Society
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Artificial Photosynthesis: some social implications of technology
The Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenathen invented the first historic monotheism, according to Freud’s Moses and Monotheismus (1939).…
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On Genes and Memes
Fact: “Nobel Prizes have been awarded to over 850 individuals, of whom at least 22% (without…
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A. Burgess: “Clockwork Condition”. A tale on Skinner and Free Will
The real polemic target of Anthony Burgess in The Clockwork Condition (The New Yorker) (here the Italian…
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The concept of limit
In the introduction to “Anarchism” by D. Guerin, Chomsky stresses the existence of a cultural tradition going…
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“What is the logical form of this?” on Sen, Gramsci, Sraffa and Wittgenstein
In a perceptive book, Ray Kurzweil, chief engineer at Google, and responsible for the Hidden Markov…
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Dante and Islam
I recently attended a very interesting conference by Roger Scruton, the celebrated author of (among many…
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A German dictionary
“In an attempt to explain Russian Bolshevism to Lady Ottoline Morrell, Bertrand Russell once remarked that,…
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Ratzinger and Habermas on “deus sive natura”
In 2004, two great figures of Europe’s Life of the Mind met to discuss the times…
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hoi polloi
Robert K. Merton, in Science Technology and Society in XVII Century England makes the point that Reformation,…
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Human and Horses
Human are not horses, says MIT economist Kenneth Rogoff and King Ludd is still dead. But…
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