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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“What we are witnessing is the collapse of the terrestrial globe”
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 2 of 3)
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Alien versus Amphibian: War of the Worldviews?
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 1 of 3)
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The Importance of Background Theory, or Why James Hall Left Mountains out of his Theory of Mountain Building
In which Max asks whether James Hall really left mountains out of his theory of mountain building (as J.D. Dana famously alleged)
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