The P-Value Podcast

Oct 09 2023 13 ep. 15 mins 4
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A podcast on philosophy and science and everything in between hosted by Dr. Rachael Brown from Centre for Philosophy of the Sciences in the School of Philosophy at the Australian National University.

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What are scientific models?

Oct 09 2023 13 mins  

Defining Life

Sep 21 2023 12 mins  
Can we know the answer to the question "what is life?"? Could our definitions of life blinker us to new life forms we might find in the future?

The Metaphysics of Pregnancy

Aug 24 2023 19 mins  
A bun in the oven? Eating for two? So many of our common phrases regarding pregnancy presume that pregnancy involves two distinct entities —the foetus and the maternal organism in which it resides. This sort of “container model’ of pregnancy pervades so much of our everyday discourse around pregnancy and in the academic sphere. Philosophical discussions of the ethics of mater

What is Disease?

Aug 09 2023 15 mins  

Is there such a thing as human nature?

Jul 23 2023 19 mins  
It's not uncommon to hear "human nature" trucked out to explain all sorts of phenomena from war to human nurturing and cooperation. How scientifically valid are such claims? Is there such a thing as human nature? If so, what is it? In this episode of the P-Value, the first in our philosophy of biology season, we ask where there is a scientifically respectable notion of human nature

Do scientists have a moral obligation to be public champions of science?

Oct 24 2022 15 mins  

Inductive Risk: Why social and ethical values should influence which hypotheses scientists accept

Oct 06 2022 16 mins  

Is good science value-free?

Sep 30 2022 16 mins  

Choosing The Best Possible Child: The Ethics of Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis

Aug 23 2022 16 mins  
Pre-Implanatation Genetic Diagnosis is a technology with the great potential to reduce suffering but it also can be mis-used. What purposes should we use PGD for? Where should we draw the line?

Personal Genomics: Who owns your genome?

Aug 17 2022 16 mins  
What is personal genomics? What is it used for? What sort of ethical issues surround this technology in society?EDIT: At 7:54 I describe Huntington's Disease as recessive but it is dominant