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The EU Constitution: The Cart before the Horse?
“I never feel so European as when I am in a cathedral” (Robert Shuman) While the signing of the...
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Europeans from Venus, Americans from Beyond the Stars?
Neoconservative thinker Robert Kagan, originator of the popular slogan and rather naïve caricature “Americans from Mars, Europeans from Venus”,...
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Two Meanings of Why
In ancient science, which drew analogies between the behavior of living entities and that of nature, there was the...
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Floating For-ness: Under a Firm Mantle of Function, Molten Motives Churn
You’re in love, or so you think. You certainly feel in love, but now that you’ve been run through...
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Zipslide Errors: Confusing the nature of past and future
Loosely speaking, time is like zipping up a very long zipper. The future is open; the past is closed....
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Explanations in Science
What does one mean by the term explanation? This is a very complex question in the philosophy of science....
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Vaclav Havel’s Conspiracy of Hope for the EU’s Cultural Identity
Kafka’s hero is, above all a hero for our time, a godless age in which power endowed with a...
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The Goal of Science
“The aim of science,” wrote Karl Pearson, “is nothing short of the complete interpretation of the universe.” Thus the...
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The Janus-Face of the European Union
What is urgently needed in the debate on the future of Europe is the substitution of old Machiavellian paradigms...
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Brain Velcro: Why good things happen to bad ideas
Most people even mildly interested in evolution have heard about the “selfish gene.” The concept is simple yet with...