CSPAN2 Michael Strevens The Knowledge Machine July 11, 2024
Humanities but tonight we turn attention to the sciences albeit with a heavy dose of the humanities on the time. Our guest is doctor michael strevens, born and raised in new zealand he moved to the United States in 1991 earning his phd at rutgers university. Now a professor at new york university, his book, the knowledge machine how irrationality created modern science, is i think critically important at the time when distrust of science is on the rise. The book begins with a simple question but not at all a simple answer. Why does it take 2,000 years after the invention of philosophy and math...