[…] A century before Gordon Moore drew on his work with semiconductors to formulate his eponymous law for the exponential shrinking and acceleration of technology over time, Butler observes the unprecedented pace at which this “kingdom” of near-life has emerged:…
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Discussion welcome—not just on the history of the role of women in analytic philosophy, or of others whose voices are at risk of being lost, but also on the more general matter of how economic and technological pressures on the…
Several philosophers have been awarded grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) over the past couple of months. They are: Felipe de Brigard (Duke University)“The Nature of Brain Networks in Cognitive Neuroimaging”This project seeks to clarify conceptual challenges in the…
But rather than offended, Emerson must have been pleased with Whitman’s decision to stay his course — for Whitman was in many ways the embodiment of the spirit Emerson so fiercely celebrated against the tide of his time: a spirit…
In the first and most dazzling of these kaleidoscopic sentences, she builds upon her previous shimmering reflections on the color blue and writes in one centuries-long exhale: Long ago, while visiting the photographic glass plates of nebulae and constellations at…
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Youth and Crabbed Age stand broadly for the two opposite poles of human living, poles equally essential to any real vitality, but always contrasted. Youth stands for rationalism*, for the intellect and its concomitants, egotism and individualism. Crabbed Age stands…
We forgot that all creative work — be it music or mathematics, poetry or physics, anything we might call art — is a hand outstretched in the dark, reaching not for visibility but for the light that lives between us.…
David H. Sanford, professor emeritus of philosophy at Duke University, has died. Professor Sanford joined the faculty at Duke in 1970. Prior to that, he taught at Dartmouth College. He earned his PhD from Cornell University and his bachelor’s degree…
I distinctly remember driving my oldest son and one of his friends to an indoor trampoline center. Unprompted, one kid rolled down my car window, before shouting “MAH NAME JEFF” at random passersby on the street. All the kids folded…
“In between stand or lie test tubes, instruments, needles, cover slips, microscope slides,” he wrote to his best friend, “so that when I am busy working there is not a spot left on which I can rest my hand.” Each…