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

NEWSLETTER 373: ASI Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born

Jessie Weston and the Cambridge Ritualists

The Earthrise and Blue Marble Photographs

The Alexander Counterfactual

A Paragraph of Michel de Montaigne

Winckelmann on Noble Simplicity and Quiet Grandeur

Re-Founding History as Big History

Blaise Pascal’s Night of Fire

Voltaire and the Origins of Modern Philosophy of History

Frederick Jackson Turner and the Frontier Thesis

Saint Augustine’s Other Philosophy of History

Weyl’s Proper Time, Lived Time, and Metaphysical Time

The Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755

The Battle of the Milvian Bridge

The Modernity of Philippe de Commines

Foucault’s Archaeologies of the Human Sciences

Kahler’s Bottom-Up Approach to Meaning in History

Sputnik at the Beginning of the Space Age

Revisiting Mesohistory in Gregorovius

The Siege of the Acropolis and the Destruction of the Parthenon

Dresden in the Augustan Age