Here is a thought-provoking podcast with British philosopher of science, Nicholas Maxwell. He has devoted much of his working life trying to get across the point that we urgently need to bring about a revolution in the aims and methods of academic inquiry, so the basic aim becomes the promotion of wisdom by rational means rather than just the acquisition of knowledge, for knowledge without wisdom, or science without civilization, is extremely dangerous. We now have this problem, he believes, because … well, listen for yourself (~52 minutes).