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Damn the Absolute! Literature Must Be an Unsettling Force in Democracy Elin Danielsen Huckerby
Contrasting with dogmatism and scientism, Elin Danielsen Huckerby believes a 'literary culture' gives us more productive ways to move democracy forward.
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S2E03 Literature Must Be an Unsettling Force for Democracy w/ Elin Danielsen Huckerby

June 1, 2022June 3, 2022 3 min read Damn the Absolute!

Contrasting with dogmatism and scientism, Elin Danielsen Huckerby believes a ‘literary culture’ gives us more fruitful ways to move democracy forward.

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Damn the Absolute!: A podcast episode on the fear of breakdown in American democracy, hosted by Jeffrey Howard, produced by Erraticus.
Noëlle McAfee takes a psychoanalytic view of deliberation to diagnose the downstream effects of the fear of breakdown in American democracy.
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S2E02 Fear of Breakdown in American Democracy w/ Noëlle McAfee

March 9, 2022March 9, 2022 2 min read Damn the Absolute!

Noëlle McAfee takes a psychoanalytic view of deliberation to diagnose the downstream effects of the fear of breakdown in American democracy.

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On this episode of Damn the Absolute!, Jessica Wahman explains why scientific knowledge is metaphorical knowledge.
Jessica Wahman believes that treating scientific knowledge as metaphorical creates a naturalist approach to science that avoids scientism.
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S2E01 Scientific Knowledge Is Metaphorical w/ Jessica Wahman

February 16, 2022March 9, 2022 2 min read Damn the Absolute!

Jessica Wahman believes that treating scientific knowledge as metaphorical creates a naturalist approach to science that avoids scientism.

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The Morning Drive, a podcast episode of Curiosity Manifold with Derek Parsons produced by Erraticus.
Things worth noticing are around us all the time, even with something as mundane and repetitive as the morning drive to work.
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S1E10 The Morning Drive

February 1, 2022February 6, 2022 7 min read Curiosity Manifold

Things worth noticing are around us all the time, even with something as mundane and repetitive as the morning drive to work.

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The Dawn, an episode of Curiosity Manifold with Derek Parsons produced by Erraticus.
It’s easy to sort our experiences into well-defined boxes, but life's most intriguing features reside in liminal spaces, such as the dawn.
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S1E9 The Dawn

January 18, 2022January 22, 2022 5 min read Curiosity Manifold

It’s easy to sort our experiences into well-defined boxes, but life’s most intriguing features reside in liminal spaces, such as the dawn.

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The Lake Pontchartrain Bridge, a Curiosity Manifold episode with Derek Parsons produced by Erraticus.
What value is there in experiencing the novelty of record-setting distinctions, such as the Lake Pontchartrain Bridge?
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S1E8 The Lake Pontchartrain Bridge

January 4, 2022January 4, 2022 6 min read Curiosity Manifold

What value is there in experiencing the novelty of record-setting distinctions, such as the Lake Pontchartrain Bridge?

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A Pragmatic Approach to Ideas

An online publication focused on human flourishing, taking a pragmatic approach to ideas. We care about ideas that help us to live well together, focusing on their practical consequences.

 

“Pragmatism, on the other hand, asks its usual question. ‘Grant an idea or belief to be true,’ it says, ‘what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone’s actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth’s cash-value in experiential terms?'” — William James

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