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Link The accidental universe: Science's crisis of faith
The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes…

December 22 2011, 1:24pm | Comments
Tumblr (Quote) Michel Serres, The Natural Contract
“Suppose two speakers, determined to contradict each other. As violent as their confrontation may be, as long as they are willing to continue the discussion they must speak a common language in order for the dialogue to take…

August 9 2011, 5:36am | Comments
Link Michel Serres on the word 'human'
Son of a barge man, Michel Serres joined the Ecole Navale in 1949 and the Ecole Normale supérieure in 1952 where he obtained the aggregation of philosophy in 1955. From…

July 6 2011, 3:15pm | Comments
Link Separate Truths
It is misleading — and dangerous — to think that religions are different paths to the same wisdom. At least since the first petals of the counterculture bloomed across Europe…

April 27 2010, 7:55am | Comments
Link How to fake science, history and religion
One of the epigraphs that punctuate Invented Knowledge is from Pascal: "It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of…

August 6 2009, 1:20pm | Comments
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