Closer to Truth: Philosophy of Biology.

Closer to Truth: Philosophy of Biology

Exploring the challenges and implications of evolution.

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UPCOMING EPISODES

Fri, 2/28 at 12:30 pm America/Chicago on Austin PBS WORLD

How Can Philosophy Probe Evolutionary Biology?

Exploring evolution, its scope and depth, including how life on earth came to be and the principles driving evolution.

Fri, 3/7 at 5:30 am America/Chicago on Austin PBS WORLD

What Are the Units or Levels of Selection?

Exploring at what level of the hierarchy of life -- from genes to individuals to groups to species -- the evolution occurs.

Fri, 3/7 at 12:30 pm America/Chicago on Austin PBS WORLD

What Are the Units or Levels of Selection?

Exploring at what level of the hierarchy of life -- from genes to individuals to groups to species -- the evolution occurs.

Fri, 3/14 at 5:30 am America/Chicago on Austin PBS WORLD

How Do Reductionism and Emergence Dance?

Whether biology can be explained entirely in terms of chemistry and physics.

Fri, 3/14 at 12:30 pm America/Chicago on Austin PBS WORLD

How Do Reductionism and Emergence Dance?

Whether biology can be explained entirely in terms of chemistry and physics.