New Philosophy of Biology Series on PBS: A Preview with Host

New Philosophy of Biology Series on PBS: A Preview with Host Robert Lawrence Kuhn

Listen now

Description

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.mendelspod.com This month, a new philosophy of biology series premiers on PBS hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn. The series will go for thirteen episodes and includes over 250 interview clips with some of the world’s leading biologists and philosophers, including Richard Dawkins, Terrence Deacon, Peter Godfrey Smith, and Samir Okasha. Show titles include: Why Philosophy of Biology?, Philosophy of Units/Levels of Natural Selection, and Philosophy of Sex and Gender.Robert joins us today to preview the series, his first in 25 years on biology. At the heart of the interview is a discussion of reductionism and emergence, a familiar subject for this show.

More Episodes

See all »

Cell Therapy Will Transform Medicine as We Know It, Says Jason Bock, CTMC

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.mendelspod.com Today, we pursue an exciting area of medicine for the first time: cell therapy for solid tumors.Most, if not all, of our audience will be familiar with the success of CAR-T therapies for blood cancers. But only...

Published 05/16/24

Mendelspod Podcast

Published 05/16/24

Two Industry Leaders on Dealing with the Growing Complexity of Genomic Cancer Data

The Clinical Knowledge Base (CKB) powered by The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) is a dynamic digital resource for interpreting complex cancer genomic profiles in the context of gene variant knowledge and protein impact, therapies, and clinical trials. Illumina has teamed up with JAX in the newly...

Published 05/14/24