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Bonus Episode - Science, Scholarship, and University Teaching
Bonus Episode - Science, Scholarship, and University Teaching
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Length:
7 minutes
Released:
May 17, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Bill prods Paul into discussing how the mindset of the saying, "Science progresses, funeral by funeral" and its attitude of constantly discarding the past in favor of the new has taken over the academy. It isn't the right mindset for, say, literature, or even for undergraduate teaching, but because of the prestige (and funding) accorded to science research in the modern university, other disciplines have begun to imitate it. Top researchers often do not make the best teachers, either...
Released:
May 17, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Episode 003 - Metaphysics and the Divorce between Science and Philosophy: Bill and Paul talk about whether the old convention of hylomorphism at least initially seems to describe the world of quantum physics, the medieval dispute over plurality of forms, and the degree to which science and philosophy became delinked in the lat... by That's So Second Millennium