In which Max has second thoughts about some s*** he said about Charles Lyell
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Problematica: The Charles Lyell Collection
In which Max has assembled all his essays on Charles Lyell in one convenient place
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Now that's how you teach kids about science
In which Max gushes about his favorite picture book on dinosaur paleontology, The Iguanodon’s Horn
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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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From the Archive: The Once and Future Earth
In which we dip into the Extinct archive and pull out an essay on some attempts to use Mars to better understand the past (and future!) of the Earth
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Toulmania '53: Remembering the Practice-Turn that Didn't Happen
In which Max looks back at a road not taken in 20th century philosophy of science: Stephen Toulmin’s Wittgenstein-influenced “practice turn”
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