Max Dresow
* Of all the things I’ve written for this site, this is maybe my favorite. It hits all the sweet spots: nineteenth century American geology, discarded theories of mountain building, uniformitarianism, and, of course, James Hall— one of the truly incomparable figures in the history of paleontology....
Max Dresow
* This was the first installment of my “Problematica” series, which I wrote way back in 2023. I was reminded of it because my now four-and-a-half year-old son is obsessed with megalodons, and I thought it would be fun to repost. Also, there’s been some interesting megalodon-related research...
Max Dresow
* I was just reading about a new British documentary on the Parthenon Marbles, and I thought perhaps it was time to repost this.This was the fifth installment of “Problematica,” which I wrote back in March of 2023. I’ve been meaning to revisit the central problem, which concerns the possibility of...
Helen De Cruz
This is an old post, from 2016, written by Helen De Cruz. Helen was a truly awesome and creative philosopher, and (I’ve heard) an outstandingly good person. They passed away today, and if you want to learn more about their work, I’d recommend reading the short notice in the Daily Nous (which you...