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ReasonRx Podcast Episode 55 James Lennox, PhD Philosophy, on the Importance of Philosophy to Science and Education
ReasonRx Podcast Episode 55 James Lennox, PhD Philosophy, on the Importance of Philosophy to Science and Education

ReasonRx Podcast Episode 55 James Lennox, PhD Philosophy, on the Importance of Philosophy to Science and Education

Show description: “In this episode, James Lennox, PhD Philosophy, joins us to discuss:
-running and fitness
-Dr. Lennox’s academic background
-why you should study science from a historical perspective
-his study of the history and philosophy of science
-the nature of science
-the nature of philosophy
-the dependence of science on philosophy
-specific examples, through history, of science and its dependence on philosophy
-recommendations for studying science
-why it all matters”


About Jim: “James G. Lennox is Professor Emeritus of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh. His publications include Aristotle: On the Parts of Animals (Oxford 2001) and Aristotle’s Philosophy of Biology: Essays on the Origins of Life Science (Cambridge 2001), and Aristotle on Inquiry: Erotetic Frameworks and Domain-Specific Norms (Cambridge 2021). He co-edited Concepts and Their Role in Knowledge: Reflections on Objectivist Epistemology (Pittsburgh 2013), Metaethics, Egoism, and Virtue: Studies in Ayn Rand’s Normative Theory (Pittsburgh 2013), Being, Nature, and Life in Aristotle (Cambridge 2010), Self-Motion from Aristotle to Newton (Princeton 1994), and Philosophical Issues in Aristotle’s Biology (Cambridge 1987). He is the author of “Aristotle and the Origins of Zoology” for The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 1. Lennox has held fellowships at Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies and at the University of Bologna’s Institute for Advanced Study. He is a founding member and currently co-secretary of the Ayn Rand Society, affiliated with the American Philosophical Association.”

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