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Living Systems are Not Like Machines: A Conversation with Nobel Laureate, Paul Nurse, Part Two

SIR PAUL NURSE | Human beings like things to be ordered. That's how we are. But maybe cells and living things are more sloppy. Perhaps the cell has to be sloppy to avoid, as I said, getting stuck...

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Jul 27

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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...

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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.

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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...

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Jun 1

The Enlightenment's Apocalypse: Harvard, Antisemitism, and the Future of Science

SAMUEL LONCAR | Supersessionism thus fights its enemy not with swords, destined to become ploughshares, but with time itself. The very nature of history is against the Jews, because they have not adapted to the new time inaugurated by Christianity...

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Jul 27

Of Beauty and Cruelty: A Brief Tour of the French Poetic Sublime, Part Two

ELIJAH PERSUES BLUMOV | Many poets wish to be prophets–Leconte was one.

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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...

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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 . . .

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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.

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A Forum on Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship After Empire

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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...

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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...

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Of Beauty and Cruelty: A Brief Tour of the French Poetic Sublime, Part Two

ELIJAH PERSUES BLUMOV | Many poets wish to be prophets–Leconte was one.

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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...

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Living Systems are Not Like Machines: A Conversation with Nobel Laureate, Paul Nurse, Part Two

SIR PAUL NURSE | Human beings like things to be ordered. That's how we are. But maybe cells and living things are more sloppy. Perhaps the cell has to be sloppy to avoid, as I said, getting stuck...

Meanings of Life

Jul 27

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...

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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.

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Supernatural Polemics: Reason, Wonder, and Science with Carlos Eire & Peter Harrison, Part Two

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