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“What we are witnessing is the collapse of the terrestrial globe”

April 16, 2024

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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In Max Dresow, Problematica

Good Grief

April 5, 2024

In which Max gets personal and talks about the academic job market in philosophy

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In Max Dresow

Alien versus Amphibian: War of the Worldviews?

March 20, 2024

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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In Max Dresow, Problematica, Uniformitarianism

When Will Scientific Disagreement Bear Fruit? The Case of Angiosperm Origins

March 11, 2024

In which Katherine Valde uses angiosperms to explore when scientific controversies can be expected to bear fruit (lol)— or fail to

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Red Ochre and Moon Cycles: Interpreting Bodily Adornment in Prehistory

February 29, 2024

In which Marilynn Johnson shares an edited excerpt from her recent book Adorning Bodies: Meaning, Evolution, and Beauty in Humans and Animals (Bloomsbury, 2022)

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Rugged Individualism in the Cretaceous: What George Simpson’s Fiction Reveals about His Philosophy of Evolution

February 16, 2024

In which Kelle Dhein revisits George Simpson’s sci-fi novella, The Dechronization of Sam Magruder, and asks what it reveals about Simpson’s philosophy of evolution

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