En muchas culturas y epocas diferentes, se ha considerado a la naturaleza como una fuente de normas para la conducta humana. Durante siglos, los filosofos han insistido en que en la naturaleza no hay valores; esta, sencillamente, es. Transmutar ese &aacut...
A collection of essays examining nine intriguing objects made eloquent when matter and meaning converge. This work seeks to understand how objects become charged with significance without losing their gritty materiality.
Is anthropomorphism a scientific sin? Scientists and animal researchers routinely warn against "animal stories," and contrast rigorous explanations and observation to facile and even fanciful projections about animals. Yet many of us, scientists...
What did it mean to be reasonable in the Age of Reason? Classical probabilists from Jakob Bernouli through Pierre Simon Laplace intended their theory as an answer to this question--as "nothing more at bottom than good sense reduced to a calculus,"...