minds - September 30, 2016 07:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 821 ratings
We talk to Stuart Firestein, chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, about his latest book Failure: Why Science Is So Successful. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds

TWiV Special: Ignorance with Stuart Firestein

This Week in Virology - December 29, 2012 00:41 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 178 ratings
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Stuart Firestein Vincent and Stuart discuss why ignorance - all of what we don't know, and even what we don't know we don't know - is the driving force of science. Links for this episode: Ignorance: How it drives Science by Stuart Firestein Ignorance website Se...

Stuart Firestein - How Ignorance Drives Science

Point of Inquiry - June 25, 2012 23:44 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 758 ratings
Host: Indre Viskontas The idea that science moves forward by carefully peeling back layers of the onion of truth, one by one, in a deliberate fashion, is so prevalent that it borders on cliche. But the truth is that running scientific experiments often feels more akin to dipping a cup into a bo...