Life Sciences · Siddhant Pusdekar

The Purpose Podcast

by Siddhant Pusdekar

Through the purpose podcast we will meet people involved in the Biological Purpose Project. They include experimentalists, theoreticians, and philosophers working on a range of problems from curing cancer to the conservation of the biosphere. In each episode, we delve into the unexpected ways in which they're blending philosophy and science.

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No way back - When evolution makes irreversible changes

We live in a social world as full of cooperation as it is of competition. How should ecologists and evolutionary biologists tell them apart? Podcast production was suppo

Oct 8
54 min

How the earth shapes life and natural selection with Richard Boyle

In the 1960s the search for alien life inspires the chemist James Lovelock to imagine that life, if it occurred anywhere in the universe would be accompanied by an atmosp

Aug 20
42 min

Thinking the Unthinkable with the Mebêngôkre (ft Charbel El-Hani)

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Jun 19 2024
39 min

David Oderberg & The Philosophy of Making Mistakes

David Oderberg is a professor of philosophy at the University of Reading. In this episode he talks about why he got into philosophy, why philosophy is important for the s

Apr 22 2024
33 min

Further And Further And Further Back In Time

Host Siddhant Pusdkekar speaks to Joanna Masel about how she stumbled upon a 4 billion year old trend and a problem that evolution has been trying to solve since the begi

Feb 16 2024
18 min

Evolution x Design - Butterfly Wing Wallpaper

Emilie Snell-Rood convinces people that studying weird animals can be useful for designing things. Jessica Rossi-Mastracci is looking forward to playing with bioinspired

Dec 9 2023
10 min

Finding Order in Malady

Ramray Bhat is an associate professor at the Indian Institute of Science in Banagalore, India. He studies how collectives of cancer cells migrate and metastasize to new o

Oct 18 2023
13 min

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