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The Dissenter · 2025-06-19 · 64 min · 10,118 words

#1112 Angela Potochnik - Recipes for Science: An Introduction to Scientific Methods and Reasoning

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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of the Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Angela Potosnik. She is professor of philosophy and director of the Center for Public Engagement with Science at the University of Cincinnati. And today we're talking about her book, Recipes for Science, an Introduction to Scientific Methods and Reasoning.

So, Dr. Potosnik, welcome to the show. It's a huge pleasure to have you one. Thank you. Thanks for having me.

So let me start by asking you, why should people care about science? Because, you know, most people are not scientists, many people do not even tend to read science and related topics. So why should we, why should people in general care about science? Yeah, so maybe I have three three answers to that. One is

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