In which Max looks back at a road not taken in 20th century philosophy of science: Stephen Toulmin’s Wittgenstein-influenced “practice turn”

In which Max revisits Goethe’s weird claim about America lacking basalt with some expert help

In which Max asks why Goethe once said in a poem that America has no basalt (huh?)

In which Max considers the suggestion that archeology is distinctive in its frequent use of arguments from absence, and finds it wanting

In which Max hits the road to see the oldest intact surface rocks in the United States