Latest Public perception Podcast Episodes

The Search for a Meta-Narrative

Man's Machinations - July 08, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour
Biologist Edward O. Wilson’s 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 all be seen as connected. We discuss how ...

Living in a Mythopoeia: Part II

Man's Machinations - June 15, 2020 17:00 - 51 minutes
Anthropologist Bruno Latour’s 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 “Postmodernist” philosophers. Prominent e...

Living in a Mythopoeia: Part I

Man's Machinations - June 01, 2020 15:00 - 45 minutes
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, and a healthy society? How has science chan...