The Holy Land of Physics: Quantum Mechanics Turns One Hundred
PHILIP BALL | Someone quipped that if the ferry from Hamburg had sunk, so would have quantum physics for a generation...
Jun 29
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Two Ships Passing at High Noon: Alasdair MacIntyre & Raymond Geuss
BENJAMIN M. STUDEBAKER | MacIntyre and Geuss disagree, but their disagreement has been so very civil.
Jun 1
The Highest Music: Socrates in Love
SAMUEL LONCAR | Socrates is so important, he is the measure by which we depict historically important individuals, beginning with Jesus of Nazareth...
Jun 1
Eros, the Incarnation, and the Will to Wholly Live
SHANNON CRAIGO-SNELL | Theological attempts to subjugate eros have not prevented harm so much as inculcated shame...
Jun 1
The Holy Land of Physics: Quantum Mechanics Turns One Hundred
PHILIP BALL | Someone quipped that if the ferry from Hamburg had sunk, so would have quantum physics for a generation...
Jun 29
A Visit To Our Sister’s: A Brief Tour of the French Poetic Sublime
ELIJAH PERSEUS BLUMOV | English is like a cavern filled with a dragon’s hoard of words from different places and times, and our writing thrives on the unparalleled richness of our diction, French is like a jewel box containing only a modest selection of precious stones...
Jun 29
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Meanings of Science
Some New World of Wonders: Levitation, Rationality, and Naturalism with Carlos Eire and Peter Harrison
“If we take a step back and look at the broad historical sweep and the cross cultural sweep, what we in the modern West find ourselves...
May 4
Conversations on the Plurality of World-views: A Response to Peter Harrison’s Some New World
PHILIP BALL | Conflicts can in fact be tremendously fertile, alerting us to areas where more work is needed . . .
Feb 9
Cultural Diversity and Scientific Truth: In Conversation with Philip Ball
PETER HARRISON | Unfortunately, the comforting narratives beloved by scientists fall well short of the standards of historical scholarship.
Feb 9
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The Highest Music: Socrates in Love
SAMUEL LONCAR | Socrates is so important, he is the measure by which we depict historically important individuals, beginning with Jesus of Nazareth...
Jun 1
Eros, the Incarnation, and the Will to Wholly Live
SHANNON CRAIGO-SNELL | Theological attempts to subjugate eros have not prevented harm so much as inculcated shame...
Jun 1
Marxist Modernism and the Crisis of Social Enlightenment: Gillian Rose, the Frankfurt School, and the Dialectic of Culture and Emancipation
NIGEL TUBBS | The members of the Frankfurt School were deeply interested in why social enlightenment failed in Europe...
May 18
Waiting for a Future: Jewish Refugees and Lisbon Cafe Culture
JAN BURZLAFF | Kaplan writes about people trying to stay human in inhuman conditions, of the psychic architecture required to withstand endless deferral...
May 18
Essays
The Holy Land of Physics: Quantum Mechanics Turns One Hundred
PHILIP BALL | Someone quipped that if the ferry from Hamburg had sunk, so would have quantum physics for a generation...
Jun 29
A Visit To Our Sister’s: A Brief Tour of the French Poetic Sublime
ELIJAH PERSEUS BLUMOV | English is like a cavern filled with a dragon’s hoard of words from different places and times, and our writing thrives on the unparalleled richness of our diction, French is like a jewel box containing only a modest selection of precious stones...
Jun 29
Two Ships Passing at High Noon: Alasdair MacIntyre & Raymond Geuss
BENJAMIN M. STUDEBAKER | MacIntyre and Geuss disagree, but their disagreement has been so very civil.
Jun 1
The Ancient, Rabbinic Remedy for Dealing with Trickle-Truthers
YONAH LAVERY-YISRAELI | Trickle-truthing is a term for when someone responds to an allegation with a partial admission, and slowly increases the amount of truth in his or her response over time...
Jun 1
Interviews
Expanding our Conceptions of the Impossible: A Converstaion with Carlos Eire and Peter Harrison, Part 3
If we're going to reject these phenomena, then we need to do it on the grounds of having seriously considered and weighed the evidence. We can't just dismiss them because they don't fit our worldview...
Jun 15
Reverence and Memory: A Conversation with Amit Majmudar
AMIT MAJMUDAR | What I seek to do is s to build on Steiner's legacy, because the reverence and memory that he showed for the Western tradition is what I hope to show for as many traditions as I can incorporate.
Jun 15
Supernatural Polemics: Reason, Wonder, and Science with Carlos Eire & Peter Harrison, Part Two
CARLOS EIRE & PTER HARRSION | Partw Two of Marginalia's three-part cpnversation series...
May 18
The Wisdom of the Gita
AMIT MAJMUDAR | The Gita is so infinite because it's one of the few—or only, to my knowledge—religious texts that takes as a given the idea that human beings all have different temperaments and that different things are true to different people, and it builds from there several different pathways to the divine.
May 4
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