Science as Culture and the Science of Meaning
Philip Ball Read as aPDF. Conflict or Consilience? The sciences and the arts/humanities often look like rivals who want to get along but
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Essays
Can Science Be Unified? Oneness and Its Discontents
Lisa H. Sideris Read as a PDF. Deep within we long for unity because, at the most fundamental level, we are already one. We belong
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Science and the Idea of Progress
Peter Harrison Read as a PDF. The history of science, wrote George Sarton in 1936, is “the only history which can illustrate the
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Science, Imagination, and Poetry
Tom McLeish In memoriam: Professor Tom McLeish FRS (May 1, 1962 – February 27, 2023). Read as a PDF For at least a
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The Cherubim: From Guardians of Eden to Auschwitz
James A. Diamond Anxiety of Cherubim I have been thinking for quite some time now about the significance of angels in the Jewish
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Formative Years of Islamic History
Isabel Toral-Niehoff on Tobias Andersson The emergence of Arabic history-writing in early Islam is a complex phenomenon. On the one hand, it drew
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Hebrew Literature and The Fate of American Hebraism
Yeshua G. B. Tolle Until recently, several plastic tubs and cardboard boxes sat gathering dust in the basement of DePauw University’s spiritual life
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Beauty and Truth Again? Lessons from Physics, Art, and Theology
Tom McLeish This essay is based on a public lecture given in May of 2022 at the Faraday Institute, Cambridge. PDF available here.
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Why Einstein Wouldn’t Be Published Today: A Conversation with Lorraine Daston, Part Two
Part One of our conversation is available here.The full conversation is available as PDF. As part of our Meanings of Science in the
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How the Constitution Became America’s Bible
Taylor Jipp on Twentieth-Century Supreme Court Justice, Felix Frankfurter As Trump recently addressed his audience at the CPAC conference, he called them “the
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