Robert Wright, senior editor at The Atlantic, writes a few words on the challenges of describing reality using both language and mathematics. The challenges involved in understanding the implications of the Higgs boson (and the phenomenon itself) reminds us of the epistemic distance between our perception of reality and the thing itself.
This is Part 4 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In Part 1...
This is Part 3 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In Part 1...
This is Part 2 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In Part 1...
This is Part 1 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In this series...
Modern museums are designed to focus attention. But now our attention is fractured, and our art is changing
Violet Powell was a first-class nitpicker. She loved nothing more than picking at the writing of her husband, Anthony
History was once commonly understood to be a tale of progress. The idea received its best known, if not most...
Most in the West see Russia's war in Ukraine as immoral and unjust. Some lay the blame solely at Putin's...
