Damn the Absolute!
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Debates about reversing climate change can be understood as a tension between two groups: wizards and prophets. According to Charles C. Mann, wizards are tech-optimists,…
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Answering questions about what it means for humans to flourish is difficult. Attempting any certainty as to what it means for nonhuman animals to flourish…
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When it comes to resource management, there are two dominant forces that exert tremendous influence on who gets what: the market and the state. Sometimes…
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Coming to some semblance of consensus opinion is a paramount challenge in a pluralistic world. We disagree on what constitutes truth and how we ought…
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There has long been a bit of jousting between the human and natural sciences over who is more rigorous or which method is better capable…
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While some philosophers view their primary task as one of discovering the nature of reality and then describing it accurately for the rest of us,…
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It wouldn’t be unreasonable to say that we are always in an age of crisis. Whether this entails more apocalyptic tendencies or more tempered framings,…
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Mass schooling is a relatively recent phenomenon, an experiment in education that gained steam following the industrial revolution, becoming increasingly widespread in the nineteenth century,…