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Peripatetic Poop-pouri
This is serious, by the way: Apparently sh*t happens due to something like the darwinian “Origin of Feces“? Every...
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Political Religion
Yesterday, Judith Warner posted an op-ed at the NYT, “Holier Than They,” that has drawn so far 108 comments. ...
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Metanexus: Why We Do What We Do
Metanexus Institute fosters an intellectual and spiritual movement of more than 11,000 scientists, theologians, philosophers, and other deeply concerned...
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Health and Hope
Accentuating the positive: Allan V. Horwitz and Jerome C. Wakefield continue the fight against the over-diagnosis of depression-as-disease in...
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Minutia and Highfalutia: Evasion by scrambling to a safer level of analysis
You see a friend lost in the details of what looks to you like a fundamentally bad plan. You...
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Reciprocating Gifts: Truth, Politics and Participation in Process
In imagining the 2007 AAR session on Radical Orthodoxy and Process Theology in advance, I have to admit that...
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The Quest for Wholeness
Sometimes at Metanexus we say that we’re after “the whole story of the whole cosmos for the whole person.”...
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The Majesty and Misery of String Theory
Science Fact or Science Fiction A great crooner, if not exactly a great scholar, named Frank Sinatra once sang...
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The Nexus between Language and Vico’s Historicism—Part 1
The study of language is the starting point of Vico’s historicism. For Vico, language is humanity’s primordial historicization. In...
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The Criterion of Simplicity
One of the principles governing the scientific description of the world is this—of different possible explanations of a phenomenon,...