Do the sciences (or more generally ourselves) need philosophy at the present time?
Philosophy is wanted for the sciences and ourselves.
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06, 2017
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06, 2017
Sounding the Anthropocene (Alex Bladsdel, The Guardian)
The Anthropocene as the latest stage of human, and planetary, development.
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06, 2017
The Worry-Fencer: the roots and restlessness of our present time.
Tracing the source of our restlessness, in dialogue.
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05, 2017
Dante, Petersburg, and the pages of memory
Poetry and recollection in Petersburg / Leningrad.
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05, 2017
The Decline of the West (again) (Rachel Nuwer, BBC Future)
Computing science and math, along with historical knowledge, offer new assessments on the health of the current society.
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05, 2017
Stories and histories of science
Our scientific knowledge relies on narratives, which shift over time.
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04, 2017
Sense, emotion, and scientific discovery (Lewis Lapham, Lapham’s Quarterly)
How experience fosters discovery of all kinds, as well as a deeper reading of history and literature
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04, 2017
Memory and memorial
What lasts is not just what we make.
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04, 2017
Death has no answer
A dialogue about life extension and limits, beyond biology and scholarship.
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03, 2017
Saving the humanities through history (Rens Bod, Chronicle of Higher Education)
How understanding the humanities' past illuminates their present and future importance, as they have discovered new findings critical to understanding our world.