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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Indigenous Cultures and the Imperial History of Britain’s Empire
Madeline Grimm on John M. MacKenzie Historians have long struggled to tell the complete story of the British empire, in part because Britain’s
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Writing the Black Death: Jewish Responses to Italy’s Plague Years
Joshua Teplitsky on Susan Einbinder’s Writing Plague As the COVID-19 pandemic seems both behind us and still present as a threat and a
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Mary Wollstonecraft: Interlocutor for Feminists Today?
Margaret D. Kamitsuka Feminists want their poster women—and they want them to exemplify feminist virtues, without fault. Yet, feminists, even the most intrepid
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Theology and Philosophy after al-Ghazali: The End of Philosophy in Islam?
Hasan Hameed In his Lectures on the History of Philosophy, one of the most influential thinkers of the modern world dismissed the importance
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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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Philosophical Sufism in Translation
Cyrus Ali Zargar As someone who studies classical Sufism, I want to share the wonder that strikes me when encountering primary sources. Yet
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What is Scientific Truth—And Why Does it Keep Changing?
Lorraine Daston Read as a PDF. Follow the science. But which science, whose science, today’s science or tomorrow’s? The SARS-COV-2 pandemic turned virologists
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Sabbath Stew, Pastries, and the Past: A Culinary History of Hungarian Jews
Avery Robinson In 1895, Adolf Ágai wrote an article in the Jewish weekly Egyenlőség (Equality) in which he waxes rhapsodic about Jewish foods.
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Science and Metaphysics: A Family Quarrel?
Iain McGilchrist Read as a PDF. In the lecture series given in Cambridge in 1951 that formed the basis of his book Science
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