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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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Slavery was an inextricable part of Christianity from its origins. Within the earliest gatherings of Jesus-followers in the eastern Mediterranean, enslaved persons and enslavers read sacred texts and participated in communal meals. Enslaved persons themselves, as recent research has shown, were responsible for the physical composition of New Testament literature. Slavery, however, did not only […]
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In a world afflicted by an absence of trust in authority and institutions of virtually all kinds, democracy is almost everywhere in retreat and the unfreedom of authoritarianism is on the rise. At the same time, humanity is falling farther behind in its endeavors to achieve ambitious global goals for human development through sustainable economic, […]
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