Harris interview on science, progress, and liberal education

Bradford Harris is a Ph.D. from Stanford University in History of Science and Technology. Our 59-minute conversation ranges over these topics:

  • Modern and Postmodern
  • Thomas Kuhn and paradigms.
  • Science as progress by self-correcting trial and error.
  • Postmodernism versus liberal democracy?
  • Richard Rorty’s ethnocentric predicament.
  • The new tribalism.
  • Is the psychology more important than the philosophy?
  • Achievements of modern civilization.
  • What is the end-game of postmodern strategy?
  • Liberal education.
  • Forthcoming book: Eight Philosophies of Education.

Locations: everywhere podcasts are found, including Apple Podcasts and Spotify, or on Dr. Harris’s website. Here is a direct download link and here is an embed link. YouTube link follows:

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