This CBC Ideas series on Charles Taylor is great. Max Oelschlaeger was the first to introduce me to the work of Charles Taylor. In this recent series from David Cayley several critical issues are discussed including the critical difference between descriptive and constitutive understandings of language. http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/episodes/2011/04/11/the-malaise-of-modernity-part-1—5/ The Malaise of Modernity, Part 1 – 5 [...]
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CBC Radio Ideas Interview
Industrial fishing developed in tandem with fisheries science. It was scientists who defined the stock and set the allowable catches. And yet Canada’s cod fishery collapsed, never yet to recover, in 1992. Environmental philosopher Dean Bavington asks, what happened? Check out the series, “How to Think About Science” here: CBC IDEAS program with Dean Bavington, [...]
