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Let me describe the activities of an organization leading advocacy for liberal democracy in Zambia in recent years. When politicians spoke of changing the country’s constitution to end presidential term limits, it organized a civil society coalition to protest. When the police threw the opposition leader in jail for four months on charges of treason, […]
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Our current understanding of philosophy is a relatively recent invention. It took shape in late eighteenth-century Germany, when a small group of scholars redefined what philosophy was and how its history should be told. In his “What Counted as Philosophy in the Italian Renaissance?” (2013), Christopher Celenza mentions Johann Brucker, who, in his Historia Critica […]
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How do scientists interpret the results of an experiment? How do they draw conclusions from experiments? In January of 1939, the young Alan Hodgkin decided to break in some new lab equipment and he had a simple question in mind. He accepted the then-standard view—based on Julius Bernstein’s membrane hypotheses—that when an axon is depolarized, […]
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It is a commonplace too often taken for granted that the Enlightenment––in particular Kant’s grounding of morality in reason––was a failure. For some, the Enlightenment’s attempt to clear away all superstition left only an empty subjectivism and materialism culminating in atomistic nihilism. For others, the Enlightenment was just one more mask in the European will […]
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I have been writing about Cuban music and popular culture for some time, as an outsider. It is a fraught position: being based in the United States, strongly attracted to Cuban heritage, trying to undertake rigorous research and pursue sensitive topics while frequently being perceived as someone who may have an ax to grind as […]
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Section 1: What are Thought Experiments For? Thomas Kuhn famously asked how it was possible for thought experiments to lead to new scientific knowledge in the absence of new data. In philosophy, research on thought experiments has mainly followed the trajectory established by Kuhn, focusing on their role in the sciences. Kuhn’s asks what thought experiments […]
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Particularly in Western countries, where the so-called secularization supposedly hit harder than in other parts of the world, many people do not really engage with Christian liturgy. But that does not mean that they do not have opinions about it, to the contrary. The statements made are mostly influenced by commonly shared patterns of thought, […]
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On our book’s cover stands a small church. Coloured in a blue that suggests the haze of a summer’s day, it is set against a yellow landscape dotted with vines. We chose this image partly for its aesthetic appeal, and partly because it was painted in the 1950s by Kurt Franke, the grandfather of one […]
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