How to think about science: excellent podcast resources on STS

Thanks to Garry Peterson for linking to the CBC Ideas Series “How to think about Science“. It is really a great introduction to Science and Technology Studies (STS).

The list of thinkers and topics is impressive. Here is what you find on the CBC website:

“If science is neither cookery, nor angelic virtuosity, then what is it?
Modern societies have tended to take science for granted as a way of knowing, ordering and controlling the world. Everything was subject to science, but science itself largely escaped scrutiny. This situation has changed dramatically in recent years. Historians, sociologists, philosophers and sometimes scientists themselves have begun to ask fundamental questions about how the institution of science is structured and how it knows what it knows. David Cayley talks to some of the leading lights of this new field of study.”