The Incubator of Formal Thought

Travel and the Overview Effect

Pascal’s Still More Eminent Method

William Robertson’s Rationalistic History of the Middle Ages

The Mechanical Equivalent of Knowledge

Peeling Away the Layers of History

Jakob von Uexküll on Umwelten and Lived Time

An Infinite Hierarchy of Formal Thresholds of Knowledge

Louis O. Mink’s Interpretation of R.G. Collingwood

Intellects Vast and Cool and Unsympathetic

US Demographic and Economic Trends: The Next Couple of Centuries

Concept Failure in the Natural Sciences

The Lovecraftian Paradox and Epistemic Containment Regimes

Lovecraft and the Epistemology of Cosmic Horror

Recognition and the Formal Threshold of Knowledge

Caesar between Carlyle and Spengler

The Apotheosis of Richard Russell

How many parts of Roman history are there?

Prolegomena to an Intelligence Ecology

Shelley’s Vision of History in Ozymandias

The Drama of Biological Intelligence

Hilary Putnam on the Fate of Philosophy

Constructing an Intelligence Niche

Peter Farb and the Return of Cultural Evolutionism

Addendum on Julius Caesar as Historical Ideal

Are we better adapted to simpler societies?

Did Caesar understand his place in history?

The Dismal State of the Social Sciences

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