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The space between our heads Brain-to-brain interfaces promise to bypass language. But do we really want access to one another’s unmediated thoughts? Mark Dingemanse AEON 4 Aug., 2020 Photo by Richard Kalvar/Magnum Photos Mark Dingemanse is associate professor in language and communication at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands. He won the Heineken Young Scientists Award in the Humanit..

Publish and Perish by Agnes Callard The Point July 29, 2020 This is part of a series of columns on public philosophy by Agnes Callard; read more here. ] These words exist for you to read them. I wrote them to try to convey some ideas to you. These are not the first words I wrote for you—those were worse. I wrote and rewrote, with a view to clarifying my meaning. I want to make sure that what you..

What’s New About Free College? The fight over free education is much older than you think. Jay Swanson Current Affairs filed 08 July 2020 in Education There was once a New England politician with an idea. Social and economic changes had made education more important than ever, but access was stubbornly limited to the children of the rich. The answer, this politician thought, was simple: more yea..

Myths of the Prophet Max Weber Daniel Johnson on the life and work of Max Weber, whose controversial views on democracy still resonate today By Daniel Johnson The Critic July/August 2020 A young freelance of my acquaintance, exceptionally gifted, tells me that she has abandoned journalism in favour of a teaching post at a university. “I don’t think I’d be able to make a living as a full-time fre..

The mark of an educated mind Schooling underpinned by critical thinking is the bedrock of civilisation. It could save us from today’s infantilised discourse Andrew Doyle S 22/05/2020 Many years ago I gave a talk at the London Metropolitan Archives in which I outlined my reasons for rejecting the then fashionable theory of social constructionism in relation to human sexuality. In the coffee break..

The Idea of a Nation by Thomas Meaney The Point June 12, 2020 Here’s to my countrymen, wherever they happen to hail from! —Wojciech Chojnicki, in Joseph Roth’s The Emperor’s Tomb A generation ago, when Benedict Anderson was asked on Dutch television what country he would be prepared to die for, he hung his head in silence. “It would depend very much on the circumstances,” he finally said. A lead..

The Scholar Starting Brawls with the Enlightenment Has the cult of rationality blinded us to the power of transcendence? By James Wood New Yorker May 25, 2020 László Földényi conjures a parable from Dostoyevsky’s reading Hegel in Siberia.Illustration by Paul Davis Who could resist the title? László F. Földényi’s new book of essays is called “Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts Into Tea..

Are there laws of history? Historians believe that the past is irreducibly complex and the future wildly unpredictable. Scientists disagree. Who’s right? Amanda Rees AEON 12 May, 2020 Amanda Rees is a historian of science in the department of sociology at the University of York, and editor of the British Journal for the History of Science. Her latest book, Human, co-written ..

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How science fails For the émigré philosopher Imre Lakatos, science degenerates unless it is theoretically and experimentally progressive Jim Baggott AEON, 05 May, 2020 Jim Baggott is an awardwinning British popular-science author, with more than 25 years’ experience writing on topics in science, philosophy and history. He is the author of Quantum Space: Loop Quantum Grav..