Welcome to Unending Process - the evolutionary thinking tank....podcast.
This is a continuation of the Permanent Evolution and Sympathetic People podcasts.
This week Johanahan and Tim discuss education (in part 1) and evolutionary thinking (part 2). Part 2 is much longer, but contains all the juicy evolutionary pontificating, so don't hesitate to skip to it if that's your bag!
In part 1, we talk about some of the problems with university education, including the importance of being challenged and mentoring.
In part 2, we talk about the origins of evolutionary thinking in the ancient world, and then take a random walk across the philosophical landscape, touching on the mind, Buddhism, ethics and a bunch of other stuff....
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Welcome to Unending Process - the evolutionary thinking tank....podcast.
This is a continuation of the Permanent Evolution and Sympathetic People podcasts.
This week Johanahan and Tim discuss education (in part 1) and evolutionary thinking (part 2). Part 2 is much longer, but contains all the juicy evolutionary pontificating, so don't hesitate to skip to it if that's your bag!
In part 1, we talk about some of the problems with university education, including the importance of being challenged and mentoring.
In part 2, we talk about the origins of evolutionary thinking in the ancient world, and then take a random walk across the philosophical landscape, touching on the mind, Buddhism, ethics and a bunch of other stuff....
Thanks for listening - enjoy, share, comment, criticise!
Episode 19: Narrative, metaphor and explanation in science (and elsewhere)
The Unending Process
1 hour 53 minutes 35 seconds
7 years ago
Episode 19: Narrative, metaphor and explanation in science (and elsewhere)
We're back with episode 19 after a fairly long break. In this episode we discuss narrative, metaphor and explanation in science and the world-at-large. Is narrative the only form explanations can take? Is this because of our contingent human nature, or does it reveal some deep fact about the world? Are there any deep facts about the world? What is this "world" anyway? As usual, the conversation traverses a twisted path (many branches of which were explored in alternate universes, but not this one). Having the conversation was interesting, so we hope listening to it will be too!
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The Unending Process
Welcome to Unending Process - the evolutionary thinking tank....podcast.
This is a continuation of the Permanent Evolution and Sympathetic People podcasts.
This week Johanahan and Tim discuss education (in part 1) and evolutionary thinking (part 2). Part 2 is much longer, but contains all the juicy evolutionary pontificating, so don't hesitate to skip to it if that's your bag!
In part 1, we talk about some of the problems with university education, including the importance of being challenged and mentoring.
In part 2, we talk about the origins of evolutionary thinking in the ancient world, and then take a random walk across the philosophical landscape, touching on the mind, Buddhism, ethics and a bunch of other stuff....
Thanks for listening - enjoy, share, comment, criticise!
