August Ludwig von Schlözer’s Alternative Enlightenment

The Republic Marks a Quarter Millennium

Variations on a Theme of Bracewell

Rationalizing Multiple Metrics for Intelligence

Deep History without High Technology

Fackenheim on the Historicity of Man

A Lunar Observation in AD 1178

The Monotonic Trajectory of Intelligence

Rudolf Kjellén on the State as a Form of Life

A Cosmological Seriation of Intelligence

The Historiography of the Renaissance in France

Gödel and Turing on Distinguishable States of Mind

Spengler and Parochial Philosophies of History

W. F. Albright’s Organismic Philosophy of History

Even infinite minds could fall into error.

Russell’s Compatibilism and the Liberty of Indifference

Color as an Intuitive Model of the Continuum

Adolf Grünbaum on Time in a Block Universe

Three Categories of Abstractions

Augustin Thierry and the Origins of Historicism

The Good Life Takes Care of Itself

Gödel on the Mind Converging on Infinity

The Moral Completeness of Human Experience

Weber on Value-Freedom and Disenchantment

On the Differentia of Western Civilization

J. M. Roberts on the Triumph of the West

An Enlightenment Thought Experiment in Logic

Project Ozma and the Origins of SETI

The Beginning and the End of History

Intelligence and Cosmological Natural Selection

The Execution of Robert-François Damiens

Emergent Complexity in Deep Time

Boethius and the Historiography of Philosophy

St. Augustine and Entia Successiva

Gilberto Freyre: A Civilizational Perspective on Brazil

NEWSLETTER 383: Natural Disasters and the Human Condition

The Condemnations of 07 March 1277

NEWSLETTER 382: Dispersal Vectors for Nonconscious Intelligence

Montaigne on Historical Anecdotes and Archetypes

L. E. J. Brouwer’s Unconventional Methodologies

NEWSLETTER 381: Doctor Faustus Reviews the Seven Deadly Sins

Collingwood on Reflexive Epistemology

Intrinsic Limits of Biological Intelligence

The Cosmic Evolutionism of E. E. Harris

NEWSLETTER 379: The Complementarity of Science and Tinkering

Tom Paine and the Rights of Man

Proclus and the Axiomatic Conception of Knowledge

Roman Ingarden on Time and Modes of Being

Newsletter 378: The Recrudescence of Tinkering

Thomas Cole and the Course of Empire

Čapek’s Bergsonian Analysis of the Eternal Return

NEWSLETTER 377: Desperately Seeking Definitions…

Lessing’s Broad and Ugly Ditch

Gomperz on Logical Positivism in Historical Research

Newsletter 376: Man-Made Horrors Beyond Your Comprehension

NEWSLETTER 375: On the Problem of Orthogonality and Alignment

How Schliemann Made Archaeology Scientific: A Just-So Story

On the Formalization and Mechanization of Human Thought

Jacques Le Goff on the Perils of Periodization

A Philosophy of History Manifesto