Category: History

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
May 17, 2025

Categorized
History, Philosophy, Physics

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Carlo Rovelli, Fine-tuning, Karl Popper (1902–1994), Standard Model (of physics), Thomas Kuhn (1922–1996)}

Physicist: “Bad Philosophy” May Spur Search for New Physics

_{Carlo Rovelli points out that revolutions’ in the history of fundamental physics are more conservative than they are often depicted} _{Denyse O'Leary
May 17, 2025

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History, Philosophy, Physics}

It may not just be bad philosophy. It may also be a determination to believe in a universe that the evidence does not support. Read More ›

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News
Date
December 22, 2024

Categorized
Arts & Culture, History

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Terry Scambray}

The Genius of Paul Johnson: Remembering a Peerless Historian

_{Johnson offered penetrating critiques of the personalities, currents of thought, and events that shaped life today} _{News
December 22, 2024

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Arts & Culture, History}

Johnson’s writing often resembles a highwire performance in exactness and anticipation. In the largest sense, he believed history has a destination, a telos. Read More ›

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News
Date
October 27, 2024

Categorized
History, Religion, Science

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Alfred North Whitehead, Massimo Introvigne}

Rodney Stark: A Historian Finds a History Amid Cultural Myths

_{As his views matured, Stark found himself more and more opposed to the nineteenth-century positivist founders of social science} _{News
October 27, 2024

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History, Religion, Science}

Stark, reappraising the role of religion, found that seeing history through a positivist, materialist lens reduces its complexities to caricatures. Read More ›