In which Max gets personal and talks about the academic job market in philosophy
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Alien versus Amphibian: War of the Worldviews?
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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When Will Scientific Disagreement Bear Fruit? The Case of Angiosperm Origins
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
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
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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The Importance of Background Theory, or Why James Hall Left Mountains out of his Theory of Mountain Building
In which Max asks whether James Hall really left mountains out of his theory of mountain building (as J.D. Dana famously alleged)
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