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Nick Zautra

SCI PHI Podcast

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SCI PHI Podcast

Nick Zautra

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On Episode 90, Nick chats with Jonathan Fuller, Assistant Professor in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, about his experience as both a clinician and a philosopher in an MD/PhD training program, philosophy in
On Episode 89, Nick chats with Jamee Elder, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Black Hole Initiative (BHI) at Harvard University, about the methodology and epistemology of large astrophysical experiments, especially those—including LIGO-Virgo and th
On Episode 88, Nick chats with Eleanor Knox, Reader in Philosophy of Physics at King's College London, about her view she calls Spacetime Functionalism, which she thinks solves problems in classical theories as well as dealing with the chall
On Episode 87, Nick chats with Cameron Buckner, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Houston, about his work in the philosophy of deep neural networks, a type of machine learning that is currently the most widespread and su
On Episode 86, Nick chats with Sarah Robins, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kansas, about her work on the concept of the memory trace, or engram, and the role it plays in both everyday and scientific thinking about re
On Episode 85, Nick chats with Manuela Fernández Pinto, Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Center for Applied Ethics at Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia), about her work in agnotology—the study of ignorance
On Episode 84 Nick chats with Adrian Currie, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Philosophy, and Anthropology at Exeter, about his research on the 'historical' sciences: paleontology, archaeology, geology and so forth, and how bo
On Episode 83, Nick chats with Sarah Arnaud, Postdoctoral Associate at the Rotman Institute of Philosophy at Western University, about how first person perspectives can provide important and necessary knowledge in psychiatry.
On Episode 82, Nick chats with Philip Kitcher, the John Dewey Professor Emeritus of philosophy at Columbia University, about the the ways in which science interfaces with the world, the new demarcation problem, and scientific progress.
On Episode 81, Nick chats with John Norton, Distinguished Professor in the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, about the story of his work on Einstein, how probabilistic inferences can lead to fallacies (e.g. t
On Episode 79, Nick chats with Till Grüne-Yanoff, professor of philosophy at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden, about his early career as a television reporter in Post-Soviet Moscow, preferences in decision theory,
On Episode 78, Nick chats with Catherine Kendig, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Michigan State University, about her path to studying classification in scientific practice, non-dichotomous ways of thinking, socially-engaged philosophy
On Episode 77, Nick chats with Deepanwita Dasgupta, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at El Paso about why there is no philosophy of science in India, non-Western contexts of scientific practice, and her vision for
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 rationa
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 stud
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
On Episode 73, Nick chats with Dan Hicks, philosopher at University of California Merced about Dan’s science and values research on the aims of science, working in science policy at the AAAS and NSF, and learning to incorporate methods from
On Episode 72, Nick chats with Karen Kovaka, assistant professor in philosophy at Virginia Tech about the upcoming Philosophy of Science Association conference, philosophical implications of meta-analysis, the presumption against interventio
On Episode 71, Nick chats with Jennifer Jhun, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Duke University, as well as a fellow at the Center for the History of Political Economy, about her historically-informed philosophy of science research on the
On Episode 70, Nick chats with historian of medicine and science, sex researcher, mainstream writer, and (im)patient advocate, Dr. Alice Dreger about her early investigations into the broken medical care system and the intersex rights moveme
On Episode 69, Nick chats with Dr. Maya Goldenberg, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Guelph author of the new book, Vaccine Hesitancy: Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on Science, about how we frame and might reframe p
On Episode 68, Nick chats with Dr. Sean Valles, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Michigan State University and author of the book, Philosophy of Population Health: Philosophy for a New Public Health Era, about problematic discourse surro
On Episode 67, Nick chats with Dr. Thomas Pradeu, CNRS Senior investigator (DR2), and Head of the group “Conceptual and theoretical analysis of immune activation and biological boundaries at the University of Bordeaux, about Philosophy in biolo
On Episode 66, Nick chats with Dr. Caterina Marchionni, University Lecturer in Practical Philosophy and member of TINT,  Centre for Philosophy of the Social Sciences, at the University of Helsinki, about her work in the philosophy and methodolo
On Episode 65, Nick chats with Dr. Remco Heesen, faculty member in philosophy at the University of Western Australia, about his research concerning what happens after scientific evidence is collected, such as the scientist’s choice of when to s
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