A deep cut: in which Max examines the durability and challenges of actualistic reasoning in paleontology
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Why the Yanks whiffed on drift... was uniformitarianism to blame?
In which Max considers the question on everyone’s mind: whether uniformitarianism was a factor in Americans’ rejection of continental drift in the 1920s
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Second Thoughts on Lyell
In which Max has second thoughts about some s*** he said about Charles Lyell
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Problematica: The Charles Lyell Collection
In which Max has assembled all his essays on Charles Lyell in one convenient place
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From the Archive: “Truth also has its Paleontology,” or When Pragmatism Met Uniformitarianism
In which we dip into the archive one more time. Our question: what does “paleontology” have to do with the pragmatist theory of truth?
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Going global: geology between Lyell and Suess
Problematica #20! In which Max explores two titans of nineteenth century geology using fictional characters of their own creation, Lyell’s amphibious being and Suess’s extraterrestrial observer (Part 3 of 3)
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