TLP #24 : The untold power of philosophy - Thomas Pradeu

The Lonely Pipette : helping scientists do better science - A podcast by Jonathan Weitzman & Renaud Pourpre

This week, we meet our first philosopher guest - Thomas Pradeu tells us what scientist can learn from philosophers Thomas shares his journey navigating from philosophy to immunology and biologyHe explains the difference between ‘philosophy IN biology’ compared to ‘philosophy OF biology’He mentions ‘mutual ignorance’ - that scientists often don’t know about philosophers who would be interested in their scienceThomas argues that philosophers should be brought in at the beginning of a proj...